Going to therapy taught me I have a lot more choices than I think.

shopping so much helped me escape and create the illusion of choice that I felt robbed of as a young Muslim girl.

It meant realizing that the reason I relied on shopping to soothe me is because I had no time for myself and instead of trying to superficially fill the void, I had to learn how to come up with more beneficial ways to pour into myself. I started therapy, I cleared out my closet, and I stopped caring so much about how people saw me and I learned to... See more

Let’s all look at the date of this tweet and acknowledge that I was not wrong, I was simply early