Your Growth Path
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!
I'm new here, but I already love it. I'm so not used to all these nice words and it's different. But a good different. I'm already feeling better :)
Keep on feeling Great because you make me feel Tremendous. Is that not what 7 cups is all about. I have the kettle on for the 8th cup and will pour 1 for you. And a hot cross bun also. Your friend John
I feel like I've grown to become so numb to everything & now I have no idea how I feel. People ask me how I am, and I'm so used to lying saying that I'm good. You know, honestly I wish I knew. I'm not happy, I feel sad and empty. I just don't even know
I can totally relate to this. I've gotten hurt so much and so good at hiding my true self since I have to fake happiness daily. I'm a shell of my old self and trying to figure out how to get it back. Hang in there. You aren't alone.
Redemption http://picturingasoul.blogspot.com/2014/09/redemption.html read this this might help
Exactly how I feel.
If you tell the truth, it offers the opportunity for others to be transparent as well
Hello my friend. Please just let it all go. Have a cry. What ever it takes. Then smile. But do not let go beacaus I have your hand and I am not going to let you go. When you hang on till you think you cant hold on any more just hold on a little longer.
Not sure how to use the growth path? Any advice is appreciated
I am not sure. But as I see these posts on 7 cups, you can leve help and encouragement etc for others. Just simple little thoughts. Hope this is of some help Keep smiling. John
I don't know how to use this
This app is awesome
Hi, I'm new here, interested to see what will come of this, but I hope some good will come from.
I want to state here that as a father I shouldn't have to be treated as a criminal or some burden. I shouldn't have to fight to be a part of my children's lives and fear the other parent anytime they want to abuse the law just because their is no separation of our issues as a divorcing couple. I shouldn't have to go to court to beg to be in my children's lives and shouldn't have to prove my love for them to a bunch of strangers in a court room who will never know us personally to be put in the spot light to barely get time with my children while paying a huge amount of my income to a person that's not held accountable for their use of that money. I should never have to fight to be a father or show my love for my beautiful children it should just be a given. I have to confess that me having to do so is not in the best interest of my children how is such a damaging process to any parent in anyone's best interest, it is not especially not children, now they have to be with a broken and weathered parent who has been abused by a system that is suppose to do things in the best interest of a child and should be doing things in the best interest of keeping that parent child bond alive. So how is that in the best interest of cultivating a positive relationship, it does only one thing and that process damages that relationship by the time lost and spent together as parent and child. The family court system must stop stealing time between child and parent, it is wrong! I have no criminal record so why do I and so many other fathers and some mothers have to entertain the idea of taking their own life " I would not"or live with such sadness and financial ruin because they are estranged from their children's lives when all evidence points to how beneficial it is that children have both parents equally. Alienating should be a crime and family court is the largest perpetrator of crimes against father's children and mothers. They destroy families. No one should even have to pay tens of thousands of dollars so they can be a loving involved parent. In our political system bills to be passed on parental rights should never have anything to do based on attorneys wishes that only benefit the attorneys and the system bottom line. To me that is just as bad as human trafficking which is just another form of slavery and no loving parent should be a slave to anyone or any emotional dynamic because slavery is illegal, its a crime so stop enslaving father's and mothers who love their children. I am in support of the equal parenting act. STOP the discrimination against fathers please write your law makers and hold them accountable for these crimes against humanity and their roles in the erosion of our nations future; our children.
Sorry you are going through this - the courts are impersonal. It's OK, your kids will know if you love them and they will never forget your integrity if you go through this process with dignity. Step up to the plate in hard times and they will learn from you. Peace
To put it simly there are too many laws and not enough JUSTICE
I'm new to this but I have already been getting the support and help I was looking for, I feel so lucky I found this it's helped me a lot already :)
My growth path said I need to post on this forum. I'm new to this so I'm taking the advice from the site. I really don't know what to say other than I really don't know what direction I want to go with my growth. I want to be me, but minus the obsessive paranoid depressive thoughts. But at the same time they've helped me develope into the person I am. Maybe I just want to learn to embrace myself, or maybe I've come to terms with who I am and I just want to learn how to not go off the walls when I'm upset. Maybe I'm just so use to being sad that it's uncomfortable for me to happy. I'm tired of coming up with theories about what is possibly wrong with me. In tired of mental arguments with myself, which prevent me from sleeping, I'm tired of finally getting sleep only to have nightmares that wake me up. I feel like I'm going a mile a minute, so I will stop here. If I'm using this wrong, I apologize.
Please do not apolagise. You have come to 7 cups. A place where you have friends all around the world. All who were once and some times still in the exact place you are in now. So hang in there You can one day be a help to another and gain your own growth If you dont believe me just hang in and stay around 7 cups. Chat with others as often as needed
:) I love this app
I am not connected to my phone or lap top by an umbilical cord - kind of naive in that way. What app are you talking about?