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COMPLETE COMMUNITY RULES AND SAFETY BOUNDARIES
Take Your Power Back is a place for honest questions, difficult conversations, and personal accountability.
That only works when people know where the boundaries are.
The short titles on Skool’s Rules page are reminders. This post explains what those rules mean, how we handle sensitive topics, and what to do when someone needs more support than an online community can provide.
Read this entire post before participating.
- THINK FOR YOURSELF
Nobody here—including the founder—is the final authority on how another person should live.
Share your reasoning, question your assumptions, and leave room for the possibility that you may learn something.
- OWN YOUR HUNDRED PERCENT
Take responsibility for your choices, actions, and impact.
That does not mean taking someone else’s blame or pretending other people have no accountability of their own. Own your part and leave theirs with them.
- THE WHY GAME IS A GIFT
Do not interrogate, corner, embarrass, or dismantle another member for sport.
Ask permission before digging deeply into someone else’s beliefs. A member may stop a conversation at any time, for any reason.
- SPEAK FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE
Use “I” language. Share what you have lived, learned, tried, or observed.
Do not diagnose other members, declare what is secretly wrong with them, or present your personal experience as a universal law.
- CHALLENGE IDEAS, NOT PEOPLE
Disagreement is welcome. Contempt is not.
No harassment, insults, threats, humiliation, discrimination, dogpiling, or ideology-first fighting.
- CONSENT AND BOUNDARIES FIRST
A no is a no. A changed mind is a no. Silence is not permission.
Do not pressure members to disclose personal information, continue a conversation, accept advice, communicate privately, or explain a boundary.
- RESPECT PEOPLE AND PRIVACY
Do not share another member’s posts, identity, screenshots, personal history, or private messages outside this community without clear permission.
- ASK FOR HELP IN GOOD FAITH
If you ask the community for help, be willing to honestly consider the suggestions you receive.
You do not have to accept every suggestion, and genuine limits involving safety, health, money, access, disability, or other circumstances should never be dismissed.
What is not acceptable is repeatedly asking people to invest time and emotional energy in helping you while reflexively inventing a new reason every possible next step cannot work.
If you are not ready for suggestions and only want to be heard, say that clearly.
Using the community as an endless cycle of asking, rejecting, and asking again drains other members’ emotional labor, avoids personal accountability, and may be treated as abusive participation.
- DO NOT RESCUE, RECRUIT, OR SELL
Support people without trying to take control of their lives.
Unsolicited sales messages, recruitment, self-promotion, romantic or sexual pressure, and manipulative private messaging are not allowed.
- HELP KEEP THE ROOM HONEST
If something feels unsafe, coercive, or out of bounds, contact a moderator.
Moderators may remove content or members when necessary to protect the community and its purpose.
SENSITIVE-TOPIC BOUNDARIES
Real lives contain difficult subjects, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Members may discuss religion, politics, identity, family, relationships, sexuality, nontraditional relationships, power exchange, trauma, abuse, addiction, mental health, grief, and other sensitive experiences when those subjects are relevant to their own lives and choices.
These conversations must remain grounded in reflection, consent, and personal experience. This is a place to examine how beliefs affect us—not to recruit people into an ideology or conduct debates for sport.
When discussing sensitive topics:
• Give a brief content note when a post includes potentially distressing material.
• Share only the detail necessary for the conversation; avoid graphic descriptions.
• Do not ask another member to disclose more than they have freely offered.
• Do not diagnose, prescribe treatment, or tell someone to stop professional care.
• Do not shame people for their identity, relationships, beliefs, mental health, trauma responses, or past choices.
• Do not romanticize abuse, self-harm, coercion, or dangerous behavior.
• Do not use someone’s vulnerability against them later.
• Respect the off-switch. Anyone may leave or stop a conversation without defending that decision.
We can talk honestly about hard things without turning the community into a courtroom, a treatment room, or a place where people have to bleed publicly to prove that their experiences matter.
CRISIS DISCLAIMER AND RESOURCE POLICY
This community is philosophical education, peer discussion, and personal-growth coaching.
It is not therapy, crisis intervention, medical treatment, legal advice, or a substitute for qualified professional care.
The Why Game is a reasoning tool. It can help you examine beliefs and choices. It cannot treat a mental illness, correct a chemical condition, make an unsafe situation safe, or replace trained care.
If you are in immediate danger, may hurt yourself or someone else, or cannot keep yourself safe, do not wait for a response from this community. Contact your local emergency services or go to the nearest emergency department.
United States:
Call or text 988, or visit https://988lifeline.org/
Canada:
Call or text 9-8-8, or visit https://988.ca/
Other countries:
Find verified local crisis services at https://findahelpline.com/
This community is not monitored continuously, and membership does not guarantee an immediate response. Do not use community posts or private messages as your only source of crisis support.
If a post indicates an immediate safety risk, moderators may pause or remove the discussion, provide crisis resources, and encourage the member to seek immediate professional help.
This is not punishment or rejection. We care enough about our members not to pretend an online discussion group can do the job of trained crisis support.
Other members should not attempt to become someone’s therapist, sole support person, or rescuer.
You may express care, encourage professional help, and share appropriate resources—but you are not responsible for personally keeping another adult safe.
FINAL EXPECTATION
Think for yourself. Own your hundred percent. Respect every member’s off-switch.
If you can do those three things, we can have honest conversations about almost anything.
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