Ok, so the Life Support community is now set up and all

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/33194050

We will be facing challenging times so make use of the Life Support community to swap knowledge, words of encouragement and experience that can help yourself and others.

Here’s the ’official’ Life Support description:

The main aim is to support ourselves and each other with evidence-based knowledge. A second aim is having a group that will be sympathetic to people’s questions and situations, if these arise, without trespassing on privacy. It is not meant to be an Agony Aunt column.

Topics can include:

•     ways to look after health at different stages of life

•     family interactions, triumphs and challenges

•     people who are on their own and their triumphs and challenges

•     children and education

•     technology in people’s lives: effects, coping and solutions

•     money, housing, and work issues 

•     race, gender and sexuality

•    where to find support and what alternatives there might be

The Life Support community takes the form of:

• plain, useful information about topics and where to find practical help
• sharing articles about health and social issues and how they affect people personally
• sharing experiences or questions and asking others to respond with suggestions or examples from their lived experience

It will always be a work in progress depending on what people bring to the community, so don’t be shy. If we have a genuine interest or question and we are respectful we can give this experiment a whirl.