From Zakhm to Shifa
From Zakhm to Shifa is a space for honest conversations, raw reflections, and spiritual courage. Rooted in faith and activism, this podcast explores what it means to grow through pain, speak through fear, and heal with purpose.
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S4 E4: Competence as the Only Love Language Received (opens the original)
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Can you tell the difference between being loved and being relied upon? For some of us, the answer is genuinely no — because in the house we grew up in, love was real and enormous and almost never spoken. It came as food, as school fees, as worry dressed up as instruction. And a child in that house learns something quietly devastating: that being useful is the price of belonging. This episode sits with the woman who has never been praised for anything except what she produced. We look at why a qu
S4 E3: When her ambition outgrows his (opens the original)
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S4 E2: Recovering from Trauma — Supporting the Person Going Through It (opens the original)
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S4 E1: The Daughter Who Became the Emotional Parent (opens the original)
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The Woman Who Gave Until She Broke (opens the original)
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Nisa Helpline (Canada): 1-888-315-6472 — confidential support for Muslim women Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA): issacanada.org — Muslim counselling and community support I worked so hard at one of my gatherings that by the end of the night I had developed a fever and could not sit with my own guests. And the people I had exhausted myself for were in the other room making fun of me. This episode is about what happened next — and what I am still learning. Today I am speaking from my own
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