At This Point

Aisha

At This Point Podcast with Aisha is created to talk about daunting and taboo topics in nuanced ways including religion, spirituality, ADHD, dating, career paths, mental health, attachment theory, friendships, growing up and more. It is inclusive for all who are willing to listen despite all our differences and upbringings but to rather celebrate our commonalities and similarities as we all are trying to coexist.

Episodes

  1. 12/07/2022

    Episode 5: Positive Vs Negative Comparison ft Body Image

    In Today's episode we are talking all about comparison. I first open the discussion with speaking on jealousy, envy, and how they relate to comparison. I break this down by using the example of body image and how we can compare ourselves to one another in a positive light but also a negative one. Growing up as a Black Muslim women, when I watched western media or television, I never fit the beauty standard. I’m sure many of us can relate to internalizing western media and these standards of expectations of what we should look like, and it begins to subconsciously eat away and tamper at how we view ourselves. This then can plant a small seed of jealousy and envy because we are constantly seeing things that are praised and not fitting criteria EVEN IF you are confident in yourself. The environments we are in play a huge part in comparing ourselves and social media can be partially to blame. Even amongst hyping people up and spreading positivity on these applications we don’t see the damage even if we are not actively comparing ourselves. The true damage is when we leave these applications and our subconscious takes over and we start to pick apart things others may have and you don’t. We all have insecurities and it’s wether we give the power to them to make us insecure. This generation is a constant battle of living beyond our means, this is not just financially but also physically. We see things we want and we are never satisfied, it's a greedy society where we praise artificial beauty over natural beauty. Not to say either or is better than the other, but this constant desire that we ALL have to conform to societal expectations and standards because of these comparisons, is more damaging than any good. I suggest we all have the choice in what life we want to lead, what things we want to change but rather we have to work and build on the relationships we have with ourselves so we can turn all negative comparisons into positive comparisons in a way that works for US.

    31 min
  2. Episode 1: Content Creation Lacking Authenticity

    20/06/2022

    Episode 1: Content Creation Lacking Authenticity

    In today's first episode I talk about how content creation is lacking authenticity alongside discussions about how content creation should not have limits and shouldn't only focus on a singular niche. I started this podcast because when I started my healing journey I decided to delete all my social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat) and start to reconnect with myself and the world around me away from those platforms. It's crazy that it has now been 6 months and I've learned so much in the short period of time. This is where I recognized we as a society now lack authenticity wether that be in the media we consume or the content that we put out. We are so focused on making sure our pictures are face-tuned and perfect or that it fits a specific colour scheme that we forget what it was like to post a picture unedited, raw and real. Why is that we over post, overshare and are seemingly our "most authentic selves" on private stories and spam accounts and not our main posting platforms? Today's episode unpacks this along with calling this new social media marketing strategy of limiting ourselves to one niche a bunch of BS. As someone who has ADHD, and as a human being at that, we all are multifaceted and have various passions and niches so why must we confine to just one? Growing up as kids we were told to try EVERYTHING yet now stepping into young adulthood we are told to only choose ONE profession, one niche, one singular hobby. Stop limiting yourself based on the opinions of others and start what ever it is you are passionate about in the most authentic way possible.

    52 min

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At This Point Podcast with Aisha is created to talk about daunting and taboo topics in nuanced ways including religion, spirituality, ADHD, dating, career paths, mental health, attachment theory, friendships, growing up and more. It is inclusive for all who are willing to listen despite all our differences and upbringings but to rather celebrate our commonalities and similarities as we all are trying to coexist.