As a writer, blogger and deep thinker, I know ideas, talents, great works or contributions to the world do not come from yourself.
They do not come when you crave for them, they come from the Muse or the Divine or whatever you want to call God.
I have had this musing for a few days now. This musing will not leave me alone and although this blog is not some great piece of art, it is crying out to be shared.
Taniya why don’t you write a daily journal or diary (as we English say) chartering this journey you have been travelling, so others can benefit from it and be inspired by it?
Or just write it for yourself so you can be inspired when you are feeling low and dejected?
I thought “who would be interested in my ramblings?”
I heard myself say “The world doesn’t want to be a witness to some random ramblings.” and “Who wants to know about a mere Social Worker becoming an Entrepreneur?”
Then I connected with something within me that instinctively feels that these ramblings and reflections may REALLY help and also TRULY support someone else who has bravely like me, decided to embark on this roller coaster ride.
Because that is what it is!
The scariest and most fun ride ever.
The Employee to Entrepreneur journey is the ride I am talking about.
This is where you confront yourself and are battling with yourself mainly.
So the voice within me to start this daily blog got louder and louder. And this morning Wednesday 12th June 2019, I relented.
This blog may indeed help me but that is not why I want to do it.
It’s really to help others.
As I see so many nowadays transitioning from a job to owning their business and trying to make it in this online and offline world of Business.
I wish when I started my Business in January 2018, I had a blog to follow that just gave me an insight on the roller coaster ride and that didn’t market or sell me anything.
So as I ride to my Social Work job, I would like to invite you to share my journey with me.
You will witness daily the ups and the downs of the journey and perhaps you may be inspired, perhaps not.
I would love if you accompany me on the journey because it can get pretty lonely sometimes not having anyone to share it with. This is despite the Facebook groups and your family and your friends being there.
And although they are there, at the same time, often you feel when you are in the thick of things and the technology has let you down, there is no one who truly gets the frustration and angst that the answers come from you. And no template or funnel will rescue you.
Standing in the wilderness, you yearn for the kinship regarding the marketing nightmare or cash flow worry.
So perhaps if you want to find a place, one place where you can explore the trials and tribulations of the journey, the nitty gritty including the dilemmas and the doubts not just the joys and triumphs as they occur in real time, you found it right here in this blog!
I promise to share my real honest thoughts and feelings of my Business journey in this daily journal.
Come and learn with me!
If you find this helped you in anyway and you have someone else in mind setting up a business or thinking about it or like you travelling this journey, then why not share this blog with them.
My bus journey has ended and I now need to start my day as a Social Worker.
See you tomorrow for some more ramblings.
Have a good day!
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Taniya Hussain qualified as a Social Worker in 1991 from Coventry University in England, UK. She has been working on the front lines in London UK, consistently holding space for individuals and families in chaos and crisis for three decades especially, children and young people on the margins of society. Taniya studied Psycho-dynamic counselling from 1991 to 1993 at Goldsmiths College in London. Taniya met Sheikha Halima Krausen in 1992 and has been studying Islam with her ever since especially Mystical Islam, Tassawuf (Sufism) and walks on the Chisti path. Taniya fuses Jungian Pyschology and Islamic Psychology and this fusion can best be understood if you read her book Dancing with Darkness which is available on Amazon. It became a Best Seller on Amazon in the UK, U.S and France in April 2025. The book tells the story of Tamara Alvi, a fictional charachter and is a psychological thriller and a story of healing. Taniya started her coaching and consulting business in January 2018 and she works mainly with High Achievers and High Performers and High Performing Leaders, offering reflective spaces since 2018 and what she refers to as THE REFLECTIVE SPACE. Taniya since starting her busines discovered that she is a powerful healer and was shocked that clients were relieved from pain even though they have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. Taniya is delighted to have discovered Paceology, which is the detailed study of PACE. She is the first paceologist. She noticed when working with high performers when you slow down in one area of your life, this causes you to speed up in another area and vice cersa thus leading to increased levels of productivity, creativity, clarity and energy. She brands herself as the Muslim Alchemist because she really is The Muslim Alchemist as she guides you to transfom the base, in other words the shit that you have experienced into GOLD whether that is love of yourself or God or another human being or a healthier body or a life where you feel at peace and calm and fulfilled or more energy or more money. You definintely will feel lighter, more freer and more clearer even if you book one consultation with her or several sessions.
Taniya has a very holistic approach when working with individuals and works with you on multiple layers, the emotional, the psychological, the social, the physical, the mental and the spriritual. She uses stories from the Quran and the Bible when working with clients on a one to one basis or in group workshops as well as breathwork, body scanning, cognitive behavioural therapy, neuro linguistic programming, motivational interviewing. systems theory, neuro science. She is trained in multiple modalities as well as using her own Paceology and insists on offering her clients a trauma informed and trauma responsive service.
She is constantly integrating her knowledge of the Quran and Bible with her vast social work experience and training. Taniya's extensive ability of applying psycho-dynamic theory to organisational settings, teams and groups as well as to individuals results in those who attend her sessions or workshops as feeling lighter and more energised. Taniya uses skillfully her understanding of the Shadow, that Jung constantly talked about and her Mystical Training. She also has integrated her passion for inter-faith dialogue and the archetypes that Jung often refers to, come alive in her one to one sessions and her group workshops thus resulting in individuals feeling more freer and fulfilled after they stop working with her. Taniya just does not provide clarity she WAKES you up to. Taniya has a great skill in being able to see the blind spots in others and does this in a non judgemental way and a way that you feel safe. She also "untangles energetic knots" (a term she uses for Shadow) in your body to promote healing from mental and physical disease. Clients usually are healed in a short amount of time because she pinpoints the memory, the event, the thought that first caused the disease. She also provides one to one sessios or training workshops to social work teams, school, secure and prison estate on youth justice, knife crime prevention as well asidentification and prevention of early onset of burnout.
Taniya has three sons, who were born in 1996, 2001 and 200 and lives in Surrey, England and when she is not coaching or writing songs, blogs and poems, she loves to spend time, travelling, walking, listening to music, watching films or playing cricket.
She speaks fluent English and Urdu and basic German and French and is learning Arabic and Hebrew.
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