In this episode, we talk to Salma El Shaffei about her relationship to movement, how she became a movement coach, the importance of breathing and how she feels about saying goodbye to her 20s. 

Salma is a strength coach. She initially studied Visual Arts but eventually found her passion in the health and wellness industry and has been coaching since 2019. Her approach to coaching has moved from a general approach to a more holistic one throughout the years. Salma focuses on helping people optimize their strength, increase their performance and move pain free. She works with a wide range of people and age groups. She is currently studying to become a rehabilitation practitioner and her goal is to help people improve their quality of movement through a holistic approach to fitness. 

Find her on Instagram: @salmamoves

This episode is in both Arabic and English. 

For more about Dear Quarter Lives, go to www.dearquarterlives.com

For more about the podcast host, Shahinda Abdalla, go to @shahindabdalla on Instagram. 

If you'd like to support Shahinda in the creation of this work, go to her Patreon page: www.patreon.com/shahinda and make a contribution. 

This work is made with love and always with the intention to spread peace. 

In this episode, we talk to mental health advocate Mohamed Elma'andi about what advocacy is, what it takes to become one and how to talk to people about mental health. 

Mohamed Elma'andi is a photographer and mental health advocate. He studied finance and worked in marketing for 8 years until 2016 when he was going through depression and decided to start seeing a psychotherapist. Through his journey of healing, he found photography and began to study psychology online and educate himself on the topic. Eventually, he felt called to spread this knowledge and help inform others about mental health by holding mental health awareness talks and meetups. 

@ma3andi
@ma3andi.photography

The link to the database of mental health professionals in Egypt created by Mohamed Elma'andi:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vEOgDkObYV1TnvosOee31wiWjxD4Kqkr/view?ts=608476e8

This episode is in both Arabic and English. 

For more about Dear Quarter Lives, go to www.dearquarterlives.com

For more about the podcast host, Shahinda Abdalla, go to @shahindabdalla on Instagram. 

If you'd like to support Shahinda in making this work, go to her Patreon page:  www.patreon.com/shahinda   and make a contribution. 

This work is made with love and always with the intention to spread peace.

In this episode, we talk to Yasmin Abdel Razek about relationships, marriage during the quarter life period, the value of premarital counseling and of knowing oneself for a healthy relationship. 

Yasmin Abdel Razek is an Egyptian-Canadian Registered Psychotherapist and Marriage & Family Therapist. She holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and is very passionate about helping individuals feel more connected in their relationships. Yasmin assists individuals, couples, and families overcome various struggles by working with their unique strengths. She is an Associate Member of the Canadian Association for Marriage & Family Therapy and is trained in multiple therapeutic models, predominantly using attachment-based interventions and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in her relational practice. Yasmin began her career working with individuals in private practices and psychiatric facilities in Egypt, and continued her education and clinical training in Canada and the US. Her breadth of experience both clinically and culturally allows her to effectively work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

www.yasminmft.com
@yasminfortherapy

This episode is predominantly in Arabic with bits of English here and there. 

To support Dear Quarter Lives on Patreon, please go to www.patreon.com, you'll find us there as Dear Quarter Lives. Please consider donating to our platform so we can  continue to produce this content for you. Thank you! 

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For more about your podcast host Shahinda Abdalla, you can go to her instagram page @shahindabdalla or contact her via email on [email protected] 


ياسمين عبد الرازق

معالجة نفسية للعلاقات الزوجية والأسرية مصرية وكندية الجنسية، وهي معالجة نفسية معتمدة حاصلة على شهادة الماجستير في العلاج النفسي للعلاقات الزوجية والأسرية، وشهادة البكالوريوس في علم النفس. وهي تساعد الأفراد والأزواج والعائلات للتغلب على معاناتهم عن طريق دعمهم وزيادة ثقتهم بأنفسهم. 

وهي كذلك عضو مشارك في الجمعية الكندية للعلاج النفسي لعلاقات الزوجية والأسرية، وقد تلقت تدريبات على العديد من البرامج العلاجية مثل: Cognitive-Behavioral و Emotionally-Focused و Solution-Focused.

بدأت ياسمين مسيرتها المهنية بالعمل في العيادات الخاصة ومرافق الطب النفسي في مصر، ثم أكملت دراستها وتدريبها في كندا والولايات المتحدة. وقد هيأتها هذه الخبرة للعمل مع الكثير من الأفراد من خلفيات مختلفة ومتنوعة.

هذه الحلقة معظمها بالعربي ، فيها بعض الكلام بالانجليزي. 

In this episode, we talk to functional nutritionist and health coach Nour El Nahlawy about functional medicine, the role of food and our agency as patients in our own healing journey. We also talk about the most common aids and obstacles to healing she's observed in her practice. We talk about her own journey from being a pharmacist to a functional nutritionist, and much much more... 

Nour El Nahlawy is a pharmacist, a health coach, and a mom. She graduated from The Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt.  She studied holistic nutrition at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), New York, USA. She believes that medications only treat the symptoms and do not tackle the root cause of diseases. Nour helps people to adopt a healthier lifestyle through listening to their bodies and to make the right dietary choices that suit their needs, and because each body behaves differently, one person's food is another person's poison so making the right choices really matter. She combines the expertise of the medical field with the experience of lifestyle modifications through health coaching. She helps women who struggle with hormonal problems (like PCOS, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and insulin resistance) and digestive problems (like IBS) which usually accompany many of the hormonal problems. By working with Nour, you will address your nutritional needs, exercise habits, career goals, relationships, spirituality, and many more issues that are specific to your unique body. This is a holistic approach.

نور النحلاوي صيدلانية ومدربة صحة وظيفية وأم، تخرجت من كلية الصيدلة جامعة عين شمس في القاهرة، مصر. درست التغذية الشاملة في معهد التغذية التكاملية (IIN) في نيويورك، الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. تعتقد نور أن الأدوية تعالج الأعراض فقط ولا تعالج جذور المشكلة المسببة للمرض. تساعد نور الناس على تبني أسلوب حياة أكثر صحة من خلال الانتباه إلى أجسادهم واتخاذ الخيارات الغذائية الصحيحة التي تناسب احتياجاتهم، ولأن كل جسم يتقبل الطعام بشكل مختلف، فإن الطعام  المناسب لشخص ما هو سم بالنسبة لشخص آخر، لذا فإن اتخاذ الخيارات الغذائية الصحية الصحيحة أمر مهم جدا! تجمع نور بين خبرتها الطبية كصيدلانية وخبرتها العلاجية عن طريق تغيير نمط الحياة. تساعد السيدات الاتي تعاني من مشاكل هرمونية (مثل تكيسات المبايض، مقاومة الأنسولين، مشاكل الغدة الدرقية مثل الهاشموتو) أو مشاكل في الجهاز الهضمي التي عادة تصاحب المشاكل الهرمونية. خلال العمل مع نور، سوف تتطرقين لأدوات سوف تساعدك على اختيار طريقة الحياة المناسبة لك من حيث الطعام، الحركة، الروحانيات، تحديد أهداف المستقبل، والعلاقات. عندها ستتوصلين لطريقة حياة جديدة. 

الحلقة مسجلة بالعربي. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NourElNahlawy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nour_elnahlawy/?hl=en

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7oNlyHvhEXgh-rTlUEjzg

Website: https://nourelnahlawy.com/pages/contact

To know more about functional medicine:

The Institute for Functional Medicine: ifm.org

The School of Applied Functional Medicine: schoolafm.com 

Dr. Jeffrey bland - The Father of Functional Medicine: https://jeffreybland.com/about-me/

Dr. Aviva Romm: https://avivaromm.com/

Dr. Izabella Wentz: https://thyroidpharmacist.com/

Language of episode: Arabic 

In this episode, we talk about what existential psychotherapy is. We delve into the importance of claiming responsibility for one's life and self and recognising our freedom in all of it. We talk about love, the fear of love, and why love may be challenging for the quarter lives. And much much more... 

Farah el Miligui is a doctoral candidate of counselling psychology based in London. Her clinical experience spans cultures, age groups and settings. Her passion for philosophy and existential therapy started when she was introduced to existentialism in one of her undergraduate courses on the psychology of dreams. Her research is centred around social anxiety in the ‘information age’. She believes that life will inevitably present individuals with suffering and sees symptoms as manifestations of ‘problems with living’ instead of diagnoses. Some of the thinkers who have influenced her within clinical work are Albert Camus, Soren Kierkegaard and Rollo May. She is particularly drawn to the work of Irvin Yalom and Emmy Van Deurzen. Farah has a passion for cross-cultural work and is eager to bridge the research divide within psychology beyond the Western scientist-practitioner model.

This Episode is in English. 

Book recommendations mentioned in this episode: 
The Courage to Create by Rollo May 
Love and Will by Rollo May 

For more about Farah, go to www.counsellingwithfarah.com or @therapywithfarah on Instagram. 

For more about Dear Quarter Lives, go to www.dearquarterlives.com or @dearquarterlives.com. 

To contact  Shahinda Abdalla, you can go to @shahindabdalla or email [email protected] 

In this episode, we talk to Shahd Omar about what yoga is, how we can incorporate it into our lives. We talk about why she started teaching, what Yoga for Trauma is, why our pelvic health is so important, and much much more...

Shahd Omar is a trauma-informed yoga teacher based in Cairo. She teach body-mind focused yin and vinyasa yoga classes and workshops. I’ve been practicing yoga since 2005, and teaching since 2017. My interests span yoga, dance, qi gong, somatics, embodiment, trauma work, traditional Chinese energetics, and pain science. She loves to move and learn about the body. As a teacher, her goal is to help students find resilience by meeting their bodies with a fresh set of eyes and a newfound curiosity.

email: [email protected]

website: www.bodywithshahd.com

insta: @bodywithshahd

Book recommendations as promised: 

• The body keeps the score by  Bessel Van Der Kolk
•  A history of modern yoga  by Elizabeth De Michelis
•  Yoga for trauma recovery by  Lisa Danylchuk

في الحلقة دي بنتكلم مع شهد عمر عن ايه هي اليوجا، و عن ازاي ممكن تبقي جزء من حياتنا. بنتكلم كمان عن ليه قررت شهد تدرس يوجا، و يعني ايه يوجا للصدمات ، و ليه لازم نهتم بقاع الحوض بتاعنا. 

شهد عمر مدربة يوجا مهتمة بالتقاطع بين العقل والجسد، تهتم بالصدمة وتأثيرها على الحركة، كما تعمل ايضاً مع النساء لدعم صحة الحوض ومساعدتهم على إعادة الاتصال بأجسادهن. تعمل شهد كمدرس يوغا منذ عام ٢٠١٧ وتمارس اليوجا منذ ٢٠٠٥. تشمل اهتماماتها اليوغا ، والرقص ، والتشي غونغ ، والتجسيد ، والصدمات ، وعلم الطاقة الصيني التقليدي ، وعلم الألم. هدفها هو مساعدة الناس على إيجاد المرونة من خلال مقابلة أجسامهم بالحب والفضول.

 Noureen has an MA in Counseling Psychology from the American University In Cairo. She provides individual counseling to adolescents and adults, and first gained her professional experience from counseling students, staff, faculty, and alumni at the psychology clinic at the American University In Cairo and . She has helped clients with mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and adjustment problems. Because she believes that treatment must be tailored to fit the client’s individual and distinct needs, she likes to rely on an integrative approach in her work, mainly using a person-centered approach but often borrowing from Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, Psychodynamic therapy, and Interpersonal psychotherapy. She currently teaches high school psychology as well. 

For more information about Noureen, you can find her on Instagram @ntalksfeelings .

In this episode, we talk about what brings about the quarter life crisis and what we can do about it. We talk about therapy, the culture around therapy and the lack of mental health support in schools for adolescents and young children here in Egypt. We talk about Noureen's own journey with therapy and why she chose this field of work. And much much more...

This podcast is hosted by Shahinda Abdalla; the creator and writer behind the blog Dear Quarter Lives (DQL). 

For more on DQL, go to www.dearquarterlives.com. 

Follow us on Instagram  @dearquarterlives.

 #dql  #dearquarterlives