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The Healing Journey is Not a Game

Majnooni Confessions
4 min readMar 16, 2017

This isn’t love and light; it’s facing fear, pain and your worst nightmares in the shadows where you’re at your most vulnerable. Are you ready to play?

A red heart shaped candle surrounded by green stones.

I didn’t have a plan B when I quit the job that was soul sucking my life away. I just didn’t have a choice. I wanted change but I wasn’t ready to change. It didn’t matter whether I was ready or not, I had to go with the flow of the Universe because she knows best and she had already chose for me.

The same thing that I warn people of, that the healing journey is not one to be taken lightly, is the same thing tripping me up right now. You never know where this journey will take you. You have to be open minded and open hearted to any and all possibilities. If there’s one thing I want to teach it is that. Often when we don’t leave our comfort zones willingly, we are forcibly removed from them in a painful and surprising way. Regardless of who you are and where you’re at, you have to take that L with grace and dignity.

Spiritual expansion is the goal. Not worldy expansion and acquisition of material wealth and comfort. Although that is a nice reward and desired outcome. Spiritual self development doesn’t always look pleasant and pretty and like something someone would want to do. You have to go through the painstaking work of peeling back the veils of illusion in search of personal truth for…

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Majnooni Confessions
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Welcome to Majnooni Confessions! I am Amira, a paradigm shifter enabling new realities on Earth through the creation of art and media that appeals to me.

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hi nadia — thanks for sharing this. i’m part of the online pub, muslim women speak. we have a call out now for stories of healing/trauma. we’d love to feature your work (again!). would you be interested in publishing with us? i’m at hilal.isler (gmail) & twitter (@hilalisler). thanks!