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  • My Favorite Dua (Prayer)

    “O Lord. Make my tongue wholesome. Guide my heart aright and draw spite out of my bosom”. This is one of my favorite duas. I say it daily, and especially when things are a little trying. I love that there is a dua/prayer that gets it just right. Make my tongue wholesome so that I…

  • Coffee and Anxiety

    I read an article about the link between coffee and Anxiety, and it changed my life. As kids, we weren’t allowed to have caffeine. I started drinking coffee during my undergrad, up to 4 cups/day. In my twenties, I went through some years of trauma. My memory became like a sieve, my thoughts whizzing at…

  • Happy New Year! I honestly don’t know what to say for New Year’s. I fulfilled one of my biggest dreams (to publish my first novel) in 2025. I also got to visit 3 new countries in 2025. Yet 2025 has still felt like a hard year. I think it has for many people across the…

  • To All the Men I Know: It is OK to Cry

    Please stop telling boys that “Men Don’t Cry”. When you tell boys that it is not OK to cry, you are instead making them suppress their pain. You are encouraging the rhetoric, even if you don’t use the words, that it is OK for Men to get angry, but is not OK for them to…