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Join the One Line A Day Journaling Challenge
by SoulfullyAButterfly
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 June 4th
...See more It might not seem like much, but putting pen to paper and writing down our thoughts and feelings can do wonders for our well-being. When we journal, we create a safe and private space where we can express ourselves freely and without judgment. This can be especially helpful if we find it hard to share our feelings with others. Journaling also helps us gain clarity and perspective on our thoughts and emotions. We can identify patterns in our thinking and behavior, which can help us recognize triggers and make positive changes in our lives. It can also be a powerful tool to manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges. By writing down our worries and concerns, we can release some of the tension we're carrying around and feel more at ease. 7 Cups has recently launched a Journals & Diaries community and we’re kicking off the launch with a fun challenge you can join! To start and maintain a journaling practice, we are launching a One Line A Day Challenge, where you are invited to journal only one line a day, for 1 month (or more!). Here’s how to join in: * Subscribe to the Journals & Diaries subcommunity at 7 Cups by clicking “Join”. * Consider taking the Flourishing Assessment [https://www.7cups.com/assessment/Flourishing] before you begin the challenge to get a sense of how well you are thriving. This free assessment helps you get insight on your strengths too! * Click the “One Line A Day” topic on the right-hand side of the Journals & Diaries community homepage. Create a thread for your journaling journey. An example thread is “SoulfullyAButterfly’s One Line A Day Thread [https://www.7cups.com/forum/JournalsDiaries_219/OneLineADay_2524/SoulfullyAButterflysOneLineADayThread_301755/]”. You can mention your starting date and any other requests you would like (such as whether you prefer people only read or are ok to get supportive replies) in your first post. * Feeling stuck? We will also create daily journaling prompt threads under the “One Line A Day” topic/section to help you reflect on different things. While this is optional, you can use the prompts for inspiration and can respond under those threads (feel welcome to copy the prompt/response) onto your own thread if you feel like having everything in one place! An additional feature 7 Cups offers is your private journal and timeline. To view it, feel welcome to click here [https://www.7cups.com/path/]. Will you be joining the One Line A Day Challenge? Let us know below and tag other users you think may enjoy this!
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7 Cups Private Journal Feature: Your Personal Safe Space
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 August 4th, 2024
...See more Having a safe space to reflect and document your thoughts and feelings can be a valuable tool in your wellness toolbox. A lot of us at 7 Cups have been journaling and self-reflecting, and I wanted to highlight the private journal feature which currently lives on our profiles as well as under the path steps we can take:  With the Private Journal feature, you can: 📝 Create Personal Entries: Document your thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a completely private setting. It's your space to express yourself freely, without judgment. 📆 View on Your Timeline: Your journal entries are organized on a timeline, alongside other site activity like messages, hearts, path steps taken, and assessment score data. This timeline provides a holistic view of your progress and self-care journey. Have you tried out this feature yet? Feel welcome to share feedback and any ideas on how you would want this feature updated to meet your journalling needs.
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The Elegy Of The Bizzare ❤️
by AiluraTheCat
Last post
 1 hour ago
...See more    💌 Frist Day Of My Diary Log 💌  (Fri, 26 June, 9:08 AM)      *sitting alone, tears flowing out of my eyes, struggling to bear the weight in my heart*   I have been listening to the world speaking, through people's. Trees. Plants. Insects. Walls. Even the breeze that brushes against my skin. Maybe this is her love language. The same world that judges and admires. The crematorium warning the wicked, yet waiting to honor the good. A toddler exploring life with wonder. Curtains tapping against the wall, asking to be noticed. The quiet ache in my heart. The tangled thoughts in my mind. Love remains in me begging not to leave. The voice of anger in people's. The unheard cries. Advice from people who forget that no two souls walk the same path. (Which is the sound I detest the most in this world) The beggar. The homeless. The birds. The animals. Even the water dripping, as if the world is counting down its final moments. The beauty of the bizarre within me : ) I've never looked at the world the way the world looks at itself. Where others see a sunset, I hear the sky grieving the end of another day. Where others pass a forest, I stay... listening to leaves whisper elegies only lonely hearts can understand. They call me a weirdo *Smiles* They don't know my mind is a cathedral where a thousand unanswered questions kneel in silent prayer.  I've made a home out of beautiful sorrows, finding poetry where others found only pain. Perhaps I romanticized suffering b'cos it was the only language that never asked me to pretend ❤️ So I smile :) Not because the weight is gone, but some burdens become so familiar they learn to wear the shape of a smile. The world has never broken me with one violent storm i think. Instead, it became a thousand silent raindrops, each too gentle to notice, until I realized I had been drowning all along. Yet i search for beauty, because somewhere beneath all this weight, my soul refuses to stop believing that even the deepest night was created to make room for dawn :)  Ailura ❤️
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Space for Space?
by IzzyGamer
Last post
 16 hours ago
...See more Well... I'm not sure why I'm making this but I guess I decided to make a place where I can express how I feel. Or I guess just to write out all the chaos that's inside my head. Or just completely random things that have nothing at all to do with anything. 🙃 Since Ive never had a place where I've felt safe to express myself I guess this will my little corner of internet where I do feel safe. (Maybe)  I honestly don't mind replies, just be nice... Please (: 
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Life sucks
by Malecfan
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more I’m terrified of love. Romantic, platonic, familial all of it. I care, and I miss people easily. I don’t love people easily. I could stop talking to most of my family and never look back. Sure I’d miss the good times, but I think they’re bad people. They try to hide it, put on a show but when you’re around people for so long you see it. I have a strong belief in the fact that people don’t change. I think you can change your actions, but not who you are as a person, not fundamentally. You change, small things do, as life goes on, but deep down you’ll always be the same person. Maybe that’s a poor belief to have but it’s mine. So no, my family aren’t good people so I don’t love them. They hurt me, constantly, in ways that are dismissive and not even thought of. In ways only family should know affect you yet mine don’t. They’re not family, we’re all just a bunch of people with the same DNA running through our blood. Platonic, I don’t have friends. I keep away from people because they’re never who they pretend to be. I try to be pretty upfront and honest, I keep a lot of things hidden but personality wise, I’m myself. A lot of people aren’t. Or they dance around it and are never upfront and it’s so confusing. I need people who just are honest, upfront but thats so hard to find. I’d rather be alone than try. People hurt, and when you take the time to get to know them, let them in and get hurt it’s just not worth it. I think I’m a good person. I’m insecure, I’m depressed and hurt. I don’t make it other people’s problem. It does affect my relationships sometimes. I don’t think I’m good enough. I’ll buy you flowers. I’ll take you on dates, surprises or wherever you wanna go. I’ll get you things that remind me of you, big or small. I’ll talk to you constantly, about anything and nothing. I’ll take the time to learn you, to love you. Yet I hide things. Uncertainties, times where I’m uncomfortable. I like to pretend I’m okay. That I’m a personified strength. Nothing can get me down. I’m not. I mean yeah I don’t feel anything most of the time but when I do I feel it deeply. Idk what I’m saying rn I’m spiralling. Anyway there’s someone new in my life. She’s eager. She’s funny, smart. She’s a little intense but I also haven’t really done this in a while so I have no clue. Younger than me, just a couple years but I feel way older than I am. She’s good. I just don’t wanna drag her along if I’m not all in yk? But I’m not sure I’m ever going to be able to be all in.
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@fossilfellow — Small wins.
by fossilfellow
Last post
 3 days ago
...See more I'll write small things I did for myself to get through the day and take care of myself here 💚
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Advice?
by highPlacesareMything1234
Last post
 Sunday
...See more Hi. Um. I’ve been feeling kind of overwhelmed lately - does anyone know any grounding techniques that might help? Sorry. 
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photo diary
by cyanessence
Last post
 Saturday
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Pyaar (Love)
by VelvetVibes1234
Last post
 Friday
...See more I'll write it in Hinglish... Pyaar itni khubsurat cheez hai... Par apne experience ke baad maine seekha hai ke depend krta hai aapko hota kaise insan se hai...  Agar insan shi hai to pyaar khubsurat hoga aur life heaven bann jaygi without any efforts to make it heaven.. par agar bhaisahab kisi galat insan se ho gya na... Fir to itna badsurat bann jayga pyaar aur aapki life ko bhi itna badsurat krdega ke aapne socha nhi hoga... Full hellish experience even after all your efforts to make it heaven... Aap apna sab kuch de doge uss galat insan ko pyaar mein apna sab kuch maankar par vo galat insan jo hurt ki streak lagayga na aapki life mein vo unimaginable aur unexpected hoga aapke liye.... All I've learnt is that it's better to be patient and first see that person as a person... And vo aapke liye kbhi efforts lagayga bhi ya nhi... Kyonki bhai pyaar is like a whirlpool... Ek baar saari feelings attachments hue na aur agar aap over emotional insan ho aur aapne galat insan se kar liya... To aapki life ka *** hona 101 pct sure hai... Kyonki yaar undo Krna na next to impossible ho jata hai.... But yaar galti pyar ki nhi hai... Pyaar sach mein ek bahaut hi achi feeling hota hai kharab nhi.. vo insan hi shi nhi tha na yaar...  """Well ab ye post padhkar kuch log shayd offend ho jaynge aur "comment krke pyaar ke upar gyaan denge, mujhe galat bataynge, mera flaw nikalenge, bolenge mujhe hi pyaar Krna nhi ata, maine hi kuch kar diya hoga etc etc..."... To bhai aise logon ko dur se hi pranam 🙏🏻.. aap log kripya comment ya dm na krne ki kripa karein...""" One last thing... Pyaar krne ka na to koi set rule hai aur na hi pyaar ki koi definition... It totally differs from person to person...  Just wanted to share these feelings for so long...
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I'm Losing the Desire to Share My Writing
by CradleDuck
Last post
 Friday
...See more I'm tired of having my work reduced to accusations of AI because I care about grammar, precision, and how I articulate an idea. I spend a lot of time thinking through what I write. Apparently using terms like "ecological degradation" or "social well-being" is now enough for people to question whether a person actually wrote something. At some point, that says more about what people expect from human writing than it does about the writing itself. I know some people genuinely enjoy what I share, and I appreciate that. But constantly having to defend my own authorship is exhausting.
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I'm a warrior 🪖
by polite2
Last post
 September 10th
...See more Growing up in the united states was tough for me. & I was blind to the role models best for me. I'm thankful my vision is clearing out and I'm able to see through the hypnosis better. https://youtu.be/gZFjauf_hZg?si=4an0N31056AciKLh [https://youtu.be/gZFjauf_hZg?si=4an0N31056AciKLh] The Link is Demi Lovato - Warrior 
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TRANS beware
by Malecfan
Last post
 September 10th
...See more I’ve always had an odd relationship with my queerness. Catholic school didn’t help, neither did my family. I realised I was Bi back when I was still a chick. Just started dating a girl and that was that. Simple and easy. It warranted a bit of bad attention at school but nothing major. Then when I was 13? I think, I was dating this dude. Very stereotypical dude, man made me have a whole realisation so I broke it off. Took me a while to find the terms and sh-t but I did. I’ve always been a little different. Even when I was younger. It showed, especially since I knew a lot of people but wasn’t friends with them just friendly. I spent more time in the library as a kid because guys didn’t want girls playing w them and I never wanted to play with the girls. But anyways, getting off track. I told my older sister first, cuz my mums an a-hole and I never really trusted her. My sister locked me in a room with my mum till I told her about a week later. My mum who completely ignored it till I hit 15 and we got in a major argument over it. By that point I was already out to my friends, teachers, my entire school basically. I got a lot of sh-t for that one but I managed. Now I still get kids coming up to me, asking if I’m Alex. First openly trans kid at that school, and I was argumentative about it too. Got into all types of fights and arguments. I wrote my English Language Speech about the fact that LGBTQ isn’t spoken about in schools enough and isn’t supported well either. I had kids who’d sit with me and my friends at lunch becuase it was safe. Sometimes they’d ask questions, sometimes they’d just hang out. I’m 20 now, so this was a while ago. I don’t regret it. I know I probably should becuase it gave me a lot of issues, still does. But I like to think I helped a lot of kids in that school, I know I helped a lot of people in my year too. I was an advocate by just being myself and not being ashamed of it. Doesn’t help the fact that I hate that I’m trans though. Even if it gives me a lot I’m also at a major loss. I’ll never know what it’s like to grow up the way I wanted to. Forced into dresses and skirts, forced to play with sh-t i never had an interest in, forcing myself to do it anyways even as I got older. Not being a guy. It takes years for the NHS waiting list, I’ve been on it for 3-4, which is mental. Sure, I’ve socially transitioned, and I look like a dude but my voice outs me every time and it sucks. Being trans is rewarding but also just a trap. A cage that takes years to escape. Anyways sorry I watched fanfic and it was just ugh. It’s fine and okay rep but like? Its kinda sh-t
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Rant
by Malecfan
Last post
 September 9th
...See more Today my sister asked me if I ever feel stuck. She doesn’t know me, not really, the question is just another reminder of that fact. I’m 20, i live at home and work at my first ever job I got. So yeah, I feel stuck. I never feel unstuck. I constantly feel like I’m running yet never moving. It’s insane that she’d ask because anyone who know’s me has heard this tirade. I’ve been exhausted since I learnt what it meant. I’ve been depressed since I was too young to understand the feeling. I’ve been angry in a way that festers over time. I’ve changed over the years but only via words, actions, behaviour. In reality i’m the same as I was 8 years ago. Still furious yet never say anything. It’s not place, I’m the peace, the calm, the quiet. I’m the person you *** about others too, the one who takes and takes without limit because I never learnt when to stop. I carry everyone else’s weight and let my own drag behind me. I’ve never been good at focusing on me. Yet people know me enough that they know how to get me pliable. Easy to manipulate because despite my general lack of empathy, I’m easy when it comes to my family. Yeah they don’t know my favourite tv-show but my mother know’s how to get me to do something I don’t wanna do, or how to not speak up for myself when I really should. But I endure it because if I act out, I won’t stop. I get mean, I get snappy, but I never say things that I don’t mean nor aren’t true. I’m smart, I’m observant and people trust me. Smart but stupid. Push and I’ll snap. Maybe not in the way I’d like but enough for it to hurt. Some days I just feel like crashing out and ruining every relationship I have. I’m not that person. I wish I was
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Umm I don’t know
by highPlacesareMything1234
Last post
 September 9th
...See more Hi.  Um I don’t rlly know why I’ve posted this. I guess I just feel lonely. Things at school have changed a lot. I don’t even know like anything. I hate my life. Why can’t I just d i s a p p e a r? The people I used to talk to for support are busy now that it’s a new year. I don’t want to be a burden.  Sorry 

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