A shaman, healer, and author who survived the Iranian revolution talks about taking responsibility for your life, sitting with your emotions instead of fighting them, and the transformation behind her number-one book.

Atousa Raissyan’s book reached number one across several Amazon categories, but the more striking story is the journey behind it. Born in Iran and a child during the revolution, she now works as a healer helping people move from fear toward love.

In this wide-ranging conversation she talks about sitting with difficult emotions, releasing what the body has stored, and the two principles at the heart of her book: responsibility and choice.

Atousa Raissyan is a shaman, healer, life guide, poet, and author. Born in Iran, she came to the United States by way of Germany in 1984 and now works with clients on emotional healing and transformation.

Her book Change Yourself, Change the World: Transform Your Life From Fear-Based Living to Choosing Love and Seeing Magic became a bestseller in multiple categories. She created its augmented-reality cover art herself.

DISCUSS YOUR BOOK

Full transcript of the interview follows.

Richard Lowe: Hello, this is Richard Lowe with author talks. I’m a ghostwriter, a writing coach and LinkedIn branding expert. So if you need any of those services, connect with me, I’m here with Well, why don’t you pronounce your name for me?

Atousa Raissyan: I to sell rice. Yeah.

Richard: That is rice. Yeah. Thank you. Perfect. Wanted to get that right. And she’s an author, we’re gonna talk, we’re gonna have a conversation today. So why don’t you introduce yourself?

The Book and Its Unexpected Success

Atousa: Thanks for having me. First of all, on your talk show Richard. I’m so happy to be here. A little bit about me. My name is a to salvation. I’m originally from Iran. And I just published my book is called Change yourself, change the world, transform your life from fear based living to choosing love and seeing magic.

And by trade I’m shaman, healer, life guide and author, poet, you know, a lot of different titles out there.

Richard: Sure, that sounds very interesting. How did you get into well, writing a book, what just made you decide to do that,

Atousa: um, for longtime when I went through my own sort of transformational journey, healing journey, I really when I started feeling better and realizing it is simple, and it is not. But it is simpler to have an easier life, a good life to get all those things that you want.

And when you start feeling good, I wanted to share it. And I saw my clients when they come to me how much they transform and change and they feel better. And then each one of them comes back and says, you know, the people around them are changing. And so that prompted me to want to get the message out there. And the best way I thought is, you know, doing a book,

Richard: then you self publish it.

Atousa: i They call it self publishing. I mean, I had help. I used ama publishing, to help me, you know, format the book, put it all together, put it on Amazon and all those things. But yes, you know, I came up with the cover art actually. And all that promotional stuff that you do to get it out there is was all me for most part.

Richard: Yeah, most writers hit the promotion and they don’t know what to do at that point. Promotion is hard.

Atousa: It is hard. But honestly, the book went beyond my expectations. You know, I was expecting okay, you know, they’re gonna help me as well. And you know, you get number one, maybe in one category, but I hit number one. And when the ebook came out on three or four categories, and it stayed that way for like three days and even international.

I, for first couple days, I think I hit top three in number hot new releases. And then yeah, and then when the paperback cut that one to hit number one, as well. And it stayed number one for two days.

Richard: Very nice. Yes. I know the feeling. I’ve had two books hit top 10 and Kindle bestsellers, and then high on the category list guide number one on categories several times different books. It’s a really good feelings.

Atousa: It is it is especially like I said, I wasn’t export the paperback, I did not expect that at all. And the ebook I said, you know, maybe one category at most two and you know, maybe one day, but yeah, it’s done well, so I’m really happy and it’s gotten good feedback from people.

Richard: That’s nice. That’s nice. Yeah, there’s nothing worse than waking up and finding a couple of dozen one star reviews, right?

Atousa: Yes, you don’t want those?

Richard: Yeah, never got I’ve gotten a couple one stars. That’s normal, but never, never very many. Some of my earlier books I could read I could actually use some polishing on. Yeah.

Atousa: Yeah. So this is actually I was in a multi author book before this one. That one we did pretty good. And then I’m in another multi author book that’s coming out. September 22, actually,

Richard: Oh, nice. Nice.

Atousa: Yeah, the multi author books are easier than the solo ones.

Growing Up in the Iranian Revolution

Richard: Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I just I just collaborated one of those two. And they’re trying to get more authors. So you said you’re from Iran. Do Are you born in Iran and come over here? How did that work?

Atousa: Yes. The whole life stories in the book. But yes, I was born in Iran. And I was there for or the revolution for the war. And I came to us via Germany in 84. I actually got here April Fool’s sale. Tuesday. 1984.

Richard: Wow. So you were in the revolution against the Shah? Yeah. Yeah, I was there. Yeah. That’s quite a thing.

Atousa: Yes, it was.

Richard: I imagine it was scary.

Atousa: It was and especially as a kid, you know, parents? I don’t know, back then, I guess, didn’t they didn’t think to explain things to the kids. You know, you’re just there. You know, sort of like, I don’t want to hear I don’t want to see you type of thing, but nobody got to explain it.

But there was it was really scary. You know, there was gun shots you would hear there. There’s something actually I mentioned in the book. One of my traumatic experiences was we woke up in the middle of the night because they were banging on our door. And our house was next to the bank and somebody knocked on our doors, like you need to leave because there’s a mob coming and they’re burning down everything.

And most likely they’re going to burn down the bank. And we’re my mom grabbed my sister and I and we’re running in the middle of the street and I’m looking back and there’s a mob of men carrying torches wearing black and they’re like, right behind us chanting comic, and it was one of the scariest.

Emotions Are Not the Enemy

Richard: Yeah. So you you work to help people be happier.

Atousa: I don’t want to say happier because then everybody because right now everybody’s looking for that magic bullet to be happy. You know, I have to be happy. It’s not about being happy, but realizing there’s more to this life and it’s okay to have emotions. And when emotions come it’s okay to sort of like mood Carry it and be with it and go in it and see the reasoning behind it and why it’s there.

What is it trying to teach you? What is it trying to show you about yourself, it’s more about going inside, and sort of finding that peace and joy inside. That’s not attached to what’s happening on the outside. Because a lot of times, I think that’s what people you know, I’ve had even clients that come to me, you know, they start panicking, you know, I’m, I’m sad, I’m, you know, got anxiety.

But if you sit with those feelings a little bit and go into a deeper, you’ll see the reasoning behind it.

Richard: Yeah, yeah, I was raised. As a typical American family. And my father, if I cried, he would hit me and say, I’ll give you a reason to cry. And so that stuck with me through life. And when my wife finally passed away, after a long illness, I couldn’t cry.

I couldn’t feel any emotion at all, I was just basically numb. And, to this day, I haven’t cried over it, because it wasn’t allowed. Now, when a cat died two weeks later, then I cried. Because I was just too much.

Atousa: Exactly. And I think that’s, you bring up a good point that traditionally, in most cultures, most areas, they’ve taught the men, you know, you shouldn’t cry, you shouldn’t show emotions. And then they’ve told women that you’re too emotional. And then women try not to be emotional as well not to have those emotions, because then, you know, you’re a crazy woman, and you know, you’re, you know, hormonal, or whatever, they attach all these things to it.

So everybody in their own way, is trying to fight emotions. And we are where we are, because of it,

Richard: I found that I actually take my emotion, whatever it is, and I put it in my stomach, put my anger here and my anxiety in the stomach. And it produces some interesting physical effects. And I’ve had to get quite a bit of counseling to figure that out and kind of burn it off, so to speak, and let it out. Because yeah, it’s not healthy, keeping it inside, and it does stick around.

What the Body Stores

Atousa: It does. And, again, these are things I talk about in the book, as well. They’re all those illnesses that we carry, it’s has some tie to emotional things that we’ve experienced. And it is some of it also passed down from generations before that, you know, they didn’t know how to deal with things, and they pass it down to their kids.

And all those things, you know, when you’re holding it in your body, the body like keeps a memory even sometimes mentally, or emotionally, you’ve dealt with things, but that memory of it somehow is in the body and you’re storing it. So in the book, I cover all that as well as how to release it how to go into it.

it. Like you’re saying, though, that that’s what brings us all together to be able to share those stories and to be able to talk and it takes a little bit of vulnerability, you know, to go into that vulnerability that you’re feeling and knowing that you’re safe and okay to share a little bit of yourself.

Yeah, it’s It is, it’s, we all have commonalities, and that everybody wants to feel better. Everybody wants to live a better life. And everybody’s doing their best. But yeah, all those. But it’s interesting. You mentioned all the wars and everything. And that’s how all this has started with where we are at today is all those battles, all those power struggles and everything that was based in fear of, you know, survival, fear of having more fear of not having, and gradually all those things has grown and grown and grown into the society. We are now that we have all these wars still happening around us.

Tribalism, Fear, and Seeing Others as Human

Richard: Yeah, it’s tribalism, people, their tribe and that’s, they, it’s okay to be in a tribe. It’s okay. To be American, be Iranian be be whatever tribe you are, but you shouldn’t carry it to the point where other people are foreign species. They’re not foreign species. They’re humans in a different with different upbringing.

Atousa: Exactly. But it’s the fear here, if the unknown, I don’t know who you are, I don’t know what you do. The way you do things scares me. So then I must protect myself against you.

Richard: Yep. I think it’s also dehumanizing that your tribe is human. The other tribe isn’t? Yes. And you know, you can hurt things that aren’t people. That’s easy. And but people once you realize they’re human, it becomes much harder. That’s I think one of the problems that narcissists have I just had another author last night, we talked about narcissism, she wrote a book on that.

And narcissists don’t view others as human. They because they only view themselves. They don’t have any problem with hurting people at all. That it’s fine to hurt people. It’s it’s actually they want to, and it’s i My dad was a narcissist. And I’ve had many narcissists around in my life, that’s probably one of the probably address it in your book, the thing that that I’ve learned is get the toxic people out of your environment, you do much better.

Atousa: Sure. But I go into it a little bit deeper to that those people if you look at their history, and how they were raised, and how their parents were raised, these things didn’t just happen. It’s like, again, generation to generation, all those traumas, all those experiences gets passed down.

And each one of us when we don’t address the traumas that is being passed down to us, by the way of our parents behaviors, you know, they had their own problems, they had their own issues, they had their own issues with their upbringing and, you know, from my place, you know, I talked about in the book is that you know, my I grandparents, it was an arranged marriage.

My grandmother was 15. My grandfather was 30. And just that by itself and the stories my grandmother used to tell us, my I loved my grandfather, he was the gentlest sold the best man I knew. But even we used to say that the meat you’re seeing today is not the meat that your grandmother got.

And certainly he got better with his kids. But even his kids didn’t get what we got as grandkids, because by that time, he did a lot of soul searching a lot of sort of clearing out of his own stuff. So he, for us, he was much better. He was like a dad to us, even though like my dad was the dad to me.

So all those things gets passed down from parent to parent, and nobody’s willing to stop and say, you know, what’s happening? And my grandmother, you know, at 15 to marry this man had kids, she was a kid herself. How could she be a mom?

Richard: Yeah, that’s interesting. That’s fascinating. I realized when I wasn’t going to counseling, which I still am, because counseling is great, that I was very angry. And the reason why I was very angry, because my dad was very angry. He was extremely angry, very bitter man. And once I realized that, a lot of the anger disappeared, and stopped, at least stopped coming out.

And I became much more of a real human, I guess, you know, happier, because I didn’t need to be my dad. And being my dad was stupid, because he, basically, because he was so emotional. People didn’t want to deal with him. So he basically sabotage his own life.

And, you know, drinking problems and things like that awesome. And, well, one of the good things about him being such a narcissist and bad person was, I decided not to be him. So he drank, I have never drank, he smoked, I don’t smoke. He whatever he did, I don’t do.

Which is interesting, because he’s an artist, and I could never become an artist, you know, even the good stuff. I could I. So it took me a long time to understand the effect that he had on me, because I used to not be so not think he had an effect.

I’m bigger than that. I’m better than that, you know, I ran away from home when I was 12. But I came back because I was afraid of what he would do to my sister. So even though it was 12 years old, I knew what he was going to do.

And protected my sister, as best I could as a 12 year old and successfully. So now she’s a teacher. I mean, she owns a school, sorry, she owns a school with teachers and things. So we came up pretty good, in spite of the badness, but the emotions are still there.

Atousa: Exactly. Exactly. The memory of all those traumas are there. And when we go into it again, with forgiveness, seeing it differently and releasing it, it really releases you, you start to feel lighter, and those triggers aren’t there anymore, as you release those things. Because, you know, and, you know, my clients see it all the time, the areas where they would get triggered, and they would get angry or upset or sad or scared.

Now that, you know, they’ve taken those things out and dealt with it and released it and released the memory and the body. They’re not getting triggered anymore in those same places as they were before.

Richard: Yeah, yeah, triggering is interesting. I talked to some younger people too, and some all over the place, and they get triggered at a much lower level than I do. Like, it takes a lot to trigger me. And it always has, but the younger people, and this is just a generalization.

I’m sure it’s not true of everybody, but they get called the wrong name or something and they get triggered. It’s like, that’s, I used to get hit with a two by four. That’s triggering. That’s a different level. Yeah. If you get when you get hit with your data from your data by a two by four, then you can say you’re triggered.

I wrote a book by by a woman who was sold into slavery at age 14 by her parents. And she got out of it eventually. And you know, had a great life after that. But that’s triggering. That’s bad. Having somebody call you something wrong or a name or or talk bad about you on the internet. That’s minor

Atousa: day but you’ll be surprised the effect of it for them.

Richard: Of course, of course I’m not. I’m not below Link Yeah,

Atousa: no, but but the thing is that it’s triggering for them that you will find out. Because, again, things, we carry things from the generations before. And they, they get that way because of things that they witnessed they are experiencing. And as a general, I think that’s why, right now, you see the younger generation have a lot more, you know, labels of add ADHD, depression, they’re all on medication for some different things.

I know. And, you know, bipolar this, that there’s just so much of it out right now. And I think that’s part of it.

Richard: No, I didn’t mean to belittle any of it. He’s triggering things, because everybody gets triggered by something. And I’ve just had to learn to suppress it. Because it got pretty bad. Yeah. Well, and you know, to survive, you learn to push it down. Yeah. So if somebody gets triggered by something, they should probably just mention it to somebody else.

And you know, you triggered me or whatever, and we work it out. That’s something that I always say is, we should just talk. So if I do something that annoys you, let me know. If you do something that annoys me, let me know in a rational conversation, not a, you know, not a belittling kind of thing, not a gaslighting kind of thing, just, hey, that that made me feel bad.

Okay, I’m sorry, I did that I’ll not do that in the future. And we’re done. Exactly. And you don’t have to get into the whys and wherefores, and blah, blah blahs. And you know, all this stuff back and forth about how you were terrible person, because you said that just just mentioned it.

Most good people will then will then respect whatever you you know, as long as it’s not super intrusive, will respect you for that and go along with it.

Atousa: I agree. There’s actually exercise in there in the book that I talk about, speak from your eye perspective, that every time you know, with those emotions, triggers whatever’s coming up, if you speak from like, I feel I wanted this, I need this. And you know, you’re not blaming the other person, you’re not pointing their finger, you’re just staying in you and speaking what’s happening in you.

And you allow the other person it’s not about either whether they acknowledge it, don’t acknowledge it change or not change. But that exercise of you just speaking, that allows us to come out and not stay in view.

Richard: Exactly, exactly. It’s very important that that, that it comes from you, and it’s about you when you’re when you’re talking about that because you don’t want to belittle the other person. It’s even, it’s not even you made me feel bad. It’s that, that that behavior made me feel bad. Exactly. It’s not the person who made you feel bad. It’s just the behavior.

Atousa: Exactly. And because it’s again, if you take that inside and find out, you’ll find out why. Because, you know, at some point in your life, you were having that same experience as a kid perhaps, and that is still in you. And that’s why you reacting in a way.

You know, it’s interesting, like I, my sister, and I talk and, you know, we had the same parents, we pretty much you know, we’re in the same environment. She’s five years older than me, but her experiences were much different than mine.

Richard: Now, my sisters are different than mine, too, but we have a shared commonality. So we, we know that we were the same parents, but sometimes mine was rough for sometimes Rosewood rougher. She was the girl. So she she had, I think, a lot rougher than I did in many ways.

In different ways. I tend to get more physically hit than she did. And I have no idea what went on with my mom. We did never witnessed anything with her. But I think she just became very subservient and just kind of went rolled with it. And didn’t didn’t do anything to spark my dad, although they fought a lot. Yeah, that’s,

Atousa: you probably be surprised with your sister. A lot of times because I see this in my clients, the people that witnessed the beating of their siblings. They tend to have it a little bit worse, I would say because first of all, they feel so bad that they can do anything to help the sibling and sometimes they feel responsible for why the sibling was getting hit or beaten. And also there’s still fearful that that doesn’t happen to them that they become like, extra good, extra obedient.

Richard: I became super introverted. Yeah, because if I didn’t talk, I didn’t become a target. Yeah, my parents would argue, if I open my mouth, I was the reason they were arguing. And then I would be the target. And my sister did the same thing. And it became very hard to break that into versus hard to break. It’s in the shyness. Man, that took a lot of work.

Atousa: I’m glad you did the work, though.

Richard: Yeah. Oh, yeah, it took many years, many years. And a lot of very patient people. And a lot of interesting, interesting thing about photographing dancers and things is there’s always that hour long when they’re getting ready with the makeup ready, sometimes two hours. And so while they’re getting the makeup ready, um, they would want to talk side learn a lot of things about somebody, sometimes very intimate things that they wouldn’t normally talk about, but I’m the photographer.

So I’m, I guess I was safe. So I got some pretty interesting conversations. Nice about the most of my, my clients were women. So I got tough, you know, I learned a lot about from a woman’s point of view. And that then wouldn’t normally tell men. And it was very, very interesting.

To me. The first of all, the viewpoint that a woman has, is very different than a man, the way they act is very different. I mean, people who say men and women are the same. It’s like, no, no, they are very, very different. Emotionally, physically, mentally, none. There’s no worse or better.

You know, a band might be better at this. And one might be better at that. But overall, they’re not worse or better. I’m not a great cook. You know, a lot of women are great cooks, for example. That’s a pretty primitive example. But you know what I mean?

Atousa: Yeah. But that’s, it’s a good education. You got a good education there from all the women and they’ll teaching you and it’s good that you were open enough to receive it.

Richard: Well, they also recognize that I was hurt when the wife passed away. So that I guess they got a little maternal too. So they became my protector in a way, you know, I had birthday parties that that I’d have 100 dancers come and dance for me. 100 Dance belly dancers.

And it looked like a glitter bomb after they left went off and he glitter everywhere. rented a bar and I left the bar full of glitter and had to clean it up. It was funny. How many people can say that? You know? Exactly, exactly. I met two supermodels and had lunch with and that was one of my bucket list items.

And got the viewpoint from two supermodels. That was fascinating. Very different viewpoint. It’s just I like I’ve learned to love to find out about other people, and what they feel and what they want and what they do and how they talk and how they speak and what their trials and tribulations were.

I don’t want to be their counselor. That’s not my thing. Which sometimes, ghostwriting turns into, and then I have to back it off a little bit. Because you can’t write a book while they’re crying. It’s very hard to get information while somebody’s crying. And I turned down revenge books.

They’ve been several of those. I want to write a book to get even with a woman who divorced me and blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s like, I’m not going to do that. There’s libel issues, and it’s really not my thing to make somebody else feel bad. There’s two sides to every story. You

Atousa: such a wonderful thing that you’re doing. I love that that you know, people. It seems like you’re a comfortable, safe space for people to share their stories and open up and a lot of times Believe it or not, that’s what somebody needs. And

Richard: yeah, now the woman who was a slave for for a long time, a slave in America, you can guess what kind of slave for about 15 years, we had some fascinating conversations about what that meant, and how she recovered and got out and how she got away. And mate rebuilt her life, found a man who was a Christian and believed in her and now she’s got five kids and is doing great.

That whole journey was awesome. You know, now when somebody tells me Oh, my life is bad. I’m like, I guarantee you it’s not even some of the stuff that I went through. Can’t even come close to comparing what she went through. So and she recovered.

Atousa: And exactly,

Richard: she got and, you know, I’ve written books about people who were alcoholics and recovered. Same thing. It’s hard to get as low as being an alcoholic and watch your life go down to nothing and you lose everything and then come back. And I don’t I don’t understand that because I’ve never been an alcoholic but I understand it because I’ve written books about it now. And it’s those people are not very happy, they could probably use your book.

Responsibility and the Power of Choice

Atousa: I have I have clients that are have been addicts. And yes, it just, it’s a willingness. And that’s what I was hoping with this book is that if you’re just be willing to open up and see things a little bit different, and just start to shift a little, then everything else will come together.

Because there’s always, you know, then you start to feel that connection. You know, when you’re going, you mentioned, you go in nature, the reason nature is so healing because of that energy that’s out there, and we’re connecting to it consciously or unconsciously. And we naturally feel better, we feel connected.

And that connection, when you start to feel it inside of you, and you just start to shift, then it opens up and opens up and, you know, you start to shift and change things.

Richard: Exactly, exactly. Yeah, life is interesting. And my viewpoint now now that I’m older is you can either let it happen to you, or you can make it happen. And you’ll be happier if you make it happen. Yeah, I guarantee you.

Atousa: You always have choice. The main two things that I talk about a lot in the book is taking responsibility for your life. And that is saying that it’s not the circumstance, not blaming anybody, not blaming the circumstance, not blaming any of it fully taking responsibility of your life.

And then the other one is choice that you always have choice. And if you see that you have choice, those two together, really, you start to feel your power in your life and with the life that you’re creating. Exactly. I think violence again, is just the reason everybody’s in the mode to protect themselves.

Well, because we’re all seeing that separation that we’ve caused over centuries between ourselves that separation has caused us to that fear and that fear and separation together is we’re in protect mode. And when you’re in protect mode, you’re in fight mode. Yeah, but I think I don’t know, I don’t want to call that really violence.

What you did is like, you know, I’ve tried other options, you know, I had choices. I tried this choice, I tried this choice. Now let’s try this choice and see, maybe this works. So it wasn’t, you know, violence to me is when you’re just in a place that you want to hurt.

You want to take the other person down? And it’s a constant thing? It’s not Yeah. But isn’t that amazing that you were able to just pause and go into your own fear, allow your fear to be there, to recognize his fear as well. And that was what brought you together.

And that’s an amazing story. That’s wonderful. And but that’s the thing again, with you, I think it’s, you take that time to go into your fears, and sit with it and find it and say, okay, the fear is here, I see it, I feel it. And yet, let’s just go and see what’s going to happen.

Let’s go see what this is all about. And you recognize, in that you start to see it a little bit more clearly, and recognize the other side of things. And, you know, again, goes back, everybody, this is what you chose. But a lot of people those things that their parents have told them, there’s somewhere inside of them.

And it’s probably triggering them, without them realizing, well, of course, and they don’t know. And that’s where those things, you know, when you told those things, as a kid, it stays with you.

Richard: It does stay with me. And it still sometimes produces the mild nervousness when I talk to somebody else. Every one of these interviews 10 minutes before the interview, I want to cancel it. But it’s like, Nah, you know, I’m having this is fun. And it’s it only takes you know, what, 45 minutes to an hour to do the interview and another half hour to put it up online.

It’s not that much work. And it’s fun. And it gets me out of my I mean, I mean, I’m sitting here in my office all day long. So it gets me out of my head a little bit. Talk to some interesting people. And assessing. Trader Joe’s when I worked, I had the most diverse team in the company.

I mean, I had people from every culture that worked for me, or worked in peer groups. We had a Palestinian and an Israeli, while the while the Palestinians were lobbing rockets into Israel, and my God, I had to keep those two people apart. They were at each other’s throats.

Atousa: Yeah, there’s a lot of ocean lot of history when you get into those areas. I mean, even Iran, they got, again, not talking about today, Iran, I haven’t been there. But I know from when I was there, and that whole generation still they talk about, you know, Arabs, Arabs, this Arabs that and, you know, they feel like Persia, you know, Arabs came over and they took over and you know, where we’re supposed to be this great people.

And so every when you get back there, that’s all still generations, generations later. For them. It’s I mean, they, the war is still continuing. For us. There is no wars, actually. But we’re still continuing it in those conversations. And in those stories and the way you present it, you know, like your parents told, you know, the Mormons eat babies. You know,

Richard: that’s literally what they said to that’s literally what they told me. Yeah,

Atousa: luckily, my parents didn’t say that. But even though my parents didn’t say that, you would hear that constantly all around you.

Richard: Yep. Yep. That’s very good. That’s very good. Well, we’ve been on the phone for almost an hour. Wow. A conversation. Thank you for coming, guys. Anything you’d like to say to our audience? Before we hang up?

Atousa: No, thank you so much, if they like to get the book is available on Amazon, the Kindle version and paperback, the name of the book is change yourself, change the world, transform your life from fear based living to choosing love and seeing magic. The cover art is my artwork, and it’s augmented reality art, it comes to life.

And if you want to get a hold of me for any of my services, or just to chat, all my information is on the website, in the book, and the website is just my first name last name.com.

Richard: Yeah, and that link will be in the in the description. I’m assuming you sent it to me. I think so. Yeah. If not, we’ll figure it out. Yes, and I’m Richard Lowe. I’m the writing king. And I do ghost writing and writing coaching, and LinkedIn branding. So if you need help with any of those things, contact me.

And you’re probably watching this on my website or on YouTube, so you should be able to find me. And that’s it. Thank you for coming. Thank you

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Atousa Raissyan?

Atousa Raissyan is a shaman, healer, life guide, poet, and author originally from Iran. Her book Change Yourself, Change the World reached number one in multiple Amazon categories.

What is Change Yourself, Change the World about?

It is about transforming your life from fear-based living to choosing love and seeing magic. It covers sitting with emotions, releasing stored trauma from the body, taking responsibility, and recognizing your power of choice.

What does Atousa Raissyan mean by fear-based living?

She describes a way of living driven by fear of survival, of not having enough, and of the unknown, which pushes people into a constant protective, defensive mode instead of connection and love.

What are Atousa Raissyan’s two core principles?

Taking full responsibility for your life without blaming circumstances or other people, and recognizing that you always have a choice. Together, she says, these help you feel your own power.