Emotional Intensity, Poor Practices, and Rule-breaking by Mods

Hey everyone, regardless of the roles you have here: Please take care of yourselves first.

Especially as we do pick up leadership positions, it's so important to keep this in perspective. We can easily make the 7 Cups environment better by taking care of ourselves and our emotions, and disentangling somewhat from emotional narratives about what is expected of us to control or manage or contain the situation if and when it triggers us. Especially in groups, especially if we are mods.

Let's foster some firm gentleness in our culture by giving proper space and time to our own emotional reactions, letting those and our shame/blame narratives be separate from the situations we 'lead' in...