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Join the One Line A Day Journaling Challenge
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 Wednesday
...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 weā€™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!). Hereā€™s how to join in: * Subscribe to the Journals & Diaries subcommunity at 7 Cups by clicking ā€œJoinā€. * 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 ā€œOne Line A Dayā€ topic on the right-hand side of the Journals & Diaries community homepage. Create a thread for your journaling journey. An example thread is ā€œSoulfullyAButterflyā€™s One Line A Day Thread [https://www.7cups.com/forum/JournalsDiaries_219/OneLineADay_2524/SoulfullyAButterflysOneLineADayThread_301755/]ā€. 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 ā€œOne Line A Dayā€ 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
...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:Ā  With the Private Journal feature, you can: šŸ“ Create Personal Entries: Document your thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a completely private setting. It's your space to express yourself freely, without judgment. šŸ“† 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
Last post
 3 hours 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 place for my thoughts (and yours) as I cycle through life
by CyclingThroughLife
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more I think I will use this spot as a brain dump when needed....I'm having a hard time navigating the forums. I'm not sure where to put things, don't know if there is a way to be notified if someone comments back on my threads but I'm sure I'm missing somebfood stuff, and when it tells me I'm tagged get lost trying to find it....I find I do better navigating the site from my laptop on the web than I do from the android app on the phone so most of my thought dumps will be from the computer, when I actually have time to log in amd type.... I also hate trying to type on my phone....I have the fat finger issue and a lot of times my words are wrong or spell check puts some crazy crap in there that I don't catch and it comes out as nonsense....anyway...if anyone else reads this and wants to be part of my brain dumps, feel free...I'm always open to, but don't always listen to advice, comments and constructive criticism....sooooo to anyone reading, welcome to my world....
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Sun's Space šŸŒ»
by Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Last post
 11 hours ago
...See more Hey hey lovely people coming across, I hope y'all are doing well.šŸ’› From quite some time I've been wanting to create my own space around here, somewhere, I can be myself, share a little more of me and encourage others too. In this thread, you can expect some inspiring words, quotes, appreciations and gratitude, sharing about my 7 cups journey, thoughts, insights, experiences in life, random musings etc. (Basically anything that comes to mind or I find on the internet lol) Feel free to spend time here, upvote and reply if you'd like to, share your thoughts on the posts etc.šŸ„° [https://www.7cups.com/forum/generalsupport/General_2440/HappythanksgivingAgratitudenoteforyou_318004/?post=3415471] More than welcome, as long as we keep this a mutually supportive, respectful, kind and safe space for everyone. Thankyouuu so much for being here. [https://www.7cups.com/forum/content/CreatorPortfoliosGalleryandInterviews_2227/SunisshiningandsoareyousPortfolio_258464/] Hugs, Cookies and Good Vibes for everyone!ā¤ [https://www.7cups.com/forum/religion/General_2605/PrayersRequestThread_312200/?post=3513077]
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@amiableBunny4016 space
by amiableBunny4016
Last post
 15 hours 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, ā€œReturning 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.ā€ 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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I will probably abandon this
by determinedSea4370
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I hate myself and I hate this website, but I'm trapped in my room so I might as well ramble. I'm not a good person. I invaded a therapy group on a *** virtual reality back in middle school and scoffed at all them, like 'What is this, a Dr. Oz session?' and they rightfully kicked me out, because I was a brat, but even at 28, I am still a brat. I look around at the website and all the nonsense and needy hands and who gets attention and who is foresaken and I'm just like- yup, I'm still in *** and no amount of pseudo-therapy is going to save me. Or anyone else, for that matter. I asked what my friend wants in therapy and she said she wants validation, that's it and I'm like wow, ok, so that's why you're still scared of driving and still can't graduate college and still can't talk about anything more intense than the latest YouTube drama. I just fall back on drinking, like now. My family is screaming like monkeys at the TV screen, at some football game. It could be funny, but it's not. I'm really *** tired. I woke up thinking that today would be different and I believed it for a little bit, but then I kept needing to come back to check for updates on this website. Nothing truly meaningful got done today. For all my busywork, my world is still hollow. I have no real interests. My friends are gone. My family just feels like a bunch of aliens- we don't speak the same language. My parents found a *** bathtub of self-harm evidence and my mom didn't talk to me for days and my dad sat down and checked in with me, but after that night, no one has checked in with me. Since I cleaned the bathtub, all my issues have been out of sight, out of mind- isn't that so convenient? All us humans have all these feelings, yet literally no one can deal with them in good ways. We're all a mess to some degree or another, yet there are so many people out there who like to still point fingers and judge people for being 'crazy'. This world is crazy. My friend was talking about what she was going to eat today and I was thinking about how I feel like I'm in ***. I hate evenings. I hate where I've ended up in life. I can spew all kinds of 'advice' on this website, but everything just ends up empty. Boo hoo. Maybe my friend is right and my problem is I am just spoiled. And selfish. I guess I don't know what true hardship is and I've never had to share or play nice with others- they dropped me off at college and I was so lonely I developed an eating disorder that nearly killed me. Then I developed self-harm. Then alcohol abuse. I was walking through a city of people crying and no one helped me. I was sobbing in the college bathroom and no one helped me. I was screaming in the apartment and no one helped me. And when I try to finally get on medication for all my issues years later, the psychiatrist gives me the wrong label while ignoring my protests and puts me on all the wrong medications for months on end that nearly made me not alive myself and then she dropped me because I was 'a bad patient'. I don't like people. I need people, but I don't like people. I want to make art or something, but I can only think these thoughts and it clouds my motivation. My friend just texted me that she wants me to binge an anime so we can talk about it tomorrow. I'm suppressing the urge to tell her to *** off. Oh, ha, look at me- I'm whining about being lonely, but here is a friend to the rescue! And yet, it doesn't matter. I'm here, struggling like this, and all she's talked about today and earlier this week is her school, her food, her love for this anime. Her, her, her. I'm so done with these people. This friend talking about herself and then my other friend making her drive her around so that she can go shopping for people I don't even know. I guess I'm just a puppet here to fulfill other people's desires. And you could say 'No! Your desires matter! What do you want?' and no. I am so *** depressed that I don't have any- so that means other people can just walk all over me. Say that you love me and then abuse me for your own purposes why don't you? No one is helping me, but that's not even it. Obviously, it's ultimately my own fault. I'm not helping myself. I want to go to sleep and never wake up. This life is a joke.
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moonspace. (my lonely corner)
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more TW just in case. hi,Ā  this is just my new diary thread. :') ā€¦i was going to write an introduction and then a paragraph or two about why im making this new space until i realised iā€™m not a person worth knowing anyways, and nothing i say would actually matter. now that i think about it most of what i'd write would be pathetic. *iā€™m doing it again - being pathetic. ugh.* anywaysā€¦ there is just one note iā€™d like to add hereā€¦ please, no replies šŸ’œ unless i have tagged you somewhere in this space. i probably wonā€™t be tagging anyone right now though.Ā  this is just my new corner. my lonely space.Ā  thanks for reading :')Ā  - ni.
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Ni's Little Solace
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Not sure why I am creating this thread exactly, and I'm doing this so late at night as well :') I just felt... like I should do this haha. I do have a one line a day thread although I... don't think I have felt so free over there to write as much as I wished. So I thought maybe... I should just make another thread, a diary perhaps.. where I can really be myself.. and maybe post pictures and quotes, literary quotes maybe... and poems.. specifically haiku hehe. Also vents.. thoughts and maybe letters :') Replies are welcome as well <3 although please remember to stay respectful and kind. *sending lots of love and hugs because why not*
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in the wonders of my mindšŸ’—.
by iloveyouxx
Last post
 3 days ago
...See more hey there :D hm. last time I checked you didnā€™t look like mešŸ§makes sense doesnā€™t itšŸ˜›since there can only be one *me*āœØone of a kind now arent IšŸ˜/sar. one out of 8118835999āœØšŸŒ·can you imagine :0 o right- you can- becoss youā€™re also one of a kindšŸ’– sorrysorry haha :PšŸ¤im just messing around xDšŸ’žalso itā€™s 2am- but shush no snitchingšŸ¤«Iā€™ll sleep in a whilešŸ˜when Iā€™m feeling a bit more sane :>šŸ˜›šŸ©· wanted to have my own space.šŸ’œ for thoughts feelings vents or just anything on my mind.šŸ’™ to whoever'sĀ coming acrossĀ :'3šŸ’œplease dont lurk here.šŸ©· I know anyone can have access to this forumĀ :')šŸ’™but please be respectfulšŸ©·.(but honestly..I know someone will either way :PšŸ’› yā€™all get crazy nosy haha- itā€™s alright.šŸ’›nothing too interesting will be here anywayšŸ’›if you would like to come in and be supportive itā€™s completely okiešŸ’›but please donā€™t make it a regular or "normal" thing if that makes sense. just have a sort of limitšŸ’›because Iā€™d still like this to be just my space ^-^šŸ’›)
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šŸŽ Freddy's Apple Orchard
by froggeychair
Last post
 Thursday
...See more hi hi Freddy just wanted to have a swag diary space so this is it I'm not guaranteeing that I'll remember to put tws and I'd rather not have too many comments from others on this Apple Orchard because apple orchards are my comfort spot and my mind revolves around being apl a lot I'll most likely rant about dissociation, autism and being apl or write love letters to classical music quotes: "There's always something to live for. Classical music." "...because no matter what you have to endure, dear, playing chopin will always heal your mind." -by doris "A deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth. Never let anyone make you feel like you're nobody. Always feel that you count, that you're worthy and that your life has ultimate significance." -by doll-y
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Sentiments of a Zany Imp {{Personal}}
by ImpudentIncognito
Last post
 Thursday
...See more :: SŅ½É³ĘšĪ¹É±Ņ½É³ĘšŹ‚ ĻƒĻ Ī± ZĪ±É³įƒ§ IɱĻ :: Hello, it's Imp (or you can call me Cog or Nito)! This space is just a place for me to put my thoughts into one spot. Whether is ranting about life, or talking about any Zany adventures I've been on... I like to categorize my thoughts too into topics occasionally such as: * General Life Update * Career/Work * Hobbies/Interests/Goals * Interpersonal/Philosophy/Self-Care * Relationships (ex. Platonic/Romantic/Familial) * SocialĀ  * MiscellaneousĀ  Feel free to comment on my posts. :) Thanks for reading! Sincerely, IɱĻ
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The Two Guys
by StarrieSaturn
Last post
 Wednesday
...See more We had our problems We picked our poison From different wells But itā€™s our vices He may not be the best, But perhaps I may not either When the new shine comes in Makes the moon look smaller Iā€™ll still need the moon I like the sun, but itā€™s not the sun who knows me Itā€™s the moon The moon was there when I was low And when I was high The moon gets me and feels me, and heā€™s who I love The sun may be nice and warm But itā€™s the moon whoā€™s there throughout the shine Even within the daylight
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In The Gloaming TW *just in case*
by mytwistedsoul
Last post
 Wednesday
...See more With the tragic loss of the feed and after much debate and discussion. It's been decided to create a new thread. Soul space so to speak. A journal of sorts. A place where I can dump some of the nonsense that goes on in my head. While replies are welcome - they aren't necessary.

Journals & Diaries

Welcome to Journals & Diaries! This is a supportive and personal space where you can express yourselves without fear of judgement.Ā 


What are the different forum topics for Journals & Diaries?
Diary Entries: A place for your diary entries.

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You can help us by simply responding to threads and sharing your story (if you're comfortable). Check-in with us, join a discussion, or start one! Alternatively, you can join us as a Forum Leader. Check out this thread for more information.


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