Have you ever had that feeling that you've given and given to your family and now you're feeling this emptiness inside?
After her fourth child, Rania Ahmed, started to have this exact feeling and a friend asked her, "What did you want to do before the laundry and the dishes? "I wanted to be a writer," said Rania. Her friend asked, "So why didn't you?"
In this episode of the Your Truth is Calling Podcast, we explore Rania's journey, going from x-ray technician to becoming a counsellor and award winning poet. Rania has a special passion for marriage and family therapy. This episode is chock full of gems!
We talked about her younger years in migrating to Australia in the recession of 1991.
How Poetry as a healing gate in the migration process,
How she developed her writing style and got her foot in the door.
How our early attachment figures shape our perspective of Allah swt
Depression and idealism in Islam.
How to get quiet in a loud world
Couples counselling - the number 1 cause of marital problems
Knowing how to communicate to solve conflict
And finally - how not to be afraid of the "box" that society fits you in
Go on, Be a misfit ;)
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Visit Rania Ahmed's website - Soul Insight Counselling - https://soul-insight.com.au/
Follow Rania on IG @soulinsights12
Her Poetry on IG: @poetryheaven101
Her latest spoken word poem "Islamaphobia" is featured on ABC ArtWorks.
Here's a video of it on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABCARTS/videos/977963633212965
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