A short spoken-dialogue transcript (YouTube) between Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Vishen Lakhiani presenting a poetic, exhortative meditation on a woman’s liberation. The piece describes stages of shedding external approval, unreal expectations and traditional constraints, embracing authenticity, confronting conflict, claiming sovereignty, and committing to self-love and autonomy.
Chapters
There comes a time in the life of a woman when she discards her old ways like tossed shoes in the garbage, when she shreds her list of shoulds and obligations, and when impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator.
There comes a time in the life.
Of a woman when the approval of others wants jewels now turn to pennies in her sock, when the hunt for another is now replaced by a hunt for herself. And when parental tentacles of tradition no longer define her truth.
There comes a time in the life.
Of a woman when her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves, when her manic compulsion to be perfect vaporizes, and when her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates.
There comes a time in the life of a woman when she simply no.
More, when facade, artifice and guile leave her nauseated, and when righteousness, dogma and superiority repulse her.
There comes a time in the life.
Of a woman when she no longer fears conflict but faces it boldly like a lioness. When she guards her authenticity as fearlessly as she guards her babies. And when she drops the role of savior, knowing she can only save herself.
There comes a time in the life.
Of a woman when she knows longer, cowers in the shadows of her unworthiness.
When she no longer plays small so.
Others can feel big, and when she swaps the role of victim for the role of co creator.
There comes a time in the life of a woman when she unabashedly and.
Boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty, when she.
Feels finally ready to claim her space in the world, and when she redefines compassion as unequivocal self love. There comes a time in the life of a woman when she finally releases her childlike dependencies on others, when she.
Dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself.
One that says, I release unworthiness and fear. I divorce civility and passivity. I divest in authenticity and enmeshment. I end the pretense of being someone I am not. And from now on I declare I will ascend into my highest power. I will embrace my greatest autonomy. I will celebrate my deepest worth. I will embody my fiercest courage and.
Manifest the most authentic me. The time is now. I am ready to awaken into my renaissance. Thank you, Shefali. That was beautiful.
