It has always been difficult to define who I am and what I do.
I am and do a lot of things.
I am a Writer, a Blogger, a Poet, a Social Worker, Counsellor, Trainer, Coach, Consultant, Teacher, Healer and Intuitive Guide.
I am a Mother, Wife, Daughter and Sister.
I am a friend, frenemy, colleague, collaborator and competitor.
Unapologetically, I am Muslim with a big capital M and a small m.
The one who surrenders, submits and the one who is at peace and the one who is whole and secure with myself.
I have consciously and unconsciously been a Muslim even in my agnostic years which were a few in the late 80s.
I am definitely Spirtual and a Seeker.
Until I found what I am looking for which was always and still is under my nose, inside my heart, mind and soul.
The wealth I carry which we all carry is inside ourselves. But most of us are totally unaware of this Truth constantly looking outside of ourselves for it.
I am not talking about material wealth here. I am talking about spirtual wealth.
And when I talk about surrender and submission, it doesn’t necessarily mean to God. It can mean to circumstance, oneself, the process one is engaged in.
Surrender and Submission, Peace and Security and Safety and Wholeness all flower from the same root.
But they all do not come easily and require the letting go of the egotistical mind.
Submission and Surrender are not intellectual exercises and now being 51 years on this earth, I am realising they are everyday practical exercises.
While I have always been a practical person a practitioner on the front line battling with trauma, distress and adversity in all its forms, working with the poor and the marginalised, it is when I started my Business in 2018 when I understood.
I actually have learnt more about Submission and Surrender as an Entrepreneur.
And that is what I do teach what I am learning everyday.
How to submit to the Unknown, to the process, to surrender to parts of yourself that you are unaware of or who you have buried or who scare you or you have denied.
It is a gradual process which I am patient in accompanying you on this journey.
If you are a woman or a man who come to me seeking solace from distress then I work in a collaborative fashion to secure your becoming at peace with your darkest and deepest fear.
Usually this fear is actually the freedom you need to embrace your wholeness and your uniqueness.
To get to this beautiful place is entirely up to you.
For some it can take three months and for others months and for others years.
There is a characteristic that is shared for those who come to me and who want to work with me, and who flock to listen to what I have to offer.
Yes all of these people are very gifted with intelligence, resilience and are high flyers, having overcome alot of adversity against the odds. They are very self sufficient and are just used to getting on with it. Until they cannot continue.
They have hit a wall when they find me, an impenetrable wall where spirituality, faith, friends, family and the usual addiction work provides mo solace.
Yes all the people that come to me or who gravitate towards me are Workaholics.
And that is what I do get behind, underneath, and deep within that addiction so glorified by society and I rent it asunder.
I shatter every belief that it is so entrenched in your psyche and smash it to pieces.
Because I am so intimate with the addiction being a recovering workaholic myself. I take you through the process of Submission and Surrender, you come out the other side finding Joy and Colour and Fun. Never feeling guilty again.
So that is who I am and that is what I do.
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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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