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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The day in 2021 Rush Limbaugh died was also the first day of Lent. I felt it would grieve my soul to watch the libs metaphorically kick the body around, and watch my fellow dittoheads badly defend the man, the legend, the legacy.
My sister, who joined an American Anglican church for the ceremony and time-tested theology, had told us a few years back she was giving up a specific non-food habit for Lent, and explained it helped her spiritually the previous year.
So, I went on reddit Motte and announced (in a Wellness Wednesday thread, I believe) that I was giving up division for Lent. It was the toughest thing I’ve done in a while, but I did do forty days in which I didn’t reflexively jump into political discussions firmly on one side against the other.
After it was over, I found I had far less urge to tear someone down for their beliefs. It was around then that reddit was demoted from my first hobby to my third or so.
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