Many Muslim students who need therapy spend months working up to the conversation with their parents before having it, or never have it at all. This post is for those students: how to have the conversation, how to prepare for resistance, and what to do if your parents are not ready.

University is supposed to be where you grow. But sometimes the person you are growing into does not fit the expectations of the family you are growing away from. This post is about the particular shape of parent-student conflict for Muslim students at university.

Saying no feels un-Islamic. Putting yourself first feels selfish. Asking for space from family feels haram. For many Muslims, the word boundary does not even exist in the cultural vocabulary. This post makes the Islamic case for boundaries and explains why having them is not a betrayal of your faith.