Exploring Sex & Intimacy with Islamic Spiritual Perspectives
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Sameera Qureshi of Sexual Health for Muslims joins us today to discuss the effects of colonized gender based fallacies have on Muslim sexual health and practice. Not only does she have comprehensive sexual education from an Islamic perspective online, she is keen on connecting sex as a means of spiritual fulfillment, “God consciousness,” tawheed, within Islamic context.
Lean the difference between sex and intimacy, and maybe even redefine them! We are ALWAYS asked when and how to talk to our kids about sex at the podcast. This episode is for all those people who ask that question. If it’s sexual trauma that a parent or child has endured, Sameera helps with that as well and offers trauma informed healing to her clients. The good news is, we can achieve the goals Allah SWT set for us when He gifted us with sexual relations: achieve God consciousness, but only when we get comfortable talking about ALL of it.
Links:
Find Sameera on IG: @sexualhealthformuslims
Find Sameera on FB: Sexual Health for Muslims
Find Sameera on the Web: https://sexualhealthformuslims.com
Purchase Good Pictures Bad Pictures Kristen A Jenson to prepare kids early for pornography
Purchase one of MANY early childhood books on autonomy, agency, consent over one’s body to teach kids before something happens: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=my+body+is+mine&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Find Firoza Osman on IG: @halal_birdsandbees.talk
Purchase Firoza’s Osman’s book How to Talk to Your Muslim Child About Sex: https://www.amazon.com/Talk-your-Muslim-Child-about/dp/177727320X
Purchase Shariea Shoatz’s book My Voice is My Superpower: https://buddyspeaks.org/shop-1/ols/products/my-voice-is-my-super-power
The Village Auntie on IG @villageauntie
Secrets of Divine Love A. Helwa
Spiritual Gems of Islam Jamal Rahman
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Breaking Free of Baggage
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Sadia Jalali, LMFT from Muslim Bliss joins us today to talk about how to develop ourselves before and during marriage in order to make it work. Gone are the days when marriage was the panacea for all things: mental illness, neurodiversity, land or money disputes, homosexuality.....marriage is a blessing but it's not a cure. In fact, there are so many cultural approaches to marriage that do not jive both Islamically, or for Americans raising Americans. Let's start approaching it with realistic expectations and not with the fantasy-driven views that our mother cultures often taught us. We break the cycles of trauma here today.
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Find Sadia on IG: @muslim.bliss
Find Muslim Bliss on the web: www.muslim-bliss.com
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How to Produce Protest Music
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We got a lot of flack last year for "getting too political" because white supremacy, fascism, and corruption aren't in our lane. Our argument has always been that as Muslim American moms, politics MATTERS to us because it directly affects our families and kids. From misguided counter violence and extremism to unbridled capitalism to straight up racism, Muslim Americans have suffered for decades in this nation, so we ARE in our lane.
Mona Haydar @mostmona joins us on this episode to round out our January How To's and discusses the hard work of using art for social justice and reform. She went viral in a very pregnant body and called out the otherism that hijabi women encounter every day, and since then, has gone on to produce epic protest rap that makes us yell "Atta girl!" and "Alhamdulillah." Truth makes waves because it hurts. But truth is NEVER controversial. Mona is proof of that, and of our Divine duties to make change with the skills we have. Be different. Be courageous. Like a mother.
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Find Mona Haydar and her music on her the website: http://www.monahaydar.com/
Find Mona Haydar and sign up to text her on IG: @themostmona
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How to Write & Publish a Book
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The ins and out of diverse indie books
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We continue talking about hard things, including writing and publishing on today's episode. There's a HUGE writers’ community on IG! AND there a lot of Muslimah writers out there with terrific stories and projects. How do they do it? Najiyah Maxfield of Daybreak Press is here to give us the scoop!
Links:
Submit your momstory for our anthology: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dxCQGrErKj91RYu2Vd2WIu1ki_7mzYh68hxxOk1HsUA/edit?usp=sharing
Shop Daybreak Press’ online bookstore: https://daybreak-international-bookstore.myshopify.com/
Daybreak Press Book Award book nominations: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/daybreak-awards/
Submit a proposal for the fall 2021 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/literary-conference/
Learn more about Rabata: https://www.rabata.org/
Find Anse Najiyah on Twitter: @najiyah
Find Anse Najiyah on IG: @clickedmyrubyslippers
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How to Mother a Medically Complex Child
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Caring for the caregiver
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This month is all about hard things, and one of the hardest mommy jobs is taking care of medically complex children. Moms don't get a break to start, and these moms NEVER get to stop.
How do we step up to be better sisters to them? How do we avoid avoiding the elephant in the room and normalizing different bodies and abilities and supporting ALL of our kids on this journey?
Tune in to find out more from our role model of resilience Ashley Marshall @mommyweek.
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Check out Ashley’s blog: http://mommyweek.com/
Find Ashley on IG:@mommyweek
Find Ashley on FB: Mommy Week
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100th Episode Special
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All You Ever Wanted to Know About MWM
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"Would you be willing to come on a podcast and talk about that?" Zaiba asked Uzma almost 3 years ago about racial profiling of Muslim Americans by TSA.
"Sure. What do I have to do?" Uzma had no idea what a podcast was, or that she could find them right on her smartphone!
Find out our how-to's on getting started, podcasting (while staying friends), and how-to party on this with our giveaway we did live for our audience. This is our 100th episode alhamdulillah.
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The Road to Jannah
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Grieving pregnancy loss
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Trigger alert: child loss
Abeeha Hassan joins us today to discuss the very recent stillbirth of her newborn. She talks to us about how she grieved her daughter and talks about normalizing it contrary to what most Muslim cultures permit in society. Her process of closure may seem familiar to someone else who has gone this journey alone and we are so touched that Abeeha chose to share her story with us. We pray a momsister finds comfort in knowing there’s someone sharing her story of loss and is available to talk about it.
This month's series is how to do hard things, and in our opinion, burying our own children is the hardest. Abeeha is a model of sabr, taqwa, as well as normalizing our emotions. She helps us understand that saying Jannah’s name is normal. We always seek to better support our moms in all their situations, and the education she provides on how to do that is invaluable. Grab a Kleenex, but there are moments where we find gratitude and laugh through the tears.
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Miscarriage-pregnancy loss before 20 weeks
Stillbirth-pregnancy loss after 20 weeks (intrauterine fetal demise)
Neonatal death-death within first 28 days of life
Links:
Discimination vs. hijab in Kansas City, MO: https://apnews.com/article/73d2c6104c891672e4d9cad88290a8f6
Find Abeeha on IG: @mamaofalittleangel
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