You Are More Than Your Struggles: A Journey to Remembering
I am Nur Ambreen Ihsanullah, founder at Soul to Soul counselling, experienced therapist, teacher and spiritual healer for over 30 years now. The people I work with are successful in the external world; they’ve checked all the boxes, taken care of the people in their lives and often service oriented in their communities but have left themselves last in their lives— or forgotten themselves altogether!
It’s usually when a buried, invisible wound is activated, and we hit a pain threshold we can no longer tolerate, that we look for relief. Too often it’s that dramatic wake up call in our lives that calls us back to ourselves and we are thankfully unable to ignore it.
If we are one of the lucky ones, we are called back to reunite consciously with our singular soul essence and the immortal spark of divine light buried deep within it. When the intense pain of our circumstances wakes us, we are compelled to move forward toward the deeper truth of our being. It’s an intense and sometimes arduous journey coming home to ourselves, but we persevere because it is the holy grail we are born to reclaim and live in this life.
Actually, we humans are extraordinarily resilient. We tolerate all manner of pain and hardships from childhood to old age, carrying the impacts of that pain in our lives, surviving if not thriving.
I help people resolve their past pain, inner wounds and the conditioning keeping them stuck inside themselves and in their lives, to remember and reclaim their inner beauty, the wisdom, peace and love inside them so they can live, love and lead from the light of their own unique essence.
The Spiritual Call Within: Finding My Way Back Through Healing
This same journey started for me with the breakdown of my marriage and subsequent divorce. Both my husband and I were in our 30s and well conditioned to accommodate and contort ourselves to the expectations of family and the external world. We each carried our own buried pain and when our relationship was seriously challenged, were unable to be fully ourselves and therefore, with each other in love. The decision to part was shattering for both of us. The dream of happily ever after had yielded to this catastrophic ending in both our lives.
Standing in the aftershock, one thing was clear for me. I knew that it was my job to heal myself and to know myself deeply. Life was untenable lived from this chaos and confusion inside me. My world was completely upended, and I had to rebuild it from the inside out.
Marriage counselling at an end, I continued personal counselling, read all the self help and spiritual books I could find. I attained my masters in counselling psychology, did five years of postgrad training in Gestalt Therapy, Satir Marriage and Family Therapy, apprenticed 2 years with North American and South American Shaman Medicine Women, studied 3 different energy healing systems and finally,6 years of training in Family and Systemic Constellations work which heals generational trauma at the soul, spirit level.
Most significantly, the end of my marriage, brought out the spiritual seeker in me and I was lead to the Sufi esoteric path, the spiritual heart of Islam.
I had been attracted to the Sufi path since I was a teenager.
During the 30 plus years of “walking” the Sufi path I was naturally brought to learn Sufi Spiritual Healing work as well. So, what have I learned through these years of education, training, teaching and personal inner healing work? We are born to live this life from our unique soul essence, to make our unique contribution and shine our light into this world.
The Path of the Soul: When Love Leads Us Home
But, we are a part of our mother through our maternal lineage, and nine months gestation in her womb and we are taught separation from the minute we are birthed into world and the umbilical cord cut. Our inherent need to belong and to be part of the whole compels us to contort ourselves and do whatever we feel we must to get the love, attention, appreciation, and the belonging we require to live. So, we forget ourselves, and deal with our deep pain we incur either by acting out or numbing out. The lucky ones among us, encounter such a painful experience in our lives at some juncture that we become bound and determined to heal ourselves and live from our authentic being.
These determined courageous people are me and my clients.
My own healing journey made me realize that it is my purpose and mission in this life to help others, as I have helped myself, to be the light they are meant to be in this world, in whatever unique way that expresses itself.
This is the spiritual path as I know it. When the world fails to meet our essential need for love and belonging, and we have done all we can to meet that undeniable need, we may turn to the Infinite Source within us to fulfil this incontestable longing. When we surrender to the path, the Infinite leads and we flow where we are meant to go. Then we are on the soul’s journey and mission for our life. It becomes clear sooner or later that the synchronicities, coincidences, epiphanies and big or small miracles are really the Divine leading us home to ourselves and the Source of Love in which we were created.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU
Dear Friends
As part of my lifelong commitment to my soul’s growth and expression, I am currently in level two of the University of Sufism Masters of Divinity program. In deepening my self knowledge and connection with the Infinite I am learning the many facets of Sufi Spiritual Healing which embodies the revered prophetic tradition passed through the ages.
As part of our homework between class sessions I am required to complete an extensive number of spiritual healings. During the month of Ramadan March 2025 I am offering 30 healings as my gift to those of you on my list.
The healings are applicable to a physical illness or condition as well as mental, emotional,spiritual issues you may be experiencing and are ready to resolve.
This offer is first come first served for up to 30 people during this month of March only.
If you are interested, please reply back to this email with your name, email and phone number as well as the best time to contact you for a quick chat to set up our healing session.
I look forward to meeting you and working with you to support your best mental and physical health and well-being.
Soul to Soul Counselling
Nur Ambreen Ihsanullah
My mission and purpose are to help individuals and families heal, grow, and thrive by guiding them to release invisible wounds.
