“It’s not a goodbye but a see you later” Thank you 7cups for all you have done for me, until we meet again. 🍪

Hello there! My name is Regan (or Aurora/Astral if you prefer usernames) I use they/them pronouns. I am a young 18 year old studying at university right now! I understand we go through a lot in our lives and I hope I can be a listening ear for you. 

Some things to know before we have a chat ✨

❤️ I will always introduce myself to get the conversation started  

🧡 I follow all community guidelines, including no offsite contact. (find the community guidelines here:  https://www.7cups.com/community-guidelines/)

💛 I cannot support anyone if they are in crisis (this means if you are thinking of harming yourself or others) For crisis support check out these resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

💚 My chats are typically around 45 minutes to an hour long. I also do a lot of offline chats, this means we chat back and forth, but many never be active at once together. If I am offline I will respond within 72 hours. 

🩵 I expect respect. We all have our stories as well as our own boundaries and I ask that you respect mine during our chat. If you over step a boundary I will let you know politely, it is okay to make mistakes as that is how we learn. 

💜 I cannot give advice and I am not a trained mental health professional. I am here to listen and be a supportive person who you can tell anything you want to. 

🩷 Topics I am able to support: LGBTQ+ Issues, Bullying, Student Life, Social Anxiety, Disabilities, Diabetes, and Chronic Pain. 

🩶 Topics that are off limits: Eating disorders, self harm, and depression  

Hopefully, you know a bit more about how chats will go, but don’t worry if you want to know more about me keep reading, if not throw me a PM! 

I am studying Biology, Secondary Education, and Special Education 🌅

I love what I am studying and what I do for work. Right now I work with special needs kiddos, middle schoolers, and I work in my admissions office. I am very good at being all over the place. 

My hobbies include: 

Hiking 🍃

Kayaking 💦

Skiing ⛷️

Intramural Sports 🥍

Being outside 🌼

Reading 📚

Learning about science 🥼

Hanging out with friends 🫶

Although my bio may look perfect I can assure you my journey in life and on cups has not been so perfect. I have struggled with mental and physical health for nearly all of my life, battling chemical depression, anxiety, and other things. I also have several physical health conditions. I understand that sometimes doctors or the people around us do not listen, which can be hurtful, frustrated, disappointing, and many other feelings. Remember this is your journey.  

I would like to take a movement and share my story of some of my time here on 7cups. We are all humans and make mistakes, and I hope by reading about mine you will not do the same.

I cannot say it has always been perfect, it has been exactly the difference of that. I joined 7cups of tea October 30th 2023. Within my first month I made my first appearance in TL (teen listener room). With the project revive TL happening I took it to my heart to make the room active again. However, at first I only came to cups for volunteer hours and leadership roles. But, within my first couple of months here my mind changed. I fell in love with TL and from there my thoughts changed. It was not about getting the roles, it was about helping a community and partly messing with the CommunityMods. I have loved getting to meet all the amazing listeners and members I have gotten to meet. 

However, for a month my time on cups had stopped. I pulled off something extremely stupid and dangerous. I cannot ever stress that enough! I went off-site with an ATL. This caused me to lose my account for a month as well as the 14 leadership roles I had. This is beyond something I am not proud of and hope no one else does as I did. My case was spot on for what everyone fears about when going off-site. It was not ideal at all. Staying on cups is the safest thing you can do. Here, our admin team can help in times of need. Off-site they have no control over anything. 

Breaking community guidelines was not in my plans during my time on cups. However, it does happen, even though I regret it immensely. This does let me enhance my perspective of why someone would break a community guideline and I understand more than you would think. I never want anyone to break a community guideline however, I do understand that after doing such a thing people need guidance and a supportive space to express all those feelings you are feeling. They are so valid. 

Your safety and others' safety is so important. If something like this happens to you or anything else you can always report it to the admin as well as the help desk. It is always better to say something than not to say something. I know how scary it is to speak up. However no one is going to be mad at you, they may be disappointed in your actions however at the end of the day all the matters is you. 

Finally, I would like to recognize some people who made my cups journey possible: 

I am an aged up teen (meaning for the last two years I was on the teen side before moving to the adult side). During my teenie days I meant some other amazing teenies who got to age up with me. 

Callumcares421: He was my bestie up until the end, I told Callum he would get a spot in my bio and after nine months I am finally doing this. Callum, like me, had a lot of chronic illness, unfortunately he passed away in February 2025. He was an excellent listener who shared the same passion for group support rooms as I did, even though he didn’t fully age up with me he aged up in spirit. I miss you Callum 🩵 I will never forget  the days of terror we caused!  

EngimaticCat24: Toby and I actually aged up together in October! Although she has been on cups longer than me. Toby is a sweet hearted person who cares deeply about everyone, she lights up the rooms. I am so glad I’ve gotten to know you. I know it is different on the adult side, but you are still amazing. 

My mentors ✨

Jenna,InternalAcceptance (IA), AnnaSilverberg, EmmaE, and LittleBridie30 (Gia)

Thank you for never giving up hope, even when I made mistakes, did something dumb, or asked one too many ridiculous questions. I could not have asked for better people to be my mentors and ambassadors over the last two years. Thank you for giving me a second chance and allowing me onto your teams. There is so much I could say, however there will never be enough space to do that nor enough words in my teenage brain to say what I want to say. At the end of the day you’ll are my cheerleaders and I couldn’t ask for better people!