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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Once on a Caribbean vacation as a kid I swam to a floating platform, maybe 100 feet from shore or so. I stood up on the platform and looked down only to see a medium-sized shark just chilling underneath without moving. I waited and waited and the asshole never left his position, only occasionally moving far enough out that I could see his whole body. After 10min of deliberation and pacing I waved to my parents on the beach, a passing server mentioned that there was a large barracuda seen by the platform earlier in the day, and they had someone on a jet ski nearby come and retrieve me. It was not a shark, but I thought it was. When I learned it was a barracuda this did not assuage my fear or relief because I was raised on animal planet, finding nemo, and hit rock songs from 1977.
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