Spend time with Allah everyday outside of prayer. Even if it's 5 minutes.

If Israel accomplished anything it's that Muslims don't care or speak about Shia or Sunni or Sufi or wahabi or whatever anymore. Everyone just hates their nasty asses and is praying for the same thing. Came at a great cost though.

Random but if I told you that CBT was created by an Afghan physician 1200 years ago and that he documented his entire process, would you believe me? The major difference of what he taught from what is contemporary is that he stressed the heart and soul as living and breathing parts of ourselves that require our whole attention - with Islam and our relationship with Allah being central to self reflection, accountability, and healing. In practice I've always felt something was missing, particularly when speaking with non-Muslims. Protective factors that don't include Allah are vain and remiss. All self care starts with you in correlation to God.

Recently I've been trying to reframe my beliefs and my thoughts. If gone too long without doing so, thoughts naturally progress towards negative territory as we tread through life. Water becomes unclean when stagnant. Anything immobile wears down. Our Rasool taught us that faith wears out in the heart just as clothes wear out - to ask Allah to renew our faith. He taught a master class in self care.

I used to love writing but haven't done so in like 5 years. Committing to doing it much more often inshaAllah. I did it at a time when I didn't realize how much I needed it - and not out of a place of need - moreso out of a love for it. I hope to be consistent with it because for a darn psychotherapist and social worker I don't practice much on myself lmao

Myself and everyone I know done fell off their deen I swear. Anyone else feel like that?

Thinking well of God starts with thinking well of yourself.

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Hi is everyone alive and well and thriving and everything?

Reminder that God got you and always has and always will and the difficulties of this world are just really quick and though they're painful, they're written to end just as they're written to begin. If the problems of this world change you let it change you for the best and always remind yourself of who and what you don't want to become. Sometimes sincere intention comes from sincere hope and you're tasked with just being real and being you and being wonderful with a heart full of trust that God got you, always.