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Blossoming
Salima's reflections on 2022
Salima Versi
Dec 29, 20228 min read
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You Can’t Plan Your Breakdowns
You can't plan your breakdowns, even when you're a therapist. And sometimes, the break happens for the most unexpected of reasons...
Salima Versi
Mar 10, 20226 min read
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Breaking Up with my First Love
It was a rude awakening but make no mistake, I am awake now.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20224 min read
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A Patch of Sunshine & a Cup of Chocolate
Those glimpses of beauty, that single ounce of real love, can be enough to keep us here, and that’s as good a reason as any...
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20224 min read
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Faith is My Fuel: Reflections on Faith, Race, and the Grace that Keeps Us Going
In case it hasn’t been clear up until this point, let me say it explicitly now - Black lives matter.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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A String of Pearls
For me, Eid is a time of family and food, laughter and love... But one the most consistent features of Eid for me is gratitude.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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The Courage to be Imperfect
I’m trying to listen to my own advice and practice what Adler calls the courage to be imperfect. And it does take courage.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20226 min read
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Feeling a Prayer - Reframing Dhikr on the Night of Power
Dhikr allows us to recollect that purpose, to remember and seek to know Allah, to walk towards Him rather than away from Him.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20228 min read
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as-Sirat al-Mustaqim
This week represents an ongoing fulfillment of the promise inherent in Allah’s name, al-Hadi, the Guide, which is today’s snowflake.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20227 min read
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Paradise at Your Feet
The other day, a client wished me happy Mother’s Day, and thanked me for the work I do in mothering her and my other clients.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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Community in the Time of Corona
This crisis has been a testament to both the power of community and the dangers that present themselves when our sense of community fails.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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The Next Right Thing
When I first saw Frozen II, I was absolutely unprepared for a story about reconciliation.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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My Religion is Not for Self-Harm
The simple phrase – “my religion is not for self-harm” – can become a beacon of sorts, a reminder.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20226 min read
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What We Can Bear
Today’s snowflake is al-Sabur, the Patient One. And it’s got me thinking about patience, and about a particular verse of the surah al-Baqara
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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Allah Affirmations and Anne of Green Gables
For a lot of us, self-love is a hard thing.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20225 min read
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Allah’s Answers
I still believe, at a fundamental level, that Allah answers our prayers. I believe that Allah hears us and responds.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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Rahma, Ramadan, & Rainbows
I have always found Rahma to be an especially potent truth during Ramadan.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20224 min read
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Data, Despair, and the Dying of the Light
Coming to terms with the reality that we are brief, flickering candles in the vastness of the universe is a difficult, terrible thing.
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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Rahma as Radical Resistance
Ramadan has arrived. In my world, Ramadan has always been one of he most important times of the year - a time for reflection, for...
Salima Versi
Feb 22, 20228 min read
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