If you’ve been around for a while, you definitely know I’m a huge fan of giving things names. And you’d definitely understand how much satisfaction it brings me now to be coming across a phrase that gives the process of naming things, a name too. 😁 I love this. So much. It reminds me of […]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from therapy, it’s that every feeling has a purpose. And there’s often something that those “unpleasant” feelings try to protect us from. I’ve witnessed that firsthand with anxiety. It wasn’t until I accepted my anxiety and became better friends with it, that I got to watch many pieces of […]

I was watching Eslimah’s video earlier on her very painful experience with still birth, and even though I could not relate to the experience itself, this sentence resonated with me on so many levels. It’s almost like my very own God-sent message through her words. Because for the longest time, my journal pages have been filled […]

I haven’t posted on here for a while, and I probably won’t be posting for another longer while. (Trying to turn this into some more interesting projects, please pray they come to life!) There’s just something I needed to document and continue reminding myself of for now. So here I am, coming back to write […]

  This is one major revelation I’ve gladly walked out of therapy with. That I actually love my nose. No joke. I’ve always had self-image issues, but my nose was the worst. When I was younger, I was constantly reminded I have a somewhat “long” nose, and so it was the one major feature I […]

  “قد لا ينام البعض من كلمة قالها أحدهم وهو يمزح.” “Some people might not be able to sleep because of a word someone jokingly said.” This is a sentence that’s been overly used in sarcastic contexts all over social media lately, and that I, myself, am guilty of having laughed over a couple of […]

  This is not something therapy has taught me. This is rather the story of how this whole series came to life. I’m so happy with where it’s going so far (alhamdulillah!) and so I feel like I need to document a couple of my steps along the way. (This might be longer than most […]

  A few months before I start therapy, I wrote this: A post about how I never knew how to be there for people. It irritated me so bad. So here I am, a couple of months after therapy, writing up a reply to my younger self, and her seemingly troubled thoughts. Dear March-2017 me, […]

I used to think something was inherently wrong with me. Everyone around seemed to be doing just fine. All the time. But me. I got anxious over the littlest things. I sounded very awkward on every first encounter, and maybe even those that came after. I could hardly ever think of the right thing to […]

One beautiful thing that’s slowly changing about me during this journey is, my current ever-growing belief that I simply deserve to take up space. Because I really do. Every human being out there truly deserves that too. I deserve to take my time at the cashier while I look for my card or cash despite […]