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Your Growth Path

GlenM March 20th, 2015

We are excited to announce the launch of the growth path early next week. I'm writing you now to give you a heads up and answer any questions you might have. Below please find a description of the growth path and a link to an image of the growth path. All feedback is welcome!

Growth Path Text:

Your Growth Path has 3 components: Connect, Grow, Practice

Connecting with kind, genuine, and caring people is very important. (+)
--We all need authentic human connection to grow. It is like sunlight for plants. You can connect in one on one chats with listeners or through group support chat. Think of connecting as a way to fill up your emotional gas tank. Stress lowers our tank. When we talk to a listener, we get our tank filled back up.

Learning gives us a map that shows us where we are and where we want to go. (+)
--Without a map you can feel lost. Our free test and self-help guides will create a custom map for you. Right now you are at Point A and want to get to Point B. We will help you get there!

Practice provides easy to use skills to help us live a better life. (+)
--Life can be much easier if you have skills or techniques to help you cope. Most of these skills are very easy to master. We?ll start with the simple practice of gratitude or being thankful. Next, we?ll add mindfulness. As you grow, we?ll add more skills for you to master.

The best way to grow is to make it a habit. Each day you?ll have the opportunity to connect, learn, or practice. You can do one or more exercises. It is entirely up to you.

If you miss a day, or something comes up, don?t worry about it. There is no pressure here. Simply take the next easy step in your growth path to get back on track.

Start by taking our free emotional wellness test. It will teach you more about yourself and help us create a custom Growth Path just for you. It takes less than 3 minutes.

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Once you hit start, we'll then drop you on the free emotional wellness test. We'll also ask you to identifythe main issues you want to address. These issues correspond to our self-help guides. The path will have a variety of exercises including: chatting with a listener or group, reading a lesson in a self-help guide (all paths start with the acceptance and commitment therapy guide), gratitude journal entries, mindfulness exercises, or posting in the forum. We'll be adding more exercises, but believe we are off to a strong start.

Members and guests will have the option of sharing their growth plan with their listener. The listener will be able to see the last step, the current step, and the next step. Listeners, please read Laura's excellent post here.

The path is the same for everyone for the first 20 or so steps and then it diverges based on the issues you would like to address. For example, I might struggle with anxiety, so my path would work as outlined above, but then lesson 21 would start with lesson 1 of the anxiety help guide. We've made each step simple and easy to follow. As you make progress down your path, you'll have the option of retaking the emotional wellness test to track your progress.

Here is an image of what the growth path will look like:

https://imgur.com/gallery/zVFfJPZ/new

We are doing something quite beautiful together here. As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback. Thank you!

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generousSouth4919 April 3rd, 2015

When you're going through he'll keep going. There's always a light at the end of a deep dark tunnel.

TheoreticallyINTP April 3rd, 2015

The world is full of nice people, if you can't find one, be one. --Nicoleanntipace

sensibleTortoise3976 April 3rd, 2015

Whenever you wonder, "Why me?" it's not because you're weak. It's because you feel things greater than anyone else you know. It's because you have the ability to overcome obstacles better than anyone else you know. It's because you're braver than anyone else you know.

nobody111111111 April 3rd, 2015

For every ying there is a yang.

TheoreticallyINTP April 3rd, 2015

?I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.?
―Yann Martel,Life of Pi

regenliebe April 3rd, 2015

Stay strong little fighter, soon things will be brighter

Holographicbubbles April 3rd, 2015

Everything turns out okay in the end, after all, what's the worst that could happen?

hellokitty77 April 3rd, 2015

it is nice to have a odometer to see how many miles you have traveled.thats what the growth path is to me. it shows me how far i have come, and how far i can go in the healing journey.

muletmuleRyan April 3rd, 2015

Just feeling a lonely, lost and depressed

bravePear8242 April 3rd, 2015

We all want to stand tall but many times we are stronger when we are on our knees.

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bravePear8242 April 3rd, 2015

Patience is a virtue. Looks like I need to practice that one instead of pushing add post several times..lol😬

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