Get to know one of our sprouting artists in community, Aabidah Muhammad @Aabidabbi (IG)! SOS: Blueprint to Thrive got to capture her testimony to her experience and passions during their season with us! Aabidah speaks on her values and beliefs! if you attended her workshop, "Healing Through the Music of Our Hearts: An Exploration of our Inner Voices" , then drop your experience below! Stay in touch to learn about more artists grooving through our program! Check the visual film on YouTube! CC for Deaf/HH (https://youtu.be/vipvw_U-ROU) 

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"Hi My name is Aabidah Muhammad. I am an artist. My different forms of expression are writing songs, writing music, and writing poetry. Doing comedy skits, video photography. All types of art really, i'm trying to get into more, even dancing, pottery, everything! Everything that I can I feel like that's a way for me to heal people. through art. artist expression. healing them through that. when I write my songs it comes from a deep place, when I write poetry, same thing.. .

I joined BTT because I was looking for a way to express myself easily, because, like, I wanted to express myself but I was a little shy, a little fearful, but I wanted to. When BTT came to me I was just like, "WOW! ya know?" I think this would help me as an artist to grow and become more grounded in who I am and what I want to express to the world. There is just so much of me to express and at times I was like, "ya know what, i'll just sit this one out." I felt like, OK! I can do this! I feel a little fearful, but there was always that like recognition, that understanding, and reassurance, " you're going to be ok, you got this! you got the talent!"

So, I joined to be able to express that in a more organized way also because I also have just a bunch of jumbled up ideas and I wanted to put them in more of a sequence and I feel like I was able to do that here . What I have to give is very special. That was very reassuring to me and I am very happy that I decided to join because it changed me. It really changed me in a way where it gave me a lot more confidence and a lot more security within myself.

The pros were to feel more confident and solidified in myself, uhm, I would feel like the cons ware more fear had come up,fear had come up with me feeling like ok, I love i love doing this but should i even continue trying to learn because who is going to really listen? but that's negative self-talk that I'm working on and the singing bowls help me with that because the frequency helps me, so it's really deep for me where I feel like the cons are still pros because they're like where it is leading me down the path to help me see myself and feel myself. I love myself the most when i am creative and when i am going with my flow and i feel like being a part of this program helped bring that out of me and to understand thats who I am, i am pure artistry, my whole self is, even my existence is artistry, everyones is. it's something deep, there's a reason why we're here. and when you're engulfed in art and looking into that in a deeper way, I feel like you can see the deeper parts of yourself through art, which helps you heal. That's what brings me here and makes me feel like I'm whole!"