About Amira Ayad
Amira Ayad is an author, storyteller, and facilitator whose work explores the intersections of story, imagination, embodiment, and meaning.
Her journey began with listening, listening to the body’s symbolic language, to what is carried beneath the whispers, and to the quiet questions people live with long before they know how to name them. This listening gave rise to her earlier work, Body Whispers, and eventually led her into deeper inquiries around narrative, perception, and what is real.
Through novels, gatherings, and shared reflection, Amira creates spaces where people are invited to slow down, listen more deeply, and reconnect with meaning, not by fixing or forcing change, but by allowing stories to be remembered and lived into.
She facilitates workshops, retreats, and reflective gatherings internationally, bringing together storytelling, expressive art practices, and shared inquiry in ways that honour depth, presence, and moral imagination.
Formal Biography
Amira Ayad, PhD, RP is an author, psychotherapist, and spiritual care practitioner whose work explores the relationship between the body, emotional life, spirituality, and the search for meaning.
She is the founder of Women Whispers Academy, where women are invited to listen to their body’s whispers before they turn into screams. Drawing on years of clinical practice, spiritual care, and integrative health work, Amira creates spaces - through books, journals, workshops, expressive arts, and retreats - where transformation is facilitated through storytelling, listening, reflection, and embodied awareness rather than fixing or forcing change.
Amira holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutics, a PhD in Natural Health, and a Master of Psychospiritual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her work weaves together science, psychology, spirituality, creative imagination, and lived experience, offering a compassionate and integrative approach to healing and personal transformation.
She is the author of several books, some of which have been translated into more than ten languages and read and taught by thousands worldwide.
She lives and works in Canada, offering talks, workshops, and retreats both online and in person.
She is the founder of Women Whispers Academy, where women are invited to listen to their body’s whispers before they turn into screams. Drawing on years of clinical practice, spiritual care, and integrative health work, Amira creates spaces - through books, journals, workshops, expressive arts, and retreats - where transformation is facilitated through storytelling, listening, reflection, and embodied awareness rather than fixing or forcing change.
Amira holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutics, a PhD in Natural Health, and a Master of Psychospiritual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her work weaves together science, psychology, spirituality, creative imagination, and lived experience, offering a compassionate and integrative approach to healing and personal transformation.
She is the author of several books, some of which have been translated into more than ten languages and read and taught by thousands worldwide.
She lives and works in Canada, offering talks, workshops, and retreats both online and in person.
Selected Publication
Amira Ayad’s scholarly work explores psychospiritual meaning-making, embodiment, and narrative approaches to suffering and transformation. Her writing appears in peer-reviewed journals and professional publications.
- Reframing the Suffering Narrative: Can Affliction Direct Us to Our Calling? - Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, 2019.
- How to Mend a Broken Heart: Art Quilt on Burlap and Cotton Fabric - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2021.
- A New Therapeutic Model Integrating Narrative Therapy with Mythology and Traditional Healing Modalities: A Case Study of a Canadian Muslim Woman Suffering from Depression - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2022.
- A Snail Aspiring to Be a Dolphin: An Art Journal Self-Exploration - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2023.
- Overcoming the ‘Cave Syndrome’: Supporting the Caregivers in Their Journey Back to ‘Normality’: Three Case Studies - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2024.
- Exploration of Ghazālī’s Autobiography: Could Re-Authoring and Re-Membering Tools of Narrative Therapy Help Young Muslims Restore Their Relationship with God? - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2024.
- The Power of Story: The Genie in the Drain Pipes - The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, 2025.
CONTACT
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