Navigating Loneliness | Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad (Maristan Muslim Healing Circle)
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2022-08-25

Dr. Rania Awaad, Shaykh Ustadh Ubaydallah Evans, Shaykha Maryam Amir, Spoken-Word Poet Amal Kassir, and Shaykh Rami Nsour commemorate the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when 36 percent of all Americans—including 61% of young adults—report feeling seriously lonely since coronavirus pandemic began.

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It is a religious and now public health obligation to rekindle our social commitments. 

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In this '22 Ramadan Benefit event for Maristan, we learn about:

- The deleterious impacts of loneliness;
- the benefits of social circles;
- protective factors in our faith to practice against loneliness;
- a toolkit for maintaining and strengthening relationships with family and friends;
- how to make friends as an adult, and;
- how to reach out to those lonely in our community.

This virtual session on April 23, 2022. It was delivered via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California.

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Maristan's Mission & Vision:
Grounded in Islamic traditions, Maristan aims to lead professional clinical care, education, and research in advancing holistic, mental and spiritual wellness.

Maristan strives to revive the Islamic legacy of research and education that informs holistic healing and provides culturally and spiritually congruent, professional, accessible, and affordable mental health care for all.

Perhaps one of the most unique manifestations of Islamic Civilization are the Maristans, or institutions of healing, that boasted the world’s first treatment centers for treating psychological illnesses. Given the holistic framing of the Islamic worldview, it was no accident that these healing centers embedded the treatment of psychological illnesses into their offerings. In so doing, Maristans became a trademark of the Muslim world and could be found in major metropolitan cities from the 8th Century onwards. These healing institutions forever changed the understanding and treatment of psychological illnesses by first dedicating specialized wards for psychological illnesses within the larger Islamic hospital complex, later followed by stand-alone institutions solely dedicated to the treatment of the mentally ill. Learn more at https://maristan.org

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Reference: Weissbourd, Lovison, and Torres, 2021: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b7c56e255b02c683659fe43/t/6021776bdd04957c4557c212/1612805995893/Loneliness+in+America+2021_02_08_FINAL.pdf
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