Personal Stories

Read through personal reflections and stories posted by users like yourself and provide your supportive comments to help them turn their stones into bridges.

Or click here to submit your "You're Not Alone" post and find friends who can help you build a stronger bridge.

Seeking Guidance and Support: Struggling with Abuse, Trauma, and Seeking Spiritual Healing (3)

I’m feeling incredibly lost. I know that life is an obligation towards Allah’s cause (fi sabilillah), but, oh God, the trials are so painful and burdensome. I can’t imagine living without being on His path, but honestly, I’m traumatized by the severe tests I face while on this path. It’s not because of the choices ... Read More

No way out?

Assalamu alaikum sister. Im 14 female. Im sorry if I’m bothering you by sending letters daily, if you’re bothered Please tell me so that I can stay away from asking all the time. Actually I bottle my emotions up. I got none to express it but allah Like Ibrahim [alaihi salam] . I only had a notebook ... Read More

Please help

“I need help dealing with my mother and her toxicity but just don’t know how.” ==== The sister also submitted the following post, which one of our “Fatima” counselors will be providing a response to soon. This information below is being provided since the sister has given additional context regarding her post above. Please ... Read More

Struggle and Bad Everywhere

Salam everyone. I’m struggling with a hard time in my life. I’m a teenager and I feel like everything is coming out at once, every obstacle. For one thing, my parents fight every night, then they fight with me, etc. My mother shouts everyday for no reason at all, maybe a dirty dish here and ... Read More

Balance

Hey everyone, I recently posted about my homosexuality but I just love this website and I wanna say that this will NOT be my last time posting! I have some additional comments on my homosexuality. I feel like I missed some points in my earlier post so I am just going to talk about them here. ... Read More

Am I lesbian?…..

Hello everyone, I am writing this because I have bottled this for soooo long that I can no longer keep it inside. I feel like I might not be interested in the guys for marriage due to my attraction to women. The problem is that I practice my religion very strictly and it is wrong ... Read More

Men

I need to stop being so suspicious of men in my assumptions that they’re going to hurt me. In my eyes, any man has the potential to be abusive, even the ones I trust wholeheartedly. I see it as only a matter of time before they snap, before they assault me, which makes me ache ... Read More

Denial

Sometimes we grow blind to the horror of our own experiences because we survived them. We no longer feel them. We become muted to our own torture. Yet when we share these abuses with others, their reactions are surprising. We are amazed that anyone could consider our trials to have been horrific. We are shocked when ... Read More

The little girl who survives..

There was a girl when she was like 5 or 6, she was wronged by her neighbour who was so kind to her family.. his age was about her fathers age. For so many evenings or noon, he lured her to some quiet place sometimes in his house and did his disgusting thing to her . ... Read More

Why can’t I just break out?

I have been dealing with depression and aniety my entire life. I started noticing signs of ocd when I was 8 years old but didnt realize what was wrong with me,and since I have parents who were too busy to pay attention I realized for myself why I had to repeat things over and over ... Read More

1 2 3 »