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Your brothers and sisters, we begin with our praise of Allah

Allah and we bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him.

We bear witness that Muhammad Salah alahanih who is his final messenger.

We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him the prophets and messengers that came before him,

his family and companions that served alongside of him and those that follow in their blessed path until the day of judgment.

And we ask Allah to make us amongst them.

Allah Ma Amin.

Your brothers and sisters often when you hear terms like self-care and self-help and emotional burnout.

They sound very much so like they come out

of a self-help book or a five-week program online for 3999 that'll change your life forever and if you just

start doing this or telling yourself this and everything is going to change.

And it's a growing genre for people to suggest ways out programs to quickly shift our lives and to get us on a path of happiness and fulfillment because this generation is suffering from loneliness,

depression at rates that are not only alarming but unprecedented. Suicide rates, isolation, all of these different things

that are growing in our time and a lot of people try to deal with that by going to Google and searching for something to quickly get them on the right path.

And it's about how do I make myself feel better and then this notion of self-care.

And sometimes self-care.

And sometimes self-care means, it's really just a nice way of saying

that I've given too much of myself to everybody else,

now I'm just going to do me. And so it's going to be a

radical shift of perspective and the way that I live my life now I've cared too

much about everybody else and no one else has reciprocated. I gave too much to life and life did not give back to me.

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