From Zakhm to Shifa

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From Zakhm to Shifa ("from wound to healing") is a weekly podcast for Muslim women and anyone healing. Gentle, honest conversations about pain, faith and rebuilding, rooted in the mercy of the Quran and the Sunnah. Topics include parental burnout, divorce and starting over, and guarding the tongue in community. New episode every Sunday. Free worksheets and resources: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev #MuslimWomen #Healing #MentalHealth #FromZakhmToShifa

  1. 1d ago

    S4 E7: The Pain of Giving Your Daughters the Softness You Never Got

    Why does giving your daughter the softness you never received sometimes feel like a betrayal of your own mother? In this episode we sit in one very ordinary kitchen moment — a girl says something to her mother that her mother would never have dared say — and we stay with the strange grief that arrives afterwards, when nobody is watching. We look at intergenerational transmission and at the parent who becomes steady on purpose rather than by inheritance, at the accusation that you are spoiling her or have forgotten where you came from, and at the fear of overcorrecting into a house with no boundaries at all. Through Surah Luqman and the documented gentleness of our Prophet ﷺ with his own grandchildren, this conversation makes room for a difficult truth: your mother parented with what she had, in circumstances you will never fully know — and you can honour her completely without inheriting her methods. #fromzakhmtoshifa #intergenerationaltrauma #muslimwomen #cyclebreaker #motherhood #gentleparenting #motherdaughter #healingjourney #muslimmothers #raisingdaughters

  2. Oct 12

    S4 E6: The Guilt of Therapy Working

    What if the hardest part of healing is not the pain — but the moment it starts working? In this episode we sit with the woman whose therapy has done exactly what it was supposed to do, and who is now being treated by her own family as though she has committed a betrayal. We look at the first calm no and the silence that followed it, at why families organised around one person's endless availability experience her recovery as an attack, and at the accusation that therapy has changed her, hardened her, or made her Westernised. Through the psychology of family homeostasis and a clear return to what our faith actually says about seeking treatment, this conversation names the loneliness of getting better in a system that preferred you unwell — and asks whether peace is worth buying back at the price of your own health. Hashtags (Up to 10) #fromzakhmtoshifa #familysystems #muslimwomen #therapyworks #boundaries #healingguilt #emotionalhealth #desifamilies #mentalhealthmatters #selfrespect If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e6/

  3. Oct 5

    S4 E5: Modesty Chosen Versus Modesty Inherited

    Have you ever put something back on the rail without being able to say what rule you were obeying? Many of us are carrying practices we have kept faithfully for decades and never once been permitted to examine — and the question of whether our modesty is our own conviction or a decision made for us at eleven years old feels dangerous to open in either direction. This episode is not about the garment. It is about the honesty of your relationship with it. We look at the difference between a value swallowed whole and a value genuinely made your own, why examining a practice can feel like it will destroy it, the fear of what your mother would feel and what the community would read into any change — and, through what our faith actually teaches about compulsion and about intention, the possibility that a practice questioned and then kept is stronger than one never questioned at all. No pushing, in either direction. Just permission to ask. Hashtags (Up to 10) #fromzakhmtoshifa #muslimwomen #hijabjourney #modesty #faithandidentity #introjection #identityformation #sincerity #muslimmentalhealth #healingjourney If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e5/

  4. Sep 29

    S4 E4: Competence as the Only Love Language Received

    Can you tell the difference between being loved and being relied upon? For some of us, the answer is genuinely no — because in the house we grew up in, love was real and enormous and almost never spoken. It came as food, as school fees, as worry dressed up as instruction. And a child in that house learns something quietly devastating: that being useful is the price of belonging. This episode sits with the woman who has never been praised for anything except what she produced. We look at why a quiet weekend or an empty inbox can produce something close to panic, how this shapes a marriage where she makes herself impossible to leave, and the friendships where she is valued but never checked on. Through the psychology of conditional regard and a careful return to what our faith actually teaches about mercy — that it comes before deeds and is never payment for them — we ask the question underneath it all: if I stopped being useful, would anyone stay? Hashtags (Up to 10) #fromzakhmtoshifa #conditionalregard #muslimwomen #peoplepleasing #emotionalhealing #selfworth #immigrantdaughters #overfunctioning #healingjourney #selfcompassion If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e4/

  5. Sep 21

    S4 E3: When her ambition outgrows his

    #fromzakhmtoshifa If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e3/

  6. Sep 14

    S4 E2: Recovering from Trauma — Supporting the Person Going Through It

    #fromzakhmtoshifa If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e2/

  7. Sep 7

    S4 E1: The Daughter Who Became the Emotional Parent

    #fromzakhmtoshifa If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s4e1/

  8. Aug 31

    The Woman Who Gave Until She Broke

    Nisa Helpline (Canada): 1-888-711-6472 — confidential support for Muslim women Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA): issacanada.org — Muslim counselling and community support I worked so hard at one of my gatherings that by the end of the night I had developed a fever and could not sit with my own guests. And the people I had exhausted myself for were in the other room making fun of me. This episode is about what happened next — and what I am still learning. Today I am speaking from my own experience. About what it means to be a naturally generous person who gets burned — badly, publicly, in your own home — and then has to figure out how to give again without becoming either a doormat or a wall. About the hardening that happens after that kind of wound. And about the slow, imperfect, still-not-finished process of opening back up. We talk about what Islam says about giving — the standard of giving for Allah rather than for approval or reciprocity, and the equal Islamic instruction not to ruin yourself with your own hands. We talk about what true friendship actually does when you are inside a wound. And we talk honestly about where I am now — still hesitant in some ways, still learning, but giving again. Trusting again. Slowly. The giving was right. It was always right. What other people do with it is between them and Allah. Give again. If this helped you, please leave a rating. It helps other women find us. More on this episode: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev/episodes/s3e24/

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From Zakhm to Shifa ("from wound to healing") is a weekly podcast for Muslim women and anyone healing. Gentle, honest conversations about pain, faith and rebuilding, rooted in the mercy of the Quran and the Sunnah. Topics include parental burnout, divorce and starting over, and guarding the tongue in community. New episode every Sunday. Free worksheets and resources: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev #MuslimWomen #Healing #MentalHealth #FromZakhmToShifa

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  • Creator
    Humera
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    77
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Humera
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