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With Samra Zafar, author of Unconditional
Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa in conversation with award-winning and internationally-renowned speaker, physician, and educator Samra Zafar about her latest book Unconditional. Zafar draws on her lived experience and the science of healing to tell a life-changing truth: unlearning is the key to setting yourself free.
In Unconditional, Zafar shares everything she has learned, as a woman, physician, and mother, about unlearning the harmful beliefs we store deep within ourselves. Through the hard work of digging out past trauma, unpacking faulty ideas that no longer serve you, creating healthier neural pathways, and embracing who you truly want to be, you can learn to love yourself—unconditionally.
Samra Zafar has been recognized among the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, the Top 25 Most Inspirational Women in Canada, and the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants. Her memoir A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose, sheds light on gender-based oppression and was a national bestseller. She is the founder and executive director of Brave Beginnings, a national charity that provides mentorship to women who have escaped abuse.
A medical trailblazer spearheading change in health care and beyond, Chika Stacy Oriuwa, MD was one Time magazine’s 2021 Next Generation Leaders and named on Maclean’s Power 50 List in 2022. Recently, Oriuwa established the Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health at Temerty Medicine. She is currently a resident doctor in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and author of Unlike the Rest.
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