Milestones or Steps Completed! Share and Celebrate Here :)
Congratulations! You made it to the next level on your growth path. Share with us the #1 thing you learned on this leg of your journey!
FH:4
On this journey finding little things to make me smile give me a joyful boost.
@GlenM
I have learned to be more calm and spend more time meditating and listening to a positive music.I have learned that if i don't focus on a subject there is nothing to worry about.
I've learned to accept myself it's my own spiritual animal it's in a lion and being respectful of myself and mindful and using self care as much as possible it's tough growing up we all have a story to explain
I think the most hardest diffcult thing for me to face and handle deal with what I am struggling with I am studying more about it and knowledging it accepting it the painful thing it's hard for others to understand my worth and my heart and my responses and it hurts I been hurt in different ways difftent times you get traumatized bullied and it's just awful and I have the right to be heard say my story talk I sear we respect to
@dhabib
Dhabib. You are beautiful. You are amiable. I hope a strong essence of honey will cover you to feel loved, accepted.
@GlenM Learning that I need develope coping skills. This site has helped me immensely to be able to express myself without judgment.
@reliableSouth8979
Good.
@GlenM
I have learned that i need to focus more on myslef in order to find the answers that i seek because i do know them
@Kelly33333
Wow Kelly33333. What an insight.
I dont remember how I got here but the fact I am trying to improve myself is a big step.
@ShadowTag
And enjoy yourself also.
@GlenM
that my thoughts dont control me and i am not my thoughts
Hello world of 7cups!
This is Step 1860 for me. Yes, one-thousand eight-hundred sixty!
A few things I am learning:
Sometimes cats do chase dogs! (correct; this has nothing to do with 7cups.)
It seems when I miss someone - as in out of touch, or one of us moved, or this person has died, or ... - that sometimes, other little things remind me of him/her like all over the place - sometimes even in talking with another someone who does not know them at all. --- This is in part to say, Grief is hard! and that grief comes in many different forms. It could be that I haven't thought of that person in a long time and so I call and voicemail :( Sometimes it helps (for me) to talk to someone who knows/knew them also. Sometimes I just want to go crawl under a rock (preferably *with* my SFO) and cry over the entire situation that is my life at that time. Or crawl under the rock with the intent to hide from the entire world " "forever" " or until one of my friends misses me enough and comes to find me.
I have different 'other little things' (sometimes known as triggers - but can triggers be 'positive' too? @7cupscommunity Or are triggers by definition created by or thought of because of something that individual sees as bad or negative?) .... small-like things that remind me of a certain person most every time. For my mom2, she's like my second mom, there is a certain song. For one of my friends in college, it's a song that we (the whole group of witnesses/attenders) sang at her wedding. The third one that I can think of just now, is 'for' my friend Molly - I know her (and her now husband) from our community theater. The item for her is any 8oz sized water bottle - full, half full, or empty! I am thankful that these three good friends of mine are all still living - I hope they are doing well 
Perhaps it is time for some actual paper/card in envelope 
type of mail. In part because I love that type of mail ... in part because it is hard to get ahold of these three here recently ... and in *most!* part because I have not seen them in person for a very long time :( And unfortunately that really has no blame onto COVID-19.
So, advice? Keep in touch!! With friends and (L) here at 7cups AND with people you care for, people you love in your real life - your physical life - too! Speaking of .... Take care all friends from the MCR of months and months ago. Take care all Listeners, those who i have talked with and also those who I have not. And for everyone -- Be good to yourself. Remember: self-care is NOT selfish. Take care of you 
~Platy
Hi, today it's my Step 100
I'm getting better at talking to myself like to a best friend, this exercise is really useful for me.
I will add also that I've met many amazing listeners who help me keep going. And that I've become a listener myself and have had some amazing conversations too. Thanks for creating that community.