The Free Spirit Collective UAE

10/04/2026

Proudly rooted in the UAE 🇦🇪, in service of our community and our region.

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08/04/2026

20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak🕊️

Eid is a time of gathering, gratitude, and coming back to what matters most, the people we love and the moments that ground us.

From all of us at The Free Spirit Collective, we wish you and your families a blessed and peaceful celebration. 🤍

13/03/2026

Update on our hours.🕊️

In response to current circumstances, we’ve temporarily adjusted our in-person session hours to 8am - 5pm.

Online sessions continue until 8pm as usual.

We remain open and available to support you during this time. If you need to adjust your appointment, please reach out.

📍 In-person: City Walk, Dubai (8am - 5pm)
💻 Online: Until 8pm
📧 info@thefsc.earth

You’re not alone in this 🕊️

01/03/2026

Offering a free community parent webinar to tackle children’s fears, big questions, and anxiety during uncertain times.
Practical tools. Reassurance. Support.

This session will be given by Drs Haneen Jarrar & Dr. Asmahan Saleh BCBA-D of FSC.

🗓️ 2nd March at 9PM GST
📍 Online
📩 Registration via DM to receive link

01/03/2026

To our wonderful community,

We just want to let you know that we are all here for you as we weather this unsettling time together.

All our therapists & doctors are available to support and will continue to work online for today and tomorrow.

We will be offering
free community group meditation & grounding sessions & parenting group sessions, details will be posted on this page.

In extraordinary times, we need to support each other, stay as present moment focused as possible, hold to our centres - our faith, our breath, our community. Together we will ride this through.

Please reach out if you need individual assistance & we will update soon about the community sessions.

With love from all of us,

FSC

26/02/2026

We hear this from people a lot: “I don’t understand why I can’t just slow down.”

And the answer is rarely about willpower or time management. It’s about what happens to your nervous system when you’ve been under pressure for too long.

When stress becomes chronic, your body starts operating as if everything is an emergency. Your system doesn’t differentiate between responding to a work email and responding to an actual threat. It just signals: act now. Move fast. Don’t stop.

This affects how you experience time itself. Five minutes feels too short. An hour feels rushed. Nothing ever feels like “enough time”, because your nervous system is processing the world through a lens of urgency, not reality.

And the hardest part? You know logically that most things can wait. But your body doesn’t feel that way. So you end up in this exhausting loop: doing everything quickly, feeling constantly behind, unable to rest even when you have time.

This isn’t a personality flaw. It’s not about being “Type A” or high-achieving or anxious by nature. It’s about what happens when your nervous system has been activated for so long that urgency becomes your baseline.

The good news is that this isn’t permanent. Your nervous system can learn new signals. It can recalibrate. But that requires more than just telling yourself to relax — it requires creating actual conditions for your system to recognize that safety is possible.

If you’ve been living in constant urgency and it’s exhausting, therapy can help.

We work with people navigating nervous system dysregulation, chronic stress, and burnout. Our approach focuses on helping your body learn, not just your mind, that not everything is urgent. That pause is safe. That you don’t have to keep running.

If this resonates and you’d like support, we’re here. Send us a DM “SUPPORT” to learn more about how to start you’re therapy journey.

24/02/2026

New mothers are drowning in information.

What you should be doing. What you shouldn’t be doing. What a „perfect mother“ looks like. And so much of it conflicts with itself or is completely unrealistic.

There’s no such thing as a perfect mother. But the information you’re presented with every day tells you that’s what you should be aiming for.

It’s coming from everywhere: other people, the internet, social media, Google at 3am when you’re exhausted and overwhelmed and trying to figure out if what you’re experiencing is normal.

And somehow, you’re supposed to discern what’s helpful and what’s not, while sleep-deprived, maybe in pain, and completely overwhelmed.

That’s an impossible ask.

The pressure isn’t just about caring for a baby. It’s about navigating a constant flood of advice, judgment, and expectations that often contradict each other.
You don’t have to do this alone.

Holding the Mother is a 6-week postnatal support group for new mothers navigating the challenges of early motherhood, the information overload, the pressure, the exhaustion, and everything in between.

Led by Dr. Sophie Sterling and Dr. Nakita O’Leary, this is a space where you don’t have to be perfect. You just have to show up.

Details:

🕙 Sundays 10 AM - 12 PM
💰 450 AED/session (can be claimed back on health insurance)
👶 Babies up to ~12 months welcome

To register comment or send us a DM “SUPPORT”z
You deserve support, not just more information.

20/02/2026

Healing has been made a privilege, when it should be a right.

On World Day of Social Justice, we’re reminded that mental health is inseparable from equity. The barriers people face aren’t just logistical, they’re structural.

They’re tied to systems of inequality that decide whose pain gets taken seriously, whose suffering is visible, and who gets left behind.

Social justice means asking uncomfortable questions: Who is being excluded? Who isn’t safe to seek support? Whose mental health struggles are dismissed because of their race, their nationality, their economic status, or their identity?

It also means recognizing that mental health struggles don’t exist in isolation. They’re shaped by inequality, discrimination, displacement, poverty, and systemic harm. Telling someone to „just take care of themselves“ without acknowledging the conditions they’re living in isn’t helpful, it‘s dismissive.

Mental health equity isn’t just about creating more therapy sessions. It’s about dismantling the barriers that keep people from accessing care in the first place. It’s about ensuring that support is culturally competent, linguistically accessible, and financially within reach. It’s about creating systems where everyone, regardless of where they were born or what their passport says, has the right to be seen, heard, and supported.

At FSC, we work with people from over 15 nationalities, speak multiple languages, and are deeply committed to culturally sensitive, trauma-informed care. We know that wellbeing isn’t one-size-fits-all, and we believe everyone deserves access to support that respects their full humanity.🕊️

19/02/2026

We hear this a lot in therapy: „I should be better at handling stress by now.“

But here’s the thing: most people who feel like they’re „bad at managing stress“ aren’t struggling with resilience. They’re struggling with a life that never lets up.

There’s only so much a nervous system can take when there’s no opportunity to recover.

When demands are constant, stress doesn’t just disappear when the moment passes. It accumulates.

Yesterday’s tension, last week’s overwhelm, last month’s pressure. All of it still stored somewhere in your body.

Your system doesn’t know that the deadline passed or the conflict resolved if it never got the signal that it’s okay to settle.

This isn’t about learning to cope better. It’s about recognizing that the problem might not be you, it might be the pace and pressure you’re being asked to sustain.

Recovery isn’t optional. And needing support doesn’t mean you’re failing.

If you’ve been feeling like you can’t keep up, you’re not alone. And this isn’t a character flaw.

🕊️ We work with people navigating chronic stress, burnout, and nervous system dysregulation at FSC. If you’d like support, we’re here. Send us a DM for more information.