March 9, 2026

Do you ever wake up on a Monday and think:”Is this it?”

You don’t say it out loud.

You barely even let yourself think it.
But it’s there.

Especially on Mondays.

The day you secretly resent.

Sunday already feels infected by Monday, doesn’t it?

You can’t fully relax on Sundays the way you can on Saturdays.

There’s a low-level tension in your body.
A background hum of anxiety.

And slowing down…well that’s something you’ve struggled with your entire life.

Because you’re a high performer

Successful.
Driven.
Responsible.
You get things done.

Yet every Sunday evening, and every Monday morning, there’s that familiar feeling creeping in.

That thought:
“If I didn’t have to do this… I’d be doing that instead.”

Your mind drifts….just for a second…to the dream you’ve had for years.

Then you catch yourself.

No.

Too much to do.

As always.

Meetings.

Appointments.
An endless to-do list that grows faster than you can shrink it.

You rewrite it.
Make it more “realistic”.
Shorter.

But the real list isn’t the one on your laptop.
It’s the one in your head.

And buried somewhere on that list is:
the holiday you keep postponing
the weekend away you never book
the life you’ll “get to later”

Because you’ve always been the responsible one, haven’t you?

Not the spontaneous one.

Not the one who responds to her deepest desires.

You remember that woman you worked with years ago.

The one who always booked weekends away with her husband.

What was her name again?

Your attention drifts back to the cup of tea in your hand.

Your handwritten list for Monday.

You notice the 11am meeting you scheduled on purpose.

Not 9am.
You were kind to yourself.

One of the small ways you manage your anxiety.

You take a breath.

Deep in.

Slow out.

Then you switch on your computer.

That fantasy of getting away….for the weekend, with your husband….or maybe even on your own ….You push it aside.
Again.
But for a few seconds, you let yourself FEEL it.
The lightness.

The space.

The freedom.

You smile.

You sigh.

And somehow, that tiny moment of escape helps you get through the rest of your day.
Until next Sunday.

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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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