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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Number of ratings40 Number of reviews37 Listens toVị thành niên & trên 18 tuổi LanguagesEnglish Listener sinceJun 11, 2018 Last activetrong tuần trước GenderĐa dạng giới PathStep 246 People helped135 Chats659 Group support chats737 Listener group chats478 Forum posts6,402 Forum upvotes28,331
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My name is Heather (my nickname is H), and I head the 7 Cups Community Management Team (list here). Please drop by my PMs if you have any questions or safety concerns!

Fun fact: I have a bird! His name is Flip: https://imgur.com/a/7CE0WQG

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7 Cups Newbies: Q&A Thread! (2025)
Newbie Hub / by Heather225
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 7 hours ago
...See more Are you new to 7 Cups? Are you new-ish but still finding your way around? You've come to the right place! My name is H, and I lead our Community Team. We help manage the various aspects of the site and provide ongoing support to listeners, leaders, and members. With the numerous features we have, there's a lot to absorb, and I am sure you have plenty of questions. This is your space to ask! Please reply below with your questions related to 7 Cups. I will do my best to answer within 72 hours. Make sure to keep an eye on your notifications so you can check the thread for your answers. - If any of our community members here would like to answer any queries, please feel free! Thank you for your help!
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Are you new? Join Us for Monthly Newbie Welcome Sessions! (2025)
Newbie Hub / by Heather225
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 7 hours ago
...See more Venturing into a new community can feel like setting sail on uncharted waters, with a ripple of excitement, a hint of apprehension, and a strong desire to connect. Whether you're here seeking support, ready to lend an ear, or simply looking to find your place, you've made a wonderful choice joining the 7 Cups family. To help you navigate this new journey, we're thrilled to reintroduce our Newbie Welcoming Sessions! Join us the first Thursday of each month in our live welcome sessions, where we'll: 🌟 Offer guidance navigating the platform 🌟 Share resources  🌟 Answer (your) questions! Where? New Member Welcome Room When? The first Thursday of each month. Refer to our Community Calendar [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WwLhaibXGzoAqwAahvrVbZ27OY-808a2/edit?gid=1940214867#gid=1940214867] for exact times! There will even be incentives for attending such as cheers and shoutouts here in the forum! Who? Being new is not measured by any number or length of time, so any members and listeners who are still getting their bearings are encouraged to pop in! Regular members are welcome to participate and offer support! Are you new? Will you be attending? Drop a reply to let us know! We also have an ongoing QnA support thread. Hop over and ask your questions HERE [https://www.7cups.com/forum/welcome/Resourcesat7CupstoHelpYou_1275/7CupsNewbiesQAThread2025_348534/].
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What is Somatic Processing (and How to Use it With the Transformation Wheel)
Site Updates / by Heather225
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 2 days ago
...See more If you're familiar with the Transformation Wheel tool [https://www.7cups.com/forum/siteupdates/General_2444/IntroducingtheTransformationWheelInvitationtoJoin_342256/], you have probably heard of somatic processing as one of the suggested interventions to do while working on it. This educational post below was written by a therapist who specializes in processing trauma and she kindly wrote this up for me to share with the community. Somatic processing isn't exclusive to the Transformation Wheel. You can use this tool in any part of your life. This post was just written with it in mind as she's also a big believer in the Wheel's efficacy. If you're curious to learn a new processing technique, read on! "I want to offer another tool for everyone who is working on their transformation wheels. If you have been journaling and speaking with a listener or therapist, etc, but are not seeing the needle move, this exercise can help increase or speed up the process. *  What is it and how does it work?   Somatic trauma processing simply means processing trauma using your body. When we experience a traumatic event or endure a traumatic pattern in our lives, the ability of our minds and bodies to process the experience is overwhelmed.  To survive those moments of overwhelm, we use a survival mechanism called dissociation. We literally pull our experiencing self out of the situation. This is not a conscious process, but an instinctual process meant to protect us from harm. That unprocessed experience sits in our bodies, actually electromagnetic energy in our cells, waiting to be processed…much like a piece of food sitting in your stomach if your digestive system stopped working.  If we have an opportunity to process the experience in the coming days, we are able to re-associate to that experience slowly and release the energy from our bodies (as well as file the information in our brains properly). However, often we find that we never find that safe place to process these experiences and most of us have ended up with a “back log” of unprocessed traumatic experiences clogging up our cells. When the events of today remind us of those unprocessed events, that energy gets activated in our bodies, flooding us with emotion and kicking us back into survival mode.  There are a few reasons we tend to end up with this backlog. First and most importantly, we just don’t know HOW to effectively and safely release that energy. If I don’t know how to process my trauma, it makes perfect sense to find other ways to compartmentalize it! Of course it does! We use further disassociation, numbing, addictions, etc. Even anxiety and depression are ways that we are trying to say disassociated from the painful and scary feeling in our bodies.  Anxiety is usually staying up in my head, in my racing thoughts or staying really busy. Depression is sort of sinking down and numbing out…not feeling ANYTHING, even good feelings, in order to avoid the terrible bad feelings. All of these desperate attempts to stay out of the feeling and memories actually cause further disassociation…further trauma to our systems.   Trauma IS dissociation. First from painful memories and then, increasingly, from our bodies and ourselves. Somatic processing brings you back into your body, your safe home on this earth. Somatic processing says, “ok, so these thoughts and memories are not just ethereal and untouchable…they have substance! I FEEL them in my BODY! And if they are electromagnetic energy, that’s ok, because, just like the earth, that has a north and south pole, I am also a magnet.” This tool gives us a very powerful handle to release this energy from our bodies, giving us a huge jump in healing from trauma. How to use traumatic processing with the transformation wheel: The transformation wheel is a trauma map, a way to capture the trauma and all of it’s effects in one place. It gives you a view from above, a place to stand above the situation happening in your mind and body and look down at it. Somatic Processing is another way to help you start to release it. Steps to somatic processing: * Create a statement from your Transformation wheel. For instance, you might say “All of my anxiety” or “All of my feelings of fear about the future” or “All of my guilt about how my anxiety is affecting my children”.  It doesn’t have to be perfect, just try to capture the sense of what you have written down.  * Sitting comfortably, close your eyes and pay attention to your body while thinking of your statement. Notice if there is any sensation in your body…tightness, heaviness, emptiness, anything at all. Don’t worry if you can’t find it…remember trauma IS disassociation…it makes sense that you are not tuned in to your body! * Put one hand over where you feel the sensation. If you don’t feel it on the front of your body or if you feel it in your extremities, just put your hand on the front/center of your body closest to place.  If it’s in your hands, put your hand over your heart. If it isn’t clear or it feels like it’s EVERYWHERE or outside your body, just put your hand over your heart. If you aren’t sure, just put your hand over your heart.  Your hand can be touching your heart or 1-2 inches off of your heart. This is your stationary hand. It will stay where it is throughout the processing exercise.  * Your other hand will start at the top of your head. You will move this hand to 9 different spots on your body. Over each spot, you will say your statement out loud or in your head. Then you will stay there for a moment or two and breathe. Notice any sensations, thoughts, feelings, memories etc. As the energy leaves your body, you sometimes can feel it physically or kind of “read it” mentally. This is just more information for you. If you notice nothing, that’s fine…your experience of it doesn’t seem to change the effectiveness. Some folks are very sensitive to the experience and others are less so…but the physics of it works the same either way. Continue over each of the 9 spots the same way. Move your hand over the spot, say your statement, breath and pay attention for a few moments. Then move on to the next. * Here are the 9 body positions. * Top of the head * Forehead * Chin * Throat * Heart * Diaphragm (bottom middle of your ribs) * Naval/Belly button * Pelvis (just on top of your lap) * End of the knee (either one or both) or directly under your seat (or under your chair) This sounds complicated, but after you go through it a couple of times, it will become simple. Note: Sometimes when you process a part of trauma, it unblocks access to some feelings you’ve been containing. That’s ok! If you go through a processing and feel sadness or grief or anger or helplessness, etc. Simply go through the process again using the feeling as your statement so that you are releasing that as well.  * It can take some time for your system to shift, but you may feel the effects immediately. But the results I would pay attention to are, next time you come back to your transformation wheel to rate them, do you notice the numbers changing for the better? Remember this is a process of your entire system shifting, healing and changing, so our expectation is that you will see those numbers change slowly but consistently. I hope this has been an informative read! I'd really like to hear from folks who try this. Again, this isn't dependent on using the Wheel! This is for all of you! Anyone can (and should) try this technique. Let me know how it goes for you below! (Some questions that might help to reflect on) What body emotions did you notice during the exercise? Did they change? After the exercise, did you notice any immediate or subtle changes in how you felt? How does your initial statement feel now? Any changes in your thoughts or feelings?
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Listener Classifieds (March 2025) Members, Check Out Our Listeners Accepting New Chats!
General Support / by Heather225
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 Wednesday
...See more Hello, March! This space is for Listeners currently accepting chats to introduce themselves to the member community! Members, if any listeners pique your interest, you can then check out their bios and see if they might be a good fit for you! Here are some things you can consider sharing (only share what's comfortable): Are you an adult, teen or ATL? Gender: Languages you speak: Topics you'll support: Topics you don’t support: Lived experience: Are you open to taking on members for long-term listening support? Your availability (in EST time) and day(s) if applicable: - Do you support DID? Follow the link to this post. [https://www.7cups.com/forum/generalsupport/Classifieds_360/ListenerClassifiedsDissociativeIdentityDisorderDID_339333]
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Welcome Committee Team: March 2025 Team Update!
Newbie Hub / by Heather225
Last post
 Tuesday
...See more Some stats! We welcomed a whopping 4074 members in February! That’s 30% over last month which means 30% more newbies have been reached! We’re making a big impact and you all should be super proud of your efforts! I would love to see us hit 5k this month! If we do, I'll organize a little celebratory get-together! We also onboarded 3 wonderful team members. Please give them a warm welcome! @globalWillow3000 @itmaybeebailey @jaboo Now on to cheers! Check out your good work and huzzah to our top five greeters!! @innateJoy9602 @comfortableNight4463 @Amy @Jenna @AGentleGlow Members welcomed! Cheers! 🎉 Amy [http://www.7cups.com/@Amy] 1152 11520 Itmaybeebailey [http://www.7cups.com/@Itmaybeebailey] 200 2000 globalWillow3000 [http://www.7cups.com/@globalWillow3000] 68 680 KindleMissie [https://www.7cups.com/@KindleMissie] 50 500 comfortableNight4463 [https://www.7cups.com/@comfortableNight4463] 1566 15660 innateJoy9602 [https://www.7cups.com/@innateJoy9602] 1629 16290 fruityPond7887 [https://www.7cups.com/@fruityPond7887] 199 1990 Suryansh [http://www.7cups.com/@Suryansh] 250 2500 Jenna [http://www.7cups.com/@Jenna] 791 7910 Izila [http://www.7cups.com/@Izila] 60 600 Phoenixthepoised [https://www.7cups.com/@Phoenixthepoised] 100 1000 Ivy229 [https://www.7cups.com/@Ivy229] 109 1090 fruityHoliday63 [https://www.7cups.com/@fruityHoliday63] 126 1260 hopefulDew435 [https://www.7cups.com/@hopefulDew435] 96 960 AGentleGlow [https://www.7cups.com/@AGentleGlow] 624 6240 SilverSeastar [http://www.7cups.com/@SilverSeastar] 50 500 jaboo [https://www.7cups.com/@jaboo] 169 1690 Lastly, we are in need of Project Agents to help lead this amazing team! We need assistance in all areas of operations, so if you're interested, click into the post (HERE) [https://www.7cups.com/forum/projectsandevents/HelpWantedHub_2099/ProjectAgentsNeededtoExpandtheMemberWelcomeCommittee_344771/]. (There was an issue with the application that wasn't taking the names so if you have already applied but haven't heard back, please drop me a PM!) If you have any questions or need guidance, my PMs are open to you! Thank you so so much for making this team the success it is!
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You Are Valid, You Are Strong, You Are Loved 🌈
LGBTQ+ / MOGII Support / by Heather225
Last post
 March 3rd
...See more Your identity, your experiences, and your feelings are all real and worthy. No matter what you may hear or see, never forget the strength and resilience within you.  We know that navigating the current global climate is challenging to say the least, but please remember that you are not alone. There is a community here that supports you, celebrates you, and believes in you. Whenever it gets tough in your life around you, or you begin to doubt yourself, just come back to this post to remind yourself that you are valued just as you are.  And never stop fighting. I believe in you. I believe in us. 🤝 LGBTQ+ family: How do you identify? Feel free to share in the comments!
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Member Appreciation Wall (2025)!
Positivity & Gratitude / by Heather225
Last post
 11 hours ago
...See more As part of our ongoing efforts to elevate our beautiful caring community, we've brought back the Appreciation Wall series! Our members are the core of 7 Cups, and we want to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for each and every one of you! Listeners, has a member touched your heart with their courage or resilience? Did a member inspire you with their openness and willingness to seek support? Did they share their story in a way that helped you grow as a listener? Did they simply make you feel grateful to be a part of this community? Members, want to show appreciation for another member who has been there for you? Maybe they offered a kind word in a forum post, heard your story in the group support rooms, shared a helpful resource, or simply made you feel less alone. Be sure to @ them in your message! No gesture is too small to acknowledge! So let's roll up our sleeves and paint this wall with gratitude! 🎨 ✨✨✨ If you get tagged, keep the love going by tagging someone too!! ✨✨✨ - Show love to our listeners over HERE. [https://www.7cups.com/forum/gratitude/CommunityHighlights_2088/ListenerAppreciationWall2025_347690/]
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Heather really nice help me when having really hard time in group chats and good listening when having problems
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Heather is an absolute star of 7cups! She has inspired so many and myself and is so supportive and caring of others!! Heather is beautiful and amazing ❤️she is thoughtful and caring towards her peers and no doubt she is a wonderful leader!
She answered my question.
So giving of their time. It was nice to see them today on site. I know they have a lot of duties and obligations, they must do, but still they were able to spend some time with members. What an amazing person.
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An amazing person. Cares about others feelings, not too many of those left and admits when things do not go according to plain, not too many of those left either. They are amazing and I am so grateful they are in the position of Community Director here at 7cups. So glad Glen and his team brought Heather (H) on board. We are so lucky and blessed to have them here.
Amazing person. Very kind. So helpful and thoughtful.
Sweet person. Has a calmness about them.
Amazing Person. So down to earth. A great friend. An amazing Community Director. Always there when you need them. Hard working. Has a heart of gold. Knows a lot about 7cups. Has a passion for helping others. They are a leader among leaders. A very humble, but a very wise leader. Always, makes time for others. I hope they stay at 7cups, for a long while.
Good support very individually approach
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Heather is AWESOME
Awesome Listener and Great Admin and just one outstanding human being !!! Thanks so much H !!
Thank you for taking the time!
very kind and understanding and patient and attentive
Actually cares about each and every person she interacts with
yeah shes great!
Very good listener! I like her very much! She's attentive and care for you. highly recommended
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