The Ultimate Break-Up: Losing a Friend
Romantic breakups are hard. The pain and emotional turmoil that comes with that territory is something we’re all familiar with through pop-culture. You watch movies from a young age where...
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Is it Lust or Love? Signs your feelings are real
If you’re like me, you didn’t talk to boys with heart-shaped eyes until you were ready to get married. And if that’s the case, your experience trying to decide between...
No New Friends: Why is it so hard to make new friends?
Remember the days in pre-school or elementary when you’d share your snacks with someone at recess and they’d become your BFF? Or the years when the whole class got a...
A VELA Hijab Party
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they...
The power of female friendships
The power of female friendships: the importance of cultivating female friendships (even after you marry). Jane Austen, one of the greatest literary minds of the nineteenth century said “Friendship is...
A VELA Graduation: VELA themed grad party
Would you believe me if I said I made my college, lifelong friends through a VELA hijab? Bonding over a hijab may sound silly, but someone recognizing that I would...
When to cut off a friendship?
I recently removed a friend from my life since she was a major backbiter which led me to reflect on her character – I realized that this is not how...