weekly support group

here is a copy of an email i sent to anna - a teen in the usa

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would u like to help me organize a weekly support group?

here is the idea

i used to be in one

we met once a week

we started out with what we called check in

we each gave a short summary of the past week.

we just listened. no cross talk.

and we each told of a goal we had and any progress that we made on the goal.

it seems to be that if u share a goal with someone else, u are more motivated to work on it. and ur group will support u just by caring and being happy for u as u make progress and feeling empathy when u have a setback

and of course they will be happy when u achieve it.