In celebration of LOVE & the DIVINE


Good morning to the beautiful curious creatures that have awaited my intimate reflection during this holiday break. In celebration of my becoming, I have put together a few sacred entries on the traditions celebrated in Islamic marriages, highlighting the Imam Zamin. While nourishing my own sense of self-worth and having advocated for those around me that were voiceless, I realized that there weren't enough voices supporting the diversity of Muslim marriages in the wedding industry, which is why I have put this journal entry together.

Having worked in the wedding industry as a Henna Artist, a healer for my Brides as an energy worker, I found myself short of breath in expressing the traditions, love and honouring the spirits that made the foundation of my faith. Due to Islamophobia and segregation within the Muslim world; media  and politics, I felt that a remedy was needed to help heal the wounds in the hearts of those who were unaware of Islam and its beauty.
I will be making references to the traditions witnessed in a Shia Muslim wedding; the Nikah specifying the importance of the Imam Zaman. 

Please note that this is not an article to convert your beliefs, but to lovingly share the heartfelt messages of the Divine light while I reminisce and share one of the most beautiful days of my life.

My name is Saira Hussain and I am human. 
I was raised in a Pakistani, Shia Muslim family and the origin of my existence and the purity of my heart are from God who I am forever grateful for.

My ancestry is HUMAN and DIVINE.

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MADE IT!
written by Saira Hussain


This week's hand written letters are the letters that have guided us through our wounds in these past 9 months. With every letter, there is a sisterhood supporting the soul for our future.
When we write to ourselves, we encourage the powers of the universe, the creator to unfold the powers within our bodies, minds and hearts to self-heal.

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As we approach the 9 month anniversary of the adversity that changed our world, we too have risen with the remedies of growth in the SELF in OURSELVES. We too need celebrating the survival of these two-hundred and seventy days.

Sisters, my name is Saira Hussain and I am the owner and founder of Breath of Henna & The Love Letter Community. As a small business owner who began in a gig based economy in 2007, I have crossed paths of hundreds of  womxn who were giving their time, love and words without consciousness. I found myself in an enclosure of toxic habitual patterns, stemming from past intergenerational traumas, blended with the lack of self-empathy and self-worth. Work became me and I allowed it to define my well-being, which led me into an emotional eating habit while on the growing paths of perfectionism and competition.


'When you give without limits, limitations do fall on you, causing one to burn out and possibly end what was once your passion; your SELF.'

I told myself that I would take the responsibility of  finding the love that I needed to thrive in fulfilling my life's purpose; to heal. Before I could help guide others to heal, I had to heal myself and reconnect with my wounds. We are so adamant on building our practices individually that we forget that our systems, organs, cells all work collectively, as a community. I had to first accept that I was a community on my own, who also needed a healthy sisterhood to share her story with.

I broke free of the shackles these past 9 months of the addiction that I never knew I had.
The paths of emotional healing are those that held me when I grieved my old self to born anew the version I always wanted to be.

This is when I initiated the LOVE LETTER COMMUNITY.
March 25th 2020, 11 am EST via ZOOM.

We have all been in a place where we have felt deprived of happiness and stability because of an adversity; a death in the family, a lack of organization while juggling family life and education or resentment of even starting a business. 

What was your adversity before the pandemic?

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 I reached out to my girlfriends and found myself short of breath when sharing the past 12 years of what patterns no longer served me. I decided enough is enough. Why not merge our loose ends into an empowering series of collective conscious sisterhood? As the days grew, we too became isolated in our homes with relationship healing and purging, financial stability and work security problems on the rise. One thing we never gave up on was that we all believed that our worth did not come from money. That is came from our integrity, self-love and we each had our intuition to guide us.

These conversations were built into the sacred space where we could share our journeys; challenges, grief, celebrations and ideas that we needed to manifest into our own growth. This became our weekly dose of conscious living, which is now the Love Letter Community. 

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In order to celebrate our growth, we first must celebrate our homes; our BODIES.
In order to celebrate our resilience, we first must celebrate our consciousness; our MINDS.
In order to celebrate our courage and community, we first must celebrate our love; our HEARTS.

The divine is in us all to share and explore.
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With love,

Saira Hussain, Founder
Love Letter Community
Breath of Henna

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