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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:  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.
Join the One Line A Day Journaling Challenge
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 July 7th
...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!
To Adalida (Journal collections)
by Apeatrice
Last post
 11 hours ago
...See more Tw; sex (assault & lgbtq), domestic abuse, sh and social anxiety. ----------------(◍•ᴗ•◍)----------------- Hi lovelies. Hope life is treating you nice. *Strength and luck to you* Please don't park your comments here, thank you. 😊 ----------------- ʕ•ᴗ•ʔ ----------------- Just because it burns, doesn't mean I'm about to die. I gotta get up and try, try, try.
my journal: various subjects, opinionating, CW at times
by slowdecline48
Last post
 21 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)
A place for my thoughts (and yours) as I cycle through life
by CyclingThroughLife
Last post
 22 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....
in the wonders of my mind💗.
by iloveyouxx
Last post
 1 day 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 ^-^💛)
A Quiet Space for Psalm139 and IsayUncle (Please do not reply or respond. Thank You)
by IsayUncle
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more This space was created to get away from crowded threads in hopes of more in-depth conversations between Psalm139 and IsayUncle. Please do not join the conversation unless you are invited. Thank You in advance for understanding and complying. Have a beautiful day! @Psalm139 @IsayUncle
How can things go from bad to really bad in not even 24 hours?
by StarrieSaturn
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Things were really bad yesterday. I finally got out of the episode, that only lasted maybe 4 hours though. I called my mom out and now her boyfriend is acting like he’s my dad again, when he hasn’t even been in my life for a whole year. My mom is making herself the victim like always, as if there isn’t a reason why in court she lost 50/50 custody over me. I’m almost 18 and a lot has been changing. I thought back in freshman year I would go to college and master in psychology. I took AP Psychology last year and past the exam and everything as a college course. Now I’m not even sure if I’m going to do that. I really just don’t want to be here. My mom is yelling at my sister in the other room right now, and god, she will wake everyone up on days we can actually sleep in for once at the crack of dawn and make it everyone else’s problem. She refuses to take care of us kids and we go to my dad’s house and we’re sick, unfed, dehydrated and everything else. Not even wearing clothes that fit us. I’m tired of this, I’m tired of my unstable relationships I put myself into, I’m tired of the addictions I have, I’m tired how I jump from one thing to the next and that includes people. I’m tired of these episodes. Everyone hates me because they don’t even know me. And all the drama I’m dealing with at school, I don’t know which is worse/funnier, the fact that I’m a lesbian and these girls are calling me a ‘boyfriend stealer’ because I had a project with their partner and needed to know if they were done or not because it was costing me a bad grade, or the fact I set a close friend up and she proceeded to say I was trying to get with the guy??? Or the drama where this girl who I got replaced by from a toxic ex doesn’t believe me when I called out said ex for the SA she did to me and all the other crazy stuff. Can my life please calm down for one minute so I can breathe? I need it to be 8pm already so I can go to my dad’s house and worry about what to do once I’m actually home. Please someone, give me a break. 
My Personal Space ✏ 🦋 - ahealingEndoftherainbow22
by ahealingEndoftherainbow22
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Hello there everyone :) You might have all heard about the new change wherein the feed is no longer going to be present. For me, the feed was somewhere I could be myself and share posts that I was able to relate to. There are several listeners and members who were really active and made the feed a place that I was looking forward to visit at the end of the day :) The feed posts inspired me, helped in self reflection, made me smile and most importantly, helped me realize that I wasn't the only one struggling. Since the feed is retiring now, I've decided to create my very own personal space here where I can post my random thoughts, quotes and so on. Feel free to be a part of it 💐 Stay blessed and take care ♥
Why these episodes? What’s it for?
by StarrieSaturn
Last post
 3 days ago
...See more 09.21.2024 Hello, so I had a very bad episode again. And funny thing, the last time I had one this bad where I broke some of my favorite things, was screaming at everyone and completely had no self awareness and hurt my body was the last time I was single for over a month. I usually jump from person to person, always getting hurt but not really caring cause I feel the need to like latch onto someone, you know? With me having BPD I’m supposed to experience 80% less of my symptoms when single, yet seems like around a month and a week or two I break, full of anger, then I’m fine as if it never happened. But my family can’t make it seem as if it never happened, they have make sure I remember. But I’m a good person, I think at least, yeah I have my problems and I stay in my mind and can’t seem to understand sonder so well even though I’m 17 years old, turning 18 in about 6 months. It’s really depressing. I will do crazy things and freak out. And what’s worst, is that this freak out episode thing was all because I straightened my hair and I hated the feeling of it, though I literally want to grow my hair out long again, and I couldn’t find an eyeliner. I got so physically uncomfortable I broke. And trying to find shoes for homecoming too, I swear almost every heel isn’t made for a normal human foot, just models, which kills me because a lot of people tell me on a daily basis I should be a model. I really need to get over myself, but it’s so hard. I hate blaming everything on my bpd, but it is a personality disorder, it effects literally everything about me. I wish I can get over it, but it’s been here for so long now, I feel like I would lose the only thing I know if it leaves. 
moonspace. (my lonely corner)
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 3 days ago
...See more TW just in case. hi,  this is just my new diary thread. :') …i was going to write an introduction and then a paragraph or two about why im making this new space until i realised i’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. *i’m doing it again - being pathetic. ugh.* anyways… there is just one note i’d like to add here… please, no replies 💜 unless i have tagged you somewhere in this space. i probably won’t be tagging anyone right now though.  this is just my new corner. my lonely space.  thanks for reading :')  - ni.
In The Gloaming TW *just in case*
by mytwistedsoul
Last post
 3 days ago
...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.
Letter to a friend.
by Stormandshelter
Last post
 3 days ago
...See more Hi friend,  It's been a long time since we had a heart to heart conversation. Sometimes, mental health issues can make you feel like you're a bad person. There are times when I forget to check-in before venting or don't listen when I should. You may not know this but I feel more hurt by my own actions than you do. I always feel like reaching out, asking how you've been, know about your life but somehow survival is a difficult task and I get trapped in my own thoughts like a caged bird. Some days I wish I could tell you how much I love and respect you. If only I could tell you I just try to protect you from me. From the versions of me I dislike. I know you'd never hate me if I tell you but I'm afraid of becoming one of those people who have hurt me in the past. I don't want to be them. I don't want to ghost you but I don't want you to know how broken I'm on the inside and for how long I've been here. How much of myself I've given, to be in a place where I've nothing left for myself. You've already been through so much and I'm scared of being just another person who hurts you. Perhaps, you'd never know how much I love you and what you mean to me. I'd never be able show it the way I feel it but I'm hoping that my love reaches you in the all the beautiful ways. I hope you find people who love you and that way I'd think that love includes some of my love, too. I hope you get the best of everything. I wish the beautiful sunshine fills your life with hopes and I'd think I'm there with you, somewhere, in those rays of light. When you hear the songs of a little bird in the morning, I wish the songs include the songs I had written for you but never showed you. I don't know if you'd ever get to know this love is from me or not, but I wish to be forgotten too. That sounds a little pessimistic but.. you know. Fill this up yourself hehe.  I hope you remain my best friend in my next birth too<3  Please take care of yourself. You matter more than you know. And I can't stop crying when I think of you and your kindness. Thank you for helping me remain alive. Love, Bye. 🦋
@amiableBunny4016 space
by amiableBunny4016
Last post
 Saturday
...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

Journals & Diaries

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