Speaking Up + Out, With Debbie Rosas.

Finding your voice and empowering yourself to take a stand for what you believe to be true takes guts and courage. Many of us are frozen by fear of ridicule or even persecution. This keeps us from speaking up and out, while using our voices to create change. Most educational systems don’t encourage those who identify as females to speak their minds; it’s safer to fit in and to follow along rather than to lead. Safer to be silent rather than being singled out. 

Not everyone listens to the Awakened Feminine Spirit. Since the Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901, only 19 women have won. When I first read about women who had bravely added their voices to the symphony of the universe, I felt I was being given a key into a private room of powerhouse leaders who have paved the way for all who identify as women and girls to be seen, heard, and acknowledged for their contributions toward a better world. 

One Sunday I set out to study these women. As I did, I began to sense a connection with them. I discovered that the first woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner, an outspoken pacifist who wrote one of the 19th century’s most influential anti-war novels, Lay Down Your Arms. She became a close friend of Alfred Nobel and many credit her with an influence on the establishment of the Nobel Peace Prize. 

The second woman to win the prize was Jane Addams, the founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. When professor Halvdan Koht gave the award, he invoked the poets Goethe, Ibsen, and Bjørnson as having, “seen women in a different light; in their eyes women reflect the highest and purest moral standards of society.” Addams wrote that as life-givers and life-nurturers, women have a special feeling about war and peace. 

Of all the winners, the woman who touched me the most was Leymah Gbowee, mother of six and the author of the book Mighty Be Our Powers. Gbowee courageously helped organize and lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace; a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest and confronted Liberia’s ruthless president and rebel warlords by fostering a sex strike! Brave and courageous are small words to describe her unique voice and power. 

I carry the stories of these strong women with me. The message in these Nobel Peace Prize winners stories is that the voice of those who identify as women and girls needs to be heard. We need to encourage each other to speak out. We need to stand with each other for truth. We need to bring the voice of the Feminine Spirit into the symphony of the universe. I want to be a part of that voice. I want to be a part of that story. And, I want to be a part of that change. 

More information about the Debbie Rosas Education Program, Awakening A New Feminine Spirit, coming soon!

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