I thought I'd start this new series where we explore a bit of our pain, a bit of our childhood trauma, so to speak.

But then do something beautiful and turn it into a learning experience where we can then become more positive beings and then obviously have better Islamic parenting for our kids.

Wouldn't that be great? Because so many of us are

caring so much. So in this podcast, it's the beginning of a small mini-series that's going to be

all about, you know, the difficult feelings that we have inside and that we might have suffered

from our parents and then turning that into a better way of life for ourselves and our families

by taking back that power and taking the sunnah

and turning our lives into what it was always meant to be together. Let's go. I want to take you're back. I want to take you back to the day you were born.

A fresh new story began.

A book of blank pages waiting to be filled was given to your parents. For the first several

years of your life, the experiences they provided were written down on those fresh pages. They,

your parents, writer, other adults who raised you, were the authors of those earliest chapters.

As time passed, more authors started petting their own parts to your story,

siblings, teachers, friends, and companions have all added to your book. Everything you've

experienced right up to this moment and significantly how you've perceived everything that you

have experienced is bound together, attached to your

identity, and coded in your brain circuitry. Our stories are powerful sisters. They define who we are

and the way we conduct ourselves. They color the lens through which we view the world. And unconsciously,

we can continue well into adulthood letting others fill the pages while we sit idly by. Or we can take

ownership of our stories and challenges that have been written by others without our permission, just as you

might take a red pen and correct errors in a manuscript to refine and improve this story,

you can bring your own story to light and make the necessary corrections in your mind

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