Yasmin Mogahed - Mental Prison: Breaking The Habits That Shackle Us

About this lecture

In this lecture, Yasmin Mogahed explores the concept of the "mental prison" — the self-sabotaging mental and emotional habits that keep us shackled despite living outwardly free lives. Drawing on psychology, Quranic principles, and Prophetic hadith, she identifies toxic patterns such as misplaced focus, assigning negative meaning to life's events, and dwelling in the past, while offering practical Islamic tools — including gratitude journaling, daily adhkar, and consistent salah — to break free. Listeners will come away with a framework for understanding that their response to life's events, not the events themselves, determines where they end up.