Podcasts · The Digital Sisterhood

The Weight of Watching Eyes

2 May 2025 · 1 h 08 min · S5 E6

In today’s episode, we sit down with Sayema - a Muslim psychotherapist - for a deeply-personal story about the unseen costs of having our lives be too visible online. What began as a mission to offer healing and service turned into a slow, quiet unraveling under the weight of envy, burnout, and the spiritual harm of evil-eye.

Sayema’s story is raw, reflective, and shows her ultimately-redemptive journey of what happens when the healer via psychotherapy becomes the afflicted; and finds the cure not in the algorithm, but in the Quran, and from Al-Shifa, The One Who Heals.

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Host: Cadar Mohamud

Guest: Sayema Zulfeqar

Season lead Producer: Khweya Bezeid

Production Manager: Maaheen Khan-Bashir

Episode Producer: Nada Almoussa

Writer: Sara Emira & Cadar Mohamud

Sound Design: Youssef Douazou & Yahya Arfouai

Creative director & Cover Art illustrator: Wasima Farah

Ustadh Tim Humble’s Ruqyah Course:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuihjkTS1Xqhv9WB-epHOTXGWm7cCC4rL&si=K0dNkfC61QXKVQ-n

https://www.amauacademy.com/programs/how-to-perform-ruqyah-on-yourself-and-your-family

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7-Day Self-Ruqyah Detox Plan:

https://muhammadtim.com/ruqyah/7-day-detox

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Links in the notes 6

• https://www.barakahchicago.org/center
• https://muhammadtim.teachable.com
• https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuihjkTS1Xqhv9WB-epHOTXGWm7cCC4rL&si=K0dNkfC61QXKVQ-n
• https://www.amauacademy.com/programs/how-to-perform-ruqyah-on-yourself-and-your-family
• https://muhammadtim.com/ruqyah/7-day-detox
• https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices