Standing in Your Sacred Power:
A Conversation with Dr. Rochelle Marie Lawson
By Lesley Pazdzioch
Every podcast I host touches my heart, but this episode, this conversation, truly felt like Divine alignment. I had the great honor of sitting down with the radiant and unstoppable Dr. Rochel Marie Lawson, and I knew immediately: this was no ordinary conversation. We went deep. We went real. We went spiritual. And now, I want to share those powerful highlights with you, especially for every woman seeking a blissful, grounded, and meaningful life.
In this deeply vulnerable, soul-to-soul conversation with Dr. Rochelle Marie Lawson, we cracked wide open the essence of what it means to be a woman rising. Together, we shared stories, peeled back emotional layers, and offered a safe space for truth to emerge.
And now, I want to share part of that truth with you, because I believe every woman deserves to feel seen, heard, and powerful.
A Woman Who Embodies Wisdom and Grace
Dr. Rochel Marie Lawson is known as the Queen of Feeling Fabulous, and for good reason. She’s a powerhouse: a successful entrepreneur, registered nurse, Ayurvedic health practitioner, 10-time bestselling author, and international speaker. She leads with soul and serves with intention, hosting The Blissful Living Podcast. A panel show called Bold Unstoppable, where women speak candidly about the challenges of navigating life, work, and womanhood.
But beyond all the titles and accomplishments, what moved me most was her authenticity, her insight, and the safe space she created for me to be authentic and share my personal experiences. The knowing that comes only from two women who have stood in the fire and risen in our feminine power.
Unraveling the Layers of Womanhood
In our conversation, I shared my reflection on the delicate balance many women face between the nurturing softness we were born with and the hard edges life sometimes demands of us. For so many of us, especially those who grew up without safety, protection, or nurturing, stepping into womanhood can feel like wearing a cloak we never learned how to fasten.
With the growing number of single-parent homes, we take on all the roles: mother, father, healer, protector, provider, and in doing so, we often lose the one most sacred role: the role of becoming the woman the role intends, creating ourselves.
Rochel understood this deeply. She, too, walked the path of balancing masculine and feminine, not to deny her womanhood, but to navigate spaces that weren’t built for her presence.
“I was the only woman in the room, often mistaken for the secretary. But I owned the company. I held my ground because I knew who I was.”
— Dr. Rochel Marie Lawson
Strength Rooted in Femininity
What struck me most was how Rochel never abandoned her feminine essence. She cooked for her children. She ran her household. She showed up at dance recitals and sports games, and then walked into boardrooms and construction sites with the same grounded grace.
She didn’t choose between softness and strength; she embodied both.
And that’s the lesson.
We don’t need to become men to survive in a man’s world. We don’t need to mute our softness, silence our emotions, or carry every burden alone.
But we do need grounding. We do need awareness. And we must cultivate a strong inner foundation that can hold us when the outer world doesn’t.
How to Reclaim Your Inner Ground
For women like me, like many of you, who weren’t taught how to hold that sacred center, Rochel offered simple, powerful tools:
1. Ground Before You Go
Before stepping into your day, into a conversation, or even into the grocery store, ground yourself. Stand or sit tall, imagine your energy flowing down into the Earth and then rising back up like a pillar of light. Even 2–3 minutes a day makes a profound difference.
2. Honor Your Energy
When navigating difficult environments, learn to feel your energy. Are you leaking it? Giving too much? Trying to “fix” others? Pull it back. Redirect it. You are your most sacred resource.
3. Practice Presence
When you wake, pause. Give thanks. Create a spiritual bubble around yourself. You don’t need 30-minute meditations. Just a few intentional breaths can protect your peace.
4. Connect with Nature
Take off your shoes. Step into the grass, the sand, the soil. Let the Earth support you. It’s not a new-age idea, it’s science! Spiritual science. You were created to be in communion with nature.
Fear Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Ready
As we reflected on her early experiences, standing firm at 22 years old in a room full of men, Rochel admitted: Of course, there was fear. Of course, there was doubt.
But fear doesn’t mean you’re not ready. It means you’re alive. And choosing to rise in spite of it! That’s power, your power.
“When you truly know deep down that you’re amazing and that you matter, other people’s opinions cease to matter.”
A Final Word to the Woman Who’s Tired, Tender, and Trying
If you’ve struggled with boundaries…
If you’ve poured out your soul, only to be met with rejection…
If you’re wondering if you’re too soft for this world…
Hear me now, sister: You are not too soft. The world is just too hard.
And that’s why we need more of you, not less.
This conversation reminded me that healing, balance, and bliss aren’t found by becoming someone else. They’re found by returning to who we are at the core, by honoring the divine feminine essence given to us by the Almighty Creator himself – God, and when we choose to support each other along the way.
The Sacred Struggle of Womanhood
So many of us, especially those raised without safety or nurturing, grow up learning to survive rather than thrive. We become everything to everyone: mom, dad, protector, provider, and yet, somewhere deep inside, we are yearning to simply be.
To be held.
To be understood.
To be soft and strong at the same time.
As Dr. Rochel so beautifully reminded us, “Even the most feminine woman must harness masculine energy to survive in a society that wasn’t built for her.” But she also reminded us that we don’t have to lose ourselves in the process.
And for me, that hit home because my journey has been filled with moments where fear tried to break me.
When Fear Found Me Young
Dr. Rochel shared, “I was just eight years old the first time fear consumed me. A girl at school, older and more aggressive, bullied me relentlessly. I was the youngest in class. Every day was terrifying. And yet, I still got straight A’s. That pain and fear were buried so deep, I didn’t even tell my family until my late 40s.
I saw her again at 15. And the fear came rushing back. But this time… I was different.
I stood up. I was ready to fight. And I realized something that changed me forever:
Fear doesn’t mean you’re not strong. It’s just a signal. And what you choose to do with it? That’s what defines you.
Fear as a Turning Point, Not a Life Sentence
This same kind of fear came to me, later in life, throughout my entire life, in relationships, in quiet moments of self-doubt.
It began a sacred inner war. A divine reckoning.
A healing that stretched 18 years and taught me how to feel again after a lifetime of people pleasing, never being enough, melting down mentally and emotionally, and becoming numb.
I had always been a “good girl.” Kind. Giving. Honest.
But being kind had gotten me walked on.
Being good had gotten me abandoned.
Being soft had gotten me hurt.
Until I understood that my softness was not the problem, my silence was.
From Victim to Voice: Breaking the Silence
There’s a story I’ve never shared publicly before. I might cry even as I write it.
When I was nearly 21, with a baby girl just a few months old, I was raped on a first date.
Not only did I endure the assault, but I was also blamed for it. Blamed by the very person I had once trusted to protect me, my daughter’s father.
And still, I fought.
At 5 feet 5 inches tall and barely out of girlhood myself, I pressed charges. Charging him with date rape, and I won!
He served time. I reclaimed my voice.
And to any woman reading this who has suffered quietly, ashamed, confused, or blamed, I see you.
You are not alone.
It was not your fault.
And yes, you can still fight.
Healing Is Not Always Gentle; It Is Always a Sacred Gift
Dr. Rochel called them “fenceless children.” The abused. The neglected. The broken.
And I’ve been one. You may have been one, too.
But we don’t stay broken.
We rebuild.
We rise.
We root ourselves in the Divine and within ourselves until we are rock solid in our sacred strength.
So when fear returns (and it will), you’ll know:
This is just a moment.
Not a life sentence.
“Fear is temporary. Your power is eternal.”
— Lesley
Grounded in God, Rooted Within
The practices we shared in this podcast are simple, but transformative:
- Grounding daily – before the chaos starts. Feel your energy connect to the earth. Stand in your light.
- Gratitude as a shield – thank God for your breath, your day, your life.
- Personal awareness – recognize when you’re leaking, giving too much, or inviting the wrong people in.
- Nature connection – barefoot, skin to soil. Let the earth restore your emotional balance.
You are not weak because you cry.
You are not broken because you’ve been betrayed.
You are not too much.
You are not too late.
You are not too far gone.
Be the Woman Who Fights Back
Maybe no one ever told you this, so let me be the first:
You are a miracle. Here with a mighty purpose.
You are a force to be reckoned with when you learn what it means to “Live from the Inside Out”
You are allowed to take up space, speak your truth, and say “no more.”
If you need a symbol of that power, be Wonder Woman. Be Fire. Be a storm that no one can silence.
Pretend, if you must, until the pretending becomes a remembering of who you truly are.
This Is the Sacred Invitation
This blog is not just a summary of a podcast episode.
It’s a declaration.
It’s a sisterhood.
It’s a reclamation.
It’s the intention for humanity.
To every woman who’s been bullied, abused, ignored, overlooked, or made to feel like she was “too much”:
This is your sign to rise anyway.
And do it, not in spite of your softness, but because of it.
Because you were born for this.
The Divine doesn’t make mistakes.
You, my love, are not broken.
You’re becoming whole.
With grace and gratitude,
Lesley Pazdzioch
