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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Feeling a little depressed the past week. Not really bad but it kind of came out of nowhere since my mood has mostly been good over the past few months. Was in the gym and couldn't even finish my workout. Not really much of a reason for it, just dredged up some really unpleasant thoughts. I suppose I'm a bit anxious about gaining weight and not getting the results I want.
More pleasantly, I started learning to ride a bike today. I've always been very embarrassed and self-conscious about not being able to ride a bike, but a friend very nicely agreed to help me. It's something I hope to be competent in by the time I go to New Zealand.
I learned to ride a bike as an adult a few years ago. Learning it was pretty much just falling off of the thing for two or three hours. I think it was just one day of that. The next day I got on it and was able to ride it, though not particularly well. It didn't turn out to be as hard as I thought. I hope it's the same for you. Good luck, but you won't need luck, just determination.
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