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My name is Alicia Thriver.
I was raised as an American Muslim in a mixed cultural Arab American family. I entered a semi-arranged marriage at the age of nineteen to my step-cousin. After the birth of my first daughter my ex-husband requested we leave the US to raise her in a Muslim country in the Middle East. Years later in Kuwait, when my daughters were five and eight, I started to have an awakening. I realized that along the path of tradition and cultural conformity, my daughter's voices would not be heard. I was shaken to my core. From there I began a spiritual journey as a mother to find what it meant to be a woman, a Muslim, and more importantly, to love unconditionally. I was determined to change my course, going against everything I had ever known or believed to be true, in order to follow my own Hidden Calling. I soon found only one option remained: to leave it all behind and escape not only an increasingly violent marriage, but an entire country in time, or risk losing my daughters. Read my book, Hidden Calling: A Mother's Courage Unveiled, to go along on a courageous journey of how I removed the veil of trauma and sifted through the storm of my new desires to be seen and heard, so my daughters and I could be free. |
Reviews
"This is about a woman's struggle to claim and reclaim her voice, her identity, and her power, when everything in her world, since the beginning of her life, is telling her not to. It shows how power is taken and how it can be taken back - clearly, cleanly, and without resorting to violence."
-Karen Fisher, Author of A Sudden Country
-Karen Fisher, Author of A Sudden Country
Hidden Calling
A Mother's Courage Unveiled
A Mother's Courage Unveiled
What is your Hidden Calling?
Your Hidden Calling is something deep within you. It is your essence and pure being. Your Hidden Calling is who you were and who you are meant to be before societal and cultural norms and pressures were placed upon you. Who you were before you believed those first hurtful words that made you feel not good enough. It's your truest self and your raw nature. Before you became defensive, fearful, sad and lonely. It's your spirit and it calls you to remember. When you feel lost just remember that you may be buried under layers of trauma, abuse, and difficulties, but if you remember the fun, joyful and kind person who is calling to you. . .and if you decide to answer that Calling, you can release your inner self, your real self, to the world courageously, proudly, and unafraid. You will be YOU. The one you were always meant to be. I help you connect to yourself and your own Hidden Calling.
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