Psychology and Mental Health in the Light of the Hadith, You're not Broken You're Being Built

You're Not Broken, You're Being Built

Psychology and Mental Health in the Light of Hadith

By Erin M. Ignane

This is not a textbook. There are no lectures here.

This is a book written from the floor from the seasons of loss, isolation, grief, addiction, broken marriages, shattered identity, and the kind of loneliness that gets into your bones and stays there. It was written by a woman who chose Islam, lost everything in the same year, survived on donations and dua, and came out the other side still holding her tasbih.

If you have ever made the same dua so many times you lost count and still heard silence this book is for you.

If you have ever wanted to die and chosen one more day anyway this book is for you.

If you have ever loved Allah and still felt completely alone in your faith this book is for you.

29 chapters covering the seasons nobody prepares you for:

Loneliness. Grief. Waiting on Allah. Starting over. Addiction and sobriety. Marriage and its losses. Trauma. Shame. Identity. Forgiveness. Mental health. And the slow, costly, extraordinary process of finding out that He was enough all along.

Every chapter weaves together Islamic scholarship and modern psychology showing that what science is only now proving, the Prophet ﷺ already knew. Hadith and Sunnah sit alongside neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma research, because the woman reading this deserves both.

Duas for every season. Arabic, transliteration, translation, and exactly when to use them.

This book will not tell you to just trust Allah and smile through it. It will sit with you in the hard. And then it will hand you the tools to get through it.

You are not broken. You are being built.

And what He builds does not fall.