In the ongoing pursuit of spiritual exploration, it’s been my experience that the most impactful moments often come from being forced to abandon your comfort zone. Looking back, one of the most profound moments I experienced during my journey to spiritual discovery came when I spent one month living in an isolated ...
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How I Learned to Live and Finally Let Go After Columbine
Here are five powerful lessons I learned from surviving the Columbine mass shooting. Lesson 1--To practice radical self-love rather than project your own insecurities on others. Believe in yourself, in others and in the Universe, even though at times that belief may feel inauthentic. I promise you, it’s not. It is likely ...
Columbine–A Survivor’s Story of Powerful Self-Love
Being at Columbine High School during one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history has always been difficult for me to talk about openly. But now, almost 20 years later, I’ve learned how to move beyond my PTSD and use fear as fuel to tap into emotional healing. I was a freshman and the only Muslim at school. It was a ...
It’s All In Your Head-A Holistic Approach to Optimal Health
I believe in balance. And I believe you can find balance in your heart, body, mind, and spirit through holistic means. But how do we tap into balance and create abundance in our lives? It may seem impossible given everyday stress, personal challenges, work, school, family, friends… life gets in the way. The path I took to ...
How to go from Breakdown to Breakthrough at Any Age
Before I’d reached the age of 25 I’d been held at gunpoint more than once: 1--In the cafeteria during the first publicized American high school shooting--Columbine. 2--At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem during the second Palestinian/Israeli uprisal. 3--In Bali while helping impoverished Indonesian children. 4--At a checkpoint ...
What Near-Death Taught Me About Living
A near-death experience and, six months later, a devastating car wreck left me with significant head injuries, several broken bones, and little knowledge of how long it would take to fully recover--if that was even possible. At the time, neurologists told me that I would not be the same person post-recovery. I was given a ...