October 21, 2024

Do you feel lost in your life and everything feels like a huge fog?

I felt exactly like this 7 years ago.

Then

Sven years ago I embarked on The Reflective Space Adventure and it led me to discover my purpose and passion.

It was seven months of HELL.
It was seven months of HEAVEN.
But it led me to discover my passion and purpose which is to beat burnout

When you are a high achiever and high performer and a high performing leader and you don’t know what passion and purpose are, even though you have a successful job and you are changing lives dramatically, it is soul destroying.

You feel lost in a huge fog.

I know you feel like this just now.

The weird thing is I embarked on the #personalalchemyjourney all by myself from August 2017 to September 2017 and started to feel this huge hole I had in my life. I didn’t have a coach, therapist, spiritual guide or mentor to guide me, it was very lonely for me.
Yet I did manage to do this .


I slowed down
I sat in silence
I simplified
I indulged in self care.
These two months August 2017 to September 2017 have been unlike any in my life.

I was on holiday in Karachi 2017 visiting my family and I didn’t plan to do any of those things but that is what happened.

Previously to this I had such a fast paced life being a social worker, a mum of three sons, a wife, being involved in interfaith dialogue, studying Islam and Nafsiyat, Islamic Psychology. That was my twenties, thirties and forties.
In August 2017 I found myself at age 48 wondering what had I done in my life, wondering what I had achieved?
Even though I had facilitated changes in so many social work clients I have lost count how many, I felt I had done nothing, my life lacked meaning and direction.

I know though I was not able to face this big hole if I had not slowed down, simplified and sat in silence  on so many occasions during those two months.
You see that is what most find HARD to do in the twenty first century.

Especially if you are a high achiever, high performer or high performing leader, you find it really hard to do the 4S s I call them.

Do you agree?

Do you find you are like this struggling to meditate?

And if you are reading this and feel lost and this big cloud surrounding you just like I did back in 2017, it’s TIME for you to go on The Reflective Space ADVENTURE!

Reflect like I did seven years ago.

The Adventure doesn’t just lead to finding your passion and purpose

Oh it leads to SO much more!

Will be sharing more soon here on what else it leads to

I know it is hard to slow down.

I know it is hard to simplify.

I know it is hard to sit in silence

I know you feel self care is a LUXURY.

I am a high achiever and high performer just like you.

But it is a necessity for your soul, for your mind and for your body.

I had a weekend away in Turkey yesterday basking in the sun by the swimming pool as you can see from this picture and it has resulted in me writing this article in less than 15 minutes.

When you do less, you do achieve MORE.

Check out my other articles on Self care yes on this website.

Who am I?

I AM The Muslim Alchemist who transforms the fog around you to clarity so you see your purpose and passion.

#beatburnout

#spiritualalchemyquest

#thereflectivespaceadventure

#reflectivespaceadventure

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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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