First impressions are especially hard for people who struggle with social anxiety or with understanding the nuances of social interactions. When we’re nervous, our body language can misrepresent us, making us appear to be more closed off and less approachable than we might be if we were feeling like our true, relaxed selves.
Thankfully, there are some specific ways we can consciously shift our body language to avoid people getting a wrong first impression.
In the grand tapestry of our lives, there are moments that often transport us back in time, evoking nostalgia and a profound sense of how much the world has changed. Jeanene—who goes by @jeanene333 on TikTok—recently shared one such moment that has left countless viewers in awe and nostalgia.
In her TikTok video, she takes us on a journey to the year 2000, sharing a grocery receipt that has miraculously withstood the test of time for 23 years.
Nearly 1 billion people around the world live with mental health challenges. On World Mental Health Day, we’re considering how crises like conflict, climate disasters and pandemics can make addressing mental health issues even more challenging.
Crises impact the mental well-being of communities. During emergencies, people often experience trauma while the support systems and institutions around them erode.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), with support from Pinterest, is addressing the mental health needs of people in crisis settings by establishing the Catalyzing Resilience in Emergencies, or “CaRE” Fund. This Fund will expand mental health care for communities affected by crisis, gather important evidence and advocate for systemic changes that improve access to mental health care.
Learn more and support the IRC’s work championing and advancing mental health around the world.
It would probably be a college student’s worst nightmare to have his dad crash a frat party. Unless of course that dad is Will Ferrell.
Over the weekend, Ferrell was seen behind the DJ booth at a Sigma Alpha Mu party for his alma mater, the University of Southern California—the same college his son Magnus attends—channeling his popular role of Frank the Tank from “Old School.” Minus the streaking.
Mischa is a mixed-breed dog discovered in a forest in Romania with her two siblings in March 2021. It’s believed she was just a month old when she was rescued. “They [Mischa and her siblings] were terrified of humans. If they hadn’t of been rescued, they all would of died from cold and hunger in the forest,” Paula Biddle, a volunteer at Noah’s Ark Dog Rescue in East Anglia, England, told Newsweek.
After spending just about all her life in kennels, the rescuers felt they were running out of time with Mischa because of her deteriorating mental state. As time passed, Misha “got more scared and started to shut down; she wouldn’t come near us at the kennels so we had to do something,” Biddle said.