Overcoming the Fear of Hijab with Nilly Naseer-Farooqui

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Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 6, we are joined by the lovely Nilly, who is behind the Instagram page @wordsbehindasmile , to discuss all things hijab related! She shares her story behind the first moments in her life where she decided to put the headscarf on. Nilly gives us tips on how to take this next step and gives us insight on overcoming the fear of becoming a hijabi. We touch upon how one defines what the hijab means to them and we also dissect the struggles that hijabis + non hijabis face in today’...

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode
0:03.0	Welcome to episode six of unsweetened and unfiltered.
0:22.4	At the moment, Zena is still mad at me.
0:24.7	I don't know if you want to tell them why.
0:26.1	I'm not mad.
0:26.8	I'm just disappointed.
0:28.3	So Dina's birthday is coming up later this week.
0:31.0	Her friends and I decided to throw her a surprise birthday dinner.
0:34.6	But Dina being the person that she is, had to go and ruin the surprise.
0:39.6	Nobody can surprise me.
0:41.0	You guys, the place they chose was a restaurant across the street from my job.
0:45.1	Zana said, let's have a girl's night, just you and I will have dinner at 715.
0:49.3	Mind you, last weekend was the opening night for the Palestine Film Festival.
0:53.2	So I was like, I think I can
0:54.3	change it to 6 o'clock. And I told her there was no other reservations, like no other times,
0:59.1	but Miss Type A went to the restaurant, found out the reservations were under someone else's name,
1:05.6	and it was a party of 6, not 2. So I guess you put 2 two and two together and you figure out all your
1:11.5	girlfriends are surprising you only done yeah but thank you so much honestly ended up being such
1:16.8	an amazing night I ended up actually dressing up because now I knew about a surprise birthday party
1:21.9	because I would have just rolled up and whatever I had in my closet it was so much fun I definitely
1:26.6	enjoyed it.
1:34.3	And I think it just reminded me of how grateful I am to have a great group of women that I call my sisters.
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