Sarahah is a relatively new app available for download from Apple’s App Store. The English version became available in June and since then the free app has skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in Apple’s App Store Top Charts. Although the app appears to be in Arabic in Apple’s App Store, once you download the app to your device, the text will be in English.
But what is it?
Sarahah is an app out of Saudi Arabia that is used to anonymously send and receive message from other users. The word ‘sarahah’ means frankly or honestly in Arabic. The app can also be linked to other social media apps such as Snapchat and Instagram, which only helped increase its popularity and use. It is available for download to both iPhone and Android devices.
But it’s not just teens – it’s parents and adults too! Take a look at this video from ABC News showing some video of actual car crashes that happen with texting.
As you go through life, do not practice subtraction; but instead add up your blessings, opportunities, possibilities. In so doing you will be relaxed, outgoing, and successful.
Last year Instagram introduced a new feature that allows users to turn off comments on individual Instagram posts, as well as allow users to block posts with certain words. Now the social media company has recently created two more tools to help keep Instagram “a safe place for self-expression.” One of these is a tool that blocks offensive comments. This comment filter will block certain offensive comments (such as harassing comments) on posts, as well as in live videos. This comment filter will not block other non-offensive comments, and still allows you to report or delete comments. Also, you can still turn off comments, if you wish. The offensive comments are hidden from everyone except the person responsible who made the offensive comment. You can reverse or modify these comment settings at any time.
We found this article called “12 Breathtaking Photos Show What It’s Really Like To Have General Anxiety Disorder” and we think it’s amazing that someone so beautifully created art around how an anxiety disorder feels. From the article: “Trying to explain a mental illness to someone who’s never experienced it is like trying to explain color to a blind person,” said photographer Katie Crawford. Crawford has battled an anxiety disorder since age 11, so she picked up her camera and developed a breathtaking series of self-portraits, titled “My Anxious Heart.”
KATIE CRAWFORD MY ANXIOUS HEART PHOTOS ANXIETY DISORDER ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JULY 1, 2015, 8:00 AM
When you’re feeling blue, wouldn’t it be great to reach into your pocket and pull out a little comfort? Well you’re in luck! Try this little DIY “comfort box” craft.
“It’s 8:52 am. Sun is up. Drinking my morning coffee.”
Do you have a Facebook friend who seems to post about every little thing they do? Sometimes it’s interesting, but sometimes it’s just too much information. Did you know there are ways to customize your Facebook experience to only see what you want to see?
For us it may be annoying, but for our children, sometimes unwanted posts on their social media feeds may be emotionally disturbing. A good conversation to have with your young person is about developing the skill of media decision making. This involves reflecting on how certain social media posts make them feel, deciding whether this is something they want to see, and making a decision to either remove it from their newsfeeds or to know when to step away. Learning to change the channel, that you can and you should decide when to change the channel is a skill.
When you hear the phrase “self-love,” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? How do you feel when thinking about this? What makes you want to practice self-love? What makes you feel like you can’t practice it enough?
In February 2015, national-award winning performance poet and author, Caira Lee, stood in front of a large crowd as she delivered a speech at Shaker Heights High School (SHHS). She opened the speech with a live performance, standing and delivering one of her poems to the audience. In this poem, she states what she would say to her fifteen-year-old self.
“I really have a lot of respect for you. ‘Cause time waits for no colored girl.”
As an adult, Lee now finds loving herself, as a woman of color, one of the hardest, yet simplest of tasks and she gives all the credit to her own religious practice of “radical self love.” She asked “What is radical self-love?” and explains that it’s when an individual comes to realize that the body and its flaws are assets that don’t need fixing and are advantages that one should build their life around and gain from. To Lee, it means:
“Looking in the mirror once a week and saying, ‘I am the most important person in the world, to me. I accept that person. I admire that person. And I will do everything in my power to see that person’s dreams come true.”
While the concept of “loving oneself” seems simple enough to grasp, it isn’t. Because we are systematically taught to dislike ourselves, to believe that we aren’t able to acquire anything and everything we wish to have – through the practice of vigorous work and repetition, and, as a person of color, it’s quite common to grow up in environments where one isn’t pushed to believe in their own positive mindset and kind self-talk.
