TSM 18-25 Compassion Dogs for Veterans with P.T.S.D.

June 18, 2018June 21, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Barb Ashmead, on air from June 19th

Too often the trauma of military service leaves veterans with deep scars that make regular life challenging, if not impossible. At Vancouver Island Compassion Dogs, our goal is to offer our veterans and their families a reprieve from the suffering. VICD is a nonprofit organization that matches veterans suffering from a stress Injury like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with a compassion dog. Together, they embark on a unique 52-week service dog training program, that is as much about saving the person, as it is the dog.

Compassion dogs provide veterans with a living, breathing lifeline to the outside world. This powerful, primal bond between human and dog is a catalyst to peace, purpose and healing for our returning wounded.

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Our service dog training program provides veterans with renewed purpose, confidence and unconditional support.

Our program begins by carefully matching veterans to their service dog. Broken into three distinct phases, veterans are led through twice-weekly training sessions over the course of one year. Guided by professional trainers, and a mental health clinical practitioner, the program is based on Integrated Victory Management, focused on rewards and accomplishments.

The goal of the program is the training and successful graduation of a fully certified Stress Injury Service and Support Dog (SI-SSD) that remains in the veteran’s care.

To ensure the program is available to everyone who needs it, all dog and travel-related expenses are covered by VICD. This includes dog food, veterinary treatments, obedience training, training equipment and gas cards to cover travel to class. VICD recognises the impact loved ones can have on a veteran’s recovery. We invite family and friends to attend our monthly support sessions to learn about the program and its methods.

The bond created through each team is life-altering. Our dogs learn to be emotionally tuned to their person and their unique triggers. They’re able to wake veterans from nightmares, ground them from a hyper-aroused state, and support them unconditionally through the stresses and trauma of everyday life.

Our Dogs

Our repurpose dogs have been donated from BC and Alberta Guide Dogs (BCGDS) and Pacific Assistance Dogs (PADS) Our rescue dogs have come from BCSPCA Alberni-Clayoquot (Port Alberni)

All our dogs have had been temperament tested, Have had their eyes, hips, and elbow certified.
They are spayed or neutered and vaccinated. Learn more about applying to our program

BARB ASHMEAD, BSc, MSC,
VICD DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION – FUNDING & SPONSORSHIP

Since her youth, Barb has spent decades passionately involved with several animal charities. Most recently with the Canadian Animal Assistance Team (CAAT), she has served nationally and internationally to help spay, neuter and rescue both dogs and cats. Locally, she has co-chaired with her business partner the Qualicum Cat Rescue Society. Barb’s work with BC Guide Dogs, raising five puppies for service and autism support fostered her tremendous devotion for canine service. Collectively, these experiences empowered Barb to pilot the founding initiative of VICD upon the request from Comox Airforce Base seeking such a program in 2013. Both of Barb’s parent’s being WWII military veterans also stirred her unwavering vision for VICD’s purpose. Leaning on her research training and problem-solving experience’s gained thought to complete her Master’s Degree and acquired thought running a successful local business for more than 20 years have helped contribute to her tireless accomplishments.

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18-25 Flowing in Authentic Spirituality with Sara

June 18, 2018June 22, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara Troy on Sara’s View of Life, on air from June 19th

Authentic Spirituality, what is that? is it something to do with being spiritual as opposed to doing spirituality? So many will say that they are spiritual, just like so many say their a person of God, but when it comes to action, they are far from what both represent.

Whatever you are, a person of a religion, a person of faith or a person who lives in the vibration of spirituality, we must own it, be it and not speak of one thing and do another, because of we then state that we are this or that, we need to stand by it and not conveniently forget when it suits us.

Understanding in our authenticity of spirituality requires us to not try and contain it, but flow with it as it is pure energy, pure love, and truly our truth that we need to know in our now. Spirituality is freedom, it is constantly moving, always in flow and cannot be boxed, shelved, walled in or controlled, for it is a divine energy that is constant in action.

Action in whatever your faith, must be true, we cannot bend our faith to a personal agenda, we cannot control it, we cannot use it against others and it cannot be hoarded for only a few. Spirituality is love, the caring kindness of loving humanity and showing compassion to one and all. WHEN YOU ARE IN DIVINE SPIRIT you flow, your growth, and you are being a person who acts and not just speaks.

So are you living in your authentic spirituality? are you walking the walk and showing caringness and kindness to all life? we are constantly being tested to our own authenticity, and we must rise up to a higher vibration in order to bring a more cohesive balance to our planet and to our humanity.

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IG18-25. Trusting Your Authentic Soul Calling with Rev Charles Eduardos

June 14, 2018July 3, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 1 Comment

Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and Charles Eduardos, on air from June 19th

G.U.S. God, Universe Spirit as Charles calls it, is about finding our God, our Gus within us. How do we hear Gods voices within and how do we live in our authentic calling in truth and integrity?

Rev Charles Eduardos, has been interviewed here with us many times because of the diverse and honest way he looks at GOD, GUS and our relationship within. A Reverand and a coach, he has a unique way of seeing us from different perspectives. A Pastor of All Saint Olmsted Falls (ELCA), and a Certified Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC).

Charles has a diverse background which includes working on regional staff at Airco, on corporate staff at ATO, and as VP/General Manager of a radio station.

He is dedicated to helping you in your quest for a transformed life. He believes that you can have, achieve and be more than you ever imagined. He wants to partner with you and help you take charge of your thinking and renew your Mind.

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IG 18-25 Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer with Sherry Morgan

June 12, 2018July 9, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite Your Heart and Souls with Sara Troy and her guest Sherry Morgan, on air from June 19th

Prayer, it is not only for the church but your divine connection to your God and can be done anytime from anywhere. Sherry shows us a way to have the art of prayer in our lives that comes from our hearts and souls and is not based on a religion.

Sometimes people ask me, “What is prayer? says Sherry

That happens to be a question I ask the participants who attend the primary program I teach, Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer. Everyone has a different answer, but there is a common thread – that prayer has something to do with communication. That’s where we begin our experiential exploration. People discover that prayer has more to do with conversation than with communication. Prayer is meant to be more like a dialogue than a one-way monologue.

Spirit exists in, around and throughout all things, including we humans of course. It is all the same spirit, but the manifestation of spirit into form gives each form particular characteristics, gifts and challenges. Unique to humans is our cognitive mind, which is a great gift to help us get along in life – but, mind is also a culprit when trying to connect with Spirit. More here on Reflections of prayer.

Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer is a 2-1/2 day workshop available to anyone over the age of 15. It is not important whether or not participants have a spiritual or religious background. The Core Basis of Prayer is the experience of connection and relationship we all share with aspects of divine/spirit in Nature, which is our birthright. When we experience that connection there remains no doubt that we are connected in Love. From the place of connection, healing occurs and guidance for our lives is accessed.

In this workshop, we will look at what it is that got in the way of our inherent experience of connection and use effective tools (discussion, storytelling, a particular meditation style, drum journeys, and sharing) that help put those artificial barriers aside.

This workshop is the first part of a larger program called, Exploring the Phenomenon of Prayer.

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Sherry Morgan had a special spiritual experience in 1982 and from that time experienced a growing sense of being guided. Initially, this guidance had a lot to do with personal growth work, a change in work from the corporate world to the holistic health world, and urges to spiritualize, which Sherry explored as well as she knew how to do. Then in 1993, those urges were “to go, leave, travel.” In 1995, Sherry set off in a Volkswagen Van for unknown destinations and unknown duration, knowing she would be led. She found her way to don David Wiley, now initiated as an elder Huichol shaman and an elder Náhuatl weather-working shaman. Don David works very closely with the elemental Fire, known by different names in a different culture, but in English usually by Grandfather Fire. Fire is the energy of our heart and the warmth and connectedness of all things.

Taught and guided by Fire, as well as by Ojibwa, Náhuatl and Huichol elders, Sherry came to learn of her calling to teach people about prayer. From the primary 2-1/2 day workshop, Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer, Sherry has developed other programs all designed to help people access healing and their own direct guidance for their lives.

Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer is a Lifeways offering of the international Sacred Fire Community. Sherry was the founding President of Sacred Fire Foundation in 2005 and is still an active volunteer, and she is a founding donor of the related organization, Blue Deer Center. In 1998 Sherry was initiated as a quiatlzques (one who works to establish a relationship with Weather for the benefit of her village) in the Náhuatl indigenous tradition of Mexico, and she is Matron for ceremonial work at a sacred mountain connected with Weather in Ontario, Canada. Sherry greets the weather at home in beautiful Victoria, BC. Learn more about Sherry’s offerings at

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Reflections on Prayer

June 12, 2018June 13, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Reflections on Prayer

by Sherry Morgan

Sometimes people ask me, “What is prayer?”

Spirit exists in, around and throughout all things, including we humans of course. It is all the same spirit, but the manifestation of spirit into form gives each form particular characteristics, gifts and challenges. Unique to humans is our cognitive mind, which is a great gift to help us get along in life – but, our mind is also a culprit when trying to connect with Spirit.

The main problem with our cognitive mind is that we feel separate, alone and fearful. Our cognitive minds are prone to question or doubt everything, including our own validity. It is a very real problem with us as humans. Cedar trees don’t wonder if they ought to shed their leaves in winter. The fox doesn’t wonder if it should be a beaver instead. The clouds don’t wonder whether they should let the wind carry them. We, humans, are often lost, stressed, and confused about who we really are and we doubt what our gifts are, or even if we have any at all.

We all have gifts! Prayer can help a lot in discovering that we’re not alone and that there is much help for us to access our authentic expression. In prayer, we discover that Spirit knows us better than we know our self. Connecting with Spirit helps us to learn who we are… our authentic selves, not the selves that have been shaped by the good/bad, right/wrong, should/shouldn’t conditioning of our upbringing and our culture.

And, we all have challenges! And this is another place where prayer can be such a great help. For some people ‘prayer’ is a dirty word. I like to help people experience prayer in a way that it is seen and felt as something very beneficial to them. The root of the word ‘religion’ is “to bind back, to bind together.” Prayer is meant to help with that. We need only learn how to connect with these other-than-human spirit beings, how to relate with them, how to ask for help, and how to distinguish guidance from our overly active minds that are so prone to doubt. We shed what doesn’t belong to us and come to know who we truly are and what is important for us.

The way I’ve been taught about prayer (and of course, therefore, the way I teach) has us connect and relate with aspects of Nature directly. I don’t tell people how to pray. I lead experiential work that helps people discover their own connectedness and relatedness, and the love and guidance that is there for them. This is our birthright!

My first teacher of prayer was an Ojibwa elder by the name of Carolyn Oliver. Following prayer in the way she instructed turned my notion of prayer on its head and transformed my life! Her instructions were to go outside in nature every morning and every evening and give thanks to everything I could witness or think of in nature to give thanks for. She told me that this is how her people gather medicine for their lives. I offered these prayers for an hour or more twice every day for a full year. My negative mind became a mind full of gratitude. My fears became full-heartedness from the experience of connection and relationship with the world around me. I received guidance regularly to help me on my journey and my gifts began to emerge. I became full of joy. I highly recommend this way of gathering medicine to anyone.

After a vision quest she led me on, I began to receive messages to teach people about prayer. I thought this a great idea but had no idea what to do! I wrote to another teacher, a Huichol elder shaman in Mexico, and asked him. He asked me to return to Mexico and began to teach me how to teach others. In 1998 this elder introduced me to a Náhuatl elder shaman as well. This elder recognized my Náhuatl soul connection and with my need to be initiated as a Quiatlzques (Weather Worker) in that tradition. Since my initiation, I have been going to Mexico every year to offer prayers and ceremony. In 2001 I was given instructions to awaken a sacred mountain in Ontario that has a strong connection to weather there. Twice a year a group of us visit this sacred mountain to offer ceremony and prayer. The prayers and ceremonies as a Weather Worker in Mexico and in Ontario for the past 20 years have taught me how our long-ago ancestors lived in harmony with the world, and of course, we are learning this for our selves now too. Prayer and ceremony are antidotes to our overly active minds.

Aspects of Nature are waiting to help us all. They are waiting to be asked for their help. They receive us with such love, compassion and understanding… and we feel this! We begin to heal from our experience of separateness, aloneness, our doubts and fears.

Prayer has helped me to find my calling. I love to help people experience their own connection with their hearts and their own guidance. My healing purpose is to spread joy and it is certainly working.