The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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To echo @CertainlyWorse, I restarted my creativity and writing by reading less web articles and the like and reading physical books as well as listening to audio books as I do chores, stuff around the house, etc. This has helped me to regain my inner monologue and motivated me to write more as well as be a better writer whether on here, in the 20 motte drafts on my laptop, and my work emails. I try as often as I can to lay in bed an hour before bedtime and read during that time, unwinding and unplugging.
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