Toleen AJ

This week, we decided to talk about Burnout, an important topic that many of us are unaware of. Burnout is a state of emotional and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. I designed a post about Burnout symptoms. These symptoms include fatigue, irritation, isolation, apathy and distraction. Before today, I didn't know Burnout was such a thing. After researching about it, I understood the feeling of tiredness and emotion exhaustion that comes from stress is known as 'Burnout'. This topic really needs to be brought up because I know how a lot of people might be going through this without them knowing. This will make people more aware of what they might be going through.

This week, our topic is self care. For that, I designed a swipe through instagram post about 5 tips on how to make your day better. These tips include going out for a quick walk, drinking a lot of water, reading a book, getting some sunlight and clearing your mind. By creating this post, I learned that it's always the smallest things that can make a great difference. Posting about this will help a lot of people, especially teenage girls who go through hard days. These are ways for them to have better days.

'Helping Hands', an organization run by me and 4 of my classmates to raise awareness about different topics. We decided to create an instagram account (@helpinghandsbh_) where we post daily about topics we feel are needed to spread awareness about. We discussed how the account will be handled and the different topics we will be posting about to help our community. We also we designed a logo for our organization. This taught me how to work with my teammates and communicate with them in order to plan everything out. I also realized every one of us can have her own opinion, but part of working together pushes us to discuss and agree on one idea. This organization can hopefully impact others around us through the different topics our account will discuss.