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Salima Versi
- Mar 10, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min
Breaking Up with my First Love
It was a rude awakening but make no mistake, I am awake now.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 6 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 8 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 7 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
The Next Right Thing
When I first saw Frozen II, I was absolutely unprepared for a story about reconciliation.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 6 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
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
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
Allah Affirmations and Anne of Green Gables
For a lot of us, self-love is a hard thing.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
Allah’s Answers
I still believe, at a fundamental level, that Allah answers our prayers. I believe that Allah hears us and responds.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min
Rahma, Ramadan, & Rainbows
I have always found Rahma to be an especially potent truth during Ramadan.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
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.
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Salima Versi
- Feb 22, 2022
- 8 min
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...
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