Detoxing Yourself From Yourself

Detoxing Yourself from Yourself: Silencing Your Inner Critic is a 5-week course that aims to help students challenge some the negative and sometimes unhealthy thoughts and beliefs that tend to be self-destructive. These thoughts also contribute to our inability to transcend the mediocrity that tends to define our interaction with the world around us. In the Islamic tradition, understanding our disease is half of our cure, and in order to avoid the path that has led many to become overwhelmed with their own toxicity, it is important that we learn the art of detoxing ourselves from ourselves.

During this course, students will learn how to draw from Qur’anic texts, fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Ahadeeth (prophetic traditions) as well as narrations from early Muslim scolars in order to challenge some of the toxic thoughts we hold about Allah (God), ourselves and others. Students will learn how to identify these thoughts and how debilitating they can be on their lives while replacing them with healthy views and beliefs that will lead (insha Allah) to healthier relationships in the three most important areas of their lives (i.e. Allah (God), themselves and others).