Shireen is an artist, author, and blogger. She earned a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto, launched into fiction writing and computer programming, and slammed and somersaulted into the unknown life of brain injury.

Personal Perspective: Trauma can reanimate after a brain injury. I found that this type of “unhealing” is not discussed during neuro-rehab.
Personal Perspective: We with brain injury don’t have to accept blame for how our brain injury and resulting grief expresses itself.
Brain injury destroys your role in your family, and your family history affects how you and your family members react to your injury.
Personal Perspective: Joy is a state, not an emotion. Despair may consume every aspect of our thoughts and emotions, but joy exists, waiting for us to call it up into the light.
A Personal Perspective: For people with brain injury, mattering to others is not only about being valued; it’s also about being given the chance to recover to our full potential.
Zoroastrian beliefs mandate greening the land and keeping the waters pure. How does that translate into practical living and Climate Action? Two lecturers enlightened us in the final week.
Zoroastrians venerate water. To pollute it is to defile it. It’s one of seven creations and is linked to the Amesha Spenta Hordād. Water is life and to be revered.
I used the tutorial in the penultimate week of Zoroastrian Orality, Customs, and Ecology to ask about the Yasna and dive deeper into the meaning behind rituals.
I admit, I’m not a fan of rituals repeated regularly ad infinitum, but writing this post on the complex and myriad Zoroastrian rituals provided a different perspective.
Three professors. One week. One strained brain. Orality is about transmitting texts in oral language. Written is in script, which isn’t necessarily language with meaning or in its own language.
City of Toronto lets sediment in our water supply. Sediment damages heat pumps. My 6-week saga of replacing my cold climate air-to-water heat pump with a new one. #ClimateAction The post Sediment in Toronto Water Means a New Heat Pump appeared first on Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy.
Literary Titan gave The Soul’s Reckoning 5 stars with an intriguing, insightful review. And challenged me, the author, with their Q&A. #IndieAuthor #reconciliation #fiction #fantasy #Christian #afterlife #death #grief The post Literary Titan Q&A for The Soul’s Reckoning appeared first on Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy.
Over the weekend I was accepted into the TISS-PARZOR Programme on Zoroastrian culture & civilisation. Today, I attended my first session. I attempt a summary. #BlogPost #MondayBlogs The post Zoroastrianism: Introduction and Major Tenets appeared first on Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy.