Re: My Lecture to the Muslim ... @ Lin & Marteen:-)

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@ Lin:-)

jazakallah khair for your comments Lin. That is very kind of you. I really

appreciate it:-)

@ Marteen:-)

hehehe @ your 1st and 2nd thought:-)

I really wanted to video tape it, because i wanted to send it to my dad (who is

a longtime depression suffrer & my younger brother, who was recently diagnosed

with MS) but since this was my first time, at someone's house , i was nervous

becoz i wasn't sure exactly what would be captured in that video tape, whether

it was me lecturing, or me having a panic attack;-), also the other reason,

being the first time, the muslim sisters would open up in between the lecture

(which did happen) and they would not want that to be videotaped.

BUT, i plan on doing a continuation, and that will be at our community

center/mosque, and it will be larger scale, and i am hoping that i can videotape

that and let the sisters know the question answer session can be in the end, so

they choose if they wannna speak up, or just pass on a note to me.

As far as blog:-), i wish i could marteen. There's sooooo much i wish i could

do, but i have little kids, plus my husband doesn't like me spending time away

from him and kids when he is home. So basically when he's not, i am running

around my littele kids, when he's home, i am running around all 3 of them:-). I

see this group and all these members with such incredible knowledge of ACT, and

sooo many books they have read and are so articulate in their speech,

masha'allah it's inspiring, and i keep wishing to myself ,ya allah, if only i

had the time to sit down and finish reading just 1 book.

sorry marteen i digress

what i do have plans on doing is sometime in the future, post on youtube. my

husband is extremely supportive, alhamdulillah, but he comes from a conservative

family (raised in the middle east), and i have to make sure i don't offend my

inlaws and their family when i do somthing like this. If i can start with trying

to make people realize mental suffering is not abnormal, then i can slowly get

my way through and start opening up to a larger community.

My husband is affiliated with all the mainstream major american- muslim

organizations in the US, so it is comparitively easier for me to get a chance to

reach out to the muslim community here.

In Nov. there is an event (mixed gathering, male/female) here with 2 Muslim

licensed MFT's, and my husband said i could get a chance to speak there as well.

The audience will not be 20, it could be anywhere between 100 to 400, i really

want to, as my purpose is to reach out and not to 'educate', but i can't deny

that makes me extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely nervous too:-)

jazakallah khair for your email marteen

wasalaam:-)

> >

> > Thank you for sharing the outcome. It sounds like you did well and so

> did the group. They will never suffer as long if they just remember your

> talk. Quite an acomplishment. They are definetly interested and with

> good questions.Questions they have all had but no where to ask before.

> > Lin