For The Wild

FARIHA RÓISÍN on the Courage of Listening to Our Bodies /354

Nov 2, 2023

Fariha Róisín, an expert on living in a body that has experienced trauma, shares timeless wisdom on healing and compassion. They discuss the contradictions of wellness, decoding illness as a conversation with our bodies, complex understandings of faith, love and spirituality in poetry, accepting queerness as a Muslim woman, and reflections on jealousy and self-reflection.

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Fariha Róisín

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Vulnerability saves us and allows for healing and growth, urging listeners to embrace vulnerability and strive for connection and understanding.

Reclaiming diverse interpretations of faith and spirituality, showcasing the expansiveness and beauty of being queer and Muslim.

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The Power of Vulnerability and Facing Our Ancestral Trauma

In this podcast episode, Farija Roshin discusses the importance of vulnerability and facing our ancestral trauma. She emphasizes that vulnerability saves us and allows for healing and growth. Roshin highlights the need to listen to our bodies and trust their signals, sharing her own experience with celibacy as a way to prioritize self-healing. She also delves into the issue of society's hatred towards women and the need to dismantle harmful patriarchal systems. Roshin urges listeners to embrace vulnerability and strive for connection and understanding in order to create a more compassionate and equitable world.

Introduction

2min

Exploring the Contradictions of Wellness and the Impact of the Pandemic

4min

Decoding Illness and Wellness

14min

Exploring Complex Understandings of Faith and Reclaiming a Divine Relationship

6min

Love, God, and Faith in Poetry

3min

Accepting Queerness as a Muslim Woman

10min

Reflections on Jealousy and Self-Reflection

32min

This week, Fariha Róisín offers both timely and timeless wisdom on what it means to live in a body that has experienced trauma. This is a conversation that bears witness to the deep terror and distress of the world and still charges forward with undying compassion and care – the compassion and care of wild survival.

Offering both deep personal reflection and spacious contemplation about the state of the world, Fariha reminds us that our bodies guide us to what we need. This episode brings up the things that we so often don’t want to touch – trauma, abuse, global systems of disregard – and handles them with care and love. Fariha shows us what it means to take pain seriously.

Throughout the episode Fariha threads in a profound relationship with god, and a type of faith that is filled with questioning, fueled by queer thought, and driven by love. In even the darkest of times we can turn to love, accountability, and community to find the care that we need.

Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, in liminality, otherness and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam and queer identities and has been featured in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Vogue. She is the author of the poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost (2019), as well as the novel Like A Bird (2020), Who Is Wellness For? (2022) and her second book of poetry is entitled Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, due fall 2023.

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Music by Misha Sultan (with special thanks to Patience Records), Amo Amo, Colloboh (with special thanks to Leaving Records), and Amber Rubarth. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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For The Wild

FARIHA RÓISÍN on the Courage of Listening to Our Bodies /354

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

The Power of Vulnerability and Facing Our Ancestral Trauma

Understanding Complexities of Faith and Queerness

The Body as a Pathway to Understanding Self

Prioritizing Vulnerability in Relationships and Revolutionary Movements

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts