when people in Dearborn say they’re proud of me. 🙏🏼 it always means more coming from home.

Check out this episode by the local Dearborn Girl podcast series. An overall amazing series, and such an important episode on mental health. Here’s a show for you… #SabayaSeries: Saja, Sara, & Yusra Talk Mental Health episode of Dearborn Girl open.spotify.com/episode/2jLjln…

i've cried (thug tears) while drafting every single statement of purpose or cover letter that i've written since 2016. i'm either really sensitive or really driven... or both.

i interviewed over 30 high school kids in Dearborn over the past month. not 1 of them could give an ex. of POSITIVE mainstream media representation of Arabs/Muslims. we live in an enclave where we feel affirmed, but i don't think we realize how much this hatred impacts us truly

in 2019, i learned to believe God when He showed me who i am (in all my beauty, power & grace). 2020 i’ll learn to walk in it.

we’re not bringing any socks with holes in em into 2020. period.

we are finishing things we start in 2020.

2019 was not a feel-good year for me. despite the COUNTLESS blessings that rained down on me, this year was filled with growing pains, uncomfortable tests, dead-ends, my own broken promises, & more tears than i’ve ever shed. i’m convinced 2020 is the year i reap what i sow.

Another one I’ve been running back through in anticipation of season 3 is Dearborn Girl (Dearborn Girl) and it’s really awesome to hear stories and lives and conversations of all these awesome and influential Dearborn women:

Meet Amulet, Marvel’s first Arab American superhero ✨

i was brought to tears by Marvel’s Fadi Fadlalah @saladinahmed 🙏🏼🙏🏼 my name is Rima Fadlallah. I’m also from Dearborn. i run a podcast called Dearborn Girl that highlights Arab women in our community. i would love to share some ideas with you.

speechless.

honored 🥰✨ #proudlyaDG

idk who needs to hear this but.... there’s no Z in Muslim.

every day, I ask myself this one game changing question: "how are you adding value?"

what you actually need, you already have. 🧿

9.15.13 | 3:42 AM I want to do big things, to change lives, and sometimes I think I'm crazy for having this undying belief in myself. But then again, what makes me different from the people who have? Maybe they're crazy too, but in that case, crazy is what I ought to be.

everything you need, you already have within you.

he should be increasingly excited to have you — not occasionally afraid to lose you. - how you’ll know.