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March 7, 2025ByadminBlog0

The Uncarved Block

Asalaamualaikum everyone! This is the first of a regular column, called ‘Walking Lightly.’ I hope you enjoy..This article first appeared in the January 2025 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2025 Final Thresholds January 2025_Dharamsi Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading...

April 18, 2023ByadminBlog4

Living with OCD

Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim This beautiful blog is written by an anonymous beautiful soul whom I encouraged to share – I knew that what she shared would be so helpful to many of you. May Allah make this a sadaqa ijariya for her, and help all of those who struggle to find peace in...

April 28, 2022ByadminBlog0

Ukraine AND Palestine AND Syria AND Afghanistan AND Myanmar AND Chechnya

All peoples who need help deserve our support. This was the key message from the talks we gave at a recent fundraiser, as well as sharing how important it is for counsellors and psychotherapists to understand that the idea of neutrality is very often simply duplicating euro-centric ideas and values without question. Islam is so...

March 28, 2022ByadminBlog0

BPS Psychology Review Articles

Nice to be published in the BPS Psychology Review – our articles came from talks that we gave which was looking at different concepts of well being across cultures. We spoke to Islamic concepts, but our emphasis was, as the titles indicate “How How do Muslims survive and thrive within secular and prejudicial spaces?Sabnum focused...

August 23, 2021ByadminBlog0

Healing Oppression

This is a beautiful reading by my dear friend Yaquta Morton, from Fawzia Al Rawi’s book. It is healing in its content and delivery. https://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=3206 Yaquta-Morton-Reading-from-Fawzias-Divine-names-2021-08-11-at-20.15.10-4Download You can see the book this is taken from here: http://www.fawzia-al-rawi.com/en/publications/ Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading...

December 31, 2020ByadminBlog0

A Student Poem

Context: End of Year One of the Diploma in Islamic Counselling. My illustration of the group and the journey The ship full of strangers, looking to one another with fear and apprehension, at the same time hope of filling the voids and connection. The need of all the differences to fit together like a convoy...

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