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The Mirror You’ve Been Avoiding

Through Tamara’s story and the practice of Shadow Alchemy, Dancing with Darkness takes you on a raw, soul-stirring journey to face the parts of yourself you’ve buried.

You don’t have to choose between light and shadow.
You were meant to dance with both.

Written by Taniya Hussain -The Muslim Alchemist with 30+ years guiding others through trauma - this is part memoir, part practical guide, and a reminder that your own healing matters too.

This book is not a book, it's a love note from my heart to yours.

🎥 "You're Not Alone in Feeling Misunderstood" A 2-minute message from my heart to yours

If you've ever felt

  • Buried under others’ pain

  • Sacrificed yourself to heal everyone else

  • Tired of quick fixes disguised as long-term solutions

  • READY to break patterns that keep you stuck, caged, and unfulfilled

If you’ve ever carried the weight of everyone else’s healing while wrestling with your own shadows… you'll feel seen in this book.

It's the story of Tamara.

A high-functioning woman

A high achiever

A high performer

Who carried shame for most of her life — and transformed it into JOY.

READ her story.

Learn about Shadow Alchemy.

And you will discover:

Transformation is possible for you too.

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Available in Paperback and Kindle editions.

  • To discover meaning and purpose in your life

  • To feel your own light

  • To connect to your own truth

  • To uncover the power inside of you

    …then Dancing with Darkness was written for you.

If you deeply desire —

The 7 Alchemical Journeys -

Embark on Your Reflective Space Adventure

This book guides you step by step through the layers of your shadows and darkness toward the light of your presence, wholeness, and true FREEDOM.

Naming

Identifying what you've buried so you WAKE up

Accepting

Embracing your conscious state

Taking back control of your space and time

Claiming
Breaking

Disrupting life-long patterns that kept you stuck and caged

Creating
Living

Building life-long patterns that keep you flow and free

FULLY experiencing life!

Being

Attaining presence and wholeness

Through Tamara's story—from childhood sexual and emotional abuse, weighed down by shame to profound healing—you'll discover that your shadows and darkness aren't your enemy. The shadows hold the seeds of your transformation

You don’t need to escape the darkness. You were always meant to dance with it.

What's inside:

FIRE

Prostitute → Lover — The field of passion, desire and worth. Transform from selling your soul for approval to standing in your worth and becoming ignited by your passion to find your purpose!

WATER

Child → Sovereign The field of identity and vision. Transform from being an impatient child and copying others to flowing in your power and agency to becoming the conscious adult and CEO of your life.

EARTH

Victim → Warrior The field of foundation, resources, and space. Step out of the drama triangle of either playing the victim, rescuer or persecutor and step into fighting for yourself, truth, and justice, and building your strength, resources, boundaries, and resilience.

AIR

Saboteur → Magician The field of transformation and intuition and time. Shift from self-sabotage to trusting your inner knowing and transforming your outer reality.

When you embark on The Reflective Space Adventure, you will meet the shadows within you - and learn how to find the light within you. They are not demons, they are mirrors, helping you understand your fears and can become sources of freedom.

Transform Your Shadows Into Light

As you journey through Dancing with Darkness, you'll learn to identify which shadow patterns have been keeping you stuck, caged and unfulfilled and discover practical ways to flow and be free and find fulfillment.

Reading Dancing with Darkness, you'll meet four shadow archetypes that may live within you — and learn how to turn them into light. These are not labels — they are mirrors, helping you understand how survival patterns can become sources of freedom.

Your Free Resources to Explore the Shadows

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🎧 Reflective Space Adventure: Your Journey to Serenity

A guided audio session to help you explore the deeper layers of your own pscyche.

You travel through the Personal, Identity, Practical, and Emotional Alchemy — helping you reconnect with who you are beneath all the roles you carry.

The Shadow Alchemy Playbook (PDF)

A 20-page play book to help you identify which shadow patterns might be shaping your life.

Inside you’ll find:

  • A map of four shadow/light pairings

  • Self-assessment questions for each shadow/light pairings

  • Journaling prompts to explore your patterns

  • Daily awareness practices

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Meet the Author

For over 30 years, Taniya served as a social worker — supporting children, families, and especially young people caught in the criminal justice system.

For 28 of those years, she volunteered as a therapist for women who survived domestic violence and childhood sexual and emotional abuse.

In January 2018, after her most intense experience of burnout, she began her coaching and consulting business.

She calls that time her dark night of the soul.

She calls it the beginning of her Reflective Space Adventure — her Spiritual Alchemy Quest.

Today, Taniya is a healer.
A transformational coach.
A trauma specialist.
The first Paceologist — a method she developed for rapid transformation, especially for high achievers and high performers.

Drawing from decades of clinical and community work, she weaves together:

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy

  • Narrative therapy

  • Motivational interviewing

  • NLP

  • Systems theory

  • Jungian Psychology

  • Islamic Psychology

These tools come alive in her signature offering:
The Reflective Space Adventure.
A space where you transform your shadows into light.

Her book Dancing with Darkness offers hope, honesty and a practical guide for anyone ready to face their shadows and become more conscious.

She lives in Surrey and continues to speak on stages, teach, consult, and coach in areas of:

  • Trauma Recovery

  • Burnout Prevention

  • Building Resilience

  • Knife Crime Prevention

Taniya Hussain — The Muslim Alchemist

The Clarity You’ve Been Craving

You didn’t land here by accident.

On the outside, you’re accomplished. You’ve built a life people admire.
But behind closed doors, it’s more complicated.

Maybe you carry the weight of a relationship where you feel unseen.
Maybe you give everything — at work and at home — and it’s still not enough.
Maybe you’ve been told to “just slow down” or “just leave it,” but it’s not that simple.

In a Reflective Space Consultation, we uncover the real pattern that’s been running your life — the one that keeps repeating in your work, your relationships, and even the dreams you keep postponing.

When you see it clearly, everything shifts:

  • You stop doubting yourself.

  • You understand why you’ve been stuck.

  • You find the next step forward.

  • This isn’t therapy. It isn’t coaching.

It’s one conversation that names what no one else has — so you can finally move with clarity, strength, and peace.

Your Journey Doesn’t End Here

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  • Release the shame that keeps you stuck

  • Heal without losing their ambition

  • Prevent burnout and over-giving cycles

  • Navigate emotions without numbing them

  • Turn shadows into strengths

Because the antidote to shame isn’t hiding — it’s compassion and learning to dance with your darkness.

One day in your life, you will face you.
One day in your life, you will rise.
One day in your life is today.
One day in your life is the dance.
Come with me.
Dance with me
You Don't Have to Stay Buried Alive

There comes a time when the darkness feels familiar — even safe.
But you weren’t meant to live in the grave.

✨ It's time to rise.
To transform from a Human Doing to a Human Being.
To dance with your darkness — and come home to yourself. ✨