Episode 40: Paria Hassouri

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, 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 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/