incredibly excited today to bring you a bonus episode inside the positive self series. I was actually

going to end it, but I had so many DMs. It's just like, I guess since we started it, it's really

resonating with a lot of people because a lot of people are really, really going through a lot

right now. And when we kind of open the floodgates, I mean, everybody's coming in like, yes, I need that.

Yes, I'm struggling and relating to how their emotions are actually ruining a lot of their relationships. And we've been talking about how it is all

related to negative thinking and how we can get control of our thoughts. I've been trying to

give you some tools in that. But we're going to go a layer deeper today by your request. And

another thing is we're going to do it by kind of riffing off of some points on

Yasmin Mujahid's new book, Healing the Emptiness, which a lot of you guys have joined our

book club before. So I thought I would give you kind of a two hit in one. One, I'm going to give

you a sneak peek into her book. And two, I'm going to give you some of what you've been asking for, which is some relief in the

overwhelm. Like, what is the deal? Why do I continue to suffer? We're going to answer that today

with some good news. Let's go. Hello, Samaralekam. Welcome back to the mindful Muslim speaks podcast.

I'm your host, mindful Muslim, coming to you twice a week on topics like love, relationships, emotional well-being, how to find a spouse, how to have an amazing marriage,

and have your husband be your best friend, how to survive university and all the stresses of

studies and life balance as a mother with kids and pursuing your dreams and your career.

We're not letting go of your identity and your responsibility that you

owe the world. We do it all. We kind of talk about how to be a Muslim and modern day life.

That's basically summing up what I just said, right? We have so many things going on. But in this

podcast, you get the how to, you get the step by step and how to get to the next level of

yourself or something in your life by somebody like myself and other

guests that we have on for myself. You guys know I'm a licensed educator 25 years, Mama 5,

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