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Relationships
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Repair in the car, not at your mother's table: premarital counselling for Muslim couples in Ajax
Premarital counselling for Muslim couples in Ajax works best when it stops rehearsing agreement and starts rehearsing repair. Most couples I sit with do not come apart over big incompatibilities. They come apart over how an argument ends.…
Tarak Ahmed··10 min read
Stress & burnout
Self-esteem
Therapy approaches
Porn addiction in Muslim men isn't a weak-iman problem: what the timing of relapse tells me in Ajax
Porn addiction in Muslim men is usually a stress-regulation problem wearing religious clothing. In my Ajax practice, the urges cluster around identifiable pressures: sleepless nights, unstructured hours, conflict at home, loneliness after…
Tarak Ahmed··12 min read
Anxiety
Self-esteem
Relationships
What social anxiety looks like in Muslim young adults navigating dual-identity expectations in Ajax
Social anxiety in Muslim young adults often shows up as hypervigilance about how they're perceived across two cultural worlds: the fear of being "too Western" at the mosque and "too Muslim" at work or school. This dual-identity pressure…
Tarak Ahmed··8 min read