Holistic Educator Academy: Recent Episodes
Khadija Mohamud
Khadija Mohamud (our host) was trained in Education. However, she often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional education which does not equip us with life skills to navigate real-life challenges which led her to pursue a PhD focusing on life skills development. During this journey, Khadija experienced a spiritual awakening which led her to discover the inside-out approach and the mind, body and soul connection transforming her life with the aid of Allah and enabled her to flourish through adversity and find tranquillity within her personal challenges and the pandemic. After experiencing these life-changing results, Khadija started sharing what she learnt and so @theHolistic_Educator was born. This podcast is the place where you are reminded that it doesn't matter what you have been through and where you have come from, BUT what price are you willing to pay for your healing and discovery of your God given blessings and capabilities!
"The brain has a negativity bias, it looks for things that are wrong rather right and so we need to consciously look for what's going right"- Eileen Laird
Today's guest is Eileen Laird, a Writer, Podcast Host and Autoimmune Warrior living a vital life with rheumatoid arthritis. She's reached millions of people through her popular website and podcast, Phoenix Helix, where she shares information and inspiration for autoimmune health. The name of her website is a symbol of hope. The phoenix is the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes. The helix represents the spiral of our genetics and epigenetics-those factors that influence our genes. We are more than our DNA, and our choices can have a powerful impact on our health.
In this episode, Eileen and I discuss her new book, Healing Mindset: A Guide to the Mind-Body Connection for People with Autoimmune Disease. Eileen shares with us powerful techniques from her personal experience and research to regulate emotions, manage stress and empower positive thoughts when living with autoimmune disease. We also discuss the benefits of the mind-body connection, the power of gratitude, what is a digital detox, embracing imperfection and so much more!
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For us to function at our best, we need to feel healthy both physically, mentally and emotionally. Although we are often comfortable talking about any physical wellbeing we may have, we often shun from discussing our mental and emotional wellbeing. Many times this comes from societal beliefs and stigma around mental and emotional health. As a result, many Muslims are suffering in silence because of the fear of being judged and shamed. Although this is now slowly changing, there's still a lot more work to be done to deconstruct the stigma around mental health, depression and anxiety.
In today's episode, I discuss three key areas we need to work on to overcome and gradually heal from depression and anxiety
(1) Our thoughts
(2) Our activities
(3) Our support system
I share strategies that have worked for me to overcome depression when I started working on these key areas:
• Finding Solace in the Quran
• Morning ritual (prayers, morning adhkar, exercising)
• Daily Activities Diary
• Sensory Awareness exercises to interrupt depressive thoughts
• Engaging in activities we enjoy outside the problem
• Stop putting all eggs in one basket
• Becoming empowered through support systems that have gone through similar experiences
Some useful resources for the morning ritual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Brp_esIVI
https://mydua.me/
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Healing the Mind, Body and Soul with Nature Therapy: The importance of serving from a full cup for Muslim Women w/Firdous AlHaddad EP7 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1828656/episodes/9468939
The Mind Body Soul Connection Inside Out Approach: A Personal Spiritual Cellular Awakening EP 3
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1828656/episodes/9041915
Showing Up: How to Take Back our Power and Stop Self Sabotage w/Hamidah Dahir EP 12
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1828656/episodes/10117
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"You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both" Brene Brown
Fear is one of the emotional response that is keeping many of us from attaining the goals and life we want! But the truth is fear will never go away and being courageous does not mean the absence of fear but finding a way through it.
In today's episode, I discuss how we can use fear to our advantage and transform it into unbreakable faith from an Islamic perspective. I reflect on lessons from the story of Musa (A.S) in the Quran and relate it to our own lives. I also share techniques that have supported me in overcoming my own fears including identifying the fear, having non-negotiable goals, using insights from pain as fuel, visualisation and so much more!
If you constantly find yourself worrying about what will happen if you take an action and often feel stuck because of this fear, then this episode is a MUST listen!
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"Everyone was so peaceful, so calm, so collected. They looked like people that had it figured out. They knew the key to controlling themselves, to controlling their desires, having trust in God..." Aisha Rosalie
In today's episode, my guest Aisha Rosalie who is a Content Creator and my friend shares with us her journey of becoming a Muslim and finding tranquillity. She shares her story of how visiting the Blue Mosque, reading the Quran and learning about Islam on YouTube and Google during COVID-19 pandemic led her to taking her Shahadah. She also shares some powerful techniques of learning about Islam for anyone who wants to learn more about Islam whether born Muslim, revert or considering Islam and want to learn more.
We also discuss the importance of taking the leap of faith which applies to everything in our lives and so much more!
Its a MUST listen for those who are interested in Islam and been wondering what the journey is like for a revert. Aisha's story is unique as everything happened in isolation while in lockdown but I'm sure you'll find some powerful gems to support you through this transition. Even if you are a born Muslim, I'm sure you'll get some powerful gems In Sha Allah!
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"I knew I had played that victimhood for so long and it just kept me where I was. For me to move on, for me to grow I had to see beyond what I had been through"- Hamida Dahir
We've all heard of the phrase 'Showing Up for Ourselves'. But what does the phrase really mean? And how do we do this?
In today's episode, my guest Hamidah Dahir, a Life Coach and a Youth Worker and I deep dive into this topic and share insights on how to make choices that honour our spiritual, emotional, mental and physical needs as they arise. Hamidah shares with us the journey she underwent to overcome victimhood, showing up for herself and transforming to becoming the life coach she is today.
We also discuss how to unapologetically love and take care of ourselves, listening to what our body and soul is telling us, trusting ourselves to make decisions that serve us even if the world is telling us otherwise and so much more!
This is a beacon of hope and reiterates that healing and transformation begins from the INSIDE and the BEST project you will EVER WORK ON is YOU! BUT what price are you willing to PAY?
Its a MUST listen if you feel your life is NOT aligning with who you really are and where you want to be or are in the middle of a rough terrain. Even if you are catching your breath to prepare for the next season or preparing to SOAR like NEVER BEFORE, this episode is for YOU!
Its time to Shine, Glow, Step Up and Show Up for OURSELVES!
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https://magribcoaching.wordpress.com/
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@maghrib_coaching
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"Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live" - Sydney Banks
Our thoughts create our feelings and reality. So in order to attain the life we want, we need to understand how we can use this powerful asset we have to create the life we want.
So today's episode is a solo round with me where I discuss how we can use the Law of Attraction, Visualisation and Vision Boards using Islamic Techniques and share personal accounts of how applying this concept has changed my life. I also talk about strategies that will support us to be in a beautiful state all the time and enable us protect our inner world no matter what is going on in our outside world, how we can use this powerful tool to achieve our 2022 goals and so much more!
This is a MUST listen to anyone who wants to optimise their opportunities to achieve the goals and the life you want in 2022 In Sha Allah!
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"A journey of thousand miles starts with a single step"- Saida Ahmed Rashid
No one goes into a marriage imagining that they will experience physical and mental torture leading to the detriment of their mental and physical health and even making them to contemplate ending their own life. Yet this is the case for many women in our Ummah suffering in silence because of the incorrect connotation of 'sabr' stemming from our cultures and not Islam.
As a result, many Muslim women continue to stay in physically and mentally abusive marriages just to please society and for the children as they are told! Often, this leads to more damage and trauma to the children. But it does not have to be this way anymore!
My guest today is Saida Ahmed Rashid, an activist against Gender-Based Violence and an Ambassador in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS within the Muslim community. Saida has also had her own share of painful experiences and trauma including physical and mental torture in marriage and going through the pain of divorce TWICE!
In this episode Saida shares with us her story and how she overcame the adversity of experiencing divorce twice, transforming her pain into power and finding COURAGE to love again and give marriage a THIRD chance!
We also share strategies and techniques that helped us heal from the complex emotions experienced during the divorce process, discuss the importance of fixing our inside first using the inside-out paradigm so the outside can change, completely trusting Allah's plan and understanding there is wisdom in everything, why being complacent with abuse for the sake of children is more destructive, the power of letting go and so much more!
This is a beacon of hope and reiterates that its NOT what happens to us but how we INTERPRET and WHAT WE DO WITH IT that makes the DIFFERENCE!
Its a MUST listen if you or someone you know is navigating through a complex marriage and contemplating what to do or experiencing the pain of divorce and wondering whether you will EVER find courage to love again! Even if you are not going through divorce, there are a lot of powerful nuggets to learn and take action where you see injustice.
No matter what you have come through, with Tawakkal and Optimism, there is ALWAYS HOPE for each one of us!
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZCRufvnSeKkRoz81YimsA
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@saidaahmedrashid
https://www.facebook.com/saida.bintirashid
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"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change" - Sheryl Sandberg
For our situations to change, we need to be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and become aware of our patterns and our role in the problem. It is only when we become self-aware that we are able to break destructive habits.
So today's episode is a solo round with me where I discuss why Self Awareness is the 'Antidote' for destructive habits and a tool for strengthening the 'Take Action Muscle' to create the life we want. I share a personal experience of how becoming self-aware about my role in the problem while I worked in a toxic work environment became my catalyst enabling me to get myself off my nail and changing my situation. I also highlight some deep questions for us to reflect on so we can transcend from the victim mentality to victor mindset and so much more!
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"Loving ourselves is not a choice" - Khadija Mohamud
When I was younger, I always wondered what was it that the people I looked up to did differently that made them stand out and be the successful people they were. When I talk about success, I mean the success of this dunya and the akhirah! I knew I wanted to become like them so I spent a decade of my life understanding and learning the mindset and habits the people I looked up to had that accelerated their lives into the fulfilling lives they had.
So today's episode is a solo round with me where I discuss the life lessons and habits I learnt that transformed my life into ultra productivity. I talk about how I strengthened my 'faith muscle and overcoming the fear of uncertainty and failure', how I learnt to manage emotions, how I built my 'take action muscle', 'self discipline muscle', learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, the power of community, self love and care is not a choice. I also discuss the strategies I recommend for thriving and living a fulfilling life In Sha Allah regardless of who you are and where you are at in your life and so much more!
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"Even if you believe your child comes first, how can you give them something that you don't have anymore?" - Firdous AlHaddad
A growing number of research studies have illustrated how being in nature helps reduce stress, anxiety and promotes good mental and physical health wellbeing. One study conducted in Japan and China in 2017 on cancer patients who immersed themselves in nature for a prolonged period, a process known as 'forest bathing' found that being in nature enhanced their anti-cancer proteins and eventually enabled them to heal from their ailment (Hansen et al., 2017). Another study conducted in the UK in 2019 on a group of 20,000 people with half of the group spending two hours a week in greenspaces (spread out or in one go) and the other half were not indicated that those who spent the two hours in nature improved their mental and physical health wellbeing (White et al., 2019). Greater exposure to nature is not only associated with improved mental and physical health wellbeing in research, but many people myself included and my guest today have had personal experience of the healing benefits of nature therapy!
My guest today is Firdous AlHaddad, a Muslim Nature Adventurer who hikes and explores nature with her five children and a fellow dendrophile. A dendrophile is a person who loves trees.
In this episode, Firdaus shares her journey of becoming a nature enthusiast and dendrophile and her experience of hiking and nature adventures with five children. She also discusses her experience of motherhood and shares techniques that helped her to heal from postpartum 'baby blues' and tips that continue to help her refuel and fill her cup to enable her serve her family at her best version.
This is a must listen if you are a mother or planning to be one soon In Sha Allah. Even if you are not a mother, there are a lot of powerful nuggets that will help prepare you for that journey when you become one In Sha Allah!
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"Divorce, my impetus for spiritual and emotional rebirth"- Rayesa Gheewala
Divorce is ranked the second most traumatic life event after the death of a loved one. No one goes into a marriage imagining that it will one day end, yet this is the case for many women in our Ummah. This is one of those triggering topics for many, often less talked about and little support is available. As a result, many Muslim women are navigating through the painful process on their own. But it does not have to be this way anymore!
My guest today is Rayesa Gheewala. Rayesa is a Divorced Muslimah Coach who solely focuses on supporting Muslim women experiencing the painful process of a divorce to enable them get back on their feet and reinvent themselves.
In this episode Khadija and Rayesa discuss how to transform Breakdowns to Breakthroughs using the inside-out paradigm which focuses on fixing our relationship with Allah and the self and share their experiences. Rayesa opens up about the painful process she underwent having to let go of her long-standing 17 year marriage and her children and how it became an opportunity for her rebirth, reconnecting with Allah, finding herself and her mission.
We also discuss taking 100% absolute personal responsibility for our choices and decisions, not blaming anything and anyone, decision-making guided by logic rather than feelings and whims, finding the blessings wrapped in thorns when going through a hardship or adversity, healing, rebirth, transforming pain into power and finding our mission, divorce is not an ending but a spiritual and emotional rebirth and so much more!
Having experienced divorce myself, I couldn't agree more!
This is a must listen if you or someone you know is experiencing this challenging situation. Even if you are not going through a divorce, there are a lot of powerful nuggets to learn. It is time to see divorce as an opportunity for spiritual and emotional rebirth as it is and get the support to thrive and transform the pain into power!
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In this final episode on the webinar on Building Resilience in the midst of Chaos and Uncertainty, we address the questions that were raised in the session and hope the responses are beneficial to you too our lovely listeners.
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In this fourth episode, Saleha Shaikh a Content Writer who focuses on human behaviour and personality development in the light of the Quran and the Prophetic teachings discusses what false attachments are, how they sabotage us and how to break free from them by filling the vessels in our soul with the right Being, Allah, having tawakkal (reliance in God) and placing everything in their right place so we do not lose ourselves in the process. By taking this inside out approach, we build the resilience and faith muscles.
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" You can't solve what you don't know"
In this third episode, Khadija Mohamud demonstrates how our mind, body and soul are all interconnected and emphasise that the band aid model of treating one symptom after another does not give us any tangible results but keeps us stuck in the cycle. Khadija discusses how our thoughts create our reality and show how things shift when we create new beliefs and provides her own personal experience of how she got to the root of what was causing pain and suffering in her life demonstrating how she underwent a spiritual cellular awakening with this concept enabling her to transform her life drastically to the beautiful abundant fulfilling life with purpose she is living now Alhamdulillah.
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In this second episode Sasha-Gay Brown, a Mental Health and Trauma Advisor provides an understanding into how trauma experienced in early years of life shapes our worldview and experience of the world. She discusses the root of what causes the problems we encounter later in life as teenagers and adults and issues in all our relationships (all the Ships), how we can heal and break free from the shackles of the past and transcend from victimhood to consciousness to build healthier meaningful relationships and experiences of life.
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This is a four part series from the interactive webinar on Building Resilience and Emotional Agility in the midst of uncertainty and chaos conducted in June 2021 with Sasha-Gay Brown, a Trauma Advisor who provides training and resources to schools in the UK on trauma and attachment, Saleha Sheikh, an Instagram Content Writer and our host Khadija Mohamud, a Mindset and Spiritual Resilience Coach whose professional expertise is in Life Skills Development, has experience in Behaviour Change interventions and is an expert by experience in Resilience Building.
In this first episode Khadija introduces resilience and discusses four aspects of resilience; mental, spiritual, physical and social resilience. Khadija also discusses the things that get in the way of our resilience and illustrates it through an example case-study. The episode concludes with an interactive session where the audience were asked to create their own example case-study illustrating the things that are blocking resilience building!
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