You're Not Alone: Dealing With Sadness and Hopelessness with Berak Hussain

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Unswtnd+Unfltrd

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

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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*TRIGGER WARNING*: In this episode we discuss mental illness, suicide and self-harm in length. If you feel the content discussed may be triggering, please either proceed with caution or feel free to listen to any one of our previous episodes. We have also provided a list of credible resources below.In Ep.10 of Season 2, we are joined by psychotherapist Berak Hussain as we dive deep into mental illness and self harm in the Muslim community. We discuss ways we can emerge out of this sea of sadn...

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0:00.0	To all those listening, we have an important message for you. You're not alone. You're listening to Unweetened and Unfilter the podcast, episode 10 of season two. In today's episode, we sit down with psychotherapist, Barack Hussein, to discuss normalizing the conversation around mental health and what we can do to help those suffering in silence.
0:29.3	Hey, it's Danielle.
0:29.9	And Zena.
0:34.8	And welcome to Unsweeten and Unfiltered, the podcast where we elevate the voices of women by sharing their stories of struggle while also highlighting their success.
0:37.6	We wanted to create a space for women to feel like they're not alone in whatever hardship
0:41.7	they may be facing. Some conversations may be lighthearted, while others may touch upon taboo topics
0:46.6	ranging from mental health to women's bodies and spiritual struggles, and we don't shy away
0:51.4	from any of it. But our overall mission is to make every woman realize that she is not alone.
0:56.2	We are all in this together, I promise.
0:58.1	Our sole purpose is to build relationships, not barriers, between you and the woman who may
1:03.0	need you.
1:03.8	We're here to provide inspiration and to build courage.
1:07.0	Tune in every Wednesday where we'll future an insightful guest who will help us reach
1:10.4	these goals. We laugh, we ugly cry, and we'll future an insightful guest who will help us reach these goals.
1:11.4	We laugh, we ugly cry, and we'll probably laugh some more.
1:14.9	So plug in your headphones, grab your favorite cup of coffee or Shea, and get ready to become a part of this unbreakable sisterhood.
1:21.9	You are tuning into Season 2 of Unsweeten and Unfiltered.
1:34.3	Thank you. 2 of unsweetened and unfiltered. You know, it's really interesting that we recorded this episode prior to COVID ever happening.
1:40.7	We did not know that we would all collectively experience this pandemic that's going
1:45.1	around the entire world. It's very strange times. And I feel like it's now kind of taking a toll on us.
1:51.6	And I don't want this to be a downer episode. I don't want it. I want it to be more of a resource.
1:56.3	If that makes sense, I want people to know that there is help out there because I feel like we
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