Tag: life
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What Healthy Femininity and Masculinity Looks Like (Not the Cultural Version)
Islam never taught control, emotional suppression, or silence as strength. It taught balance, mercy, responsibility, and mutual respect. Healthy masculinity in Islam looks like protection without domination and leadership rooted in service. Healthy femininity looks like compassion with dignity and emotional wisdom without self-erasure. Much of what people experience today comes from culture, not faith.…
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How Movies Taught Me to Romanticize Chaos (And How I’m Unlearning It)
Movies made me creative and empathetic, but they also taught me to crave emotional highs and romanticize instability. Here’s how cinema shaped my relationships, nervous system, and healing journey.
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Getting Beyond the Baby Blues
I remember the day I found out I was pregnant. I had been dealing with painful cramps for days and, like I often do, my mind jumped straight to worst-case scenarios. I was convinced it was something serious, maybe pelvic inflammatory disease. When I went to the doctor, the nurse casually handed me a pregnancy…
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How My Love for Film Started
My love for film started when I was a child, long before I ever understood what filmmaking even was. Growing up, we had movie nights every Friday. It was a whole ritual, the popcorn, VHS rentals, the excitement of picking something new at Blockbuster. My parents worked a lot and I never got to spend…
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Stop Expecting People to Hold Accountability
I just walked out of therapy and I feel very unsettled right now. The entire session came down to one thing I really didn’t want to accept. Some people will hurt you and they genuinely do not care. They don’t sit with it. They don’t feel the weight. They don’t lose sleep. They don’t replay the…
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – Book Review
I’m currently reading this book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle which centers on living in the present moment to find peace and emphasizing that things like anxiety and worry comes from dwelling on the past or future, and that true self is consciousness beyond the constant mind chatter. It’s seriously changing my life.…
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Honestly, Vanessa 