Mommying While Muslim

08/28/2026

Well, I have no excuses for not podcasting regularly anymore, so maybe this is the new norm? A couple every quarter? Would that keep you listening, or do you really want me to go back to weekly?

Life is changing hard and fast for all of us, but the end of my season of change is not yet in sight. So the changes to this podcast and its schedule just may part and parcel of that. TBD.

BUT Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq, author of A Beautiful Patience, is on today to discuss her book, released earlier this year. She’s a psychiatrist, mom, wife and vicarious trauma survivor who journaled while her husband journeyed to Gaza, and found pieces of all of us in it. Full disclosure, I have been too chicken to read anything from the ground in Gaza outside of social media snippets daily X 1000. If you’re on my personal socials, you know my stories are abundant and shadowbanned!

However, after discussing postpartum, writer identity, parenting with uncertainty, tawwakkul Allah (certainty in Allah), my mom anxiety was drastically reduced, and I am convinced yours will, too. And so we should read the book together and talk about it on a thread on our FB group! Get it today Daybreak Press Publishing, the publishing arm of Rocío Torres.

Tune in at 6pm EST and share it with 3 friends who need to start listening to the podcast.

07/21/2026

Fresh off a plane with 10 minutes to pray and change before a work event tonight, but civic duty DONE. Get out there yall. No, it doesn’t change what matters, but no one who doesn’t take a single step towards change gets to complain.

06/15/2026

Mom’s in the know. 🚽🧻
We’re going to miss this one day. Alhamdulillah,

06/12/2026

FYI

06/09/2026

Posting because if my child needed this phone call made, would you do it? I did it because her mother needed me to. Posting in story for an easy link.

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05/15/2026

I harvested my first potatoes today, the day my oldest graduates high school, and this is how they might be the same.

1. However long people tell you you have, it’s not enough. Grow a little longer, water a little more, keep them warm, pray for them, talk to them often, and your harvest will be bigger and better.
2. Yes, I thought my mom was cuckoo all this time for talking to her plants, but now I do, too. All of us talk to babies like they don’t hear Charlie Brown’s teacher when we do it, so are we cuckoo for baby talk? I don’t think so.
3. Don’t peak in high school. Aim high and then aim higher if you want more potatoes. Or better kids.
4. If you feel cringe doing it, do it anyway. Fertilize, harvest by the moon, start crazy new traditions, or spend $200 in posters that could get turned away at the door. Do it all.
5. Get the family involved. The ones by blood and the ones you choose, because the fruits of our labor weren’t meant to be harvested alone.
6. Cry all year long because you can’t believe a series of hurry-up-and-waits in your 20s has resulted in your realization in your 40s that you just had to slow down all along.
7. I didn’t cry when my potatoes were laughable, or when my baby walked, but I cried when the coolest girl in school said on stage, “You’re story is still being written.”
8. I started a story, but the end may not be for me, or even include me. I’m okay with that.

And that’s no small potatoes.

05/08/2026

05/08/2026

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"Keep your promises, especially to yourself." That's been the carrot I've been dangling for myself as I put together this May's "Seasons of Change Series" for the podcast. 🥕

First on this month, Dr. Qaali Hussein, double board certified surgeon, whom I've wanted to come on for a long time and couldn't pin down myself, is here to talk about what propelled her work to change, and how she made it happen. What does "defiance" mean to us, why are we afraid of it, and let's just get over our apprehension of it already!

We ended up completely ignoring the notes and talked A LOT about DEI and how it misses the trees for the forest (yes, I intended to write it that way). But hey, in the spirit of defiance, it made sense to throw the script out the door and go with the flow.

If you're in a season of change or considering one, this episode is for you. Don't forget to check out Defiance Academy and get professional coaching with Dr. Qaali who's opening her first cohort of the year in June.
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