Optimizing Emotional Resilience & Navigating Stress | Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad

Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad gives comforting spiritual and practical tips in this mental wellness workshop called “How to Deal with Stress and Optimize Your Resilience.”
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Emotional resilience is a trait that needs to be learned and developed to help humanity reach their utmost potential, especially when dealing with adversity. Many of us experience quite stressful situations, and we need to be familiar with how to handle these (minor or major) challenges with the utmost grace and strength.
Through prayer and learning from our teachers, we can learn how to grow from adversity, and to turn potentially negative events into positive ones.
In this workshop, we learn:
- how to develop the right attitude towards stressful encounters;
- how to perceive how you are really feeling and why;
- the difference between events within our control and events out of our control & how this relates to trust in Allah Most High;
- how to develop a more optimistic view of the world;
- where to find suitable social support in difficult times;
- the importance of humor and exercise, and;
- how to keep going when one feels like quitting altogether.
This talk was delivered on November 13, 2021 as courtesy of SeekersGuidance Canada. This talk was delivered via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California,
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Recordings of talks and workshops that Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad has delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay in Pleasanton, CA.
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Ustadha Rania Awaad
Raised in the U.S., Ustadha Rania Awaad began her formal study of the traditional Islamic sciences when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus, Syria, at 14. Her desire to continue studying the Deen resulted in multiple trips back to Damascus, interspersed between her high school, college, and medical studies. She was honored to receive Ijaazah (authorization to teach) several branches of the Shari’ah sciences at the hands of many renowned scholars, including many female scholars. She has received Ijaazah to teach Tajwid in the Hafs and Warsh recitations from the late eminent Syrian scholar Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. In addition to completing several advanced texts of the Shafi’i madhhab, she is licensed to teach texts of Maliki fiqh, Adab and Ihsan. Currently, Ustadha Rania teaches online and local classes for The Rahmah Foundation, Rabata, and is on the faculty of Zaytuna College, where she teaches courses in Shafi’i fiqh, women’s issues in fiqh, and has helped develop and co-direct the Tajweed and Hifz program.
Ustadha Rania is also a medical doctor with a specialty in Psychiatry. She completed her Psychiatric residency and fellowship training at Stanford University, where she is currently on the faculty as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department. Her medical interests include addressing mental health care concerns in the Muslim community- particularly that of Muslim women and girls. She has been awarded grants from the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) to conduct research on this topic and has presented her findings at several medical conferences. Other ongoing endeavors include compiling manuscripts addressing female-related mental health and medical issues from a fiqh-oriented perspective. She currently serves as the Director of the Rahmah Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches Muslim women and girls traditional Islamic knowledge. In this capacity, she also heads the Murbbiyah Mentoring Program, which trains young women to teach and mentor Muslim girls and teens. Ustadha Rania is both a wife and a mother; she has been counseling and teaching women classes on Tajwid, Shafi’i Fiqh, Ihsan, marriage, and raising children since 1999.
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[@drjqadri]

Enjoyed your talk, Dr Rania. Indeed, our Deen is the most practical and beautiful way of life.

[@aidasjournal]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Dear sister Rania! Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah and MashaAllah this was a very great reminder/lecture/eye-opener/«lession». And you do not know this Dr. Rania, but your encouraging words with reminders (especially you being a female Dr. and MashaAllah, Tabarakallah and Allahumma Barik so good with your words. Allahu Alaam if you read this, but if in sha Allah you see this: know that your words during this video reminded me of Allah and got me to «snap out», make wudhu and pray (both Zohr and Asr, Subhanallah, cos the light here now is very short compared to in summer-time, MashaAllah) Jazakallahu khayran🤲 Salam from عأيدة

[@khadijaibar7652]

Alhamdulelah that He allowed me to be able to listen and process this wonderful talk.

[@sidlajis3115]

Tqvm. May Allah bless you always. ❤ from KL Malaysia

[@carolet.a.1104]

MashAllah such an enlightening session to say the least! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Jazakum Allah kull khair!!!

[@sufiahmed100]

As Salaam Alaakum. Masha Allah, mental health is a big problem, and most Muslims run from this subject.

[@sheriealey1061]

I learn so much listening to you. Thank you!

[@aidasjournal]

❤MashaAllah❤

[@fawziabheekhun2214]

Assalamo alaikoum Sister, I love your perspective of psychology. You mention Alberti, is he an Islamic scholar? Would you kindly give reference to his philosophy of spiritual enlightenment. Like you mention the normalisation of existential angst of life. I love the spiritual cognitive approach. I look forward to hear from beautiful sister of heart a calmness.❤

[@ustadahshazia4205]

Mashallah!!!

[@feiruzahmed7524]

Jazakallahu kheyr wabadal kheyr wajjannatul Naim

[@ramo4uuuu]

Perfekt erklärt das sogenanntr Abhöngigkeitsargument

[@zarosas8723]

❤

[@treectrice9180]

Beautiful explanation Dr Rania

[@ozlemnazik9856]

Masallah 🌷

[@zouzou6424]

Jazakoum Allah 2

[@saadiaally7718]

Subhanallah... jazakallahukhair, taqabball Allahu minkum wa minna wa Amal saaliheen... Believers must accentuate the positiveness of each other, not demean each other, subhanallah!!!! Ana uhubbuki fillah, ya Ustadha, Dr. Rania!!!

[@asifsheth7196]

I want to know how I should go about finding a Muslim therapist near me?

[@dawoodalam8659]

If you are not finding them try scheduling appointment with Solace where practicing muslim therapists are available