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Ramadan Digital Guide
Witnessing Your Soul Through Ramadan: A Compassionate Soul-Centered Guide
Ramadan is often approached with plans, goals, and intentions for improvement. Yet many of us enter this month carrying emotions that do not disappear when the calendar changes — sadness, fatigue, resentment, guilt, uncertainty, or even numbness.
This 30-page digital toolkit is designed to support your inner life during Ramadan, not just your external practices. Grounded in Islamic Psychology, Trauma-Informed approaches, and the Witnessing the Soul framework, it offers gentle structure for naming emotions, noticing bodily sensations, understanding protective patterns, and bringing your heart into relationship with God without spiritual bypassing.
Rather than asking you to become someone else before the month begins, this guide invites you to enter Ramadan as you are.
What’s Inside the Guide
Your Soul 101
A gentle introduction to the inner dimensions of the self — the nafs (behaviors/soul), qalb (heart), and ʿaql (intellect) — grounded in Islamic psychology, to help you understand what you are witnessing within yourself.
Entering Ramadan As You Are
Permission to begin the month without emotional conditions, allowing sadness, fatigue, resentment, longing, or numbness to coexist with fasting and worship.
From Behaviors to the Heart
A shift from managing actions to noticing what the heart is carrying, helping you understand why worship may feel heavy, distracted, or mechanical.
Naming and Staying With What Arises
Practical guidance for identifying emotions, noticing bodily sensations, and gently building tolerance for discomfort rather than escaping it.
Bringing your (Whole) Heart to God
An invitation to turn toward Allah without cleaning up your inner experience first, and to practice emotionally honest duʿa without spiritual bypassing.
Compassionate Accountability
A framework for responding to patterns and emotions with care and responsibility, allowing sustainable growth to emerge from listening rather than pressure.
A Preview of the Guide
Your Gentle Companion for Ramadan
This is not a planner, and it is not a checklist. It is a companion for those who want to include their humanity in their devotion and approach Ramadan with greater honesty, compassion, and emotional depth.
Each section includes short, guided exercises designed to help you name emotions, notice protective mechanisms, track bodily sensations, and gradually build greater awareness and tolerance throughout Ramadan. These practice pages turn reflection into lived experience, supporting you in staying present with what arises rather than moving quickly past it.
Format: PDF Download
Length: 30 pages
Price: $20 USD
Note: After purchase, you’ll receive an email with a download link for the PDF. The link expires after 24 hours, so please download the guide at your earliest convenience. All purchases are final and non-refundable.
Bonus Content
Those who purchase the guide will receive weekly emails during Ramadan, with additional worksheets and occasional recorded audio reflections to gently support you throughout the month.
How to Use the Guide
This guide is designed to be used slowly and gently, not completed all at once.
You may find it helpful to set aside 15–20 minutes once a day during Ramadan, ideally attaching it to one of your daily prayers so it becomes part of a rhythm you are already keeping. You might open the guide after Fajr before the day begins, after ʿAsr when energy shifts, or in the quiet of the evening before or after ʿIsha. Keep a journal nearby so you can write freely beyond the fillable spaces if something deeper begins to unfold.
Rather than rushing through sections, move through one reflection or practice at a time. Allow yourself to pause, notice your emotional state, and gently track where sensations arise in your body. The goal is not to complete the guide, but to build awareness and tolerance for staying with what you notice.
In addition to your dedicated reflection time, you can practice witnessing throughout the day. While fasting, notice moments of irritation, fatigue, tenderness, or longing. Before prayer, take a few breaths and ask what your heart is carrying. During duʿa, allow honesty to guide your words. These small moments of awareness often matter more than extended sessions of reflection.
You may revisit sections multiple times during the month, especially if a particular emotion or pattern continues to surface. Let the guide be a companion you return to, checking in with what you need during this blessed month of Ramadan.