A few weeks ago, prior to the global lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, I stumbled upon the Elevate App. This app that serves as a personal guide to mental and emotional success. It caught my attention and what excited me was the fact that it was developed and is ran by three black men. Seeing men of colour, who look like me, leading in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics sectors is such a rarity. Let alone find them merely involved in the mental wellness discourse. I decided that I’d have fun reviewing this app and reached out to the team. Well, then COVID-19 happened, I had a health scare and had little motivation to be creative and also was anxious about the global pandemic and being in isolation only triggered that anxiety further. Oddly enough this gave me an opportunity to make use of the app in my most vulnerable state without the ulterior motive to write a fun and cool blog review just for clicks. SO here it goes. WHO YOU NEED TO KNOWThe app is ran by three young black gentlemen who are graduates from Lincoln University which is just outside of Philadelphia, in the USA and is also the first HBCU in the country. Aaron Warrick, Greg Wilson, and Dante’ Wade who teamed up to build a mental wellness app after recognising the rise in numbers of people in the black community suffering from depression, stress and other mental health challenges. WHY YOU SHOULD TRY THE APPThe Elevate app introduces the basics of mindfulness elevation featuring different a resource based guided courses with videos and meditation audios to help you in the process. Also in addition the App comes with Self Enhancement Challenges, where one can put themselves in a course to follow through with a self enhancement activity. Having experienced all the above, the app. has been amazing to me. What I do enjoy the most are the forums where one can add their thoughts on a topic and engage with fellow users in constructive discussions. Especially now that we are being encourage to isolate, this platform serves as a filler, for the social interaction void. We need society and have grown all our lives engaging with our friends and peers. While that can still be done on social media, Elevate offers you a space dedicated to positive and elevating interaction without unnecessary digital noise. WHO SHOULD TRY THE APP?The Elevate App is designed toward adulting young individuals, especially those in black communities, including those new to the concept of mindfulness, like those that recently acknowledged their need to pay attention to their mental wellness, yet its content can be useful to those that have also been giving attention to their mental health for a while. Elevate is an app that may benefit people looking at solutions to help them deal with daily anxiety triggers and find a calming place that also elevates their state of mind. Users will also appreciate the wide variety of topics and resources available in video and audio format, such as mental championship faith, procrastination, dating with anxiety and balance among others. MY RATINGS OF THE APPI would give the app a good 8 to of 10 chiefly because of my bias as a black person, but also merit wise the app is deserving, a perfect user experience and it is easy to navigate while also meeting my needs as a user. I would recommend it to anyone in need of it, especially having used it during a trying time and was able to get back on track.
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Dante
4/15/2020 06:21:07 am
Well written and thoughtful !
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