ABSTRACT
This chapter includes a story of an occupational therapy student with the same course load, fieldwork requirements, enthusiasm, motivation and self-doubt as most occupational therapy students. However, she is from Bangladesh, a Muslim, an employee, a mother and a wife with a myriad of family responsibilities along with her occupational therapy schoolwork. Her story is about an occupational therapy student who also became a victim of 9/11 because of her religious and ethnic background. She was learning to help others, but needed to learn how to help herself first. Much of the recent occupational therapy and other health-related professions' literature concern how to help students and clinicians attain cultural competency, professional development, and critical reasoning to enhance client care. Occupational therapists sometimes fail to see that these concepts apply to themselves as well.
