The roots of resilience…are to be found in the sense of being understood by and existing in the mind and heart of a loving, attuned, and self-possessed other.
Diana Fosha
I thought that my students loved me because I was a good English teacher. But perhaps they loved me because they sensed an emptiness, a need to be seen, understood and to exist in their hearts and minds.
And as qualified as I was to teach them English, they were equally qualified to hold this sometimes fragile, sometimes broken boy in the warmth of their collective heart, tenderised by all the sorrow that being a Muslim woman in the UK brings.
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