"I Saw In His Eyes, He Wasn't Coming Back" with Noor (Pakistan) (English)

Welcome to episode 14 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz. In today’s episode I speak with Noor Pinna, she moved to the United States from Pakistan at the age of 5 because her father left his family. And she speaks about the journey coming here and honestly, it’s such an impactful story. The connection wasn’t the greatest when we were recording and Noor explains why but overall, her story is still impactful. She has the funniest first memory of the US, which I thought was the cutest, and I feel like this story could be turned into a movie, after you listen let me know if you agree or disagree. Noor talks a lot about her culture and I learned so much just from listening to her, I would love to know what is one thing you learned about Pakistan from this episode? Send me a message on Instagram letting me know! Noor’s Bio Noor Pinna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) & shame resilient coach within her private practice for the past six years. She believes in providing a trauma-informed, holistic, spiritual, creative, and science-based approach. She helps women break free from the barriers of shame, become empowered to advocate and gain self-confidence, create resiliency, establish self-care rituals, implement healthy boundaries, and become a leader in their universe. Noor also works with Muslim men. Noor has done international mental health work, explicitly helping Afghan women. In 2019 Noor delivered her first Tedxtalk on Shame Resilience. She is in the process of publishing her first book, The Sun Still Rises which discusses themes of spirituality, faith, inner child wounds, compassion, self-love, and resilience. Connect with Noor Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Mental-Health-Service/Noor-Pinna-Therapy-Coaching-105949581290905/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noor_pinna/?hl=en Facebook group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/703349070089786/ Tedxtalk: https://youtu.be/2Kg7BIjA3p0 Connect with Heidy - https://www.instagram.com/heidy.delacruz13/ If you or someone you know would like to share their immigration story, please send me a message on Instagram. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review of the show - this will help the show reach more listeners. Thank you. Stay up to date with new episode information sent to your email - sign up for the podcast newsletter here! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.