Student Support Check-in *28 January ~ 4 February 2024*
Student Support Check-in
28 January ~ 4 February 2024!
Hello, Lovely Student Support Community! Welcome to our weekly check-in.
Hey beautiful student support community! How are we all doing? I hope that the week is being gentle to you and you find time to take care of yourselves. I can’t believe we are already almost a month into the new year! Time flies, if this week happens to be a good week for you let's take a moment this week to check in on our friends, and if it's not been your week please reach out to someone. I know we feel like a burden to those around us and we have lots of reasons to not reach out but don't sit with those bad feelings alone. People care and if they don’t, reach out to me and I'll listen. I hope everyone stays safe this coming week. For everyone, What's been going on in your life? I would love to hear updates. I hope you all are managing through and have a good week ahead. We are always here for you and you are not alone <3
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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!
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Here are some reflections for the week
❀ How are you doing? mentally? physically? spiritually? ❀
❀ How do you balance all your life commitments? Is this something you have ever struggled with? Any tips for others? ❀
❀ If you could live somewhere else for a year where would it be? ❀
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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I guess balancing my commitments is relatively easy for me since I mainly have work and school although work had been overwhelming but that was due to being short-handed and the way the supervisors were handing out assignments. It's still haphazard but at least I don't feel like I'm treading water.
As for where I'd like to live for a year, I dont know. I haven't seen much of where I'm currently living. Maybe Italy but I'd have to get a lot better at understanding Italiano than where I'm currently at.
@Enthenia
Hey enthenia! thanks for joining our checkin in, its lovely to see you as always.
Thats awesome to hear that you have been able to manage balancing work and school. it definitly gets hard when workplaces are understaffed and the work load falls on you, im glad that you dont feel like you are treading water, the people that are leading can definitly be helpful and such. Italy would be such a fun place to go. learning and being emerged in a new culture is always an adventure <3 I hope you have an amazing week ahead
❀ How are you doing? mentally? physically? spiritually? ❀
I am really struggling this week, because I had one more family counseling session with my mom, and I am feeling really triggered by it and have been sleeping late and really struggling to catch up on schoolwork. She was super awful, very defensive and denied a lot of my very traumatic experiences that I brought up, so I am feeling triggered and down.
❀ How do you balance all your life commitments? Is this something you have ever struggled with? Any tips for others? ❀
I don't know. I struggle a lot with just not having a lot of practical help, like I wish I had someone to help me clean or to ask questions about practical things in my life like car repairs or finances and I don't know who to ask and I am afraid to ask for something inappropriate. Looking into potential paying someone to clean maybe once a month to give me some mental health boost or just help me to get rid of some stuff.
❀ If you could live somewhere else for a year where would it be? ❀
Hmm I have a lot of places I would like to visit but idk about a whole year because I think I would feel lonely in another country. I am thinking about moving after graduating to a warmer part of the USA like Florida, Arizona, California, but we will see lol
@Daydreamer47
Hey dream! thanks so much for joining our checkin this week. So lovely to see you as always.
Im sorry to hear that its been a pretty tough week for you. Its sounds like your Conciling session with mum can be super frustrating and not productive. Its hard when you walk away from those session triggered, upset, and with alot to process. Its hard when your expectations of a session are not met. I am really sorry to hear that your mum denied the traumatic situations that you brought up. It really hurts deep when someone invalidates and denies something that has effected you so greatly. while she might not acknowledge those things that happened. what you when through and those feelings are valid. it can be hard to do go back to school work and assignments after such a rough session, not always easy to focus and stay on task.
I can definitly relate to the struggle of not having people to rely on. The things that we were "supposed" to be taught were never and when we have questions and need support we dont have people to turn too. It can feel leaving very lost and alone. I hope that it happens of you that you can get some help. that little boost to not have to clean or worry about one things, can make a little difference.
Living in a new country would be very challenging especailly for a whole year. I like your thoughts though, nice warm place~ I hope you have a better week ahead friend
@FaithfulZareia Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
@FaithfulZareia
❀ How are you doing? mentally? physically? spiritually? ❀
i am doing alright this week. :)
❀ How do you balance all your life commitments? Is this something you have ever struggled with? Any tips for others? ❀
i usually have to-do lists to manage everything.
❀ If you could live somewhere else for a year where would it be? ❀
ireland.
@KateDoskocilova
Hey Kate! thanks for joining our check in this week, lovely to see you as always! I feel like I haven't seen you in a while!
Im glad to hear that things are going well for you<3 to do list are super helpful for me to, It makes me feel like im making progress every time I get to check something off as well as have a visual to what needs to get done so I dont get off track, Ireland sounds like a wonderful place to be, its on my bucket list for places to travel as well
