Paria Hassouri

Impact the World with Lee Harris

Lee Harris

Education, Entrepreneurship, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Self-improvement

5 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our special guest is Paria Hassouri, MD, a pediatrician, mother of three, transgender rights activist, and the author of Found in Transition; A Mother's Evolution During Her Child's Gender Change. A gifted writer, she is courageous and honest in her account of her feelings of denial and anger to not just acceptance but embracing her daughter's transition. Despite the fear of maybe 'getting some things wrong,' she was moved to share the truth of their story after hearing other families going through the same experience share theirs. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Huffington Post, and Women’s Running Magazine. In this episode, Lee and Paria discuss how her daughter's journey led Paria to question her own identity as a mother and validity as a pediatrician, which brought plenty of opportunities for reflection and growth. Paria takes us back to Thanksgiving a few years ago, where she finds herself desperately praying and negotiating with the universe as she irons a dress her fourteen-year-old 'then' son, who wants to wear the dress to family dinner. One of the many beautiful take-aways from this honest and important conversation is how Paria was able to prescribe a new story and how the heart and mind is capable of expanding in ways you never thought possible. To learn more about her work: http://www.PariaHassouri.com. FB: https://www.facebook.com/paria.hassouri Twitter: https://twitter.com/pariahassouri IG: https://www.instagram.com/laparia/?hl=en National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/ Want to go deeper with Lee’s work? Join us beginning September 29th for his acclaimed online course Empaths vs. Narcissists - A Power Dynamic and How to Recover From It. This powerful healing journey features in-depth video teaching broken down into modules for you to watch at your own pace, live Q&A calls where you can ask your question directly to Lee, guided qigong practices to facilitate grounding, audio downloads of all course content, a private members forum and much more! Registration is open now at http://empathsvsnarcissists.com/ The views and opinions expressed by guests of Impact the World are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the host, of Lee Harris Energy LLC, or its staff or management. Any content provided by our guests are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Impact the World, the show for and about creatives, change makers and entrepreneurs.
0:09.0	This is a conversation episode where a special guest shares with me what they are creating and the behind-the-scenes journey of their experience.
0:26.6	Welcome to Impact the World. My guest today is Paria Hasori, who is a writer, an advocate, a parent, and she came onto
0:34.6	the show to speak with me about her new book, which just came out.
0:39.2	It's called Found in Transition, a Mother's Evolution during her child's gender change.
0:45.9	This is a wonderful show for so many reasons, and I was grateful that Paria came on to talk to us.
0:51.1	I hope you enjoy, and you can find Paria and her work at Pariahorsori.com,
0:56.7	and we will put all of the links in the show notes. Enjoy the show.
1:05.4	So welcome to this show, and Paria, thank you so much for not only coming onto this show, but I got really
1:13.4	excited when Kim Corbyn at New World Library reached out to me and said, oh, Lee, there's someone
1:19.6	you've got to have on the show because she has written not only an amazing book, and it is
1:24.4	a beautifully written memoir, but also just the topic of the book is so needed.
1:32.1	And so thank you for being here to talk to us about your book found in transition.
1:37.6	Thank you for having me.
1:39.6	It's a pleasure to be here and talk to you and hopefully reach your audience.
1:46.1	Well, if you don't mind,
1:51.6	I thought I would just begin by, you know, the book starts in a really compelling way.
1:56.8	And I thought if it's okay with you, I'm just going to read the first few paragraphs. And the chapter heading is Thanksgiving 2017, Iron.
2:02.5	Mom, I left something on my bed for you to iron, my 14-year-old says,
2:07.2	when he sees me come downstairs.
2:09.5	The hair on the back of my neck rises.
2:12.2	My heart starts galloping in my chest, but I reply with the most casual nonchalant, okay, I can muster. It is Thanksgiving
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