Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Sharon Ann Rose, on air from April 9th
To support women in making foundational and sustaining change in how they take care of ourselves, so that they ignite their much needed brilliance and leadership to create lasting generational change on this planet.
Igniting Feminine Brilliance… exploring a woman’s deepening honesty with herself The times we live in are asking for something more sincere of us. More real, humane and honest. How will we respond, when it’s become the norm to be feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, depleted and terrified about the future? I’ve been listening to the hearts and lives of women for over 50 years, as we reclaim our feminine wisdom by turning towards the change we must make, with bravery and in conscious collaboration. This is a time to be honest with ourselves, and to honor the call of the earth and our connection to the inclusiveness of life. It’s vital to grow still, to cultivate soft presence and spaciousness, to look deep inside and feel what we’re feeling, fully showing up for ourselves and each other. We’re needed in our love, wisdom and brilliance more than ever. Fostering conscious connection with how we speak to ourselves, nurture our souls and bodies, and foster beauty, grace and inspiration in our lives, emulates the kind of female leadership needed to course-correct the personal and collective conditions we now face. By cultivating a holistic approach to self care as communal care, and communal care as self care, we prioritize our well-being as a catalyst for global transformation. We are the revolution. We carry the wisdom. We are here to walk our brave feminine way.
I’m the youngest daughter of 4 girls. Growing up, I witnessed the incessant undermining of the feminine way. I wanted to build safe havens and new infrastructures that honored a woman’s heart. This is what birthed my work and guided me in helping women move through their own constraints, conditioning, ancestral patterns and false beliefs. I’m an award-winning author, ceremonialist, transformational facilitator, priestess and hypnotist, who supports women in making foundational and sustaining change in how they take care of themselves and build their creative endeavors, relationships and business. I hold space for the deep work of transitions (like loss, menopause, birth, mothering, divorce, and feeling stagnant), by guiding women wisely through potent threshold moments to renew their commitment to their wisdom, heart and dreams. Through ceremonies, grief work, mentorship and retreats, I help female bodies remember how to sustain and ignite our much needed brilliance in creating lasting generational change on this planet.
Faces of the Mother: A Feminine Path to Embodiment through Ancient Wisdom, Archetypes and Soul Fertility. What if the feminine face of the Divine was never lost, but simply waiting to be remembered within you? What if the collapse you are experiencing is not a failure, but a sacred rebirth guided by the wisdom of the archetypal Mother? Faces of the Mother is a guidebook for women in the midst of transformation.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Ona Gritz, on air from April 9th
Ona Gritz, author of the beautifully written memoir, Everywhere I Look? With an investigator’s determination, Gritz unravels the mystery and tragedy of the murder of her sister, Andrea Susan Gritz, also known as Angie Boggs, while sharing her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth. Her story is testament to the idea that grief can be transformative, and that the truth can truly set us free.
On January 11, 1982, Angie Boggs was brutally murdered in her home, along with her husband, Ray, and their eleven-month-old son. She was twenty-five and pregnant with their second child. Six weeks later, Angie’s body was found, stuffed in the crawlspace of the apartment she had shared with her family and her murderers.
When Angie was just a little girl called Andra, she was the first person Ona remembers loving. Gritz was nineteen when she learned of her sister’s murder. “Well, she’s dead,” their mom announced, with a crisscross slap of her hands, later remarking: “A social worker told us years ago that, with the way Andra lived her life, she wouldn’t make it to thirty.” That made Gritz angry, but she wasn’t grief stricken either. After all, she was used to being without Angie. For many years after losing her, all she felt was numb.
When Ona Gritz was in her late forties and the only survivor of her immediate family, a succession of small events began to bring Angie back to her. Suddenly, she was filled with questions about the disparaging view of Angie that, despite her love, she had internalized from her parents. “She’s a runaway.” Growing up, that’s what Ona would answer whenever someone asked, “Where’s your sister?” But what was Angie running from? And why did her parents keep shutting her out and sending her away?
Ona Gritz holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Her earlier books include On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability and Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won the Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2020 Competition and has received many other honors for her poems, which have been widely anthologized. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia.
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Your Health is Your Choice with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Timothy Teel, on air from April 9th
After a deeply transformative experiment with EFT, Dr. Teel brought Emotional Freedom Technique tapping to his ENT clinic for patients experiencing paradoxical movement of their vocal cords, inability to swallow pills and intractable head and neck pain. His staff members took an interest in the dramatic and fast results of the technique and themselves became EFT practitioners and helped teach EFT in the clinic. Today, Dr Teel teaches EFT on his website and has weekly EFT tapping sessions with his former medical assistant, Ashley Stanley, who has become the Doc of Unlock tapping specialist. He uses EFT as one of many tools to help his online course students overcome trauma and autoimmune disease and as tool for cancer patients to create the emotional conditions where healing and recovery can occur.
Our bodies are physically responsive to our emotional experience of life. And, just like a computer program, there is an emotional program that runs in each of us. The “default” program is fear-based and designed to help us survive and it serves us faithfully. There is an infinite number of other programming possibilities including love, hope, motivation, inspiration, peace, serenity that we can experience if that is what we choose. Waking up to this possibility often requires a “life-quake” like a job loss, death of a loved one….or a diagnosis that threatens our very existence. My experience with a 35-year survivor of recurrent esophageal cancer and his protocol for survival clearly demonstrated to me how focused, creative and organized emotional energy can affect a body. However, if we fail to continuously choose to experience life as we would like, the survival-level programming will take over as a default and we continue down the path of automaticity. I believe, based on observation, lab evidence and intuition that this program runs in our DNA, can be passed to subsequent generations and is re-writable. This philosophy flies in the face of the conventional narrative that 97% of DNA is “junk” because the people who write medical textbooks have deemed it so. If we are to move forward with our understanding of these bodies and our lives, we MUST challenge convention and consider alternatives, experiment with them and change our paradigm when a new philosophy demonstrates progress. My philosophy places the power of controlling our emotional response to life and subsequently exerting control over our physical bodies in the control of us individually. It is my mission to teach as many people as I can the specific steps of how to tactically use emotion and imagination to affect our physical health in ways we haven’t even considered.
Dr. Teel has spent his entire adult life fascinated with human development, personal development and the connections between food, emotion and health. After completing his medical training, he returned to Oklahoma where he practiced for 7 years. His efforts to establish patient safety and teach patients how to heal their bodies left him informally banned from practicing medicine in Oklahoma. He retired from medicine while living in Texas and began his writing and coaching career teaching the principles of using diet and lifestyle management to create transformative healing of both acute and chronic illness.
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Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Dr LaRay Price, on air from April 9th
Supporting women in learning about self-love and why its important
I have worked as a psychologist for 23 years and I have rarely witnessed women taking care of themselves as as they care for others. My goal is to start a revolution where women learn that self-love extends longevity. Specialty Areas: Trauma Military Medicine. Women’s Issues
Meet Dr. LaRay Imani Price, a dynamic figure blending roles as a CEO, psychologist, author, Army veteran, and philanthropist. She’s the force behind the Women’s InnerFitness & Wellness Center, LLC, a counseling center fostering women’s psychological well-being across Maryland, DC, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado. Her commitment to women is holistic as she supports the financial development and growth of women as the Managing Director of eWomenNetwork, Inc. in the Maryland, DC, and VA areas. This network was created to give women support, guidance, and skills to grow their businesses. Our mission is for one million women to generate one million dollars annually.
Dr. Price is deeply committed to mental health advocacy, demonstrated through her founding of the Mental Hope Foundation, Inc., which aims to make mental health care accessible and destigmatize seeking help. She is the author of two newly minted Amazon books: “Embraceable Me: Crowned with Self-Love” and “Radiate Self-Love: Reignite your Inner Light,” both focused on inspiring self-love and resilience.
At her core, Dr. Price is a champion for empowerment, wellness, and community, driven by a belief in the power of compassion and resilience to transform lives.
I am a member of: American Psychological Association, Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women)
International Association for Women’s Mental Health
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from April 9th
I have had to postpone some shows this week due to illness and that’s ok. Why do we feel guilty for being ill and having to cancel an appointment? Illness is no fun and one has to allow our selves to heal before facing the world again.
You know, it’s funny how we tend to feel guilty or apologetic when we have to reschedule appointments due to illness. But really, we shouldn’t have to apologize for something that’s completely out of our control. Illness happens, it’s a part of life. And forcing ourselves to go on with our plans when we’re not feeling well only ends up hurting us in the long run.
Taking the time to rest and recover is crucial for our health and well-being. If we don’t allow ourselves that time to get back on our feet, we risk prolonging our illness or even making it worse. So rather than feeling bad about rescheduling, we should focus on taking care of ourselves and giving our bodies the time and attention they need to heal.
It’s important to prioritize our health above all else, and that means being okay with putting off appointments or commitments when necessary. After all, our health is our most valuable asset, and we owe it to ourselves to treat it with the care and respect it deserves. So, let’s not apologize for taking care of ourselves. Instead, let’s embrace the opportunity to rest and recuperate, knowing that it’s the best thing we can do for ourselves in the long run.
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