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Episode 10 was so heart touching and moving as Aysha shared her journey with MRKH. She bravely and kindly shared a beautiful letter she wrote to her younger self towards the end of the epsiode. Make sure to have your tissue box nearby!

May Allah bless Aysha and her family!

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Dr Aeishah Griffiths Williamson joined us in this Episode to share her inspirational story. She ran away from home aged 14 years old and then lived in a foster care home, shortly after aged 18 years old she started to study Medicine. Dr Aeishah shared how she managed to achieve this and more in this amazing episode!

If you’ve ever wondered what inspired me to begin Her Story Inspires (HSI) Podcast - it’s this story by our beloved Dr Aeishah!

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Dr Heba Khaled is a dentist, and a student of Psychology from an Islamic perspective. She has been going through a condition called Topical Steroid Withdrawal, which she is currently raising awareness for. In this episode, Dr Heba shares her personal journey of eczema that escalated to TSW in her adulthood and left her bed bound for over three years. She also warns against the use of the ‘orange cream’ to manage eczema as lab reports show that it contains clobetasol propionate, which is one of the most potent steroid.

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Lina shared her experience of becoming a Muslim and how she faced years of depression that saw her faith plunge for a while but then her imaan was revived through two ways. She also shared the beautiful moment when her mother accepted Islam hours before she passed away. This episode was so emotional and so touching - you will need your tissues for this one for sure!

May Allah bless and accept it from our dear Lina and her family.

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Amirah Zaky started the episode by sharing her upbringing of being raised by an Egyptian father and a Thai mother who learnt about Islam with her as a child, to getting married at a really young age of 18 years old which is when her struggle to lose her virginity began. For a year, Amirah hadn’t consummated her marriage which lead a discussion with her husband where divorce was mentioned which is something they both didn’t want. Amirah started her own research into her condition and realised that she had a condition called ‘Vaginismus’ which she describes in detail in the episode. It was so brave and courageous of her to be so open and vulnerable with us in the hope that it will help another woman out there. Alhamdulilah soon after this, she was blessed with two beautiful children and she no longer suffers from vaginismus. She now works as a sexual wellness coach specialising in helping women to overcome painful sex, vaginismus and fear of intercourse. She also helps women to painlessly lose their virginity on their wedding night. We talked about the importance of normalising talking and educating our girls about sex so they enter marriage mentally prepared rather than frightened and with shame.

It was a really amazing episode with many gems to take away. I really recommend sharing this episode with all women in your life, especially those who are about to get married or are married.

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Najah shared her love for music as a child to being severely bullied at school to filling the void in her heart aged 16 with getting closer to Allah to later being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis to her lessons from marriage and motherhood to her journey to become a hair stylist.

Ma sha Allah tabarakAllah it was an amazing episode!

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“Growing up in Albania, I didn’t even know what ‘La ilaha ilaAllah’ even was”

Jetmira begins the episode by sharing her childhood growing up in a small village surrounded by mountains in Albania to finding Islam in her late teens to her countless setbacks in her quest to get accepted into a PhD programme in the UK and how she balances motherhood and a career with the support of her husband. Her story is one of ups and downs and an inspirational example that when you really want something and do all you can to get it, you will eventually get there!

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Michelle opened her heart with us and took us way back to her childhood days where life of crime was a norm in the home she was brought up in, so was racism and there was no religion. She found Islam through an abusive relationship with a ‘Muslim’ man and years later went abroad to do charity work only to come back to find that her 13 years old daughter had left Islam coupled with her father passing away without her having the chance to say goodbye to having a miscarriage to being diagnosed with MS. She bravely shared it all with us, so openly, so deeply and you know what so courageously.

Michelle is an Women’s Empowerment coach for Muslim mums. You connect with her on IG @_awakenedminds_

We ask Allah (swt) to accept it from her and allow her story to empower the heart of the one who needs it the most.

That’s it from me now!

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah Wabarakatu!

Enjoy...

Yasmin Egala, Author of ‘Treasures of Jannah’ joined us in Episode 2 sharing her childhood in Ghana, to settling in the UK at the age of 8, to finding Islam in her late teens to struggling to ‘finding the Muslim Woman in her’ to setting up Tiny Mu’mins to her life as a mother and how authoring a children’s’ book for black Muslim children came about. Amazing episode!

Rasheedah Omotola AbdulMalik, the Creative Director of Noorah Gifts. Rasheedah shared her time in Nigeria as a child, growing up as a Muslim Nigerian teen in South London and how she came to grow closer to Islam through hijab and the high status given to women in Islam. However, it was her emotional and heart touching journey of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act that made this episode one that will touch the life of every person who listens.