From Zakhm to Shifa ("from wound to healing") is a weekly podcast for Muslim women and anyone healing. Gentle, honest conversations about pain, faith and rebuilding, rooted in the mercy of the Quran and the Sunnah. Topics include parental burnout, divorce and starting over, and guarding the tongue in community. New episode every Sunday. Free worksheets and resources: fromzakhmtoshifa.pages.dev
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S4 E7: The Pain of Giving Your Daughters the Softness You Never Got
Why does giving your daughter the softness you never received sometimes feel like a betrayal of your own mother? In this episode we sit in one very ordinary kitchen moment — a girl says something to her mother that her mother would never have dared say — and we stay with the strange grief that arrives afterwards, when nobody is watching.
We look at intergenerational transmission and at the parent who becomes steady on purpose rather than by inheritance, at the accusation that you are spoiling her or have forgotten where you came from, and at the fear of overcorrecting into a house with no boundaries at all. Through Surah Luqman and the documented gentleness of our Prophet ﷺ with his own grandchildren, this conversation makes room for a difficult truth: your mother parented with what she had, in circumstances you will never fully know — and you can honour her completely without inheriting her methods.
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12 Oct 2026
S4 E6: The Guilt of Therapy Working
What if the hardest part of healing is not the pain — but the moment it starts working? In this episode we sit with the woman whose therapy has done exactly what it was supposed to do, and who is now being treated by her own family as though she has committed a betrayal.
We look at the first calm no and the silence that followed it, at why families organised around one person's endless availability experience her recovery as an attack, and at the accusation that therapy has changed her, hardened her, or made her Westernised. Through the psychology of family homeostasis and a clear return to what our faith actually says about seeking treatment, this conversation names the loneliness of getting better in a system that preferred you unwell — and asks whether peace is worth buying back at the price of your own health.
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5 Oct 2026
S4 E5: Modesty Chosen Versus Modesty Inherited
Have you ever put something back on the rail without being able to say what rule you were obeying? Many of us are carrying practices we have kept faithfully for decades and never once been permitted to examine — and the question of whether our modesty is our own conviction or a decision made for us at eleven years old feels dangerous to open in either direction.
This episode is not about the garment. It is about the honesty of your relationship with it. We look at the difference between a value swallowed whole and a value genuinely made your own, why examining a practice can feel like it will destroy it, the fear of what your mother would feel and what the community would read into any change — and, through what our faith actually teaches about compulsion and about intention, the possibility that a practice questioned and then kept is stronger than one never questioned at all. No pushing, in either direction. Just permission to ask.
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