Student Support Check-in *16th April ~ 23th April*
Student Support Check-in
16th April ~ 23th April 2023
Hello, Lovely Student Support Community! Welcome to our weekly check-in.
Hey everyone! How are we all doing? I really hope that your week has gone by smoothly and are enjoying your weekend! It's been such nice weather here the past couple days. If it's nice where you are, I hope you get some time to be outside and enjoy it!
I would like to give a big shout to @KarmaTheRascal for hosting such a lovely session last night! Keep up the great work karma! I love getting to see our rooms active. I have also been hosting some study sessions on the teen side too. I hope you all get the opportunity to come to one of these sessions. We love getting to see you!
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I would love to welcome you to participate in some reflection questions! Feel free to answer as many or as few as you would like. Also, feel free to share anything on your mind or say hi if you would like that!
Remember that you are not alone. We will go through this together and are so proud of you all for coming so far. Keep up the excellent work!
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✨Here are some reflections for the week✨
❀How was your week? Highlights? Challenges? ❀
❀ Have you had any time for self care lately? If yes, tell us about it! If no, what are some things your could do for next week?❀
❀ What is you favorite flavor of icecream?🍦🍨❀
We hope you all have a wonderful week. I look forward to hearing everyone’s responses, and please don't hesitate to reach out for support.
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@FaithfulZareia
❀How was your week? Highlights? Challenges? ❀
Challenges:
My neighbor refuses to acknowledge that someone lives below them despite my handful of attempts to let their privileged middle aged stomping slamming music pumping yell talking white male duplicitous gemini brain know that the rooms are built like tissue paper and respectful behaviour is necessary when living in such close quarters.
False apologies.
People feeding into a system that gets more useless by the day.
Forgiveness.
Our toxic society.
Grief.
Annoying, pedantic, righteous people and their moist mouth noises.
Hypocrisy.
Budgeting, decluttering, reframing, nightmares, sleep disturbances, ignorance, illness, death, taxes, unconscious eating, unconsciousness in general.
The side effects of medication.
Hopelessness.
Despair.
Highlights:
Going to lunch, buying a bouquet 💐 and chocolates.
Takeout.
Going to the cinema.
Learning more.
Having clean and fresh laundry and bedding.
Kind and balanced moments.
Croissants.
Purple balloons.
Taking my time.
Gentleness.
Patience.
Love.
Persistence and perseverance.
Resourcing.
Sleep.
The weather.
Consistent awareness and self awareness.
Caring.
Gratitude.
❀ Have you had any time for self care lately? If yes, tell us about it! If no, what are some things your could do for next week?❀
I've been able to do laundry, oral hygiene and skin care, eat fruit and veggies daily, hydrate, do movement/exercise, learn new things, do morning, evening and other guided meditations and visualizations and vacuum.
Next week I can track what I do so I have a clearer picture of things and what my input-output ratio and content is and how I could tweak it.
❀ What is you favorite flavor of icecream?🍦🍨❀
@Dallady
Hey dallady! Thanks so much for joining us in our check in this week!
It sounds like you have a lot on your mind. IM sorry to hear that your neighbors are not being very respectful to the noice level that they are causing. I can only imagine how frustrating it is for you to try to be working or sleeping but being burden with music, stomping and slamming. Definitely not fun to be dealing with. all that the things that you have listed as challenges can be really hard to deal with. things like forgiveness grief, society, people, they are things that take a while ot work through, to learn how do deal with, and every week we must keep trying to move in the right direction. some weeks are going to be harder then others. we just got to keep doing our best. Sometimes things are just completely out of our control. we spend a lot of time worrying about those things. sometimes we must sperate the the things we can control and the things we can not control. and focus on what we can control, easier said then done i know,
I really like the list of good things that happened this week. You have take the time to notice the small things in life, like purple balloons, and croissants but also taking the time to look at these larger things like love and patience. I think that its really awesome how you take the time, in both of the challenges and highlights to share about this large range of things that often go unnoticed and these bigger concepts too. Its always nice to be able to look at a wide picture and from multiple points of view.
Those are all awesome self care things that you can be doing. your personal care and taking time to do the things that make you feel a bit better are awesome, i can tel that you are a really self aware person. I wish the best as we find our why through this week <3 honestly that ice cream sounds really really good! but mint is definitely a childhood classic
Thanks again dal (:
Highlights?
Got reenrolled to the bachelor’s program, was able to talk with my advisor and get registered for a class: my first lecture hall class at a big university (600 seats in the class; my biggest class to this point has been around 60 seats) and I have known one of the classmates for 4 years from a club though we’re not close, so that should be interesting. Also had a psychiatrist appointment and was able to discuss changing the timing of my medication.
Challenges?
Figuring out how to navigate references for a summer “job” (more like full-time volunteer position: disability complications). Navigating my online class which is getting harder by the week to stay focused on.
Time for self-care?
My therapist and I talked a couple weeks ago about how I need to work towards having an up-activity every day, which includes things like listening to music and playing with my cats.
Favorite Ice cream flavor?
Definitely chocolate chip cookie dough.
@sunnyBeach9488
Hey sunny thanks so much for taking part in our checkin this week, it is always really nice to see you💜
That is so awesome to hear that you have been re-enrolled in your bachelor's program. I am so proud of you, and so should you! I know that it is been a long road getting there and hasn't been easy but that's really awesome that you are making progress. I can imagine that when do you start that is definitely a big jump from 60 to 600 seats, how are you feeling about that?nthat's pretty cool that your old club mate is going to be in the class with you. you might not be close it's still nice to have a familiar face in such a big crowd whatever this next adventure for you is I hope that it is awesome💜🎉
I'm glad you got a chance to talk with your psychiatrist about meds always fine-tuning things can be nice and helpful
as with the challenges this week can totally understand the stress about references and getting everything in line for summer jobs and volunteering can be really overwhelming l and complicated and I hope that everything gets sorted out soon and that you get to be in a position that you enjoy for the summer. online school can be really tou to to stay focus and motivated and some weeks are just a little harder than others to stay on track and that is totally okay. You are doing a great job.
I really like your idea of having an activity that you are up every day definitely will steal the idea I love music too and I don't have a cat but I have a dog and playing with him is a nice way to spend some time. I hope you find some time this week too (:
Thanks again sunny! *Shares chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream*
@sunnyBeach9488 Congrats on starting your program! 600 people sounds huge, I would probably fall asleep lol. I've taken online and zoom classes and it is really hard. I watch lectures from home right now and get behind easily, but trying to do my best to keep up every day.
I like the idea of doing an up activity every day. Sounds like a good idea.
How was your week? Highlights? Challenges? ❀
My week was okay. I seemed to have spiraled a bit about two personal things that made it feel harder to study for my cardiology exam this week, but I have started my study outline and made some progress on it today.
A highlight was I am take a bat biology class and we went on a night walk together and saw some bats and some big toads too which made me really happy. I also saw a new anime movie called Suzume with my friend.
Spiral number one was about my ex asking for space, which I have been respecting but I really miss him and I am kind of counting the days when we might be able to chat again.
Spiral two was asking my brother for help with taxes and him kind of scolding me to do it on time, but I decided to file an extension because I am in school full time and depressed over here people and doing my *** best. I don't owe any money and I did file the extension by the deadline.
❀ Have you had any time for self care lately? If yes, tell us about it! If no, what are some things your could do for next week?❀
I really haven't had a lot of time but I did exercise today and chatted with listeners.
❀ What is you favorite flavor of icecream?🍦🍨
Hmm, pistachio, m & m, cake batter, and just anything with chocolate lol
Thanks so much for joining our check-in!
It sounds like its been a tough week for you with alot going on and stressful. i know that it can be challenging to be keeping up wth work and studying for tests. Online stuff has both pros and cons to it. Proud of you for getting some progress today, keep u the great work.
That sounds pretty cool about your night nature walk. Seeing all those animals is crazy! watching movie sunds like a nice time with a friend.
Im really sorry to hear about your your ex, i know who challenging it can be when someone asks for space. All you want and al you think about is being with them. Its hard to be out of control and not be able to go and talk with them. You want to remain respectful of there requests but that can be so hard. I bet you miss him alot. I hope that you two will be able to talk soon. and that this time and space is what he needs so that you both can be at a place where you want to be at.
That definitely sounds frustrating about your brother, Iknow you must be trying really hard with everything. But he is failing ot recognize that you are trying and that you are also struggling rn. School and depression don't make doing the taxes and such easy,you have every right to be able to get that extension with out being scolded by your brother.
Taking time for our selfs can be so hard specifically with so much going on. I'm glad that you have had some times to connect with listeners. I hope you had some helpful chats and nice exercising time.
I definitely know who to go to if i ever need ice cream suggestions :p Have a great rest of your week <3
@FaithfulZareia Thank you very much for replying to some many comments! I really appreciate it. <3
