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Stories with DaniaJoy of Nature & Talking to AllahWhile on my walk to the park with Yusuf I realised how joyful connecting to nature brings me, and how it’s so needed for mental health, especially with consumerism screaming at every corner. Sometimes just being on a patch of grass looking up at the sky is the soul’s answer. Another mind clarifier for me has been talking to Allah, and I don’t mean duas, I mean literally talking to Allah about anything and everything like one would a friend, because honestly Allah is the ultimate friend so why not? It makes complete sense, but I guess growin...2024-05-1305 minStories with DaniaEp 10: Allowing Experimentation & Imperfection in the Creative Process (a very rambling and episode)This is a very rambling episode about allowing myself to experiment, explore and be curious about my creative practice, and shed a rigid mindset. I hope this helps!2024-01-1206 minStories with DaniaEp 9: Let Go & Have Faith in the Creative Outcome!A short unscripted episode on letting go of obsessions, worries of the future and having faith it will work out! Whatever creative project you’re doing, keep doing it and change the worrying habit into faith that the future outcome is out of your hands. It frees up a lot of mental space. I also talk about pausing and meditating before creating anything, I’ve been trying it and it helps with the ‘flow’. The meditative exercise I’ve taken from the book ‘The Magic of Drawing’ by Cliff Wright, an amazing illustrator who illustrated the second and third Harry Potter book. D...2023-09-1105 minStories with Dania‘My Obsession with Hands’ 🤲🏿👐🏻🙌🏽👊🏾👏🏿✊🏽🤟🏻👌🏽🖕🏽✍🏼✍🏼👋🏿🙏🏽Hi! This is the 8th episode! I am slowly getting back into this and in this episode I talk about my obsession with hands and a quote that I read from an anthropologist when I was doing my research into it. 😄 I’d rather be obsessing over things other than what’s going on in my brain on a daily basis! 😂 stay tuned for more episodes like this which hopefully will be longer. Talk to you all very soon ❤️2022-03-2206 minStories with DaniaCreating with Anxiety ‼️🎨Hi! Welcome back to another episode. It’s been a loooong while as usual! This episode is an anxious rant 😶 which turns into how I faced my anxiety & fear and created something, and that has never been easy for me. As long as I’ve known I’ve experienced anxiety. Debilitating, freezing anxiety. As a creative, in those moments I freeze, I stop creating, I hyper fixate and obsess, and I can’t stop thinking. But I’m trying something new now. I’m learning how to create, write, draw and work on anything when I’m right in the middle of an anxi...2021-10-2805 minStories with DaniaAn Empowering Interview with Chanah Wainer 💪🏽Excited beyond words for this episode in which my lovely guest was Chanah Wainer. This was such an empowering, uplifting and positive conversation, in which we explored education, self love, modes of thinking that SERVE you, and how planting a small seed can transform your entire life. :) Do not miss this one, by the end of the hour & 15 mins (I know it’s long but it’s soooo worth it) you will feel motivated and recharged in your mind, body and spirit! About Chanah Wainer: Chanah Wainer is an Education Consultant and the Founder & Host of Artists of Change, a podc...2021-09-131h 19Stories with DaniaSlowly Letting Go of What People Think Of YouIt’s been a looong time since the last episode and finally we’re here! I’ve been meaning to talk about this for quite a while. Letting go of what other people think can seem like an impossible task. More often than not we are deeply concerned and affected by the words of others and what they might be ‘thinking’ or ‘saying’ about us. Yes, I’ve been there. This can really get out of hand when we ‘pause’ our life because of it or we change who we are to please others. It’s a long journey of accepting ourselves an...2021-09-0210 minStories with DaniaA Meditative ReminderA meditative reminder I wrote to myself in my diary many moons ago and I thank past Dania for this. ❤️2021-08-0600 minStories with DaniaHow Failure is really a SuccessHi! Ironically I thought this was a ‘fail’ episode and was not going to post it. Under the pursuit of perfection, the critic within me had really stopped me from posting this for a while, but I realised how hypocritical that was when I literally talk about making mistakes, and allowing imperfection. So here it is, my thoughts and experiences so far with ‘failing’ and how I’m slowly leaning into it more these days. Tune in, and let me know what you think of this episode on my Instagram @storieswithdania! I’ll be talking more about my personal stories in the comin...2021-07-3011 minStories with DaniaAn Open Conversation about Mental Health with Tasmiah Aziz (Taz Talks)Welcome to the second episode! One of the reasons why I started this podcast was because of listening to an inspiring honest story from Tasmiah Aziz during her Taz Talks on stage at Giant Dwarf Theatre on 22nd of May. Tasmiah connected with my own journey of mental health, the stigma in desi families and how to find the right therapist. I was in awe of how she could stand on stage vulnerably and connect with her story with each of us. It mentally clicked with me that day that owning my story is something I’ve wanted to do fo...2021-07-0646 minStories with DaniaStories with Dania: First Episode Ever!Hi, I’m Dania and this episode is basically a warm up and a very quick introduction of what is expected in this podcast. So join me as I test the waters and start my very first episode! When I said goofy I really meant it. I just ended this episode with ‘Hope to see you soon’. *facepalm* (I shall get over this cringe) I was nervous but now that I’ve faced my fear, we shall begin.2021-07-0103 min