C 17-51 The Ball of Human Kindness with Gabriella van Rij

December 12, 2017December 12, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Gabriella van Rij, on air from December 19th on.

KINDNESS EXPERT, GABRIELLA VAN RIJ, DISCUSSES THE BALL OF HUMAN KINDNESS® CAMPAIGN

The ball of Human Kindness® movement began during November 2013 in Tulare, CA and has since made its way across the nation, making news wherever it goes. “The ball represents a child or adult someone that does not know how to fit in or someone that feels it cannot belong; to a group, family or even your spouse or partner,” says Gabriella van Rij [pronounced “Ray”], widely acclaimed kindness expert. “As a society, we have dropped the ball of Human Kindness®. Will you help me pick it up?”

A tireless speaker and consultant to students and school faculty, Gabriella has travelled across North America, speaking at school assemblies, corporations, and community halls, providing a practical approach for ending bullying and creating safer communities through her 4-step kindness program. “One moment, one person, one kindness—is all it takes to help someone go from a negative space to a positive place, BE the difference!

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GABRIELLA VAN RIJ [pronounced “Ray”] began her life as an orphan in Pakistan and without the determination and kindness of two strangers, she would not have been adopted into her new family. Today, Gabriella relentlessly champions the Kindness movement and tackles the social issues that plague our society. With a brave and compassionate voice, she speaks at businesses, universities, corporate training events, school assemblies, community centres, places of worship, and on network shows. Her uplifting talks to motivate, challenge, and provide the groundwork for lasting progress. She is an acclaimed author of three books. With All My Might is her mesmerizing memoir of one of the first cross-cultural adoptions. I Can Find My Might is part self-help, a part practical resource for students, parents, and educators. Gabriella’s personal experience creates a boots-on-the-ground approach to bullying and self-acceptance that is nothing short of magical. Watch Your Delivery is Gabriella’s third and latest book, based on one of her popular presentations of the same name. Gabriella’s #DareToBeKind campaign brings her bullying prevention program to schools, communities, and corporations across the US. Gabriella has been seen by millions on Dr. Phil, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. She also writes for the Huffington Post and the NY Daily News. In 2017, Gabriella van Rij was elected as Secretary General of the World Kindness Movement.

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TSM 17-51 The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences

December 11, 2017March 15, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Stroy Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Dr. Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh, on air from December 19th

Dr Penny Sartori (Near-Death Experience expert and academic), and NDE experiencer Kelly Walsh share in this interview about their unique double perspectives on NDEs in their groundbreaking new book: The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences: How the Messages of NDEs Positively Impact the World.

Penny and Kelly have brought together powerful stories from people from around the world, and across a vast range of backgrounds, all of whom have had their lives transformed for the better in some way after their NDEs, including Kelly herself. After years of trauma, Kelly tried to take her own life in 2009. She then had a near-death experience in which she felt divine love and connection, and heard the words ‘like-minded souls will collaborate to change the world’. This showed her how valuable her life is and how much she can do to benefit the world. Since then, she has been devoted to positivity and to helping children in need, most notably through her charity she founded (where all profits from the book will be donated).

This book brings together the best elements of questions about consciousness, life after death, and the cracks in our health and mental health care systems, alongside the personal, powerful, and ultimately positive real-life stories of ordinary people and their extraordinary experiences.

As a society, we are all taught to fear death, yet for those who have touched it, and returned to tell the tale, the message they’ve brought back is drastically different. Unconditional love, divine understanding, and true universal connection await us on the other side. We can all benefit from this message, without nearly having to die first; all we have to do is listen to what those who have had an NDE are trying to convey.
NDEs are often transformative, not only on an individual level, but on a collective level too. In The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences, NDE expert Dr. Penny Sartori and near death experiencer Kelly Walsh brings together a selection of inspiring stories from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences. These have changed the course of their lives, empowered them to be their true selves, and show each and every one of them the power of love and acceptance.
The contributors range in their ages, backgrounds, beliefs, creeds, and careers, yet what ties them together is the remarkable metamorphoses in their lives after their NDEs. Some struggled to integrate back into regular life, and repressed their NDEs, whereas others felt so much love and joy during their NDEs that they actively wanted to experience another. Some had their marriages dissolve as their partners couldn’t understand what they had been through, and others found their soulmates having been empowered to finally believe that they deserve love. From
setting up support groups for other NDEers, to founding charities and programmes across the world, the unconditional love and interconnectedness experienced by all these people has led to them putting more positivity into the world.
Drawing extensively on her career as an intensive care nurse and on the results of her doctoral research into NDEs, Dr. Sartori examines the NDEs from an academic perspective, whilst Kelly Walsh draws on the knowledge of her own NDE from a spiritual perspective, offering a balanced viewpoint on this phenomenon. With their combined wisdom we learn about NDEs, and from them. With forewords by Dr. Mick Collins and Neale Donald Walsch, and contributions from esteemed medical professionals such as Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD, this book offers expert insight and credibility, alongside the heart-warming accounts by people from all walks of life who experienced life transformations after their NDEs.
The book describes how NDEs have helped some contributors overcome suicidal feelings, has led another to come to terms with their transgender identity, and it reveals the inadequacy of our health system that can wrongly perceive NDEs as mental health problems. While recent years have seen a dramatic change of attitude towards NDEs, they are still widely misunderstood, understudied, and not adequately acknowledged. This is a huge detriment, to those
who don’t receive proper support, and to the wider world, who are missing out on their beautiful messages of peace, love, and respect; Everyone is interconnected, and nobody has to fear death.
This book is crucial in transforming the way we perceive NDEs, consciousness, life after death, palliative care, a more compassionate healthcare system, and our universal human connection. It inspires people of all cultures and faiths to see how the love experienced during an NDE has the capacity to heal minds, bodies, and souls.

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Dr Penny Sartori PhD, RGN is an expert in NDEs,
having been an intensive care nurse for 17 years and having undertaken the UK’s first long-term prospective study on them, for which she was awarded a PhD. She wrote the bestseller The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (2014),
which was serialised in the Daily Mail, as well as What is A Near-Death Experience? She has had her work featured, and been interviewed, across national and international press and radio. She lectures across the world, and currently teaches at
Swansea University.

Kelly Walsh is the founder of the Positivity Power
Movement and Love Care Share charitable foundation.
Her life’s work has been inspired by an NDE she had in 2009 following a suicide attempt, and subsequent spiritual experiences she has had since. The words she shouted out following her experience- ‘like-minded souls would collaborate to change the world’- have been the driving force for the creation of this book and the work she now does. Her experience also inspired her to create a children’s character, Positivity Princess from Planet Positavia, who is on a mission to create a
more loving, caring, sharing world. The royalties from The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences will go towards supporting projects aimed at making a positive difference in children’s lives through the work of their charitable foundation.

Penny: http://www.drpennysartori.com/index.html

Kelly: http://www.kellymichellewalsh.com

This book was co- written with Dr Penny Sartori in collaboration with twenty-two other contributors from around the world is available to buy from AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, WHSMITHS, THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, WATERSTONES.

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C17-50 “The Forever Letter” with Elana Zaiman

December 6, 2017April 20, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Elana Zaiman, on air from December 12th

Elana Zaiman (1) I believe that we each want to better understand ourselves; make ourselves known to the people who matter to us most; deepen our relationships, and heal what may be broken between us.

We can do this by writing Forever Letters^™.

Forever Letters share our values and wisdom; asks for forgiveness and offers forgiveness; expresses our gratitude and love. They are transformative, taking us to our ultimate truth, our authentic self. They enable us to live with the intention of being our best self. They are a gift of support and connection.

You can write to your parents, children, siblings, other family members, friends, colleagues, teachers, students, mentors … anyone who matters to you.

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My Path to Becoming a Rabbi and a Writer

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island in a family of six: my mom and dad, me, my sister, Sarina, and my two brothers Ari and Rafi. All I knew growing up was that women could not be rabbis, at least not in the Orthodox synagogue where my grandfather served as the rabbi, not at the Orthodox elementary school I attended and not in the traditional Conservative synagogue where I belonged, and where my father was the rabbi.

History records the first woman rabbi to be Regina Jonas of East Berlin, Germany who was ordained in 1935. In 1972, when I was 10, Sally Priesand became the first woman rabbi ordained in America’s Reform movement. l knew nothing about these women until much later in my life, and though I had no childhood aspiration to become a rabbi, I did imitate my father on the rare Sabbath mornings I did not go to synagogue. I convened a congregation of my stuffed animals. I sat them in a circle on my bedroom floor, placed prayer books in front of their faces, kippot on some of their heads, and I became both rabbi and cantor, leading services, chanting traditional melodies, announcing pages and, I believe, delivering an occasional sermon.

My mission in my work, writing, and life is to bring people together; to enable all people (especially children, elders, and those who feel marginalized in our society) to be heard; to guide people to find meaning in their lives and to live into this meaning; to question the wrongs we encounter and to have the courage to change them; to do our best to right the wrongs we ourselves create; and to appreciate how each one of us is a precious and necessary gift that contributes to the larger whole of our world.

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WJ 17-45 Keys To Emotional Wellness and Healing After Losing A Loved One

November 6, 2017January 5, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Wellness Journey with Lynnis Woods Mullins and her guest August Pettigrew, on air from November 7th

Changing and Transitions series

One of the key parts of our journey, as we age, is dealing with the loss of a loved one. It is a fact of life that inevitably those we care about will make their final transition and move on to the next phase of another kind of journey. When this happens what can we take away from this experience that can help us to grow? How we do move forward during our grieving process? How do we heal is a way that we can find something positive from the experience?

August Pettigrew, Author and Mother shares with us her poignant experience of losing a daughter after a long battle with a terminal disorder. Her story is not only beautiful, but she shares with us some key learnings that have helped her continue on after such a great loss.

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August Pettigrew retired from public service after 36 years. While working she was also a mother, care provider, and completing her undergraduate work. Her life mission is to never stop working, encouraging, inspiring, and motivating others to live their best life now. She is now writing books and sharing with others the positive message that they are regardless of their circumstance there is help to get through the situation with a renewed sense of self, attitude, and purpose.

She is the author of four books, Starla’s House,

Magnolia My Life In Poem,

Chickenographer, and Letter’s I Never Sent.

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C 17-44b “Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want!”

October 25, 2017June 17, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Sora Vernikoff, on air from October 31st

Today there are 45 million Americans who are planning to go on a diet or are on a diet and have no peace with food. These unhappy dieters might lose their weight in the short run but in reality, 97% of those folks will regain all their weight and more within the three years that follow their
dieted weight-loss.

The dieting industry is a 61 billion dollar weight-loss industry and so that’s what doctors push
it. The bottom line is that there a lot of money at stake in the treatment of obesity. To complicate
matters, Obesity has recently been classified as a disease by the American Medical Association and so that doctors hope that insurers will cover more treatments for obesity and so even though diets
ultimately don’t work that’s what they will prescribe.

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Sora Vernikoff healed herself of compulsive eating over 20 years ago while she was a classroom educator in a Brooklyn inner-city school. One day Sora looked at her challenging 35 fourth graders kids and thought to herself, “Why do these kids listen to me and yet I can’t stop thinking about food or eating?” Sora then stopped dieting, journaled all her eating experiences and let 25 pounds go which she has not regained to this day.

When Sora reached her no dieted weight loss goal, Sora knew that she could transfer her classroom “management” techniques to food “management” techniques and Sora’s Weight Loss “Management” Program was born. The Program as taught to hundreds of unhappy dieters lets you eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy and all without having to diet.

Sora’s Weight Loss “Management” Program as taught in “Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! A No Diet, Weight-Loss Program” is in a workbook format and is made up of two very special eat and stop yourself techniques. First, there’s The “Green” Technique and then there’s The “Red” Technique. Now, The “Green” Technique lets you first decide how much of the food that you want is enough and then set aside the amount that is “too much” called your “Too” Much Marker. Then you can “eat” the amount that you decided was “enough” amount but not your “Too” Much Marker. This lets you know by Program definition that you have eaten and stopped yourself. The “Red” Technique is similar to The “Green” Technique but is different in the way that it actually works.

There are also three additional no diet, weight-loss “management” strategies in this no diet program that supports The Program User by reducing the amount of time that it will take him to reach his non-dieted weight loss goal.

For more information on how to eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy all without having to diet and the book which teaches this process, visit