A few months ago, our Purify Your Gaze community was blessed to have Dr. Hakim Archuletta speak to us about trauma and how to overcome it. Dr. Hakim is a convert to Islam from the 70s and specializes in the traditional sciences of Homeopathy or becoming a Hakim and in trauma therapy. He has over …
My boss had invited me to a farewell lunch for a colleague who had been promoted and would be leaving for better prospects. While we waited for our food, my colleagues started sharing the stories of their youth, when “they did not know any better” and their generation was “bad”. Then one of my colleagues …
Br. Mubeen had 9 months of sobriety and he was really struggling at his work. The company he was working for was performing a review of all of the different employees, and when it was his time to get reviewed by his manager, he started to panic in a way that was irrational, and he …
A lot of people are stuck in shame, despair and disgust over their sexual sins that they have been engaging in for years. They also feel unworthy in the sight of Allah and feel hung up on the ayahs that speak about purity, such as “Impure women are for impure men, and impure men are …
Do you find yourself watching a particular theme of pornography or acting out to certain fetishes, and at the same time you’re not sure why you are so enamored by them? This article explains how unresolved trauma can be the connection you’re missing.
One of the underlying issues that often drive addictions are relationship wounds. These wounds are formed earlier on in a person’s life and are carried on well into adult life, where the person is not able to relate and connect with others around them, and where they often keep everyone at an arm’s length. These …
Do you consider yourself “damaged goods” because you have been acting out on your unwanted sexual behaviors for so long? The phrase, “damaged goods,” is powerful in of itself, because it holds so much weight on you that it may actually be hindering you from healing from your unwanted behaviors. It may be keeping you …
Discover how unresolved childhood trauma and abuse can lead to a pornography addiction in this heartfelt casestudy about a Hafidh of the Qur’an.
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