The Wounded Healer
From Pain to Joy in the Art of Caregiving
Every healer carries wounds of their own. In this essential guide, Dr. Omar Reda draws on decades of clinical practice, humanitarian fieldwork, and personal experience to explore the profound paradox at the heart of caregiving: those who give the most are often the ones who neglect themselves most completely.
The Wounded Healer offers therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, and all those who care for others a compassionate framework for understanding burnout — and a path toward sustainable, joyful practice. Dr. Reda's approach is both clinically grounded and deeply human, weaving together psychiatric expertise, Islamic healing wisdom, and the hard-won insights of a man who has sat with suffering on four continents.
Part of the HTI Wounded Healer Model of Care
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Untangled
A Go-To Guide for Caregivers of Traumatized Children and Communities
Trauma does not live only in individuals. It moves through families, communities, and generations — shaping behaviour, relationships, and possibilities in ways that most people cannot name, let alone address. Untangled gives caregivers the tools to see this clearly and act with purpose.
Written for parents, teachers, counsellors, and community leaders, this book is both a practical manual and a profound act of hope. Dr. Reda explains how intergenerational trauma takes root, how it manifests across different settings and cultures, and — most importantly — how it can be interrupted. Every family, every community, every generation deserves the chance to begin again.
Part of the HTI Project Untangled Model of Care
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On the Shoulders of the Prophet
Finding a Safe Role Model for Muslim Youth
In a world where Muslim youth are pulled between competing identities, extremist narratives, and the quiet loneliness of not quite belonging anywhere, On the Shoulders of the Prophet offers something rare: a healer's portrait of the Prophet Muhammad as a source of safety, wisdom, and belonging.
Dr. Reda's passion for this work is rooted in first-hand experience — in his own journey as a Libyan Muslim who arrived in post-9/11 America, who has counselled young people wrestling with identity on multiple continents, and who has seen what happens when young people find a role model that holds both their faith and their humanity at once. This book is his gift to that generation.
Islamic Healing & Youth Empowerment
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