Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com
Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.
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Look back with understanding
When you don’t have a gentle hand to guide you, or an understanding structure to support you, life will be shaped through trial and error. In the same way that we can’t give what we don’t have, nor can others offer us what they don’t have – no matter how much we need it from…
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Be the village
While it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to corrupt a child. Parenting is a monumental challenge in itself, but becomes infinitely more challenging when being done by a single parent. Add to the single parenting challenge by having an obstructive co-parent, and the challenge continues to grow ever…
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Who do you want to be?
Don’t get so lost in trying to find yourself that you lose the opportunity to reinvent yourself. If you’re struggling to discover who you are and what you should be doing with your life, perhaps it’s time to focus on who you want to be instead? You cannot be purposeful about life if you don’t…
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Divinely obnoxious?
Godliness is like humility. It is lost when we actively pursue it. Living by the doctrine to which you subscribe is infinitely more important than preaching it. People learn from how you treat them, not from how you chastise them. Judging the faith of another reveals the cracks in your self-worth more than it offers…
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Gratitude is not an attitude
What would life be like if you maximised every resource and every opportunity to which you have access? What would the quality of your relationships be if you built on everything that works instead of focusing on what’s not working? How would you feel about yourself if you looked at all you’ve overcome instead of…
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You are your own worst victim
The victim mindset wreaks the most destruction and creates the worst of oppressors. The victim mindset is established when we find ourselves nursing wounds of experiences and betrayals that have long since passed. The victim mindset is nurtured when we are emotionally impacted by the behaviour of those who play no meaningful role in our…
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Labelling humans
We dehumanise the human when we label their emotional experience as an illness. The moment we attach a label to a life experience, we focus on the label and discard the merits of the experience. We make people invisible when we deny the reality of their experience by suggesting that there is something clinically wrong…