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AMINA DIAB | 𝙿𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝

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🌟 الأولاد اللي مش people pleasers ليهم أهاليهم بيعملوا الحاجات دي 💪👦👧” 1️⃣ **اتجنبوا الثناء الزايد:** 🎉 “الثناء مهم، بس الثناء الزايد بيخلي الضغط يزيد. بدل ما تثنوا بزيادة، خلوا تحتفلوا بالمجهود والتقدم.” 2️⃣ **شجعوا على اتخاذ القرارات:** 🤔 “خلوا الأولاد يختاروا علشان يزيدوا استقلاليتهم. ابدأوا بقرارات بسيطة وازيدوا التعقيد ببطء.” 3️⃣ **احترموا الحدود:** 🚧 “اعرفوا لما يبقى عند طفلكم حاجة. احترموا حاجة الاستقلالية والخصوصية عندهم.” 4️⃣ **استمعوا بانتباه:** 👂 “قدروا مشاعر وآراء طفلكم. الاستماع الفعّال بيقوي الثقة وبيشجع على التواصل المفتوح.” 5️⃣ **كونوا نموذج للعناية بالنفس:** 💆‍♂️ “وضحوا أهمية العناية بالنفس. ضعوا رفاهيتكم الخاصة في المقام الأول علشان تعلموا الأولاد قيمة الاحترام للذات.” 6️⃣ **علموا حل المشاكل:** 🧩 “ساعدوا الأولاد يلاقوا حلول لمشاكلهم. شجعوا على العصف الذهني وقدموا الدعم لما يحتاجوا.” 7️⃣ **تقبلوا الأخطاء:** 🤷‍♀️ “جاوزوا بانتظام الأخطاء كجزء من العملية التعليمية. شجعوا على التماسك والتفكير الإيجابي بإعادة تقديم الفشل كفرصة.” 8️⃣ **عملوا على تعزيز الاستقلالية:** 🌱 “قدموا مسؤوليات مناسبة لسنهم. خلوا الأولاد يشاركوا في مهام المنزل ويتخذوا القرارات.” 9️⃣ **وضعوا توقعات واقعية:** 📅 “اتجنبوا فرض معايير غير واقعية. احتفلوا بقوة الفرد والتقدم بدل ما تقارنوا بالآخرين.” 🔟 **قدروا الصدق:** 🌟 “شجعوا التعبير عن الذات والصدق. قبلوا شخصية واهتمامات طفلكم دون فرض توقعاتكم الخاصة.” خلوا في بالكم إن تعزيز الاستقلالية مشوار بيحتاج صبر ودعم. من خلال تربية هذه العادات، هتمكنوا أولادكم يزدهروا وينموا كأفراد واثقين ومستقلين. 🌟 #نصائح_تربوية #تمكين_الأطفال #دكتورة_جوليا_سميث #دكتورة_شفالي #علم_نفس_الأطفال by @aminadiab
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2 years ago
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THIS WEEK, EXISTENTIALLY It’s strange how we squeeze life into a frame, Seeking the sane, the certain, the safely mundane. Until one mind dares to disrupt and disdain, The polished, the promised, the perfectly plain. What if the mess, the distress, the beautiful strain Is where we find meaning in being human again? 1- part of the art 🖼️ 2- best for last, chocolate always🍫 3- progress in process ⛳️ 4- comedy night 🎭 5- unbothered 🐈 6- word 💯 by @aminadiab
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5 days ago
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One client spoke to me this week about how she stood in front of her wardrobe, pulling out dresses she hadn’t worn in years. She held one against herself, looked in the mirror, and put it back. “It used to feel like me.” Another client told me how she opened an old voice note. She heard herself laughing and listened all the way to the end. Then she played it again. “I don’t even know what I miss,” she said. “I just miss that version of me.” A third another client was driving when a song she hadn’t heard in years came on. She knew every word. For three minutes, she was somewhere else. When the song ended, she sat in the car a little longer. She didn’t want her old life back. She just missed the woman she had been in it. We don’t always grieve people. Sometimes we grieve identities. Versions of ourselves. Dreams we outgrew. Lives we imagined. The certainty we used to have about who we were. And this can become especially intense when you’re in the middle of a big transition. You may be making decisions, questioning relationships, becoming a mother, leaving a chapter behind, starting again, experiencing loss—or simply realizing that the life you built doesn’t quite fit anymore. There can be excitement. There can be freedom. And there can be a terrifying feeling of “What if I don’t know who I am on the other side of this?” This is exactly the kind of work I do with women. Not to tell you what choice to make. But to create the space to understand what’s happening underneath the fear, the grief, the uncertainty and the longing—and to help you find your way forward with more clarity, agency and meaning. The promise isn’t that you’ll suddenly have all the answers. It’s that you can begin to feel more at home in yourself while you’re figuring them out. And it all begins with being willing to stop, listen, and ask yourself: Who am I becoming? But that’s just the beginning. If you’re navigating a big transition and this feels familiar, click the link in my bio and sign up for the waitlist to work with me. by @aminadiab
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7 days ago
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I heard this three times last week: “I’m in my late 30s and I have no idea what I’m doing with my life.” Different women. Different stories. Same feeling. And every time — I want to say the same thing back. “Good. That means you’re paying attention.” But obviously I don’t say that. I can’t. As a therapist it’s not my place to interpret someone’s experience for them or tell them what their feelings mean. Obviously ☺️ So instead I ask: What would it mean about your life if you never figured it out? And I’ve found that question — sitting with that, really sitting with it — is so much more powerful than any reassurance I could offer. Because it cuts straight to what’s actually at stake. What you’re really afraid of. What actually matters to you. Because here’s what that feeling actually is — it’s not a crisis. It’s a transition. And there is a difference. That disorientation you feel? The sense that you should have it together by now? The quiet panic that everyone else knows something you don’t? That’s not failure. That’s growth asking you to catch up with yourself. The women I sit with who say this aren’t lost. They’re awake. They’ve outgrown something and they haven’t yet named what comes next. That is not a problem to fix. It’s a threshold to cross. And if you’re standing at that threshold right now — comment CHANGE below and I’ll send you a free guide I created using the exact existential tools I use in practice to help women move through exactly this. Not a quick fix. Not a checklist. Just the right questions — asked in the right order — to help you find your own way through. 🤍 And if you’re ready to do this work properly — with real support, with space, with someone who genuinely gets it — I’m accepting clients for September and October. Sign up link in bio. 🤍 by @aminadiab
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19 days ago
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all the blessings 🤍 by @aminadiab
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September, apparently, had plans for me. 10/10 would recommend letting life surprise you ✨ little wins, unexpected turns, good people, soft reminders 🤍 سبتمبر، شكله كان مخبّي لي خطط. حاجات حلوة صغيرة، مفاجآت ما كانتش في الحسبان، ناس حلوة، وتذكيرات بسيطة. 10/10 أنصح إنك تسيب الحياة تفاجئك. by @aminadiab
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25 days ago
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“Who am I becoming now?” Amina Diab is a Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Existential Psychotherapist and doctoral researcher, with over a decade of work with children, adolescents and parents. Her focus now is women in transition — motherhood, identity, divorce, grief, burnout. Specifically, the moment when the old version of a life no longer fits and the next one has not arrived yet. If you are somewhere in the middle of that, her workshop is the room where you get to stop pretending you aren’t. Workshop: “Mastering Your Becoming” 31 October • NMEC, Cairo The Founding Tickets Drop is open. Link in bio @womanifest.world.conf 🔗 taken in Cairo, Egypt by @aminadiab
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23 days ago
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A room full of parents. Dead silent. That’s what happened the moment I said one sentence out loud. I was there to talk about raising kind kids , not nice ones. Sounds like the same thing. It isn’t. A mother once told me her son is “the nicest boy in his class.” Shares everything. Never complains. And yet — nobody ever calls him for a playdate. I asked her one question: does he ever say no to anything? Does he ever say, actually, I don’t want to do that? She went quiet. “No,” she said. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say no to anyone.” That’s when I told her: he hasn’t learned to be kind. He’s learned to disappear. Here’s what almost nobody tells you: empathy is a skill, built through modeling and repetition — shaped far more by what a child watches every day than by what he’s told to do. Here's the one tip that matters: stop praising 'sorry.' Start praising 'I noticed.' Next time, try: 'I saw that you noticed he was upset.' That single sentence builds more kindness than a hundred forced apologies ever will. Does this sound like your child? Tell me below 🤍 and save this for the next time you catch yourself saying “just be nice.” قاعة مليانة أهل. سكوت تام. ده اللي حصل في اللحظة اللي قلت فيها جملة واحدة بصوت عالي. كنت بتكلم عن إزاي نربي ولاد طيبين، مش بس ولاد مؤدبين. حاسين إنهم نفس الحاجة؟ لأ، مش هي. أم قالتلي مرة إن ابنها “أكتر ولد مؤدب في الفصل”. بيشارك كل حاجة. مبيتذمرش. ومع كده - محدش بيتصل بيه عشان يلعب. سألتها سؤال واحد: بيقول لأ في أي حاجة؟ بيقول “أنا مش عايز أعمل كده”؟ سكتت شوية. قالت: “لأ. مفكراش سمعته يقول لأ لحد في حياته.” وقتها قلتلها: هو ماتعلمش إزاي يبقى طيب. هو اتعلم إزاي يختفي. وده اللي محدش بيقوله: التعاطف مهارة، بتتبني بالقدوة والتكرار - دي النصيحة الوحيدة اللي فعلاً مهمة: بلاش تمدحوا كلمة "آسف". ابدأوا تمدحوا "أنا لاحظت". المرة الجاية، جربوا تقولوا: "شفتك لاحظت إنه كان زعلان." الجملة دي لوحدها بتبني طيبة جوا طفلك أكتر من مية "آسف" مفروضة عليه. by @aminadiab
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Sometimes I think we forget how strange and beautiful it is that we’re here at all. That out of all the people who could have existed, somehow, we got to be us. We get to wake up in the morning and feel the sun on our skin. To hear a song that takes us somewhere. To laugh so hard with someone that our stomach hurts. To fall in love. To miss people. To make mistakes. To change our minds. To watch our children grow. We get so caught up in what’s missing, what went wrong, what should have happened by now. And I wonder what would happen if, every once in a while, we stopped trying to fix our lives and just noticed that we are living them. That this ordinary Tuesday, this coffee, this conversation, this person sitting next to you, this body carrying you through another day… None of it was promised. And yet, here we are. Existing. Feeling. Loving. Losing. Beginning again. It’s easy to forget how rare that is. How incredibly unlikely. How beautiful it truly is that we exist. by @aminadiab
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2 months ago
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Women between the ages of 30-45 need to hear this; If you truly believed you were allowed to live fully — and wholeheartedly believed no one was watching, judging, comparing, or measuring your life — what expectations would you release? Which roles, habits, performances, or obligations would no longer feel necessary? What would you stop apologizing for? What would you stop proving? What would you finally allow yourself to want? How would you spend your time differently? Who would you become more honest with? What parts of yourself would return if you no longer feared disappointing others? What kind of life would emerge if you lived from desire instead of obligation, from meaning instead of approval, from presence instead of performance? Pick one and I want to know and discuss your answer with you here ⬇️ #TherapistInEgypt #EgyptianTherapist #MentalHealthEgypt #GirlToGirl #horseriding by @aminadiab
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5 months ago
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One of the most healing things a woman can do during periods of change is reconnect with the younger versions of herself. The little girl who felt unseen. The teenager who learned to shrink herself. The younger woman who thought survival meant self-sacrifice. A lot of women going through divorce, motherhood, burnout, grief, or identity shifts don’t realize they’re not just struggling with the present moment — they’re carrying old emotional wounds into it too. And this is why “inner child work” can feel so powerful. Research in attachment theory, self-compassion, and Internal Family Systems therapy shows that nurturing younger parts of ourselves can help improve emotional regulation, self-worth, relationships, anxiety, and resilience. Sometimes healing is not becoming someone new. Sometimes it’s finally becoming a safe place for who you once were. If this feels like you, I’d love to know. Write “childlike” in the comments and share something about yourself as a child, and let’s start a discussion. I want to hear your thoughts 🤍 by @aminadiab
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The honest truth about waiting to return back to ‘normal’ after a big change — you don’t. Something beautiful happens instead. You become someone new. Someone who has actually lived through something. Someone with more depth, more honesty, more clarity about what actually matters. But only if you stop waiting to go back , and start building what comes next. I’m Amina Diab — existential psychotherapist, PhD researcher, and someone who has sat with hundreds of women in exactly the moment you’re in right now. The woman who is holding it all together on the outside while quietly fracturing on the inside. The woman who has been strong for everyone else for so long she’s forgotten she’s allowed to need something too. That woman is not broken. She is in transition. And transition has a shape — a beginning, a through-line, and a way out the other side. I know what that shape looks like. I work with it every week. And this year — I lived it too. If this is you — start here, comment ‘ready’ to receive a free guide I’ve created to help you finally see, think and feel clearly. And that — for most women — is the beginning of everything 🤍 by @aminadiab
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