The World Health Organization (WHO) recently sounded the alarm regarding what it termed a global epidemic of loneliness. The opening statement of its June 2025 report stated, “The facts are …
In Allah’s Remembrance: How Dua Functions as Dhikr
This is the first article in a series entitled “Under the Throne of Allah: Dua and Dhikr.” Allah says, “When My servant asks you about Me, I am near.” Truly, …
Is It Abuse? Identifying the Signs of an Emotionally Abusive Spouse
I have a friend who was married for nearly a decade when her husband asked for a divorce. At the time she had three young children, was a stay-at-home mom, …
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
In my last article, I delved into resilience and bouncing back after adversity. But how can we bounce back if we are unmotivated and have low self-esteem and poor confidence? …
To Be Grateful
We always want more. Isn’t that the fundamental human experience? Always feeling inadequate, unfulfilled, like something’s missing. We could have the whole world and everything in it, and it still …
Fostering Prosocial Behavior in Our Children
In the field of developmental psychology, researchers highlight two critical objectives in parenting. The first revolves around helping our children learn prosocial behavior — using words and actions aimed at …
Healthy Habits and Self-Care
If we have learned anything in 2020, it is the importance of taking care of ourselves, whether it is physically, mentally, spiritually, or socially. There have been challenges that nobody …
Psychological and Emotional Well-Being
I sat across from a client who was telling me the power that salat ul-istikhara had on her, and it demonstrated in real-life terms what Islam teaches us — that …
Labeling Children as Learning-Disabled: Offsetting the Potential Harm
According to the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report to Congress by the U.S. Department of Education in 2010, as many as one out of five people in the U.S. has a learning …
Want Your Child to Grow in Confidence, Maturity, and Responsibility?
Want Your Child to Grow in Confidence, Maturity, and Responsibility? Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “Make [things] easy, not difficult…” (Bukhari). He (pbuh) also said, “Woe to those who exaggerate [who …