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Listener Classifieds (September 2026) Listeners Post Here and Members, Check Out Our Listeners Accepting New Chats!
by Heather225
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 22 hours ago
...See more Happy September! This space is for Listeners currently accepting chats to introduce themselves to the member community! Members, if any listeners pique your interest, you can then check out their bios and see if they might be a good fit for you! Here are some things you can consider sharing (only share what's comfortable): * Are you an adult, teen, or ATL? * Gender: * Languages you speak: * How long you've been a listener: * Topics you'll support: * Topics you don’t support: * Lived experience: * Are you open to taking on members for long-term listening support? * Your availability (in EST time) and day(s), if applicable Do you support DID? Follow the link to this post. [https://www.7cups.com/forum/generalsupport/Classifieds_360/ListenerClassifiedsDissociativeIdentityDisorderDID_339333] Thank you for being a valued volunteer in our community and a vital part of this life-changing work! ------------------------- If you're getting value out of 7 Cups, please consider donating to keep our community going. Back us here. [https://www.7cups.com/back-us/] 💙
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NAMI Oath
by Kate
Last post
 September 12th
...See more Any new member of the NAMI Community who introduces themselves and takes the NAMI Oath will receive the NAMI Oath Badge. Please copy, paste, sign and date the following NAMI Oath within this thread: NAMI Oath I pledge a moral oath before my fellow active listeners, 7 Cups members and NAMI supporters. I pledge to help support NAMI's mission and to dedicate myself to building better lives for anyone affected by mental illness. I pledge to always try my best to be a positive influence and make a difference in the lives of others. I pledge to be #stigmafree and respectful of anyone who may be experiencing a mental health challenge. I will educate, advocate and listen to others' experiences without judgment or bias. I will encourage acceptance and understanding. When I see that someone needs more than the peer support I can provide, I will refer them to professional help and appropriate resources. I pledge to make my own self-care a priority and recognize when I need to take extra time to take care of my own mental health. I will keep these promises and I will do everything in my power to promote mental health, healing, and wellness within myself, my fellow members and my world. I believe that no one should face mental illness alone and I pledge to provide peer support to anyone who reaches out to the NAMI Community for help. Signed: Date:
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[Listeners] Farewell/Taking a Break/Returning Thread: Send Your Regards
by MonBon
Last post
 September 7th
...See more This is the public support counterpart of this thread [https://www.7cups.com/forum/ListenersOnlyForums_38/ListenerSelfCare_95/FarewellTakingaBreakReturningThreadSendYourRegards_4132/1/] [L] so that listeners can let the whole community know if they are leaving or if they have come back. Below excerpt taken and modified from the original thread: Some Listeners decide, at one point or another, to take a break or in special cases to leave the site as a Listener. During their time here they may have made connections with others in the community and sometimes people aren't aware that they have left or are misinformed and thus never get the opportunity to sent their warm wishes. Thus, this thread is meant for Listeners to inform the community that they are leaving or taking a break and leave their appropriate comments for others to read. Moreover, returning Listeners can post here as well to inform the community that they are active again. Returning to 7 Cups after a break? We have a welcome Back Committee now, you can find information here [https://www.7cups.com/forum/ListenerLearningJourney_149/WelcomeZone_2385/WelcomeBackCommittee_295611/] (clickable), and reach out. Your peers and mentors are here for you. <3 Lastly, others in the community can send their regards to these Listeners. [L] indicates a Listeners Only thread [Welcome back committee information added by Sunisshiningandsoareyou, 02/10/23]
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Findings new friends, Preferably Indians
by Moonlightpeace0206
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 23 minutes ago
...See more Hi guys, i am new to this platform and trying to make new friends, If reach out to me if we can 😊😊 Appreciated, Thanks
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The Weekly Beacon: Small ways to help the community! (Sept 14)
by MeilleureAmie
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 1 hour ago
...See more Welcome to this week's Community Beacon [https://www.7cups.com/forum/generalsupport/CommunitySpace_2539/TheWeeklyBeaconSmallwaystohelpthecommunity_377289/?p=2]! For those who might be new to this initiative, The Weekly Beacon is our new tradition in which we share simple, small ways you can lend a hand in the community. The heart of 7 Cups has always been the people in it, and you do not need official badges, special training, or hours of free time to make a difference in someone else's day.  🌟 The Recognition Board 🌟  Every day you reply to these weekly threads to let us know you completed one of the tasks, you earn a star. You can earn up to 7 each week for each day of the week (1 day = 1 star). Once you earn 30 stars, you will receive the exclusive "All for one" badge! Congratulations to everyone who has earned stars for their acts of community spirit!  @YourCaringConfidant - 7 > 173 ⭐ @Amanda84 - 7 > 141 ⭐ @Ivy229 - 7 > 130 ⭐ @fossilfellow - 7 > 110 ⭐ @Magicpawsoffuture - 4 > 108 ⭐ @Diinnaa - 7 > 101 ⭐ @MeilleureAmie - 2 > 73 ⭐ @Minimum00 - 7 > 67 ⭐ @MentalHealthMatters01 - 2 > 66 ⭐ @stormieandpaws - 5 > 54 ⭐ @AffyAvo - 7 > 46 ⭐ @ACozyBunny - 3 > 45 ⭐ @AsherTree - 5 > 28 ⭐ @mytwistedsoul - 1 > 24 ⭐ @SkilledChatter - 7 > 17 ⭐ @Sunisshiningandsoareyou - 7 > 16 ⭐ @Luminity125 - 1 > 16 ⭐ @Mooniey - 1 > 7 ⭐ @Joyfulflowers - 1 > 7 ⭐ @Hermionetps - 7 > 3 ⭐ @QuietWillow00 - 7 > 3 ⭐ @wuxily - 1 ⭐ @discreetPlace4219 - 1 ⭐ @DubstepDadT - 1 ⭐ @trueconfidant123 - 148 ⭐ @SparkyGizmo - 101 ⭐ @TheGeminiInMe - 62 ⭐ @sereneMango2512 - 43 ⭐ @AReineRose - 37 ⭐ @cheerfulKiwi1776 - 16 ⭐ @ABoxofChocolates2 - 9 ⭐ @IvoryNotes - 6 ⭐ @funnyAvocado3000 - 5 ⭐ @quietPlace4271 - 4 ⭐ @Rebekah - 3 ⭐ @Sharing3312 - 2 ⭐ @Ednamius - 1 ⭐ If any numbers are off, feel free to let me know! ------------------------- 💙 This Week’s Asks 💙  * Check the Newbie Hub [https://www.7cups.com/forum/welcome/TheWelcomeCommitteeTeam_2670/] for people introducing themselves [https://www.7cups.com/forum/welcome/TheWelcomeCommitteeTeam_2670/], and drop into their posts to acknowledge them * Greet someone in the Welcome thread [https://www.7cups.com/forum/welcome/WelcomeIntroductionsto7Cups_1163/Welcometo7CupsIntroduceyourselfhere_331308/] (click the >> to go to the most recent page) * Spend an hour in one of the member rooms, especially during a time of low activity. Welcome everyone who enters the chatrooms to make them feel seen. Click here to visit the Group Chats [https://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php]. * Visit our brand new Social Support Room (click here) [https://www.7cups.com/chat/?c=2_7cf7eb2ac0e1e704-3i7aTds2MqETdj1gSmEVA] and take the lead on some icebreakers or games! * Give out a resource to someone! Examples: the 7 Cups Basics [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M53Nm5-pbtxx2_jKfXYgYzo3NgXxjNfMwfzVSRC1rZg/edit?tab=t.0], the Listener Quick Guide [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0P_a463RsOkBFmgE4hqMUPCyqD98MCZO_r8PAb4ERs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6zoipvarg5nu], or a self-help guide [https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=15546ab78aa81dea4c928fa0b099aa1c87afb408adb907c9170e26273e2102cfJmltdHM9MTc3MzI3MzYwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=39072312-8b6a-6d87-0f74-30cc8a7e6c89&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuN2N1cHMuY29tL3NlbGYtaGVscC8&ntb=1] * Apply for a leadership role! Listeners click here [https://www.7cups.com/listener/training/leadership/]. Members, click here [https://www.7cups.com/forum/siteupdates/HsHangout_1970/7CupsMemberRolesMasterlist_318359/]! If you can do even one of these things, whether just once or for multiple days this week, please reply to this thread and let me know what you did to support our community! It can be anything, not just things on the list (even kindness tasks for yourself!).  ✨ Remember: showing up to this thread each day represents 1 star, and you can earn up to 7 stars each week. ✨ Thank you for helping bring our community closer together through everyday acts of kindness!
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Connecting again
by Creamyyy
Last post
 2 hours ago
...See more What do you do if you dont wish for anything good anymore, because youre exhausted by being resilient for so long? What do you dont wish to invest in any love ties anymore and dont know what to do with your time anymore? What do you do when faith doesnt pacify you? Hope yre all well.
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I Need Love
by jesusredeemedme2425
Last post
 3 hours ago
...See more I’m having a REALLY hard night. So exhausted, mentally and physically. So tired. So many things out of my control. My diet sucks, my sleep sucks, my body hurts, my mind and heart are both broken, I suffer every day. Nothing is working. I need love, distraction, hugs, something to make me laugh, something to make me think, something to inspire me, something to help me persevere and fight the depression and work toward goals and everything else I need rn. You know the drill. Just… Write something. Idc what it is… I just need love. And people around me. Cheerleaders and friends… Please.
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Be Honest 💕
by Amanda84
Last post
 3 hours ago
...See more If you had to be honest in this exact moment, no mask, no filter, what word or sentence would describe how you feel?
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I just need to rant.
by kindSpruce8353
Last post
 4 hours ago
...See more So I graduated today. I’m super happy about that, but there was something that rubbed me the wrong way. A group of friends from my school said that they wanted to go out after graduation. I told them I’d totally want to. No response from the group chat. Day of graduation comes and I congratulated them when they went, but when it was my classes turn, they didn’t even come to do the same. Then they left without saying anything. Someone in our group chat asked if they left? Someone said yes and they just sent that “location tracker “ thing Whatsapp does to find them, but I was just so done and didn’t even bother trying to look for them. All I’m saying is a heads up would have been so nice. A part of me hates myself for trying so hard to be their friend and I STILL want to be their friend for some reason. I get there people with their families and people are congratulating each other, but it still would have been nice to say something. If you are Italian, please tell me, is this an Italian thing?! I am a foreigner who moved here and I’ve been trying so hard to understand everyone. I feel like some of this stuff is common courtesy but I don’t know what is anymore. It also sucks because my crush was one of the people in this group as well. Regardless, I’m not going to let this ruin my night. I still had a great time with my classmates and I’m celebrating with them tomorrow as well. I just needed to get that out.
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Family Toxic People who disrespect ur ownership or boundaries.
by niceKitten2066
Last post
 13 hours ago
...See more I have a toxic family member ( older ) who use my stuff without asking me. Today they even told me “ I have been using it quite some time how come u only discover it now? ”, what is the best way to deal with this? Is it good to respond to their narcissistic words( like “like what if I don’t discover u will never tell me?”)or just ignore and make myself clear? I have already told them many times to ask me before using my stuff thing, they never listen. Please share what u think. Moving out is happening very soon likely.
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Special Books for Special Kids
by jesusredeemedme2425
Last post
 13 hours ago
...See more I'm sure you've seen his videos on social media; they're everywhere! <3 Have you heard of Chris Ulmer and Special Books for Special Kids? Chris interviews those with physical and mental differences: people with autism, craniofacial differences, cerebral palsy, rare diseases, Down syndrome, limb differences, burn survivors, Tourette's, brain injuries, and more. These kids (they're mostly kids, if not all) are so sweet and have so much love to give... And people reject them and turn away. We, on 7Cups, must choose. We must CHOOSE these children. Love them. Watch the videos. Hear their stories. And get out there and love the people around us who look or act like they do. They are people too. Worthy of love. Worthy of being understood and appreciated for who they are. Worthy of being seen. And hugged. And spoken to. And treated as human. So here's my challenge to you... Go on YT and search "Special Books for Special Kids". Watch one video per day for the next month. Not just videos about people with things you're familiar with, like autism, perhaps, but focus on the people with disabilities you've never heard of before, like Crouzon Syndrome. Learn who they are. See the person beyond the disability. See all their love and how they are changing, and will change, the world. Change the way you see people with disabilities. Start here. Share the videos you watch, what you learn, what you think. Let's learn to love everyone. Together. <3 Who's with me????? <3 <3 <3
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It’s my birthday today. 🎂
by bluetinkerbell1616
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more I don’t really know how I’m supposed to feel. I’m neither happy nor sad… 💙 I just feel stuck. 🛑 Still in the same place 🙍🏻‍♀️I thought I’d have left years ago, while life keeps moving on. Not much to celebrate today. Just sharing what’s in my ❤️
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The last Moment
by aurastorm
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more TW. Hi, Void. "Hi, Aura." I said goodbye to him today. "I know." No. You don't. I don't think anyone can know what it means to say goodbye when there is nowhere safe to put the goodbye. There was no proper room. No quiet. No flowers. No time. Just concrete dust in the air, people calling names, footsteps everywhere, and me standing there trying to understand how someone can be here one moment... and then become someone you have to say goodbye to. "Did you talk to him?" I don't know. I think I did. I remember saying his name. I remember touching his face. I remember telling him that I was there. But everything after that is broken. Like my mind took the worst parts and scattered them so I wouldn't have to hold them all at once. "Did you kiss him?" Yes. His forehead. One last time. And I hated myself for knowing it was the last time. Because how do you kiss someone goodbye when every part of you is screaming that this cannot be goodbye? I kept looking at his face. I thought if I looked long enough, maybe my mind would refuse to accept it. I memorized him again. His forehead. His eyes. His mouth. Everything. As if I could carry his face somewhere the war couldn't reach. "Was he cold?" ... Yes. I don't want to talk about that. I want to remember him warm. I want to remember him sitting beside me. I want to remember his voice coming from another room. I want to remember being annoyed when he called my name too many times. I want those stupid ordinary things back. I would give anything for one ordinary day. Not a perfect day. Not even a happy day. Just one normal day. One day where nobody is counting the d ead. One day where the rockets and strikes doesn't make your heart stop. One day where you don't have to wonder who is missing. "Did you cry?" I don't know. Maybe. I think my body forgot how. There was too much happening. Too many people. Too much noise. And somehow the world kept moving. That's what I don't understand. How can someone disappear from your life... and the sun still rise the next morning? How can people keep talking? How can bread still be baked? How can children still cry? How can a clock keep ticking? How can the world continue when mine stopped? "You're still here." I know. That's the problem. I'm still here. He's not. And I don't know what to do with all this life that suddenly has nowhere to go. I keep thinking I will hear him. Sometimes I turn when someone says a name that sounds like his. Sometimes I see someone from behind and my heart runs toward them before my mind catches up. And every time... it's not him. "Do you miss him?" I miss him in ways I don't know how to explain. I miss him when I'm hungry. I miss him when I'm afraid. I miss him when I hear an explosion. I miss him when the night becomes too quiet. I miss him when something makes me laugh and I instinctively turn to tell him. I miss him when I wake up. I miss him when I fall asleep. I miss him most when I forget for a second... and then remember. "Do you wish you had said something?" Everything. I wish I had said everything. I wish I had hugged him longer. I wish I had listened more carefully. I wish I had stopped whatever I was doing and looked at him properly. I wish I had known. I wish someone had told me, This is the last time. Because I thought there would be another morning. Another conversation. Another meal. Another argument. Another laugh. Another chance to say I love you. I didn't know I was spending my last moment with him. Nobody ever tells you. They just take the person away... and leave you with all the words you thought you had time to say. "Are you angry?" Yes. At the war. At the rubble. At the sky. At every siren. At every person who told us to wait. At every tomorrow that never came. But mostly... I'm angry that I have to remember him as someone who's gone. I don't want that word beside his name. I want his name to mean a person. Not a photograph. Not a memory. Not a date. Not a number. A person. My person. "Then say his name." ... I don't want to. "Why?" Because once I say it, there is nobody here to answer. ... I said goodbye to him today. But I don't think goodbye happened today. It will happen tomorrow morning. And the morning after. And every time I reach for my phone. Every time I hear his name. Every time I walk past somewhere he used to stand. Every time I remember something I forgot to tell him. Maybe that's what goodbye really is. Not one moment. Not one last kiss. But thousands of tiny moments afterward... when you realize, again, that they are gone. And you have to lose them all over again. "Are you going to be okay?" ... I don't know. I don't think I am supposed to be okay. Not yet. Maybe for now, I just need to sit here, hold his name inside my chest, and let myself miss him. Because he was here. He was loved. He was mine to lose. And I was his... for a little while. Before war took him from me. . . Aura 🍉
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Hey guys! I kind of need some help.
by goldenBeach293
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more i like this girl, but we are really good friends and I don't want to ruin the frienship by telling her that I like her. I asked a friend to tell her that I like her but she didn't respond yet and I'm afraid that I might ruined it. We are really close and I don't know what to do. She seems to like me. When we are in a group and she talks she looks for me like she is searching from validation. we make eye-contact but like these signs might be just beause we are really good friends. she is giving me mixed-signals and I don't know what to do What would you do
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Warning for Triggers | I feel discriminated in this place
by ItzVesper09
Last post
 15 hours ago
...See more Yup, just like the title says. I don't know I just feel like people here are out to attack me for my roots I have indigenous heritage (Mostly Nawat, a Nahuan group) and it's something I am proud of, but I just feel like every time I try to talk about it I get disinterest or outright censorship, like I am being shunned down for it. I already had someone actually explictely attack me for it before, I won't say names but yeah Like there is unanimous agreement that it's something that should be hidden. It's been like this for quite some months by now, breaks me. I won't make an exaggerated post with bunch of emojis, I go direct to the point on the issue.

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