Our friend group started doing 'wellness challenges' together but it's become this weird competitive thing where some of us are obsessing over numbers and others are dropping out, and now there's tension about who's 'really committed' to being healthy. We all wanted accountability but instead we created shame and comparison, and I don't know how to bring us back to actually supporting each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Collective health intentions have devolved into individual performance anxiety masked as mutual support.
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