Rediscovering and Resourcing Me After Divorce
Grief > Transition > Growth Sumaya Jeeva entered into 2020 fresh off the heels of a painful divorce. As she navigated lockdown, she also...
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Sumaya Jeeva
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
Interview with Soumaya Ettouji (Self-Love Coach): Divorce Story
Soumaya Ettouji is a self-love coach who specialises in helping divorced Muslim women build a life they love after divorce. She speaks...
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Aisha Humairah
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
Part VI: You found me whole and left me broken
In a six-part series, Aisha Humairah reflects on her life and marriage, just two weeks after her divorce. She shares her experience to...
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Ummu Futumu
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
My Teacher: Divorce
It made me experience brokenness And nothingness before Allah. Just in the right place to be fixed By the All-Loving, Al Jabbar. It...
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Sumaya
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Life To The Earth After It's Death
I started this painting about 15 years ago, leaving it abandoned and unfinished at my parents’ house. Little did I know at the time that...
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Anonymous
- Mar 20, 2021
- 3 min
After hardship, comes ease
How my upbringing and culture shaped my decision of how I got married My upbringing had always been quite a liberal one, so I didn’t have...
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Sumaya
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Limitlessness
When I was married and unhappy, I fell into negative thinking patterns that lasted most of my ten-year marriage. I saw everything as...
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Sumaya
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Bird Story
There was once a bird who as a little chick was happy, lively and beautiful. And she knew that she was good. She grew up and met another...
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Ayah
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Alive Again
Recently I discovered a collection of old artwork in my parents’ garage, from the time I was in the 7th grade up to post high school. As...
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Ayah
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Dating Myself
Yesterday I had a melancholic day so decided to go for a vigorous walk at the park to shift my mood. The sky was clear after a rainy and...
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Ayah
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Looking Back
Could it all have turned out differently? Possibly. The reality of life though is that we inevitably have to be burnt so that our...
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