Women’s Strength – celebrating International Women’s Month

Life. [laughs] Greetings, greetings, greetings,
and welcome to Heal Talk Tuesdays with Liza.
It’s so good to be here with you, isn’t it?
Wow.
What a gorgeous time of the year.
I love March. I feel like every time we are in the season,
first of all, it’s the third month of the year, which you know.
I love number three, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Space,
the Holy Spirit, and also the three E’s, which is evoking,
what was in order for us to embrace what is,
so that we can evolve to what it is that we want, right?
March is also marching forward.
So I love this month because it’s like springtime in some places.
I know there are so many places that it’s cold.
Even here in LA, we have had a tough beginning of the year,
but I think we are ready to march forward with so much grace,
so much wisdom, so much more coming our way.
So I think everything in life is about perception,
and how we perceive things, how we think things,
how we speak about them.
So instead of having low energy, let’s lift everything up.
Before I go further, I want to say thank you.
Thank you to each and every one who
messaged me, called in to the radio station.
I am so excited.
I launched my show.
It’s called Real-Talk with Liza on AM870, KRLA radio station.
It’s been a dream and control to say the least,
from the time that I was a little girl,
listening to a transistor radio,
and I would fall asleep listening to what I now know it is the,
what we call it.
It’s like a soap opera, each night on airwaves.
So since that I always wanted to be on the radio,
so that I can have a voice and impact others,
helping others who felt alone, lonely, disconnected,
or have a hard time connecting and sharing, expressing what it is that they wanted.
So that dream became a reality.
Actually, I got the most beautiful flowers yesterday for,
as a thank you, I’ve got DMs, I’ve got email.
So thank you again.
Now, let’s talk about something else.
As you know,
today one of the things that I do as an expert,
not only as a clinical, hypnotherapist, stress management consultant,
I like to call myself an expert expert in women’s wellness.
So why is it, why I do what I do is because when we come together, we rise together.
And March is also international woman’s month.
It’s a time to recognize and honor the strength, resilience,
brilliance of women, just like you, who is watching this show.
And everywhere around the world, actually globally,
I think there are so many places that are celebrating March
as international woman’s day, and the day is March 8.
So, here’s another story.
About maybe over 10 years ago, 12 years ago,
I was at my condo and there was a knock on the door.
I opened and my favorite lovely,
golden hair, next door neighbor, Lillett,
she walks in with a beautiful pot of flower, and certainly gorgeous.
And she says,
“This is for you.”.
Like, well, thank you,
but it’s not my birthday, as she says.
Oh, but it’s international woman’s day.
And I look up to you,
I truly adore you, and I just wanted to give you those flowers.
I had never heard of internationals of woman’s
day until about when she gave me those flowers.
So, what she told me that in Armenia, and so many places around the world,
they celebrate this day more,
if not bigger than birthdays.
And especially their mother and grandmother,
and the people that mean a lot to them.
So, that was the beginning of introduction 15 years ago.
And since then, even America in the last decade has been celebrating,
but more so in the last five, six years that I know.
So, I know it’s been around for a long time.
Too often, it would have been told to be soft as women,
to be quiet,
even to be subservient,
and to shrink ourselves.
And that’s what we do, especially women from cultural upbringing,
from traditional homes,
and I can talk to her in Armenia, she would
say, “That’s exactly how it is in our home.”.
And it can be a cultural Greeks.
It can be Egyptians.
It can be Chinese.
It can be Japanese.
It can be Hispanic.
You know one of the things I realized that every woman I talk to,
when they have a home that is family.
And it’s upbringing,
comes from cultural and traditions.
We all say the same thing.
This is how I was raised.
So, I grew up in Iran, until I was 14, 15 years old,
and then I came to America.
And I’ve been here since.
This is home for me,
but not but.
And, and yet, I grew up in a home of very tradition, cultural,
and a different upbringing.
So, grandma was the matriarch, and then mom, and then my family, so the women,
and how we were raised,
it’s like we have graduated
from the time that says,
“Do not speak” or “Do not do” because grandma was such a grand woman.
She spoke seven languages.
She taught herself how to play the piano.
She was a powerhouse, as far as I know.
She baked, and she cooked, and she sewed.
And she did.
This is all from a woman that never went to school,
because she was part of the Armenian Genocide,
and they grew up in the orphanage, and she got married from age 15.
By 17, she had her first child,
and yet she was highly educated, self-educated.
And she taught me how to be bold and strong, and not aggressive.
So, being assertive does not mean being aggressive.
Being graceful, and yet not passive.
And being empowered, and not apologetic.
See, those are the differences.
It’s such a fine line that I want you to know when I say,
it’s time for us to show up, show up in life,
with all the things that I want to know.
It’s all the grace and beauty that you have.
It’s time for you to stand up for who you are,
and realize that in life we take on other people’s opinion.
We bow down to other people’s judgment,
and we become people pleasers.
It’s when you come to stand up for yourself,
and honor yourself, and know your own worth.
You can be gentle, and yet not soft.
Makes sense.
And that’s how we come to speak up.
Speak up, not tell people off,
but speak, so that you can express what you feel, you can express what you think,
you can express what you desire in life, not demand in life.
And that’s the fine line between a strong
woman, a powerful woman, than an aggressive,
we no longer need to stomp on someone to feel that I can rise up.
So, I want to hear your opinion.
What do you think?
How you were?
How were you raised?
Are you coming from a home of tradition, cultural?
What was your upbringing?
I love to know.
I love if you can just share right here.
You know, make a comment.