Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest John Krotec, ON AIR FROM September 12th
In the search for acceptance, sexual assault survivor John Krotec discusses his own personal experience trying to find love in the cyber-world. He will detail how he first found the romantic cyber world and the pitfalls he encountered. His reactions to his own behaviour while in the cyber-world nearly ruined his personal life. He will talk about the nature of the cyber world, a place where because of technology you can be anybody or anything you want to be. It is his belief that such cyber-relationships are not real, just fantasy and illusion and, if not kept in check (the proper perspective), can erode the human spirit.
It really was a search for acceptance and satisfaction…things I was not finding in my own personal relationships and job…brought on by serious low self-esteem…
The journey of self-actualization (I call it the struggle for authenticity) is lifelong. For me and for millions of others, it can be and has been excruciatingly emotionally painful at times. However, for those struggling, there is a way out. It’s not easy. It takes brutal honesty and courage to overcome. After months of one-on-one therapy, I believe the only way to truly self-actualize is to dig deep, to introspect, and to do the hard work that will erase the negative limiting self-beliefs that can and will continue to reinforce self-loathing. You will have setbacks and you will make mistakes (I certainly have), but you will have small victories, too. I ultimately belief these small accomplishments can be built upon and lead you to success.
My own personal struggles dealing with self-loathing were the result of two significant events in my early life, events that took place before the age of fifteen. The extreme self-loathing created by these significant events fueled an extreme need for acceptance and love–not self-acceptance and self-love–but finding acceptance and love from others. The first event, being sexually assaulted, destroyed many parts of my self-esteem. It was not good. It sucked. The second event further reinforced my feelings of inadequacy AND added even more psychological destruction to my already fragile sense of self. Without going into too much detail about it, let’s just say it concerned the behavior of a parent and it created more confusion for me on the important subject of marital fidelity.
I will be sharing my personal journey for self-actualization with you in the hopes that my story will help others suffering from similar circumstances and feelings. One of the subjects that I will be exploring will be online relationships. Drawing upon my own experiences, I hope to expose the pitfalls of looking for acceptance and love in the digital world, a world full of fantasy and illusion. I know firsthand that millions are suffering. In the process, I hope to heal myself and my marriage and not add any more fuel to my self-loathing fire.
Sara Troy on Sara’s View Of Life, on air from September 5th
I recently took a couple of weeks off, a to spend time with my children and to feel the direction I need to go in. I am an empath, I feel life, pain sorrow and joy all the time. I have a hard time connecting to my body, but my soul heart and spirit are all switched on fully.
So forever I have wanted to do humanitarian work, and in my own practice ( Choose Positive Living )I did but needed a dream to take it higher, to reach more in need. 2005 I started a company called Give Back, I was about to bring in to Canada electric bikes of which 10% of the proceeds went to a charity/foundation on the list. For many reasons the bikes did not take off, and I went down a totally different rabbit hole.
12 years later, now with almost 1900 collective radio shows here on Self Discovery Radio, I realize I have been building back to that Give Back platform again. Stay tuned for mid month on what Self Discovery Radio is going to do, it will excite you.
Back to me personally, I had decided a couple of months ago, to put my life in storage and house sit in different places and spread my personal and professional wings. The problem was where? So with a conversation with my daughter Tabytha in Toronto, I have decided that it would be good to go there for a couple of months and tap into Toronto’s energy, from there who knows, my wings are open and ready willing to fly into the abundance of life.
UP DATE.
It is now 6 years on.(2023) Self Discovery Radio is now Self discovery Wisdom and is over a decade old with over 3400 shows. I found that path I was looking for, the shows them selves with all the illuminations could be enough, but I went a step further and I am in production of “Our Forgotten Children” book series and anthology of what we need to do better for our children. I am also finishing up my own book on my life, due out soon.
Thier Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Joyce Stewart, on air from September 12th
Joyce was raised in the Christian religion and was a firm believer in what she had been taught. However, all of that began to change when she became a psychotherapist and discovered that the evidenced based practices she had been taught, while great at managing symptoms, did little to cure the problems her clients came in with. Because she believed that God was a healing God, she knew that healing needed to come through spiritual means. She studied how Jesus healed and discovered he used the eastern based beliefs of transferring spiritual energy. Well, this went against everything she had been taught, that eastern based alternative new age healing came from the devil and was to be avoided. With initial fear and trepidation, Joyce ventured into this field and discovered a whole new world of healing and spirituality that resonated with her spirit but conflicted with the Christian beliefs. God challenged her one day to give up everything she believed and start over. This took Joyce on a fascinating journey of discovering how much of her beliefs about life, relationships, religion, healing and many other topics had been based in fear instead of love. Since God is love, anything based in fear could not come from God and had to be released. Today, Joyce uses the things she has learned to help her clients heal from their past and present issues so they can have loving connections with themselves, others and God.oyce is available to speak to groups about any of the subjects in either of her books.
Joyce Stewart is a licensed clinical social worker and holistic health practitioner with a bachelors and master’s degree in social work. After years of working with children and families in the foster care system, Joyce decided to go into private practice and started Holistic Healing Consulting. She offers online and in person counselling to help people identify the root cause of their symptoms and then releases it through spiritual and energy based treatments so they can be free.
Joyce has written two books: Interconnected by God, Healing for your Spirit, Soul and Body and God is Love, a Spiritual Journey from Fear to Love.
Joyce is available to speak to groups about any of the subjects in either of her books. You can contact her at:
Our Global Veterans Stories, with Sara Troy and her guest Scott Huesing, on air from October 3rd
Scott A. Huesing is a retired the United States Marine Corps Infantry Major with 24 years of honourable service, both enlisted and as a commissioned officer. During his career spanning 10 deployments, he has conducted operations in over 60 countries worldwide. Throughout his numerous deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa he planned, led, and conducted hundreds of combat missions under some of the most austere and challenging conditions.
Scott is a published author since 2005. His upcoming book, Echo in Ramadi, (due out February 2018, Regnery) is a ten-month snapshot in time that changed the face of operations on the battlefield; a captivating story of Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines during the Second Battle of Ramadi in support of the Multi-National Forces (MNF) Surge Strategy in 2006. His true-life account provides keen insights into what may be an unfamiliar world to readers, but very familiar to those, like Scott, who lived it and endured this historic fight. Echo in Ramadi was written to honour the sacrifices and spirit of his Marines and the families they supported – it is his tribute to them and his honour to tell this great story. Readers will feel the pain, emotion, laughter, intensity, and friction that Scott describes in unvarnished detail.
Scott has written numerous articles and scholarly pieces for The Marine Corps Gazette and Military Times He has been a technical writer and author to U.S. Marine Corps doctrine shaping the future of training within the world’s most elite branch of service. He is the creative author on writing the standard operating procedures for Marine Expeditionary Units, America’s first response force, with The Lightning Press. Scott is a formally trained instructor and public speaker with 25 years of experience teaching and getting his audiences to connect to the material he presents, both in the military and private sector. He has spoken to audiences as large as 2,000 conveying his thoughts, intent, and goals in order to motivate listeners. Scott’s natural, outgoing style makes him uniquely qualified and talented in communicating and translating his experiences to audiences to connect. With the willingness to share his unique story and experiences, Scott dedicates his time to travel to military bases, NROTC programs, Veterans hospitals, corporate leadership conferences, Gold Star Mothers events, and a multitude of venues to read and share the story of his epic journey and struggles. He is continually sought out to provide Professional Military Education to active duty units to speak on leadership and his combat experiences – and the importance of writing about them.
Scott is the Executive Director for Save the Brave Foundation, a certified 501c3 that connect Veterans through outreach to build the strength of character – part of their mission is continually staying proactive to the needs of the Veterans they are honoured to serve. Scott currently lives in Southern California with his family.
On Friday July 22nd, Major Scott A. Huesing USMC (Ret), the Bestselling Author of Echo in Ramadiis riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle across the country again for Save the Brave (STB) to raise awareness for Veteran Suicide. Huesing (51), the Executive Director of Save the Brave (501c3) began this ride in 2020 to honor his high school friend and veteran, David W. White (aged 48), who died from alcohol poisoning on Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Butte, Montana. Huesing will ride from Bastards Canteen in Temecula, California to Palmetto Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina.
During the 9-day journey, Huesing will make several stops to ask supporters to donate to STB and ride along with him on his journey to raise awareness for veteran suicide – emphasizing that these are not statistics anymore, they are friends and sons and brothers that we all know. He’ll be joined by fellow veterans and riders from every state he passes through amidst the heat of July. Their goal – $100,000.
When asked, “Why did you pick July to make this ride?” Huesing responded, “I didn’t pick the month – the month picked me. If nothing else, it’s a reminder to everyone who joins me along the way that maybe we need to suffer a little bit to be reminded exactly why we are riding.” Veterans dealing with depression, alcohol abuse, and PTSD are especially impacted by the isolation this pandemic has caused in many cases.
This is a unique opportunity to stay connected as veterans and as communities while supporting a worthwhile charity.
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