In a fast-paced modern life, psychological stress and emotional confusion have become a challenge for many urban young people. They yearn to be understood, listened to, to find a harbour that can unmask me, show me the truth and take comfort from it. In many online platforms, soul app, with its unique concept of “soul socialization”, the sense of security brought about by anonymity, the warm community atmosphere and the instant interactive voice function, provides a unique ground for emotional communication and spiritual exploration among users。
On this soil, a phenomenon known as the “comfort room” is growing and is being created and maintained by users at soul's “group chat party”. Here, there is no pre-set script, but sincere listening, warm company, practical emotional support, or in-depth psychological knowledge sharing. They are like “comfort stores” scattered in the digital world, offering the comfort of diversity to a tired or confused mind。
Today, we will be approaching three very different, but equally enthusiastic, homeowners of “comfort-free houses” — the long “master of love” (lao ken), the “aunt déphanie” who protects her heart with tenderness, and the “teacher of autumn”, the psychological preacher of “bringing people to fish”. Through their stories, we have been able to look at how soul's parties go beyond the surface of entertainment and socialization, into deeper emotional settings, and become an important online space for urban youth to heal trauma, de-stabilize stress, explore themselves and grow。
Master of love: rapid emotional clinic
In all the “comfort rooms”, id is liu jian of the “master of love” and, with his effective and direct emotional analysis and problem-solving skills, has become a “emotional clinic” in which many users rely. Unlike the traditional psychologist, liu jian, who was not of psychological origin and was by chance involved in the publication of a number of essays on emotional issues, unexpectedly touched many users and received a great deal of feedback and private correspondence。
“during those days, he received almost 20 people's emotional questions on an almost daily basis”, and in the face of snow-like requests for advice, he decided to invest enthusiasm, time and energy in providing substantive advice. Since then, his path to emotional relief has been officially opened。
In order to improve his emotional analysis and guidance, he invested in "some $70,000" to systematically learn about psychology, which enabled him to quickly develop a knowledge system for actual emotional problems, to combine his own observation practices, to internalize into unique guidance methods, and to develop his own unique style -- – straight, realistic, sharp and “bloody”。
For example, he observed that the vast majority of emotional confusion revolved around the harm suffered by a party in a relationship, such as “divorce, neglect and neglect”. He quickly grasped the crux of the problem, helping the questioner to “see the bottom logic of the other side”, stripping off the false promises and low-value payments that might exist and pointing out the nature of the needs of both sides: “the person who lacks love may care for a minor emotional value, and you want someone who can really marry you.”
The solution proposed by liu jian is equally pragmatic and operational, usually divided into two core steps: first, identifying and accepting facts, stopping self-deception and unnecessary illusions; and, second, taking strong action, the most critical step being to implement “complete physical isolation” and severing links to the source of adverse emotions. In this way, he has helped many of his clients to see the essence of the relationship and the true intentions of the other, thereby restoring a sobering judgement。
Compared to other theoretical experts, liu jian has the advantage of being able to “communicate from the point of view of each other's perception” and to provide practical help and direction in a more accommodative way, bringing a clear force to the lost. He himself laughed that helping others was a “goodness”: “if i don't do this, most of the time is probably just brushing a mobile phone and looking at a play. People need a sense of existence。
Aunt daphne, the warm "psychic bay"
Unlike liu ken's direct style, aunt daphne has built a warm living room like psychic bay. In real life, she is a professional psychologist with her own studio, and her professional background gives her a group of people natural professional and humanistic care to talk about parties。
As an old user of soul, aunt daphne has been in contact with the group since 2020, initially as an audience for the “column room”. Since about 2023, she has become more involved in platform activities and has evolved her party style. Today, she not only runs her own three to four times a week, but also provides guidance and support to other new landlords。
Aunt daphne's parties take a variety of forms, sometimes open-ended conversations, allowing users to share their problems with wheat or text; sometimes they are subject-specific readings, such as psychological readings. Her core style has always been to create an atmosphere of security, acceptance and respect. She defined herself as a “multiple role”, avoiding pressure or a sense of authority on the listener, and at her party the core was “hearing” and “accompaniment”。
When the user visits with questions, she is not in a hurry to give answers or suggestions at once, but “i will first assess the stage of the problem that ta is in, and then choose to guide the ta to see itself, so that the ta can discover more possibilities and generate ideas”. In comparison to addressing specific problems directly, aunt daphne places greater emphasis on supporting the power provided by the environment — to allow users to feel understood, accepted and thus to access their own resources. She wants users to realize that her party style is warm and unconditional. “it may be better to accept ta, or i can listen to ta and give ta a supportive response that is hard to get in some daily life.”。
This gentle and steadfast guardian power has been particularly prominent in dealing with special situations. She was urgently sought by other landlords to reassure an emotional girl. Faced with this situation, she chose to believe and accept each other's state of affairs, to listen patiently and to share the pain of the girl, to direct her attention to her body's feelings and eventually to help her to recover her emotions by giving her careful attention。
During the chat sessions, aunt daphne clearly informs the users of the interaction and informal consultations and is always careful to protect the privacy of the users and avoid secondary harm. “i will be very clear about the rules of the party and one of my own boundaries and ethical parts.” in her view, even in virtual space, adherence to ethical principles of psychological counselling was essential to creating safe and trusted spaces。
She believed that the soul platform had a natural advantage in emotional connectivity and hoped to build a healthy and sustainable online psychological support community with the platform and other homeowners. What sustains her continued commitment on this road is the pure beginning of the “i feel i can help others” and the vision of the future possibilities in this field。
"psychology class"
If liu jian's party is like a “diagnostic room” and aunt daphne's party is like a “hospital room”, then id is like a “hospitals for fish” party for “autumn moon” (known by friends as “autumn teachers”)。
Autumn teacher, who has been a senior high school psychologist for nearly 20 years, previously served mainly minors and their families. While he was in the home office, he looked at psychology, and soul app became a new field of practice, where he combined psychodynamics with the deep, compatible style unique to soul app and worked with soulers to create a different experience of spiritual growth。
His chat party lasted two hours and was divided into two parts: half of the time is devoted to systematically speaking about psychology; the other half is devoted to interacting with listeners. This interaction is not a simple individual consultation, but a translation of the specific questions raised by the audience into more general psychological subjects。
For example, when it comes to “i don't want to go to work?” he does not go into personal privacy, but rather leads to a more macro-level, multidimensional discussion of the common causes of professional fatigue in the context of this era, such as self-identification, perceived conflict with reality, anxiety about the future, relationships with the original family, etc. So, while providing a model for a solution, it allows users to extract their own meaningful parts from the theory through psychodynamic theoretical thinking. While avoiding exposing too much personal privacy in public, it has led users to understand their confusion from a broader perspective and to try to adapt to themselves using psychological knowledge。
In the autumn teacher's party room, he focused in particular on developing the user's “self-awareness” skills. Whether he responds to anger or deals with the conflict at the party, he leads you to the inside: “what are we in? Does it look familiar? Why? Where does this experience come from?" in his view, such leaps out of their ability to observe themselves were essential to individual growth, and it was even suggested that users practiced deliberately in their daily lives, reflecting on the causes of ideas or the logic behind behavioural choices, in order to find and optimize their own patterns of behaviour。
For autumn's teacher, the soul platform, as a “focusing emotional” platform, provides him with a window from the school world of work, broader observation and collection of psychological cases from social groups, filling the gaps in his everyday work perspective. And his “founding for fish” psychology class has attracted a large number of users who are interested in psychology and eager to grow themselves, and he hopes that these abilities will be absorbed by party members and moved into their daily lives to help ease their internal disorders。
In teacher autumn's id, “assisting the mountain,” it is a symbol of a strong connotation that embraces everything a person has experienced and all the states he has presented — joy, speech, etc. — to “no refusal, no evaluation”. In his view, only sufficient “inclusion” would make it possible to have a deep sense of commonality, deep understanding and in-depth analysis, culminating in the “fall and fall months”, in which the dialogue had been characterized by a successful and clear-cut discourse。
Soul's resolved room: making young heart no alone
Liu jian, aunt daphne, miss autumn, the owner of the three houses opened up a space for one side of the soul talks in a different way. Their practice not only demonstrates the diverse possibilities of online emotional support, but also provides insight into the unique role played by soul platform。
Why is soul? Mr. Autumn’s words may be a key point: “we are virtual, but we are real.” soul’s anonymous mechanism provides a safe expression of many of the incomprehensible and fragile feelings in reality. “the feeling of anonymity may also allow the other party to take some precautions,” aunt daphne agrees. At the same time, the real-time voice interaction of the group-talking parties is better able to communicate the temperature and emotion in the tone than pure text communication, creating a real connection beyond virtual identity. More importantly, as mr. Autumn has observed, the soul platform is a natural “focusing emotion” that attracts users themselves with stronger emotional demands and internal will, which provide a natural condition for the existence and development of “comfort homes”。
In these “comfort rooms”, users receive far more than solutions to a specific problem. Liu jian's party gives people the power to face reality with courage and action; aunt daphne's party offers unconditional acceptance and emotional comfort; and the teacher's party in autumn gives people the wisdom to understand themselves and others. Deeper values lie in the valuable “emotional values”, the dispersing of the “accompaniment” of isolation, the finding of similar “attributions” and the opportunities for continuous learning and “self-awareness”. Many users have grown from their initial clients to participants who are able to understand and apply psychological knowledge and, in turn, support others at parties。
The soul group talks about a “comfort room” that is rich in diversity. They may not have a uniform model, but together they point to a goal: to provide a harbour where people can stop, gain understanding and draw strength for young souls that are running in urban life, sometimes exhausted and lost。
