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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Have you tried picking up a physical hobby with social ties? Something like boxing, group workouts, sports, or dance is usually good. An important and underrated part of social prowess is physicality, a comfort in your own skin and in how you move. It’s not something that can be faked.
These groups also help you learn to be happier, if you can manage to express your emotions or learn to enjoy the experience.
You might also want to look into spiritual or religious traditions, many of them are focused on how to “be happy” in a sense.
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