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Join the One Line A Day Journaling Challenge
by SoulfullyAButterfly
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Sunday
...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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my journal: various subjects, opinionating, CW at times
by slowdecline48
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1 hour ago
...See more The title explains itself. If you're interested in the ramblings of a middle-aged man with chronic conditions who, at times, sees things a little too clearly for his own good, then read on. Sometimes I get political, but it won't be all the time. I don't mind comments in general but if you're going to differ with what I write, that's fine--as long as you can explain your position clearly & reasonably. Rants, shouting & general incoherence will be ignored or flagged, depending on the situation. Try to remember that not everyone else in this world holds your beliefs. Every so often I may post art or snapshots of projects I'm working on. If you're still interested after reading all the above, great. (I do wonder at how much time you have on your hands, though)
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A Space For The Unsaid (Personal Diary)
by Optimisticempath
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4 hours ago
...See more Uh hello if anyone is reading this! 😀 I have no idea why I'm even creating this thread but i just feel it will be nice to have a place to share some thoughts or even these images on the internet that i always keep saving for myself because i relate too much but cannot share it with anyone because yes haha I'm okay with replies here so feel free to drop by anytime ❤️ Just please be kind and respectful if your replying to my posts.
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in the wonders of my mind💗.
by iloveyouxx
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8 hours ago
...See more hey there :D hm. last time I checked you didn’t look like me🧐makes sense doesn’t it😛since there can only be one *me*✨one of a kind now arent I😁/sar. one out of 8118835999✨🌷can you imagine :0 o right- you can- becoss you’re also one of a kind💖 sorrysorry haha :P🤍im just messing around xD💞also it’s 2am- but shush no snitching🤫I’ll sleep in a while😁when I’m feeling a bit more sane :>😛🩷 wanted to have my own space.💜 for thoughts feelings vents or just anything on my mind.💙 to whoever's coming across :'3💜please dont lurk here.🩷 I know anyone can have access to this forum :')💙but please be respectful🩷.(but honestly..I know someone will either way :P💛 y’all get crazy nosy haha- it’s alright.💛nothing too interesting will be here anyway💛if you would like to come in and be supportive it’s completely okie💛but please don’t make it a regular or "normal" thing if that makes sense. just have a sort of limit💛because I’d still like this to be just my space ^-^💛)
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Modal0154
by Modal0154
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15 hours ago
...See more Easter days 2k24+ Previously https://www.7cups.com/forum/journal/General_2520/2252k24_324465/?p=4 ___ Uggh you try to escape here and something drags you back here. The need or impulse to alleviate something sore. Put your pride aside but you find no content in producing content in how you find yourself yet again in this spot to reside. This is why it's important to learn to not to take it all so seriously, preferably not via indifference or an ignorant sort of humour. Humour that understated key to wisdom, difficult to entertain whereas too many think vice-versa a course to take. __ I don't like how Psychforum's journal section is moderated and I'm fairly surprised by how neither Wrongplanet nor Reddit (as far as I know) have sections for journalling. Ditching this place would be easier if the prospect of immediate contact with listeners wasn't justified by my experiences.
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Pages of a Melancholic Mage
by MelancholicMage
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21 hours ago
...See more Hello all, I hope you're doing well. I'm a new Green Card arrival who's finding it hard to navigate new surroundings. There are plenty of barriers (some expected, some not), that have compounded my Mental Health (C-PTSD among other things) and my existing struggles with such. While trying to establish a new life for myself, I found my way here. Thank you for reading this, whoever you are. If you ever need a friendly ear, don't hesitate to reach out. 🕊️
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I hate how impulsive I am
by camo303xvp
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1 day ago
...See more Extremely impulsive. Too impulsive for my own good. So impulsive it denies the image I was trying to give off (because it is my identity, I am trans-typal remember), resulting in extreme distress and embarrassment. I'm going to be homeless before I know it and it's all my fault. The older I got the more I inadvertently made life worse for myself and it's all my fault.
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Stop think nahoa deserve good things
by theboymoana
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2 days ago
...See more Keep try figure out why always sad upset ignored get hurt and see now because nahoa think deserve be ok just because exist  But understand now not true every time start get upset because feel like nahoa not matter or not important am going come here remind self how not deserve any that stuff  remind self until better person nahoa deserve nothing punish self until stop think important and make sure not take space from people DO matter am going fix things is ok understand now 
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Day two of 32
by StarrieSaturn
Last post
2 days ago
...See more Are you missing me right now? Do you miss me like I’m missing you? I’m sure you do, for as that last kiss lingers  It’s only temporary, 32 days And I’m on day two and I already see improvement  Though cause of BPD I do things quick An hour goes by and it felt like a week I want to say hi I want to wish him well I want to let him I’m proud Yet these are things we both know But just to hear it, to confirm it, to live in it So just to say I’m missing you like crazy Every single day Are you missing me Every single day?
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@amiableBunny4016 space
by amiableBunny4016
Last post
2 days ago
...See more Hi everyone, Im gonna be posting here every week. So.. you may or may not have seen my poems across 7cups or my writing. Anyways, if you have not then thats okay. Let me introduce myself. You can call me Bunny/Violet/Bun Bun. I am from the UK and I am 13 years old. So I came here to inspire, to love, to show kindness and to be respected. The biggest power on this planet is love and kindness. Humanity is in a state of disaster. Panic. Hatred. But hate never beats love. Because love has more power than hate. I was bullied for over 6 years. I learnt alot across the years. I learnt to overcome. Learnt to love. Learnt to forgive. I am human. I am not a robot. I am not a stranger anymore. I am me. And if people wanna judge me for who I am then I say.... I forgive them. And I know that they can change. Like Martin Luther King once said, “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Humanity is changing. The world is awakening. And more and more people are realising the reality. The reality of social media. The reality of trauma. The reality of life. This is who we are. And together we form as 1. We live in a big world. Scary. Isn't it? But its to beautiful. Its so beautiful how the sun rises. How then stars glimmer every night. How the wind howls. Isn't it? and we dont realise how beautiful it really is until..... we think about it. Think deeply about it and you will find how beautiful it is. If your feeling alone right now. just know that..... Your strong. Even if you dont believe it. Your worthy. Even if you dont believe it. You can get through this. I am here for you. We are here for you. Thanks for reading, This is me, Bunny and this is my world. Take care, Bunny
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My roller coaster of a week, please give advice if possible for how to cope :(
by StarrieSaturn
Last post
Sunday
...See more Context, I got this boyfriend, we’ll call T, we had classes since sophomore year when I had moved here, and we’re now seniors, he graduated early last month, I still have this semester to finish til graduation Sunday: I usually cannot talk on the weekends due to strict parents, and the fact my phone had broke and I still haven’t yet to get a new one, but I got to contact T from my brother’s phone and I wanted to see how his weekend had been, he had said “I wanted to talk, it’s important, we’ll talk tomorrow” and I know he hates doing things over text, like a lot. And since I only have two classes, I get out of school at 12:30 instead of 3:30, but because my parents don’t know I see him every day since he drives, he has to bring me back to school at 3:30 so I can be on the bus home. Anyways, I managed to call, he said that it’s bad, it’s effecting us, it’s about me and my family and he refused to answer straightly if we were breaking up or not.  Monday: I finish up my last class and get in his car like I usually do, and we start talking as we drive back to his place. He tells me that we’re breaking up because, before he was with me, he was in a relationship w some other girl for five years (7th grade, to 12th) and he thinks he might have jumped too soon because it still hurt, but he still loves me so much, and loves me so much more than he loved her, but they had a lot of history though she was abusive, mentally, sexually, physically. Anyways, he also tells me that I need to get better with my mental health cause he knew it was bad to begin with, he just didn’t realize exactly how bad it was and things are clearly getting worse and I’m about to be 18 soon, and he wants me to move in with him right after graduation, but I don’t know if I’m ready for that. But, he tells me as well he can’t do this whole thing w my parents, that he wants to wait until I’m 18, my stress and everything has gone down, and I can live my life more freely and we can talk about trying again.  Tuesday: After I had told my dad about it, and my friends, a few of them, including my dad, had said that I was the rebound, when I knew that wasn’t the case, but they had got in my head so I had asked him about it, which he took major offense to that because he had said that it makes it seem like I don’t actually know him and that it showed I didn’t see how much he loved me if I were to just ask that because I started to believe what others were saying about us though they weren’t there, then he refused to answer me because he was upset.  Wednesday: I had a job interview he had agreed to take me to, and he would pick me up from school, take me to it, and drop me off. He had said he wasn’t going to talk to me at all and after this day that would be it and he’ll never talk to me again because of what happened Tuesday. But after he had saw me, he knew that he couldn’t do that. Anyways, we didn’t really talk until after the interview, we got a lot out. I didn’t realize how badly I had hurt him by asking what I did, and I see that now, but I wish he would also see it how I meant it, though I wasn’t also in the full right. Anyways, at one point he had asked what was I thinking about, and I had said “I hurt you, and I can’t fix that, I didn’t mean to hurt you, you are the last person I ever want to hurt and I want to make it right but I can’t” and I broke down, cried, etc. and I had said that I think I need a week to myself, he had then said that after today that we will have no contact with each other at all until I turn 18, I told him expect a text at midnight then and he said he’ll be awake for me. We ended up having sex before he dropped me off, but we agreed to waiting.  Thursday: I had realized what I want to do with my living situation once I turn 18, (I have divorced parents so my stability is the back and forth, though my mom doesn’t have primary custody of me since I testified against her in court, cause let’s face it, she’s a bad person) (also T just got a job that’s out of town Monday-Wednesday) I feel as if the most beneficial thing for me to do for I want to do in life so I can get there, is for the weekend I’m suppose to be at my mom’s after I’m 18, instead of going there, Friday after school I’ll go to T’s place until Sunday so time before he has to leave for work, and for him to also get rest on Thursday and Sunday as well. But after school is over and once I’m back from being out of state for my dad’s childhood friend’s wedding, I’ll stay with T from Thursday afternoon or evening until Sunday some time. (Also T has a lot of people living at his place for such a small home, though I adore his family, his family is great and I love them, I’m not yet comfortable being around them by myself, especially for a few days) So I feel I should stay with my dad when T is gone, but back when he’s home, and after like 8 months at the least, maybe a year of this, then I’ll move in. But this also doesn’t mean that once it’s summer that I can’t occasionally stay the full week, or head over a day or two early. I’ll compromise for him, I just hope he can understand that I need baby steps and I hope he’s okay with this plan.  Friday: Today, the fact that I have to go 32 days without talking to him hurts. And that’s fully setting in. I’m trying to focus on other things, like the things I need to do to be better, and to be healthy and get to where I want and need to be in life, and that’s helping some. But I miss him. I miss him a lot, I just want to ask how his day is, and what he ate, what he talk about to his brothers, if he got to see his little sister, what his mom had said, and what he did with his friends and if work was good or not. But I can’t. I can’t know anything about his life for a month. And that’s killing me because I want to talk. I want to say hi. I want to ask and to know, though I do know, I just want to hear that he’s missing me right now how I’m missing him. 
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In the Corner
by unassumingEyes
Last post
Sunday
...See more Sometimes, the thoughts in my head repeat over and over and over again until I need to tell them to someone, even if noone's listening. So, this is my little corner to do that. Thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. Trigger warnings, just incase. And, @LoveMyMoonflowers, @justmeeva @DarkerPlaces and @iloveyouxx are welcome to replies. Not really comfortable with anyone else. Sorry for tagging. Be safe everyone <3
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Seeking advice.
by Funkky951
Last post
February 15th
...See more Hey everyone! I’m looking for some advice on how to start journaling? I know it’s great for mental health, and I’ve been feeling a bit on edge lately, so I think tracking my moods could really help. The problem is, I struggle to find the motivation or remember to keep up with it (honestly, I’d rather read a book than write one!). Does anyone have any tips or tricks that have worked for them? Would love to hear your thoughts!

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