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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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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Hah! Yeah talk therapy is pretty useless for deep emotional issues or traumas. I think it can be useful for 'normal' people who don't have deep-seated issues, but in my experience anyone with serious trauma needs something more. If she's open to it she could look into different modalities like breathwork or somatic experiencing, but... sounds like that's a hard ask.
That story is wild. She was screaming over a jacket? Woah.
For the driving drunk with kids thing... that is extremely serious. I know adults who are permanently messed up from getting into an accident with a drunk parent. Sounds like you can't do anything more than what you're doing without really burning some bridges, but I wish you luck. It's not an easy situation.
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