Iman

First post of 2026 🙏🏾

Post storm ❄️

Green represents the color of renewal so it only felt right to share some thoughts with my community today
As always, take what you need 🫶🏾

Therapy looks different for everyone, but some therapeutic practices remain the same for me today in my that have kept me well through the darkness is my teens, twenties and thirties 💕

Traditionally, the word means treatment in a professional setting and for many of us, like me, that kind of support is essential and life-changing.

But doesn’t only live inside an office.
It is also life changing and majorly therapeutic to sit with people who feel safe.

To set fierce boundaries.
To move your body.
To rest without guilt.

To visit a beautiful place when you’re able to and let yourself feel something other than survival and pain.

None of these cancel each other out.
They work together.

As we begin a new year, I know I’m a month in but I’m a new day kinda girl, I focus on the present as much as I can cause well the future gives me anxiety and I want peace which is living on the future so let’s widen the language around healing and normalize the many ways we care for our mental health, especially in seasons that feel heavy.

My message remains the same this year as always fronds, be gentle with yourself, you are your one true love.

Keep the promises you make to YOU
And start again as many times as you need 🤍

At the start of 2025, I wrote a quiet promise to myself...

Not a goal for the algorithm

Not something I needed to prove to anyone else

Just a reminder meant for me

“I will speak about mental health in beautiful spaces.
I will make it accessible,
I will take this work beyond rooms and onto international stages”

I didn’t know exactly how it would unfold, I’ve just always know this work matters to me more than I can put into words, I guess when something has touched your life so deeply and it continues to, it just becomes a mission for some of us

The year began with intimate workshops and honest conversations in community spaces

As the months went on, the rooms grew — city partners, cultural institutions, iconic libraries, museums — each one asking me to step more fully into my voice

By the end of the year, I found myself standing in some of the most meaningful spaces I’ve ever taught in, including the Toronto Reference Library, holding conversations about burnout, resilience, and mental health that felt both grounded and expansive 🙏🏾

This year taught me that keeping promises to yourself isn’t about perfection…

It’s about returning to your intention with kindness when life throws you off track, and boy did it throw me waaaaaay off track

I know I needed that reminder this year

Mental health belongs everywhere
Not just in crisis
Not just behind closed doors

As this year comes to a close, all I can say is thank you for this space to share my message with you all community 🫶🏾

Thank you for the rooms that trusted me,
for the people who showed up,
and for the courage it took to keep going

Softness… and a fierce belief in myself can coexist 🥹

If you’re ending this year feeling tender, proud, or somewhere in between — be gentle with yourself 💕The promise you made to yourself still counts

And if you’re a dreamer like me 🙋🏽‍♀️ keep dreaming
Dream loudly
Dream proudly
Don’t stop dreaming

Ending this year deeply grateful… and just getting started

Yours truly,
😊

All I Want For Christmas is uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 🥰🫶🏾🎄🎅✨👶🏽🎁🙏🏾💕🥳

Wishing you all lots of time to rest and rejuvenate surrounded by loved ones or time with the most important relationship we will all ever have, oneself 🫶🏾

As I get older, I keep reminding myself, be present for these moments, life is a dance, the good the challenging the daily triumphs we all make off our social feeds in those quiet moments we pulled ourselves together this year and maybe we still are today even surrounded by loved ones, take time to remember all that you are my friends, surviving another year is a HUGE accomplishment 😘

Love and light, sending care bear stares (Gen z knows what’s up lol) and lots of kisses from babies and puppies and loving humans oh and lots and lots of sparkles cause you my loves are magic 🥰

This year I started a new tradition, not waiting for birthdays or other societal norm times we’ve been told to spend time celebrating eachother, I started celebrating endings that are beginnings, why don’t we do this more? Because it’s feels AMAZING!

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

An essential part of my wellness has always been gathering with the ones who’ve held me, laughed with me, cried with me and walked through some real life lifi-ing with me 🫶🏾🥹💕

There have been so many hard but soft moments this season too like helping a friend pack up their life in a U-Haul after a painful breakup. A reminder that the holidays aren’t easy for everyone, and that love sometimes looks like showing up quietly, without needing a photo for it 🙏🏾

It all made me realize how deeply I value the people and fur babies in my life, and how important it is to check in on your people — especially the ones who live alone

Mental health is a community responsibility
Be kind. Be thoughtful. Be present. 🤍

Here’s to endings that create space for beginnings.
Here’s to grace for what you let go of this year, and compassion for the person you’re still becoming.
And here’s to the friendships that feel like home 🏡

🪔 DIWALI 🪔

Friends, family, community…

I’m beyond excited to share that for the third year in a row, and for the first time under the creative direction of my own boutique agency, and with the generous support of our TITLE SPONSOR, Food Basics, Canada’s leading grocery chain, my team, and I will be curating Diwali 2025 at the stunning Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum. A celebration that has become such a special tradition for the KW community and beyond and all in partnership with and supported by our venue and host 🙏🏾🥹

With over two decades in the events industry — first as an artist and later as the founder of one of Toronto’s pioneering South Asian cultural entertainment platforms — my journey has always been about storytelling through experiences

From long-standing collaborations with TIFF and major arts institutions, to being hand picked as the first Waterloo Region Jazz Festival to curating diverse programming today for the Region of Waterloo, my goal has always been the same: to create spaces where community, culture, and creativity shine 🌟

✨ Year 1: We lit the spark
✨ Year 2: We built the fire
✨ Year 3: Here with the signature touch of my atelier

📅 Sunday, October 19th
🕙 10 AM – 4 PM → The Museum transforms into a vibrant Diwali Market, inspired by the colors and magic of Jaipur

🕔 5 PM – 8 PM → A Bollywood Dance Party with the incredible Nitin Sharma & Band

Expect KWs finest .cad, live performances by a kids’ corner, shopping, music, community joy — and memories you’ll cherish with family and friends

🌟 Mark the date, throw on your Diwali best, and come celebrate with us!!!!

Let’s make this Diwali shine brighter than ever, it would mean the world to me 🥰

Beautiful vendors (more to come)


by.arora

Iman in Paris 🇫🇷 (Season 1 🤣 2025 Happiness, Friendship, Comedy)

Episode: “Pinch me, are we really here 🙈🥹😍)

Overview: Hardworking Iman finally takes center stage in her own story 🤓 trading grind for croissants, deadlines for dreams, and proving that happiness is the best souvenir. A comedy of joy, sparkle, and dreams-come-true moments, where every episode is written in laughter and café au lait ☕️🥐

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One thing about me as I continue to heal…

I no longer fear the storms of past traumas or current chaos that comes at me 🤓

Doing ‘the work’ has helped me welcome the storms

Because each time thunder and lightening strikes, they bring me closer to the truest ME and remove anything or anyone that blocks the blooming version of ME 🙏🏾

God is great

Each time I break, I return more whole, more powerful, more beautiful, more alive, more me, more found 🥰

This summer reminded me that healing in my life will always look like joy, pretty dresses,
travel, love, laughter, dancing bare feet in the sand,
and letting myself be loved in all the right ways by all the right people 💕

And the best part is, the best is still to come ✨

“Try not to resist life’s storms.
The cracks are where the light enters you.” – Rumi

Honored, humbled….not enough words to say how excited I am for this one friends (shoutout to little me and her power pose always rooting for me - swipe to last slide) 🥹💕🙏🏾

🎤 Keynote SPEAKER - Waterloo Small Business Centre

Workshop series - SHE LEADS:
WELLNESS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP 🌿
Burnout-proof your business. Lead with confidence.✨

Tomorrow morning, I’m kicking off She Leads: Lead With Confidence series with a workshop on one of the most important (and overlooked) parts of building a business:
Sustaining YOU 🙏🏾

For over 20 years, I’ve built businesses in the arts, wellness, and mental health spaces, while battling poverty, experiencing homelessness and mostly just seeing no way out of the cycle of despair until I discovered the ENTREPRENEUR WITHIN 🙏🏾

This work is personal, entrepreneurship helped me support my family while I supported myself to become the human I am today, yes it saved my LIFE!

Today, I teach others how to grow their business without sacrificing themselves in the process (more to share on the cohorts I’m back teaching at the prestigious - look out for your Wellnesspreneur, ME 🙋🏽‍♀️ I’ll be teaching Adult and Youth Entrepreneurship cohorts this fall 🙏🏾)

Back to tomorrow’s gig 🤩 if you’re a woman entrepreneur or dreamer ready to lead with wellness at the centre, I see you 💕

This is your reminder:
You are your business’s greatest asset! ✨

✨ Investing in your wellness and healing from all things toxic is a business strategy
✨ You don’t have to hustle yourself into the ground to be successful
✨ You can build sustainably, joyfully, and your way

📍 Waterloo Region Small Business Centre
🗓️ Tomorrow at 9AM
💬 Stay tuned for reflections + next steps

One of my most powerful healing practices is visiting and praying in places of worship—of all faiths 🙏🏾

There’s something about churches that has drawn me in since I was a little girl. I never fully understood why… until recently 🥹

In a therapy session using IFS (Internal Family Systems), I connected with a younger part of me 😢 the part that once sought safety from chaos. She remembered a friend from a Catholic family whose home became a place of peace and warmth for me my darkest times as a child, young teen and an adult…

That friend’s family welcomed me with food and shelter and without even knowing it, they planted seeds of comfort I still return to 💕

Stepping into Montreal’s cathedral recently, I felt that same embrace. Not just from the stone and stained glass, but from the part of me that remembers what it’s like to feel HELD, SAFE and close to something divine

“I call to You, Lord, my Rock, for You hear my voice.
In this sacred space, I find comfort and strength.”
– Psalm 28:1 ✨

This is your reminder: the body remembers where it once felt peace, and you’re allowed to return to those places, not in fear, but in power 🌺

May this season bring rest, and renewal to every corner of your heart 🫶🏾

📍Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal

And what a beautiful full circle moment to share this sacred space today with my incredibly smart, beautiful niece. We lit a candle and said a prayer togethe, just us, my little bestie and I

My safe family. My peace

My talented sister-in-law (a gifted photographer) .fl quietly captured these moments for us. More to come!!!

To love, to live, to heal….together 🤍

💬 Have you ever returned to a place from childhood that surprised you with how safe it still feels?

July 🌺💪🏾🙏🏾💕🔥🤓🤩👊🏾🤌🏾👄🧠💃🏾

LFG MY HEALING BEAUTIES AND BEASTS!

You’re truly,

Jatti healing bruahhhhhhh

💋

April 🤔 May ☔️ June 🪷🙏🏾💕💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Yours truly,
Healing 🤗