50+ Weekend Check-In January 28-30, 2022
Happy Friday to all of you, how was your week? ❤️
Below are some prompts I would love you to complete:
Something that calms me instantly is…
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for …
Something I’m looking forward to today is …
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@amiablePeace77
Thankyou for the check in, Ami, wonderful prompts!❤
Something that calms me instantly is taking a walk.
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for a friend checking on me.
Something I’m looking forward to today is getting a good sleep.
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
It's good to have a friend who really cares. Hope tomorrow will be much better for you. Sending you warm hugs (if okay)
@amiablePeace77 aw thankyou, Ami! Warm hugs back❤️
@amiablePeace77
Hi Ami:
Something that calms me instantly is…
Breathing slowly
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for …
My bed
Something I’m looking forward to today is...
Snow
@UberRuminator
The bed can be sometimes the best place to recover from a rough day. Hope you got the snow you were looking forward to 😊
@amiablePeace77
But not too much snow - just enough to look nice.
@UberRuminator
I hear you, snow covered lawns and fields look pretty.
@amiablePeace77
Yes, as long as I don’t need to shovel anything
@UberRuminator
I hope it will not get too much. Shoveling snow can be quite an exercise.
@amiablePeace77
With my health issues, I am unable to shovel too much. I did a path from the street to the house. My friend will come tomorrow to do the sidewalk.
@UberRuminator
Good you could do the main path. Must be a nice friend who really cares.
@amiablePeace77
Yes, the only friend I have...
@UberRuminator
We see you as a 7cups friend here 💙
Something that calms me instantly is… Playing and singing music
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for … I don't have difficult days.
Something I’m looking forward to today is … Chocolate
@Offmytrack
Sounds like today is your special treat day? I hope you enjoy every little piece of it 😊
Something that calms me instantly?
My journal, my therapy,my mental health groups.
I had a rough day recently but, I was grateful for?
Regardless I was grateful for another day of life a do over.
Something I'm looking forward to today is?
Relax and do my journaling, meditations and groups.
@alleywood13
I'm glad to hear that you have such a good support with therapy and group!
Something that calms me instantly is…
I always take awhile to calm down.
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for …
Having some music to listen to. I wish I had a friend to talk to, but I don't. I really think that people can't stand to be around me.
Something I’m looking forward to today is …
Watching a horror movie I haven't seen before.
@WharfRat
Aww WharfRat 💙. That's a rough feeling to have. I hope you feel welcomed here, we love you as you are! I find when I'm really down it can feel that no one truly likes me but I know meanwhile it's more because I do not like myself very much when I'm at a very low point. So I try to focus on people in my life who are kind and supportive.
@amiablePeace77
Something that calms me instantly is…talking with my son.
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for …the fact that I made new friend connections because of it.
Something I’m looking forward to today is …going to bed! :)
@thoughtfulmomma
Seems that you and your son have a really close connection which is wonderful.
Nice you could make a new friend. It's amazing how bad things can lead to really good things!
@amiablePeace77,
1. Something that calms me instantly is…crawling into bed in the evening
2. I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for … my warm apartment
3. Something I’m looking forward to today is … since my day is over, the only thing I am looking forward to is snuggling with my cat, Chloe, and sleeping
@purpleTree4652
Nice that you show gratitude for a warm apartment. Many people take it as given but there are so many who feel cold in their own home because lack of heater or simply not being able to pay the bills for oil or electricity.
I guess Chloe is looking forward to that time every day 😊
@amiablePeace77
Something that calms me instantly is…
Doing a relaxation meditation. I just did one.
I had a rough day recently but I was grateful for …
I am just grateful I am getting through the days. A good friend of ours died back on the 2nd of alcohol use disorder. We were trying to help him get help and quit drinking. Me and my husband are grieving, in shock and feel as if we failed to help him.
Something I’m looking forward to today is …
Sleeping in and not being bothered as frankly, I am not well physically or mentally, I am dealing with insomnia and it's extremely early in the morning.
@Breezy2013
I'm so sorry for your loss. It is hard when you see someone is destroying their own life because of alcohol and even more if you're close to them. Your husband and you did everything possible by offering help but sometimes it does not work out, nobody can make someone else stop drinking. This is a decision a person has to make themselves but it is very had to accept and can lead to self doubt or feelings of having failed. Please don't take that burden on. Offering help was all you could do and you did. Hugs (if accepted).
Please don't forget that you can always connect to a listener here https://www.7cups.com/BrowseListeners/. I hope with good self care you both will get better soon.
Something that calms me instantly is my son.
I had a rough day but I was grateful for being able to get home .
Something I’m looking forward to today is spending time with my friend and our dogs.
I wish everyone a lovely weekend do take care.
@Margiewm
Home can be the best place ever in the world, particularly when things get rough outside. Nice that your son calms you.
Hope you will have a good time with your friend. I've seen you posted a picture of your Staffordshire terrier in the 7cups Therapy "Share With Us a Photo of Your Pet". Sage looks so beautiful!
Thank you he is one of my two babies there was a issue with the site and I’ve tried to post my other babies but it won’t let me. Have a goodnight , I’ll tell Sage he got a compliment
@Margiewm
Have you tried again Margiewm? Please let me know if you need any help.
@amiablePeace77
Thank you, ami for the post. I hope you are doing alright. ❤️ How have things been for you? I would love to hear how you've been doing, ami.
Something that calms me instantly is…great exercise I can do, which you so wonderfully were recently posting topics for us about this subject, thanks.
I had a rough day recently, but I was grateful for …a wonderful, kind, caring, understanding, loving, compassionate, highly intelligent supreme court lawyer friend and church member who so kindly is willing to look into an ongoing problem with an unscrupulous business, which is run by someone who treats all of her employees so horribly--and I have felt bad for them for so long. But she is now trying to dig up old records that were all taken care of, from 2020, with a $0 balance, go back bill me for thousands of $$$ due to inappropriate emotions over how one of the insurance companies expected them to handle a lot of their mistakes with that insurance company on the phone regarding medical billing coding errors--simple, you would think. But this one ins co representative insisted the company, on a 3-way call with me, apologize to me, for all they had been billing me wrongly for 1 1/2 yrs with them on their bills. When that ins rep asked them to apologize to me on the phone, that is what has seemed to humiliate them and thus cause them to then react badly and try to dig up old, resolved bills and try to find ways to make me now pay thousands for things that were paid at a zero balance. I and this ins co had both been calling this co about this around 15 X trying to get them to rebill and had been providing the correct billing codes they needed. This company is "a piece of work," and acting like a spoiled child in their emotional reactions when dealing with business matters. They have been beyond inappropriate before this, and I could have sued them over 5 very horrible things but chose not to. Maybe I should have. I am just beyond relieved that my kind friend is so nice and willing to assist with this. I hate asking for help; but my kind, wonderful, caring friend has given me such relief in this long battle. Whatever he decides I will just go with and not stress about this anymore.
Something I’m looking forward to today is …I have a therapy appointment, this afternoon, after a few weeks. I hope she is alright, as she has lost her husband of many decades. I'm looking forward to seeing her, seeing how she is doing, finding out how things have been for her, and what she thinks is best for her now. I know how much I have realized I have missed her great help, but I know things need to be for her and what is best for her. I want her to do what's best for her and hope she will do that.
I'm also looking forward to taking a needed break from answering my cellphone, & video calls from others. I need some personal time and I am going to take it. I need a break for myself, and I will be back there for everyone as soon as I can be. I have a lot of things I need to be able to continue on getting done and for now, I need a break from personal things.
@IcedCoffee211109
Some people just should not run any business at all! I'm glad that you had that kind friend to assist you in this nerve-wracking battle. You did well in taking that help! I hope all will come to a good end for you, you've been through enough with that company.
I hope your therapy appointment went well, you seem very compassionate about her well-being. Loosing a husband after having been married for decades is hard. Glad that you take that much needed break!