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Author: Raihanaty A. Jalil

Raihanaty A Jalil writes poetry and fiction and has been on a panel during Perth Festival Writers Week 2019. She has performed a reading of her work at the Wheeler Centre Melbourne during the Digital Writers’ Festival 2019. She currently sits on the board for Centre for Stories.

Best way to send money from Australia – Wise Bank (vs Western Union, PayPal, Money Gram & more)

In this video I’ll be sharing the best way to send money from Australia to your loved ones overseas – using the Wise Online Bank. I’ll be comparing Wise to XE Currency Convertor (for the real current exchange rate), Western Union, Travelex, PayPal, Money Gram, and one of Australia’s major banks, CBA. In my personal experience, I also find Wise offers the best card to use when travelling (including withdrawing foreign cash), best way to buy online with foreign currencies, the best way to do business if you work with foreign contractors.

**UPDATE: In my livestream, I learnt a couple of other services might be better than Wise for sending money overseas (unless both you and the recipient open a Wise account)! But please comment if you’ve used these and please confirm that there definitely aren’t any other hidden fees after you follow through!

**SPECIAL OFFER: For Australian residents, get zero fees on a transfer up to A$1,000 using my referral link (N.B. I may earn rewards is you use my link with no extra cost to you): https://wise.com/invite/dic/raihanatya1

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How to stay motivated at work (especially when you’re self-employed)

Discussing all my various experiments that has finally lead to me learning how to stay motivated at work, especially when you’re self-employed. Working for yourself is extra challenging since you don’t have anyone that you’re accountable to other than yourself. But these strategies may be helpful if you have an employer as well.

How I treated my psoriasis naturally when VERY BAD (My C.S.D.S. Plan)

What I do to treat my psoriasis naturally when VERY BAD (some extreme actions) – My C.S.D.S Plan (Timestamp 2:30). I’ve lived with this incurable skin condition since I was 17 years old. This is a followup from my previous video where I discussed my W.I.G.G.A.S. Maintenance Plan (LINK: https://youtube.com/live/hlKURz4hh3w?feature=share) that has kept it under control Masha Allah, Alhamdulillah. This discussion may be helpful if you suffer from similar skin conditions, for example, Eczema.

Note: I’m not a health professional so nothing I say should be taken as health advice. But I am grateful for the many health professionals in the natural medicine space who I’ve learnt from.

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How I treated my psoriasis naturally (W.I.G.G.A.S. Maintenance Plan)

Discussing my personal journey living with psoriasis, an incurable skin condition that I’ve had to learn to manage since I was 17 years old. I’ll share the natural remedies I’ve learnt over a couple of decades, and the W.I.G.G.A.S. Maintenance Plan (Timestamp: 23:20) I now adopt that has kept it under control Masha Allah, Alhamdulillah. This discussion may be helpful if you suffer from similar skin conditions, for example, Eczema.

Note: I’m not a health professional so nothing I say should be taken as health advice. But I am grateful for the many health professionals in the natural medicine space who I’ve learnt from.

How to Overcome Jet Lag Quickly – the secret in Chinese Horary Points

In the following video, I share a trick I learnt by chance during a long flight from Australia to USA on how to overcome jet lag quickly that I couldn’t believe worked when I returned to Australia and has worked for me ever since! The secret is in the Chinese Horary Points – I’ll be explaining what these are and the technique. This technique can also be helpful if you struggle falling asleep.

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Dedicated to the Palestinian people whose very existence is resistance.

I can’t find the words to express this
This feeling of forlorn and helplessness
Anger, disbelief, shock and pain
The injustice under a tyrannical reign

Torturous cries and mountains of dead
Our hearts shatter at such bloodshed
Like a limb that is ravaged by a swarm of bees
The whole body suffers and can feel no ease

But I never lose hope in the Most Just
In Whose Power I can have full trust
In Whose Wisdom I hope to understand
As our brothers and sisters fight for their land

We mourn their dead but their dead smile
Their souls no longer in a perpetual trial
Their mothers in mansions replacing homes destroyed
Their children finally knowing the meaning of freedom and joy

May Allah ease the hearts of those left behind
May He open the eyes of the blind
May our brothers and sisters live to see
A Palestine that is finally free.