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Unraveling the KnotsYour Hair and the Real You with Summayyah Ojibara-SadiqWhat if your natural hair journey could transform your mental well-being? In this revelatory episode, licensed therapist and natural hair advocate Summayyah Ojibara-Sadiq joins us to explore the profound connection between women’s hair (care) and mental health.For women navigating beauty standards, self-worth, and wellness, this conversation offers:How societal myths about “good hair” silently erode confidence and empowering strategies to reclaim your narrative.The surprising mental health impact of “bad hair days” and practical tools to reframe them.Candid insights on seeing our natural hair as a legacy, not a burden2025-05-1342 min
MHPN PresentsA Conversation About… Multidisciplinary Care: Rhetoric or Reality?In this episode, Dr Radhika Santhanam-Martin speaks with Dr Elly Scrine and Summayyah Olawunmi Sadiq-Ojibara to explore the complex realities practitioners face in delivering multidisciplinary care. They discuss the barriers, professional tensions, and personal responsibilities that can affect the way mental health practitioners work together.Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes of A Conversation About… by following MHPN Presents.Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About… or any of MHPN’s podcas...2025-04-0135 min
Bittersweet PodcastWhat true mindfulness looks like ft Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraThe Bittersweet Podcast has partnered with MAV in interviewing facilitators of 2022 Ahead of the Curve Workshops. Workshops were centered around providing young creatives of colour with professional development while focusing on well-being and sustainability in the arts. They offered a safe space for diverse creatives to connect, cultivate self-care and well-being practices, and develop the skills to assist sustainability in the professional industry with a thriving art career. In this conversation, we unpack finding emotional stability in the arts and in life with Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Life Coach, Writer, Storyteller & Mindfulness Guide Summayyah Sadiq-Ojibara. Join the co...2022-12-0636 min
Time Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 25 - Watch Me Watch You Watch MeIs it possible to walk in your own shoes and feel the feet of another as they walk in theirs? How can one look through a window into another's world yet stand in their world before a window? Empathy is not to become as, but to be with. What could that look like?2020-11-2000 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 24 - The Girl On Wannabe StreetWe often compensate for something, with something. We make up for what may be deficits, missing bits in certain areas of our lives with what we think can make for them. It sounds reasonable and indeed the right thing to do in our goals for growth. The question then is, what are we compensating for? With what? And Oh, the girl on Wannabe Street? She's got some story to tell. Let's just say, she learned some lessons on the streets of Wannabees, that sight does indeed goes before a fall!2020-11-2000 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 23 - Betrayer or BeLiver?When you look in the mirror, who do you see? Do you believe everything you are told about you? Who has the power to measure your worth? Decide the value of your humanity? Is it possible that you might be your own betrayer? Or is it possible to be a BeLiver in, of your own life?2020-10-2800 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 22 - Marital MeaningsMarriage is a partnership, but what is a partnership in marriage? Are there universal values that guide our relationships or each couple decides for themselves what works, when to walk, if things no longer work? What's a Love Bank? When do we deposit, make withdrawals from our Love Bank?2020-10-2700 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 21 - The Story, The PenHow often do we find ourselves going back in time, wishing we could change a, the story? Times when events in our past hinders our present because we cannot stop reliving them? We cannot change the past...or can we?2020-10-2600 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 20 - No Yes No'No', one of the hardest words to give and or receive. What does it mean to say No? How can saying, not saying one word stress one and the same word is what saves one from stress?2020-10-2600 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 19 - The Head That Wears The CrownIs it righteous conceit or rightful claim? To see oneself in a position of power and place of honor and to live accordingly, in the role and responsibilities conferred with such a title. ***Apologies for some audio disturbance in the recording.2020-10-2500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 18 - RoadsRoads are often used as metaphor for the paths we walk on, the paths we pass through life. We may expect the rough roads to be the most trying ones to trek, ride on, but have we thought about how the smooth roads we travel on, can be the ones with the greatest trials for us? And when we travel on the roads of life, do we ever stop to see?2020-10-2400 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 17 - Diamond Lights'Young People'; they seem like different species from another dimension. We can be exasperated, excited, energized, expectant, elevated about, towards, for them, experience a whole range of emotions when we deal with them and or issues related to them. Yet do we, are we engaging with them from places of assumptions and judgement that limit them inadvertently or discriminate against them, damaging their development, systemically disempowering them, dimming their lights with shadows of stereotypes and unjust generalizations? Our young ones are diamonds, do we see their sparkles of light? Do they?2020-10-0800 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 16 - My Flaws, Not YoursWe throw things out when they are no longer of use, sometimes we may fix what is broken in them. Do we do the same with people? Replace? 'Repair'? Where does authority stop, where does autonomy start over, between, in our relationships with each, with one another? We may help with good intentions, but are good intentions enough to help?2020-10-0800 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 15 - You Are Not My God.You do not get to decide my worth with your unworthiness. You do not dewhumanize me with your inhumanity. ***This episode contains tribute to all women under oppression and everyone in some kind of bondage. It also carries messages to oppressors and all those who unconsciously, consciously seek to and deny, deprive, derrogate, desecrate their sisters in humanity, who are unjust to the creatures of Allah, whose Lord Sees and Hears their cries and calls, He Who Has Power all things, He Who is the final Judge over all.2020-10-0800 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 14 - PilgrimageLabaykala Humalabayk... I hear your Call O Lord...What calls are we hearing? What calls are we answering to? Where do we need to journey to, to find our meanings and purpose in, for life? What truths will we find when we seek? Be my guest in one of my most sacred places in my soul, where I keep memories of one of the most precious, unforgettable travels of my life.2020-10-0800 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 13 - One ShotWe will get to points in life where we are invited to take a shot, where we are presented the opportunity we've been waiting, working for, and there's nothing else, nothing more to do, except take the shot. So, we, take, the, shot.2020-10-0600 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraEp 12 - I Am Because We AreWe choose sides that serves particular narratives of power, privilege, inferiority and superiority and leave us, lead us to unhuman, inhumane choices... until...2020-10-0600 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraAmana - The TrustOur children are not the children we were...they are the children we have in times we are both in...2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraHave We Met?There are moments of meetings between souls that defy the guards at the gates of our worlds...what is it like to meet in our Soulhoods?2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraI Am WhumanEveryone has a tale, a theory and or a truth...what are her tales, thoughts, troubles, trials, truths? What are her treasures? She is Whuman. She is a Whuman.2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraForgotten Loves, Forever LovingLove is what, where, when? Who is our first love...our greatest love... where does love live...2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraScarsScars are stories. They are testimonies of life that can make the pain of the past remain a bleeding wound in the present. They are signs of life lived, symbols of why we live. What stories do our scars tell?2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraVictory In A VeilWe are brought to battlegrounds in life where we will face adversaries with many faces, fight with advocates in many forms...the greatest one, one which can be adversary and or advocate, is our own soul....one of mine was, is my Hijab.2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraThe People Of GreatnessIt can get lonely on the journey to being and becoming, not everyone will travel with us, so we seek journey mercies inside and outside of us.2020-10-0500 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraMetaphors Of MissesEverything happens for a reason...it is not that we will not feel loss at losing, it is that we may find purpose with the pain...it is that the gain is gratitude...that brings more...2020-10-0400 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraThe Pursuit of PerfectionWe are given forms that are molded for us and granted the grace to continue to grow in, strive with excellence with our forms and all that it holds of life.2020-10-0400 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraI, I AmThe journey of been, of being, to be, to being, to becoming...began, has begun...begins...2020-10-0400 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraThe Book - Time Travel In My Worlds... By Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraTime Travel In My Worlds...and let's travel some of the way together in (y)ours - About the book, where the journey begins... timetravelswithsummayyahbooks@gmail.com2020-10-0400 minTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraTime Travel Journals With Summayyah Sadiq-OjibaraTime Travel Journals By Summayyah Sadiq-Ojibara will explore thoughts and reflections on some of life's transitions, truths and treasures from excerpts from Summayyah's book; Time Travel In My Worlds and let's travel some of the way together in (y)ours.2020-08-1400 min