Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, MWM recruits momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Mommying While Muslim
Naseeha Mental Health and Meeting Teen Needs
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Summayah Poonah joins us today to talk about an important resource to assist our Muslim teens’ mental health needs. She is Head of Operations at Naseeha Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting communities and individuals in their journey towards positive mental health and wellbeing. Did ya’ll even know that there is a hotline for Muslim teens to call or text a counselor 7 days a week no matter where they live? Yes, that’s Naseeha! Why is a safe space like this necessary, and what can we do to support our teens? Research has shown that mainstream resources often cannot understand the cultural backgrounds of our kids’ families of origin, and what they don’t know can hurt our kids.
Muslim teens have indicated they’re FIVE TIMES as likely to feel depressed this year, but only about 20% are accessing mental health care in person or electronically. They’re FOUR TIMES as likely to hurt themselves—this is a Muslim public mental health emergency.
We talk coping, crisis, confidentiality, and continued support that Naseeha has been offering since 2007. It’s a gem in our midst we need to grow, especially during these times when our older sets are suffering, some in silence.
Break the silence. Break the stigma. Help our teens use Naseeha’s free phone-based peer support counseling, group counseling sessions, and psychoeducational workshops for racialized youth.
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- Naseeha website: https://naseeha.org/about-us/#meettheteam
- Naseeha IG: @1866naseeha
- Naseeha hotline: 1-866-627-3342 call or text FREE and CONFIDENTIAL 7 days/week from 12-9 pm EST
- Help Naseeha help others! https://naseehaus.kindful.com/
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- Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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