A GUIDED ISLAMIC WORKBOOK FOR MUSLIM WOMEN
What We Carry walks beside you as you look back at the family that raised you: the love, the lessons, the words and the habits. Keep what is good, and gently change what you don't want to pass on.
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AHL MEANS FAMILY
What We Carry is not about blaming anyone, and it is not about pretending. It is an honest, merciful look at what the people who raised you passed down, so you can carry the good forward with gratitude, and with the help of Allah ﷻ, let a heavy pattern change with you.
None of us has to carry it alone.
INSIDE THE BOOK
147 pages, 14 chapters and 174 places to write, designed to be used, not just read.
Short readings, reflections, Your Turn pages and a Practise for each week, with an original diagram in every chapter.
Four simple steps that help you name what you carry and decide, with care, what continues.
One pattern, one step a week, check-ins on Day 15 and Day 30. Then begin the next round whenever you are ready.
Eight statements you tick before Day 1 and again on Day 30, so you can see for yourself what has moved.
A one-page keepsake of your journey: your why, your four steps, the gift you carry forward, one sentence and a du'a.
You will never be left staring at a blank page wondering where to begin.
Helplines across 15 countries, for the days a page brings up more than a book should hold.
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ROOTED IN QUR'AN AND SUNNAH
وَٱخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ ٱلذُّلِّ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَةِ وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱرْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِى صَغِيرًا
'And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small."'
SURAH AL-ISRA' 17:24
Each chapter rests on a passage from the Qur'an or the Sunnah, and helps you see what comes from faith and what comes from culture or habit. The passages are offered for reflection, not as tafsir or rulings. For questions of rulings, the book points you to people of knowledge.
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Read the opening letter, tick "Where I am now", and choose the one pattern you want to work on.
One Carry Practice step each week, a check-in on Day 15, and a review on Day 30. Small steps that last.
What We Carry is a reflective workbook. It is not therapy or counselling, and the Carry Practice is not a religious or clinically validated programme.
If you are not safe at home, or the past feels too heavy to hold right now, the Finding Support pages list people you can reach out to today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umm Sara writes from lived experience, not clinical training. She grew up within difficult family dynamics, spent six years receiving Islamic counselling to work through them, and has spent twenty years reflecting on how families pass things on, and how, with the help of Allah ﷻ, a pattern can change. Her social impact work brings her alongside women, people in prison, young and old, and people with special needs.
[A founding reader's own words, shared with her permission]
[A founding reader's own words, shared with her permission]
[A founding reader's own words, shared with her permission]
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Carry on the next day. One missed day makes little difference, and Day 30 is a review, not a finish line. You can begin a new round whenever you are ready.
No. The book speaks of parents with respect throughout. It helps you look back with gratitude and honesty, so you can keep what is good and choose what continues.
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