Short clip: Parin Sachedina talks about resilience

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Parin Sachedina on how Jamatkhana inspired resilience and nurtured a sense of belonging. 
“I don't know. I mean, I just marvel at human nature and the survival instinct, you know, that, despite everything that people go through, they still have something within them that needs them to move forward, to adapt. And to continue, and to move on. So, you know, that in itself is quite impressive.
Well, I think there's a couple of things. I mean, we were lucky that Jamatkhana was very important. And we had somebody from our Jamatkhana that would come and pick us up on a Friday. And I think having that link to our community, just being able to pray, I think in all of my life, in all of the biggest challenges that I've had in my life, the opportunity to silence your mind and pray with a group of people that you know, that with whom you have a sense of belonging, I think has been a very powerful thing for me in terms of just helping me rationalise, re-energise and just think differently about certain things.
I was still studying, I was still only 16. But this was like the big wide world that I hadn't entered, you know, being so restricted and, but I was making money, and I was able to, when I turned 17 pay for my own driving lessons. And I was able to buy my own car. And that really changed the face of our lives, you know, certainly for my parents, because then I was able to take them very easily to community events, community functions, to weddings to other things. So now they had a much stronger sense of belonging than they had before. So that was great.
There was nobody to talk to, you just got on with it, we had to I think, you develop a certain amount of resilience, you know, when you when you've had the kind of experience that our family has, you have to have a certain type of experience. You know, we didn't have people to talk to we didn't have, you know, anybody that would put their arms around us and say it's going to be alright, no, we just had to deal with it. That's what it was.”