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April 21, 2019April 21, 2019All

21 April 2019 Greetings to my intimate group of readers. I’m back again to grace my blog with more of my thoughts, sometimes jumbled, sometime insightful, but mostly honest. I know I said I’m busy

Part 20 Breaking the silence – The power of talking

November 25, 2018November 25, 2018All, MY STORY

I regressed into old habits this week and started feeling like a victim again and I decided it was time for stock-taking. I also realised that this is the typical cycle. As I learn to

Part 19 – “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star”

November 18, 2018November 19, 2018All, MY STORY

18 November 2018 Part 19 – “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star” In my last post I recounted the questions that started surfacing in

Part 18 – The Outsider

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018All, MY STORY

Part 18 – The Outsider 6 November 2018 7.45 I sit in a quaint coffee shop in London on this mild winter morning. My eyes well up with tears and I contemplate all that I

Part 17 – Searching for the light

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018All, MY STORY

4 November 2018 My Story Part 17 – Searching for the light God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a

Part 16 – Piercing through the heart of darkness

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018All, MY STORY

28 October 2018 My Story Part 16 Piercing through the heart of darkness I experienced two weeks of the best and the worst of human nature and the best and worst of my own nature in

Part 15 – The Haj

October 21, 2018October 21, 2018All

Part 15 – The Haj 21 October 2018 In Part 14, I promised to ‘reveal the surreal experiences I had only shared with a few on the journey of my lifetime.’ I would not be

Part 14 – The Good the Bad and the Ugly

October 14, 2018October 14, 2018All

14 October 2018 The Good the Bad and the Ugly With the births of my second and third children, I mentioned the emotional disquiet in my marriage in Part 13. Shafiq and I bonded with

Part 13 – The White Picket fence

October 7, 2018October 7, 2018All

7 October 2018 The White Picket Fence I’ve been thinking about the many years that I spent spinning around in my own mind after my marriage to Shafiq. When Faeeq was a toddler we moved

Part 12 – Cry pray love

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018All, MY STORY

29 September 2018 My panic and unease during my first pregnancy (exposed in Part 11) increased exponentially after I gave birth. I remember everyone waxing lyrical about the “joys of motherhood”, yet for at least

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