Neosomaliana

The defining feature of this world is rupture & it's a reset that contrasts illusion &truth, what's superficial & what's enduring. Rupture signals the inherent limitations of this world. When we reject it we might start to personalize the limitations as being indications of our own insufficiencies. We try to overcompensate but we're always interrupted nevertheless

I talk about what a month of following resonance and doing things that pushed my bandwidth while trying to retain my pace entailed. Ambition aint shit. Healing is anti-urgency. Compassion is the root of healthy movement.

We agree to play the role of being a cardboard cutout for the fantasy of someone else in exchange for having a predictable and steady stream of being needed. We seek out a leverage to stave off uncertainty about our safety and we think recognition is the only form of love available to us.

Being caught up in a threatening torrent of Western onslaught on the continent has shifted the focus from the collective intelligence approach that defines African cultures, to an overstatement of materialism as the only means of surviving. Many have lost the ability to identify and extract the innate meaning in our cultures, judging the absence of hyperintellectualism and written language as an absence of intelligence.

Healing doesn't initially mean end of pain and living your best life. It's a paradigm shift in the meaning of pain and a reclaiming of the pain that caused your system to oust parts of you, resulting in fragmentation and incongruence. To gain continuity you have to witness its antithesis. Not knowing that the primary function of healing is disruption may cause despair and may make you misinterpret success as failure.

Looking at the Polyvagal Theory through an Islaamic framework to make the knowledge of Allaah accessible when things are really overwhelming or dismal

An intro to a freestyling podcast where I share how I've navigated the world as a black Muslim woman