THIS FULL LIFE Tara Davis

Did you grow up in a war zone? Were your parents from Iraq then immigrate to Israel? Have you moved your family back and forth to Israel 3 times? My guest today has experienced all this and more.

Revital Shiri-Horowitz is an extraordinary woman with an extraordinary life to share. She’s written 3 books earning several awards.

Today we talk about her childhood of growing up in Israel, running to bomb shelters in the middle of the night, serving in the Israeli Defence Force, moving to London, back to Israel, to the United States.

motherhood, parents, childhood, israel, author, narcissism, books, life lessons

 

 

My sister Sarah used this phrase while I was interviewing her...absolutist.   It means exactly what it says: there is no room for gray, it’s either black or white.   My sister has been a self-proclaimed absolutist for a long time and is now declaring herself cured from the judgment of it all.

Today’s podcast and video interview is about sisterhood, judgement, control issues, growing up, and more.

When the topic came up over Christmas about eating vegan or vegetarian or omnivore or pescitarian, I knew there would be some alternative view points.  Alternative meaning mine and her’s. Sure enough we had differing thoughts. I eat plant-based about 95% of my life. I have an occasional couple of bites of my husbands burger or fish and then I’m satisfied.  Back to my plants. My body just feels aligned when I eat this way. Sarah proclaimed this could not happen if I claimed to be a vegan. It was all or nothing.

I started in Santa Cruz, CA at a Women’s Leadership Conference.  It was the type of sisterhood connection I love to submerge myself in to. I felt deep connections with women I’d never even met.

There was so much learning and intensity that after the first day I felt like I had a hangover and I hadn’t even drank.  Morning two as my girlfriend and I headed out of our hotel room I put on my sunglasses, even though it was cloudy and overcast.  I didn’t want to engage with anyone yet. I still needed to be inward not outward.

Ever notice that when we really put our energy out in a big way that we also have to allow time to go within?  That’s me. I can put myself out into the world in a big way, and then I have to honor the part of me that wants to go inward and recharge and be quiet.

I’m learning how to manage my energy in better ways.  When we put ourself out in a way that is connecting with and being present with hundreds of people one needs to know one's limits.  I’m learning. I often just want to give all of myself and I know I can’t do that.

“White privilege is not necessarily about being white. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin. It’s about the fact that there is a power structure in place and has been for generations that affords certain people the luxury of never having to think about what they look like in terms of how they are treated by others. But for another part of the population it is inescapable to know that how you look and are perceived by others determines how you are treated.  This is white privilege.”  Delara Marchbank

Race, Identity, skin color, and culture are very complex topics.   The words Racial Bias might even sting to read them. 

In today’s episode I’m joined by my friend, yoga instructor, and activist Delara Marchbank.

Coming from a background of Persian decent Delera’s learned the nature of racial bias and white privilege. Growing up being of race and color other than white is very different from growing up white.

In today’s show I continue my conversation with Danny Neifert on Gender Identity.  In this second part of our two part series we dive into the basic moving parts of us as human beings.   If you missed part one of this series check it out here.

We’re all born in the physical skin of either a male or female body.  Yet it’s often discombobulating if we realize the shell we’re born into isn’t the person that’s on the inside. 

When we identify with the gender type we’re born into it categorically easy to navigate the world.  When we’re born into a gender that we don’t identify with life can present some major challenges.

And what if we suddenly find ourself attracted to someone of the same gender when throughout our life we’ve identified with the opposite sex.  This can also be a big shake up.

Listen in today and let me know your feedback.  I'd love to hear your thoughts!

 

 

I've known Danny for over 4 years.  When I first met her at our mutual yoga studio in Santa Barbara, CA I knew she had two grown children and was coming off a breakup. 

As time went on I discovered she was dating one of the female instructors and began to wonder how someone shifts from being attracted to males to being attracted to females and visa versa.  I had no judgement around it, I was coming more from the place of curiosity and wonderment.   

Several years have passed and I ran into Danny again in Colorado. She's still dating the same woman.

Several women leaders I follow on social media also had break-ups from long-term male partners and were now in committed relationship with women.

What sparks this?  What's the internal shift that happens when we go from one gender to another?

Gender Identity is a very personal and unique thing. 

According to the research Danny's done we each have three layers to our identity; the first being the shell we're born in:Female or Male.  The next layer is the gender we identify with.  This may or may not equal to what's on our exterior shell.  We feel like a man or we feel like a woman. 

And lastly we're attracted to the energetic composition of male or female.  For example some of us are attracted to a more manly man or a more feminine man.  Or we're attracted to a very feminine women or a more masculine woman.   

We dive into lots of Q & A on being attracted to the same sex and the opposite sex.  And why we're attracted to who we're attracted to.  

You can check out Danny's work in the world on her website Embodied Harmonics.