Our stories are powerful. They can define who we are and the way we conduct ourselves.

They color the lens in which we see the world.

Now unconsciously we can continue well into adulthood,

letting others fill the page while we sit idly by,

or we can take our ownership of our stories and challenge

what has been written by others without our permission. Just as you might take a pen and correct

errors on a manuscript to refine and improve a story, so you can bring your own story to light

and make the necessary corrections in your mind where you see errors that are holding you back.

You had absolutely no control over those pages filled in by your family in the earliest days.

But what's great is that you do have the control now over your perceptions of those first chapters and the ones who wrote them.

Hello, Samaulakam. Thank you for joining us here at Mindful Muslim Speaks, the podcast where we are empowering women to grow and thrive.

I'm so happy to be back with you guys, and I was thinking it has been a little while since I have done anything on parenting.

And I feel like my mother's out there really, really deserve some content on that.

So today, we're going to be talking about parenting.

But you know what the funny thing is? This topic, because it will be a little bit of self-work, and I will explain kind of why

that is, we're going to do a little exercise today that I think you'll find really, really useful.

Because we're going to do that exercise, it might actually be useful for everyone, even outside

of parenting, just if you're a Muslimah who wants to heal a little bit from family drama or trauma.

So I wanted to say it kind of hits both of those points.

So if you're interested, keep listening.

And today, I just really, really wanted to give a shout out to a beautiful sister that I love and adore.

And I haven't seen her for years.

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