Ep 137 - How to Have Difficult Conversations with your Family - An Interview with Dr. Manal
Mindful Muslimah Speaks
Mindful Muslimah Speaks
4.8 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes our family can be really great and supportive and sometimes it feels hard to even be heard. In this podcast, we interview Dr. Manal, a Somali-born sister that was raised in the UAE and now lives in Texas. She is a woman who has parents who were strongly opinionated about her future. But with this advice she changed their restrictive and cultural ways to getting them to listen to her and respect her choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us, we love our parents, but sometimes they could be a little bit difficult to talk to, especially because they are so opinionated. |
| 0:09.0 | Opinionated about the way we should dress, where we should go, who we should marry, and why. |
| 0:15.0 | And today we're going to talk to his sister. We have an interview with Dr. Manel about what she did to take her family's restrictive |
| 0:21.3 | and cultural ways about what they thought she needs to do with her life and her future |
| 0:26.1 | and turns it around to having them actually respect, listen to her, and agree with her decisions. |
| 0:32.0 | Check out what Dr. Manel did. |
| 0:33.2 | Music Hello, Samu'aaaikum. Thank you for joining us here at Mai, Muslim, |
| 0:51.4 | a podcast where we are empowering women to grow and thrive. |
| 0:56.0 | So we're coming to you again with another love podcast. I'm very excited. I have an amazing |
| 1:01.0 | sister on with me today. And she has a story that I think every woman needs to hear. It is a story |
| 1:06.8 | that I have heard so many times, but she says it so eloquently, and I'm really excited to |
| 1:11.8 | hear about what she did with her situation. So many of us have family situations, and we're |
| 1:17.2 | thinking what is the best thing for ourselves. And I think she has some gems of wisdom that I really, |
| 1:21.7 | really can't wait for her to share. So today with me, I have Dr. Minnel Yusuf. She's a Somali-born sister, but she's raised in the UAE and now resides in Texas in the U.S. |
| 1:32.8 | So I just wanted to say, welcome, sister. |
| 1:35.1 | Thank you for coming to the show. |
| 1:36.7 | Salam al-Aa-Qa-a-a-a-a-barak. |
| 1:38.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:38.9 | Thank you for having me, sister. |
| 1:40.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:41.6 | Al-Haimdallah. And I was really impressed with Dr. Manal because she went through a bit of a process |
| 1:46.4 | in the educating of herself with the Sunnah. And I think this information is really, really |
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