SF Newsletter - November Edition, Issue #01

Hello wonderful SF family, and welcome to the first of many monthly newsletters. The purpose of these is to share news, updates and fun things around the site. Contributions and ideas are welcome, so please feel free to leave them in the comments - we’d love to hear about and share your achievements, no matter how big or small - I also invite you to DM me if you prefer as well.

Feel free to read by downloading the image, or by reading in the below body of text.

- Brân

Is anyone else struggling with the fact that it’s November already, os ir it just me? Here are some randomly celebrated days this month!

03/11 - World Jellyfish Day (who knew?)
05/11 - Bonfire Night (also known as Guy Fawkes Day - UK)
13/11 - World Kindness Day
21/11 - World Hello Day - Recognises the role communication plays in preserving peace <3





Member: @Brân
Position: Admin
Member since: 2013

Tell us about your profile pic:
My profile pic is a photograph of a Cyanotype (sun print) that I made. More information and tips on how they're made can be found here.

What is your favourite thing to do to pass the time?
Reading, drawing, making prints and photographing.

What’s your favourite thing about SF?
That it’s truly unique. Everyone has the opportunity to feel respected and listened to whether they’ve been here for hours or years.



Big shout out to the following members for these achievements...

• @Angie for joining the Admin team
• @bubblebear for pushing through poor mental health and completing her work shift
• @bluedream for 2 months of sobriety (since 03/09) and would like to credit their dad and NA for their support with this achievement
• @unnoticed for buying her first apartment - see her journey here
• @iloverachel for a whopping 170 days of consistent exercise and being alcohol, drug and junk food free. Follow their updates here

Please join me in congratulating them and sending some support, and please do feel free to comment or send me your achievements, jokes, ideas and fun facts for the next issue. If it's a win for you, it's a win for us so don't feel like something might not be significant enough to tell us about.

Wow amazing work everyone! I am so honored to be featured.

I am proud and happy to say I am depression and anxiety free (after suffering from it for over 8 years).If I can do it, you can do it too!

This is so cool! I've always loved newsletters I was waiting for one when I saw a new subforum showed up on SF yesterday (or was it a couple days ago). I was excited

Congratulations to all the members for their achievements! So happy to hear them

I feel the same way about what @Brân said about SF, I feel heard here and I never feel afraid to express my feelings. I also just realized that I've been here for a year. I remember thinking back then, well maybe I'll just be here for a couple of weeks or months, because being here for too long would not be good, right? But I was wrong, I will always need SF in my every day life. I truly am grateful for this place

I look forward to the next newsletter!

Aw thank you for being a part of it! And congrats again, honestly!

Aw yay! I love this - I'm so glad you like it. Let me know if you ever want to get involved. I adore newsletters too haha!

Yes, I will I forgot to talk about your avatar and I love that you actually made it yourself and shared more information about it here on SF. I noticed that you posted it in August because I thought how did I miss this interesting post? And when I saw that you posted it in August, that was around the time when I was so down and I didn't even have the energy to visit SF. So thank you for sharing it in this newsletter.

Aw thank you! <3

Nice job, @Brân

Tell us about your profile pic:
The national flag of Texas. The earliest official flag of the Republic of Texas after winning Independence, used 1836-1839. The Burnet version of the Bonnie Blue flag with a darker blue in the field and the star is always yellow. It is sometimes used by folks as an alternate to the Lone Star flag.

What is your favourite thing to do to pass the time?
Reading is tops, but fishing and carpentry are also favorites. Add in stargazing when the weather agrees.

What’s your favourite thing about SF?
The variety of members and their life experiences. And the fact that they know they can join, be welcomed and accepted as themselves, express themselves and hopefully we can offer them good advice and always let them know they are supported and have a spot here.

thank you!

and to you @KM76710 for this contribution

Great job @Brân i love this!

Love it, thank you @Brân and kuddos on mentioned members' acheivements!! ❤️ SF

Thank you! Congrats on admin also, I've set a reminder to include it in the next one

Thank you full!

Congratulations all! Great thread idea!

@Brân I was excited to see this; thank you for doing the Newsletter! I love newsletters.

+ Well dones and kudos to @bubblebear , @bluedream , @unnoticed , and @iloverachel . I sent a little note to @Angie on her profile.

Thank you! Glad you like it

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Your fitness streak is beyond amazing to me! Great inspiration to me and hope to others too!

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@Brân Amazing start to something new for this forum & community! =)

Thank you all for your lovely feedback and for reading this! I'm pleased to announce that there'll be a 2nd November issue in the middle of the month due to some relevant news/updates

Please, if you have any achievements (even if you think they're minor), let us celebrate them with you! Either comment them here or just PM me