Healing Hearts: Emotional Wellness for Single Women During Ramadan

Mindful Muslimah Speaks

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The quiet moments of Ramadan can sometimes amplify our deepest emotions. In this episode, we create space for the full spectrum of our experiences—honoring our longing, embracing our strength, and finding healing through faithful connection.

Talking Points:
✨ Addressing loneliness through spiritual connection – How solitude can be a gateway to divine companionship. Quran 50:16: "We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein."
✨ Processing grief and loss during Ramadan – Why acknowledging pain is part of healing, and how faith helps us navigate hardship. Hadith: "How wonderful is the affair of the believer..." (Muslim)
✨ Combating comparison & social media pressures – How digital detoxes can restore inner peace. Quran 15:88: "And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to categories of them."
✨ Developing self-compassion through Islamic principles – Shifting from self-judgment to self-mercy in our spiritual goals. Hadith: "Allah is gentle and loves gentleness in all matters." (Bukhari)
✨ Converting emotional challenges into spiritual strength – Using fear, anxiety, and hardship as pathways to deeper faith. Quran 2:155: "And We will surely test you... but give good tidings to the patient."

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Healing Through Acknowledgment

00:01:22 - The Impact of Social Media

00:02:40 - Embracing Self-Compassion

00:03:50 - Navigating Grief and Loss

00:05:11 - Setting Realistic Goals

00:06:30 - Converting Emotional Challenges into Spiritual Growth

00:08:48 - Addressing Loneliness and Community

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0:00.0	I don't know what it is. I went a bit different this year and I was just thinking so much about
0:03.2	single women because I don't know this year, this past year and the year before, I had so many
0:06.8	conversations with women who are really struggling with the sadness of not having a family. And I think
0:12.1	for people who are single or reverts in this time of year, it has to be really hard because you
0:16.2	see everybody else meeting. Now, if you have a really cute, close circle of friends and you guys like meet up, you break fast together, you go out for coffee and all that good stuff, more power to you.
0:24.8	That's lovely, right? We do want to limit the social gatherings to not make it a totally social
0:29.2	Ramadan. You want to make sure you're doing things together in terms of classes and stuff too.
0:33.0	But I do understand what it's like to not have family in Ramadan and I've had periods of my life
0:38.5	where that was the situation. So there's this longing to be in a group, to be with others. And so
0:43.5	the beautiful thing about Ramadan is like I used to go, you know how like non-Muslims go pub
0:48.4	hopping? Yeah, like I used to go misjet hopping with my friends. Like we would be like four of us like let's meet up because it was always like in New York
0:58.1	City.
0:58.5	Like let's meet up at the 86th Street mosque or like let's go, you know, this part of Brooklyn.
1:03.8	Let's go to the Queens one this time.
1:05.3	Oh my gosh.
1:05.9	I heard.
1:06.6	And then we would go there and we would break fast with them. So we'd break fast on like a Turkish mosque, a Pakistani mosque, a Mesjid, and Mesir,
1:13.6	like, wherever it was.
1:15.1	It was like, so we'd have different food, meet new people, pray Thawawi, and go home.
1:20.9	It felt actually exciting.
1:22.6	So like I'm very big into like make the best of it.
1:26.4	But I do know it's still hard so if you have a
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