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#BanJoyland

Social Media has been a very disturbing place in recent weeks. I donot like to speak on topics when they’re “hot” or “trending”. It’s just not me & I’m sure there are others like me. Some of us prefer our silence. We are not reactionary and when we open our mouths we wish only to […]

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The Escalation of my Negative Self-Talk & My Kareem Nabi (sws)

I say a distracted Salah. I rush through it. My child cries. I barely know what I’m saying now. I berate myself. I tell myself I’m ungrateful that I can’t focus on the One that blessed me with children. I tell myself I’m an awful person. I have the garb of a religious person but […]

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When you were never meant to understand…

-Why is this happening to me?- We’re taught to seek meaning in everything. we’re told to search for more, to look beyond the superficial, especially in difficult times. Yet In the times that I’ve been sorely tested i have been unable to find meaning. In my frenzy to make sense of my pain i have […]