Take Your Warrior Pose

Alliyah Dawud

Description

Take Your Warrior Pose is your real life guide through the journey of becoming self empowered and living your life to your standards.
Hey there humble average human reading this blurb. Why are you looking around; I’m talking to you. Feeling deflated? No sense of life direction? Do you need someone to kick you up the backside so you can get your life on track?
Then Take Your Warrior Pose is the book for you. Buried between the covers of Alliyahs debut self-help book is a program written based on her own experiences as she navigated herself through the gauntlet that was her own personal life.
She found herself at ground zero when she suffered a heart attack at 31 and her life drastically spiraled out of control. Her culturally appropriate marriage broke down, she became a single parent to two children, her job prospects were nil and she suffered from poor mental and physical health. Not to mention isolation due to toxic community culture.
Now Alliyah wants to be your coach in your corner helping you Take Your Warrior Pose. Are you ready for tears and triumphs as you claim your self empowerment? You are? Alright then my amazing awesome Warrior. LET’S GO!

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Confiance en soi et estime de soi
• Vie de famille
• Relations familiales
• Confiance en soi
• Confiance
• Famille
• Self-help
• Self-Esteem
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press UK
• Date de parution: 05 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982287115
• Langue: English

Extrait

TAKE YOUR WARRIOR POSE



Your guide to releasing your inner self empowerment




ALLIYAH DAWUD










Copyright © 2023 Alliyah Dawud.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-8710-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-8711-5 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 03/27/2023



CONTENTS
Thank-You’s And Dedications
Take Your Damn Warrior Pose Already…
PART A: Preparing For Battle
1 The Bleaching Process
2 Daddy Issues And (My Lack Of) Self-Love
3 Warriors Don’t Fear Dying Alone
4 Why The Judgment, Gossips And Thoughts Of The Khans Down The Road Are Not Your Concern
PART B: Going Into Battle (The Brown Print)
5 Even Warriors Follow The Law; The Laws Of The Universe (The Theory Bit)
6 Putting The Law Of Attraction And Vibration Into Action
7 Warriors Don’t Get Mad…They Meditate
8 A Warrior Is Open To Change (Rewiring Your Brain)
9 Short, Sweet And Snappy. Let’s Do Affirmations
10 Toxic Culture, Negative And Beyond In The South Asian Community
11 The Great Power Of Gratitude
12 Relapse And Bounce Back

Glossary Of Words And Terminologies



THANK-YOU’S AND DEDICATIONS
I feel really blessed to be writing this. I have a few shout-outs and thank-you’s to issue.
First, I give recognition and express gratitude that on that fateful day in 2014, I survived a heart attack. I believe part of the reason was to deliver this book to you. So, my first thank you goes to the Power. My faith is my fuel to get on with life.
Now to thank the humans. I’d like to thank my family (my mum & children) for their support. My two daughters, albeit very talkative, bubbly, and fun, are the perfect Warriors in the making. I hope you understand as you grow into women that no one has the right to control, manipulate and make you feel small. Ever. I love you.
Thank you to Hay House for all your support and taking a chance on me. From the moment I entered the Writer’s Workshop in my hometown of Birmingham, I knew something epic would manifest. And here it is.
Suzy Ashworth; my mentor for bringing crazy good energy into my life. Your love will never be forgotten. Thank you. Laura, my amazing editor; you rock!
Last but not least in this category is team Balboa Press. Thank you for everything. Here’s to new friendships and partnerships. Thank you to May and the team for everything.
To the family I have picked for myself; I couldn’t have done this without you. Andrea! Thank you for being my rock. No words can ever describe what your support and love has meant to me, especially in my darkest hours.
Kelly, thank you so much for reading my material, assisting me with editing and being a generally awesome human in our lives (oh, and your family too!).
Thank you to the following families and individuals: The Tebbutts, The Wakefields, Clare, Philip, Iona, my B-Arts family, all those friends that have liked and shared my material and all those that will go on to support my mission—I love you all.
This book is dedicated to my late grandmothers. And also to my late great-grandmother who was way ahead in her thoughts for empowering women. I am honoured to share bloodlines with you all.
To all the readers about to embark on this journey of empowerment—this book is also dedicated to your valiance.
And lastly, I dedicate this book to my late mentor, Hilary Hughes. I can still hear her say, “Just get it done .” I did. I did get it done. She would have loved seeing this moment manifest.
I hope I’ve made you all proud.
If I’ve missed anyone, I apologise. I’ll thank you in the next book; promise.



TAKE YOUR DAMN WARRIOR POSE ALREADY…
I n 2014, if you had told me that in 2023 I would be living the life I am living now, I would have looked at you (or past you) and cried silently because there was no way my life would ever change.
In 2014, I was in a loveless, culturally appropriate, emotionally draining marriage (since 2006) that left a lot to be desired. I was suffering from post-natal depression and was told by a Spiritual Religious Leader that the reason I had it was because I was ungrateful to Allah and that depression was a result of that and not what a real Muslim suffers from. In fact, depression is fake and a non-believer concept. I was married, had two children and lived in the UK…I was living the dream of millions and should be grateful and I should repent. I cut off my friends and social network. I was alone. I had no job because I gave it up as that’s what was demanded of me to show my obedience. I looked after my children full-time and spent any time the children were asleep cleaning and making my home look like others around me. I didn’t have a life away from this bubble. I didn’t have an identity. I felt alone and unloved. I felt I was burdening everyone around me. When I thought I’d be better off dead, I kept thinking about the impact on my children and that kept me from doing something that would take me away from my children.
My story, of course, started many years ago as a small child when I suffered childhood abandonment. My lack of self-love and value then led me down a path of low self-esteem. At the age of 22, I had an arranged marriage. I want to make it clear that my mother never forced me into a marriage. It was arranged. And the scary bit? Nothing was the way you think marriage would be like. I stayed quiet for the sake of family honour.I was repeating cycles from generations before me.
Around 2012, I decided I wanted to repair estranged relationships and I noticed a huge change within my relationship. The dynamics changed dramatically.
By 2014, I needed a glimmer of hope but it was nowhere to be found. I remember sitting on my bed in the middle of the night wondering if this was it. On a balmy July night in 2014, I woke up around 1:30 AM feeling like something intensely heavy was sitting on my chest. It was painful but I stayed in bed because it had been a tiring day running after two children and then getting on and off a trampoline (and my fitness wasn’t the best as I neglected my own needs). I glanced over to my children and they were both asleep, so I stayed still, hoping the pain would go. Around 20 minutes later, the pain subsided and I tried to get back to sleep.
The next morning, I didn’t feel right. And to top that off, my mum said I looked pale and needed to see my GP.
After seeing the GP, he decided that although he thought it was stress from life as it currently was, I still needed to be checked over at the A&E. So, off I went. The staff took blood tests and I was told that if all three tests came back clear, I could go home and get back to life. Two results came back inconclusive. Then at 5:55 PM on that fateful day, a doctor and nurse rushed towards me with a wheelchair and some kind of medicine (I found out later it was an injection) and quickly pushed me into the chair, administering the injection in my thigh to stop clots. They started to explain that I’d had a heart attack in the last 24 hours. Turns out the tests were to rule out things like heart attacks. I asked what was happening and I got told I was being admitted to the cardiac ward. I asked if it was overnight and they said it would be a day-at-a-time type of admission. Right there and then, I could no longer hear the doctor or nurse explaining things, and as they pushed me up to the ward, I saw people but in slow motion.
To say I was scared is an understatement.
The next week or so was very hazy. I had test after test. I wanted to go home to my children but that was impossible. I remember wanting to shut my eyes and not wake up. Then I saw my one-year-old sitting on my bed looking terrified from all the wires and machines beeping, and no one was comforting her. Her behaviour changed and she went from being a happy, playful baby to completely quiet. I decided there and then that this was the sign I needed to take back my empowerment. I was going to live for as long as the Power wanted me around but this wasn’t my time to exit. No.
Soon after I was discharged from hospital rumours started circulating that I had in fact faked a heart attack for attention. It turned out the South Asian community decided I faked my heart attack and I was shunned by all of them. I was accused of lying about my hea