????????? for weekly self-growth videos ?✨ Support me ? - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/uhreej/ What do you do when the belief structures that held your reality and life together begin to crumble? How do you cope with the realization that maybe the belief systems you grew up with your whole life aren’t the ultimate truth? Whether that belief structure concerns the trust you had in a religion or the trust that you had in your society’s overarching systems - it doesn’t matter. The unraveling of any form of perceived reality can be extremely destabilizing. When nobody can give you an accurate and concise answer of what the truth is, when there are SO many “truths” floating around, each with a devoted group of believers, how can you figure out which one to pick? In this video, I share the insight that I have uncovered after leaving Islam 4 years ago and struggling with this very situation. There is no one perceivable truth. With each of our unique life experiences, we interpret a different truth to our external reality. There IS one absolute truth, but we as human individuals, with our limited range of consciousness, can only perceive a small slice of it. We may share a part of our slice with others, but not all of it. How can you uncover your own personal slice? Listen to your intuition/inner guidance! Only YOU can know your truth because only YOU can have the experiences that you have. Don’t let anybody else dictate what your truth is. Reclaim your power! Reality is more fluid than you think… what we believe is what we perceive! Choose your thoughts wisely. Your thoughts create your beliefs which then determine how you perceive the events in your life and therefore how you FEEL. Thoughts alone create happiness! –SOCIAL MEDIA– Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/areege.c/ –GOODREADS– Check out what I’m currently reading, what I have read, and the books I highly recommend! + Send me a message about what you’re reading so we can discuss! (Had to shorten the link because the original one was directing to a different profile) https://bit.ly/2H9ZxKv ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omrDJdeYyxI

????????? for weekly self-growth videos ?✨ 1:1 Coaching Program - http://areegechaudhary.com/ Support me ? - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/uhreej/ Context: Since I’ve moved back to Toronto from university, I have been trying my absolute best to heal the relationship between my parents and I. Opening up regular communication again, visiting home every couple of weeks - I did the best I could, making sure that I wasn’t over exerting myself. It seemed to be going really well, and I truly did enjoy feeling like I was sort of part of the family again. Last October (2019), my mom came to Garett and I with a proposition - get a nikkah, an Islamic marriage, and you will be fully welcome in the family again. My first reaction to this was “oh yeah, of course, let’s just do it”. I wanted so badly to fix everything that I completely ignored that little nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me that this wasn’t really the solution - it was just a bandaid. Yes, we could easily say a couple of words aloud and get an Islamic marriage, but wouldn’t that open up another form of a double life? Wouldn’t my family then expect Garett and I to publicly label ourselves as Muslims, and express ourselves as such? This was exactly what I didn’t want and I already had spent so much energy escaping from such dishonesty in the past. Despite this, I told my family that we would do it, although I kept procrastinating on taking any actual action. Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago, my mum messages me really angrily about my videos. She’s upset that I used the word abuse, such strong language, in the title of my last story time video to describe my experience growing up in our shared household. I felt very angry in response. What I experienced WAS emotional abuse, no matter how hard it is to hear, and I would not back down on telling my story. I cut communication with her, because I knew that we wouldn't be able to have a constructive conversation while both of us were in such unstable emotional states. A couple of days after receiving those invalidating texts from her, I wrote these letters and processed reality for what it actually is. My parents do not fully accept me for who I am yet, and that is fine, but I do not need to invite their negativity into my life. A few days after that, I called my mom. I was feeling better and felt that maybe there was a chance we could talk it all out and come to a compromise. I laid everything out on the table, and my mum was not happy. Although I am very public about my beliefs, I think my parents were still holding onto the hope that I would come around and accept Islam again. She asked me directly “Are you a Muslim?”. I told her “No”, and she replied something along the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbAoDXw5K1s