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PLEASE NOTE: No chats from new people! Sorry, I cannot give you the attention you deserve.
𓇢𓆸♡ Hi, I'm Rose🌹. ♡ (^=˃ᆺ˂) 𓇢𓆸 If I have talked with you in the past, you can try messaging me, but no guarantees on when I will respond.
I will now respond to messages from you if we have had contact before. Asynchronous chats. Sorry, but my schedule does not permit scheduled chats at this time.
I will occasionally take an hour here and there at the spur of the moment to host a Sharing Circle.
I hope you’re well. Take care.
♡🌹CRISIS:
7 cups Listeners do not have the training or back up to support you properly if you are in Crisis. In other words, your Crisis is worthy of better help than I can provide at this time.
If you are currently in a crisis situation where you or another in your environment are at risk of being harmed, please log off 7 cups and please go here to one of these links. https://7cups.com/crisis
Find a helpline has international listings and categories for all types of crisis. It is the best link I have found for International Links. Please note that some crisis lines have hours (eg., 9-4 business hours, or, what I would consider even more outrageous, hours like between 4-6 eg. a two hour window, better have your crisis during these hours! Or, even worse, no crisis line at all — the hours are listed on this site if they are available) and some do not accept calls from outside the country, though many do. This resource is maintained by a very reputable organization and if I were in crisis, I would go here first. https://findahelpline.com
Here are some other alternatives:
International Suicide hotlines: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Suicide crisis lines are listed here by country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
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Here are a few additional sites for help:
FREE or LOW COST THERAPY:
Mental Health America is website that offers information and resources to support and find help for a friend or loved one: https://bit.ly/MHA3res
Now Matters Now is a website that offers support for coping with thoughts of suicide through teaching DBT skills, videos, and personal stories: bit.ly/NMN_ref
Rise Above the Disorder connects people with local mental health providers and subsidizes costs for those who can't afford it. https://bit.ly/yrad_r
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HELP WITH FOOD, HOUSING (USA)
If you may need help with food, housing, or immediate needs, this website has a list of organizations in the USA organized by zip code. http://findhelp.org
WARMLINES
For a list of warmlines (not crisis lines, but lines where you can talk with someone) by state in the USA, please consult: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html#directory
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Here are some links to some Mindfulness Exercises on 7 cups: https://www.7cups.com/exercises/mindfulness/?showlist=1
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Here’s a resource should you be at loose ends how to start a difficult conversation with someone. Seize the awkward gives tips for starting those conversations, while taking care of yourself at the same time. https://seizetheawkward.org/
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Free confidential support from a helpline/hotline near you - online chat text or phone (international just put in your country) https://findahelpline.com/
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Free procrastination workbook and self-help modules https://bit.ly/2GOcU3e
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ProgressiveMuscleRelaxation https://youtu.be/f7I2Upk5jqI * https://youtu.be/ihO02wUzgkc
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Systematic Desensitization to reduce triggers that cause panic attacks or phobias http://bit.ly/2yUhPbg
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Great website everything related to Self Desensitization and free ebook http://web.csulb.edu/~tstevens/Desensit.htm
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Visuals that help with breathing during panic attacks https://dailyburn.com/life/lifestyle/stressed-gifs-breathing-exercises/
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7cups discussion on dealing with panic attacks https://bit.ly/2MomF97
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7cups discussion on reframing negative thoughts https://bit.ly/2OnBaxv
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30 grounding techniques to quiet the mind https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding-techniques
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7cups discussion on managing negative internal dialogue https://bit.ly/2HOwCLl
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Relaxing piano music and water sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6J0ylYTO4s
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To send a cuddle to anyone on 7 cups click here:
https://rarelycharlie.github.io/cuddle
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Kindly,
Rose
𓇢𓆸♡ Hi, I'm Rose🌹. ♡ (^=˃ᆺ˂) 𓇢𓆸
I am taking a break while I finish my book!
♡🌹Announcement: I am tapering off 1:1 chats. Please note if I have a regularly scheduled chat with you, that I will gradually be working on a schedule with you to decrease chat frequency to an “as-needed” basis. ♡🌹
♡🌹 If you are around the Sharing Circles, and you see someone doing a fantastic job of hosting, please nominate them here for Hosting Hero. Please don’t nominate me, as I just got “Hosting Shero” Sunday, February 25, 2024. It’s an award I will always treasure, and in fact, I’m printing it out to place on the wall so I can look at it. The award is thanks to You! Thanks to everyone who nominated me!
Here's the link to the nomination form next time you notice anyone here hosting well! https://www.7cups.com/forum/groupmod/MemberSharingCircles_2109/HostingHeros_324437/
♡🌹Conversations are limited to no more than 30 minutes for each chat. You can leave me messages in between chats and I will check back with you. All conversations are held in strictest confidence! ♡🌹
♡🌹We can have asynchronous chats, where you leave a message and then when I get to your message, I will leave a message for you, and we can have a conversation that way. This is actually how I prefer to chat since I’m a new puppy mum and my schedule is kind of wild these days. ♡🌹
World Clock and Time Converter: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
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”The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” Adam, page 336, “The Overstory,” by Richard Powers, 2018.
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My Fantastic Listener Twins: Mindful Journey22, Brighteststarinnightssky
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“Don't abandon yourself. Not when you're sick. Not when you're tired.
Not when you've lost the thread, the thought, or the thing you thought defined you.
You will die many times in one life and create yourself anew. This is natural. This is a gift.
I've died a few times now here in this world. The person I was: gone.
Throw that older skin into the water. Give it to the sky. Step into what wants to emerge now. Nothing can hold you back when you are willing to be Yourself…”
— Jeannette Encinias
♡🌹CRISIS:
7 cups Listeners do not have the training or back up to support you properly if you are in Crisis. In other words, your Crisis is worthy of better help than I can provide at this time.
If you are currently in a crisis situation where you or another in your environment are at risk of being harmed, please log off 7 cups and please go here to one of these links. https://7cups.com/crisis
Find a helpline has international listings and categories for all types of crisis. It is the best link I have found in my experiences as a Crisis Counselor (not on 7 cups) for International Links. Please note that some crisis lines have hours (eg., 9-4 business hours, or, what I would consider even more outrageous, hours like between 4-6 eg. a two hour window, better have your crisis during these hours! Or, even worse, no crisis line at all — the hours are listed on this site if they are available) and some do not accept calls from outside the country, though many do. This resource is maintained by a very reputable organization and if I were in crisis, I would go here first. https://findahelpline.com
Here are some other alternatives:
International Suicide hotlines: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Suicide crisis lines are listed here by country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
♡ (^=˃ᆺ˂) 𓇢𓆸
Here are a few additional sites for help:
FREE or LOW COST THERAPY:
Mental Health America is website that offers information and resources to support and find help for a friend or loved one: https://bit.ly/MHA3res
Now Matters Now is a website that offers support for coping with thoughts of suicide through teaching DBT skills, videos, and personal stories: bit.ly/NMN_ref
Open Counseling is a website that provides a directory of local and affordable counseling. They also have virtual options: http://bit.ly/OC_ref
OPC is a directory of low-cost options for in person & online therapy; the site has a one-time lifetime membership fee or services https://openpathcollective.org
Rise Above the Disorder connects people with local mental health providers and subsidizes costs for those who can't afford it. https://bit.ly/yrad_r
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HELP WITH FOOD, HOUSING (USA)
If you may need help with food, housing, or immediate needs, this website has a list of organizations in the USA organized by zip code. http://findhelp.org
WARMLINES
For a list of warmlines (not crisis lines, but lines where you can talk with someone) by state in the USA, please consult: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html#directory
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You can usually find me in Adult Member Sharing Circles, 8-9 a.m. EST Wednesdays and Fridays. You may also find me picking up on-the-spot Facilitation from time to time. Adult Member Sharing Circles are my very favorite place on 7 cups. From time to time, on Mondays, I will facilitate a Gratitude Circle in the Positivity Room, 8-9 a.m. EST.
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Alfred Sisley Rose from my garden for you: https://imgur.com/a/Qokpnyn
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If you’re a new Member and you’re looking for the hub of all the info on what to do, here you go!
♡ 🌹Here is the New Member Welcome Pack, a Google Doc that explains how to connect with listeners, how to use our group chat rooms and forum, and a few other things like safety and reporting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CL9Yu_6zixlapOjdrhCgKLy9JN5wY3HWdrGH7PIO2WI
Help link:
https://help.7cups.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Self-Help Guides
https://www.7cups.com/supportGuides/selfHelpGuides.php
Guide to Managing Family Stress
https://www.7cups.com/family-stress/
Mindfulness Guides: https://www.7cups.com/exercises/mindfulness/
Listener Primer
Censor updates form:
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When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the question students asked him most was: Do you believe in God? And he always answered: I believe in the God of Spinoza.
Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes.
According to Spinoza, God would say: “Stop praying. I want you to go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've made for you.
“Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.
“Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don't blame me for everything that others made you believe.
“Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son's eyes—you will find me in no book!
“Stop asking me, ‘Will you tell me how to do my job?’ Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry or bothered. I am pure love.
“Stop asking for forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you, I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies, and best of all, free will. Why would I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How could I punish you for being the way you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?
“Respect your peers, and don't give what you don't want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life—alertness is your guide.
“My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, not a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now—and it is all you need.
“I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life. It’s you who creates heaven or hell.
“Live as if there is nothing beyond this life, as if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist. Then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is an afterlife, rest assured that I won't ask if you behaved right or wrong, I'll ask, ‘Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?’
“Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.
“Stop praising me. What kind of egomaniac God do you think I am? I'm bored with being praised. I'm tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.
“Stop complicating things and repeating as a parrot what you've been taught about me. Why do you need more miracles? So many explanations?
“The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.”
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John Roedel (author):
“Me: Hey God.
God: Hello.
Me: I'm falling apart. Can you put me back together?
God: I would rather not. Me: Why?
God: Because you aren't a puzzle.
Me: What about all of the pieces of my life that are falling down onto the ground? God: Let them stay there for a while. They fell off for a reason. Take some time and decide if you need any of those pieces back.
Me: You don't understand! I'm breaking down!
God: No - you don't understand. You are breaking through. What you are feeling are just growing pains. You are shedding the things and the people in your life that are holding you back. You aren't falling apart. You are falling into place. Relax. Take some deep breaths and allow those things you don't need anymore to fall off of you. Quit holding onto the pieces that don't fit you anymore. Let them fall off. Let them go.
Me: Once I start doing that, what will be left of me?
God: Only the very best pieces of you.
Me: I'm scared of changing.
God: I keep telling you - You Aren't Changing!! You Are Becoming!
Me: Becoming who?
God: Becoming who I created you to be! A person of light and love and charity and hope and courage and joy and mercy and grace and compassion. I made you for more than the shallow pieces you have decided to adorn yourself with that you cling to with such greed and fear. Let those things fall off of you. I love you! Don't change! ... Become! Become! Become who I made you to be. I'm going to keep telling you this until you remember it.
Me: There goes another piece.
God: Yep. Let it be.
Me: So ... I'm not broken?
God: Of course not! - but you are breaking like the dawn. It's a new day. Become!!!”
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(Stop, breathe, think how wonderful you are.)
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Here are some links to some Mindfulness Exercises on 7 cups: https://www.7cups.com/exercises/mindfulness/?showlist=1
🌷
Here’s a resource should you be at loose ends how to start a difficult conversation with someone. Seize the awkward gives tips for starting those conversations, while taking care of yourself at the same time. https://seizetheawkward.org/
✿ڿڰۣ—
Free confidential support from a helpline/hotline near you - online chat text or phone (international just put in your country) https://findahelpline.com/
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Tiny Habits free program here on 7cups to easily add new habits into your life https://tinyhabits.com/program/ sign up for a tiny habits coach https://bjfogg.typeform.com/to/QXc0WJ
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Free procrastination workbook and self-help modules https://bit.ly/2GOcU3e
𓇢𓆸
ProgressiveMuscleRelaxation https://youtu.be/f7I2Upk5jqI * https://youtu.be/ihO02wUzgkc
✿ڿڰۣ—
Systematic Desensitization to reduce triggers that cause panic attacks or phobias http://bit.ly/2yUhPbg
🌷
Great website everything related to Self Desensitization and free ebook http://web.csulb.edu/~tstevens/Desensit.htm
💐
Visuals that help with breathing during panic attacks https://dailyburn.com/life/lifestyle/stressed-gifs-breathing-exercises/
ᎧᎮܔ
7cups discussion on dealing with panic attacks https://bit.ly/2MomF97
𓇢𓆸
7cups discussion on reframing negative thoughts https://bit.ly/2OnBaxv
✿ڿڰۣ—
30 grounding techniques to quiet the mind https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding-techniques
♡🌹
7cups discussion on managing negative internal dialogue https://bit.ly/2HOwCLl
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