Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Vie: on air from March 13th
Dr. Vie: Raising Awareness of The Real Self:
Super Conscious Humanity is the answer to a kind, non-violent, loving and blissful humanity.
AS LONG AS there is suffering, as long as there is regret, as long as there is little satisfaction in life, the human continues to search for a better life and something more.
But if you are suffering, why not put a stop to it?
If you are feeling regret, why not stop it?
If you are not satisfied, why not find something lasting instead of momentary?
What is it within the human that, even though he knows something is harmful to him, compels him to engage in action that ultimately drags him down to the pits of emotional torment and mental anguish?
“The answer lies in wait in every human, and the only way out is to unravel the real Self, and live fully in tune with your real identity, instead of living as someone else or for someone else,” says Dr. Vie.
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Dr. Vie (V) is of Indian lineage born in the throes of apartheid in South Africa and branded as “non-white.” Following an enlightening experience at age 16 as she was about to be killed by a soldier, her perspective of life changed.
“I left the country solo, something certainly uncommon in those days, for a tiny single Indian female. Since then, I’ve been living a nomadic life for +30 years on my own. An unplanned real-life adventure getting on my Life Express (as named in the Book); new places, a variety of peoples, numerous cultures, fantastic cuisines, foreign languages and of course many challenges.
What truly amazes me beyond the fascinating cities, towns and traditions, is the breathtaking natural environments as I hike high up in the mountain trails around the globe, sometimes with a guide and most often on my own.
The African ranges to the Himalayan peaks. Pristine air, sounds of nature, and the splendour of fauna and flora in their natural habitat resonated with me. Staring into the eyes of a young deer, strolling alongside a giraffe, and revelling in the dainty clasp of a hummingbird on my finger. Most often I am one with everything.
When I’m not exploring mountains, I share my personal revelations and insights to tens of thousands of all ages, from tiny tots ages 3+ to the 100+, in poverty-stricken huts and villages to plush halls. What a joy to witness human personal transformations. I love inspiring our fellow Beings.
Yes, I’ve many degrees, doctorate and post-doctorate from the USA, authored university books, self-help books as well as fiction time travel adventures. In Switzerland I dabbled in diagnostic devices (with a patent) and natural wellness, pioneering the first raw, fresh, vegan natural Superfoods factory in 2005 in Canada. The foods fed children, diabetics, patients, doctors, celebrities, Olympians and more. I’ve also taught as an assistant professor at a medical university, engaged in clinical practice, worked as a medical device scientist in Denmark and conduct research in India.
Since 2005 I self-fund my humanitarian super conscious work and help tens of thousands of youth especially in Africa. When the youngsters are living as their real Selves, they only wish love and safety and bliss for everyone.
Most of all, over the past 10 years I’ve been focusing my time inspiring our fellow Beings of all ages to live life as their real Selves…because I know the only hope for a better future is if humans are in full control of their own minds….and not being mind-controlled or living as anything but their real Selves, free. Our strength is within our freedom from the mind.
As I share my insights, my rewards come from the excitement in the eyes of those who attend the many seminars, workshops and events, the smiles that fill their faces, and the abundant hugs after each session. My work is my personal journey and not really work…but living, and I live a simple life, pouring any revenue back into my volunteer humanitarian life around the globe.”
Visit Dr. Vie’s site and join her free weekly interactive live streams focused on how to live as the real you, or contact her to invite her to speak at your events, or to set up a counseling session for your Self or loved ones, or peruse or benefit from the books, programs, online educational training within the Super Conscious Humanity memberships, workshops, superfoods and much more.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Valerie Silveira, on air from October 24th
Valerie Silveira, Author of the Award-Winning Book, “Still Standing After All the Tears: Putting Back the Pieces After All Hell Breaks Loose” and Creator of the Nine Actions to Battle Your Beast. She is an author of two other books, a speaker, mentor, coach, and consultant. In 2004, Valerie’s eighteen-year-old daughter was shot by her ex-boyfriend. Over the next decade, Jordan’s* life spun out of control and as a result, Valerie’s spiralled into darkness. She would face the heartbreaking reality that Jordan was a heroin addict and the painful truth that she is powerless to save her from her Beast. With a heart shattered into a million pieces, a broken family, health issues, financial hardship and depression, Valerie was giving up hope of ever being happy again. At a very dark time in her life, she found a shred of hope, and a tiny bit of courage, and made a decision that probably saved her life – she decided to Stand Up & Fight. “Still Standing After All the Tears” takes you on a journey through the agony and hopelessness of losing her child over and over again to drug addiction, and into the Actions, Valerie used to battle her own Codependent Enabler Beast. Moms all over the United States, Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand are following the Nine Actions and learning how to Stand Up & Fight. Although Valerie was painfully aware of the possibility of Jordan dying from an overdose, nothing could have prepared her for that knock on the door, August 28, 2016. Her daughter, Jamie, (whom she had called Jordan), was murdered. The nightmare her family lived through in 2004, had returned. Only this time, Jamie didn’t make it. Through the devastation of losing Jamie, of losing hope of her recovery, Valerie has fought to regain her courage, to stand up again, and to continue her mission of helping moms and others. She is living proof that it is possible, even in your darkest hours, to Stand Up & Fight. Valerie has had a diverse career in finance, business operations, consulting, training and speaking. None of her business challenges came even close to that of trying helplessly to save her daughter. She uses her professional experience and her two rides on what she calls the Roller Coaster From Hell, to help others put the pieces of their life back together. Valerie has an incredibly relatable style, and her sense of humour shows through the pain. The book and the Actions are important not only for families of addicts but for anyone struggling to move through or past a traumatic life situation. *Until Jamie’s death, Valerie chose to call her daughter “Jordan” out of respect for her story.
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“Still Standing After All the Tears: Putting Back the Pieces After All Hell Breaks Loose” “Still Standing After All the Tears Workbook” “Still Standing: 90 Days of Wisdom for Moms of Addicts” Awards & Recognition: ? Amazon #1 Bestselling in two Categories (all books) ? Reader’s Favorite 5 Star Review ? Amazon Review Average – 5 Stars (all books) ? 2015 USA Book News: Health – Psychology & Mental Health ? 2015 International Book Awards: Self-Help ? 2015 Reader’s Favorite: Non-Fiction: Self-Help ? 2015 – 2016: Reader Views – Self-Help ? 2017 Book Excellence – Addiction and Recovery
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Holly Fourchalk, on air from September 12th
Dr. Holly Fourchalk, Ph.D., DNM®, RHT, HT, AAP.
Holly and I will be looking to the Whole of us and why we need to see our selves from the inside out in health. With such knowledge form Holly addressing our mind and body health, she knows the need to place importance on our whole health wellness system for it to work cohesively for us.
With PhDs in Psychology (not registered with the College of Psychologists) and in Nutrition; Dr of Natural Medicine; another MA in Herbal Medicine; Advanced Ayurvedic Physician; Homeopathy; Reflexology, Hypnotherapy & various energetic healing modalities (from Rieke to Theta) and a variety of other healing modalities, Dr Holly covers the spectrum of holistic health.
She was born with a genetic disorder that prevents her from metabolizing food in the same way the rest of us do, consequently, she has a passion for research and understanding how the body functions from the energetics to the psychological to the physiological right down to cellular functioning.
She runs a Mobile Health Clinic, aptly named Choices Unlimited for Health & Wellness Ltd. It moves from Hope to Horseshoe Bay; from Oliver to Vernon; and around the world.
In addition to being a Health Practitioner and a scientist, Dr Holly is also an author (over 20 books so far) and a professional international speaker. www.DrHollyBooks.com
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Collin Ruiz, on air from August 8th.
Eating by Ethnic Origin nutritional genomics (a.k.a. nutrigenomics)
The path to longevity and good health may lie in eating like your grandparents—or better yet, your great-great-great-great grandparents. The theory behind the ancestral diet is that you will be the healthiest when you eat the foods for which your body is best adapted.
Your genetic makeup and diet may have a powerful influence on what we like to eat (bitter vegetables or sweets), why some people get fat and others stay thin, why some develop diabetes and others don’t, why certain people get a buzz from coffee and others aren’t affected and why two people following the same diet can end up with cholesterol levels at opposite extremes.
The Inuit of Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland traditionally ate far more fat than most other populations and their gastrointestinal systems apparently are more capable of breaking fats down for use by their bodies. Compare that with patients with confirmed coronary artery disease (CAD) before age 60 years who have a genetic (lipoprotein) disorder. Everybody benefits from eating healthy fats, fats from nuts, fish, avocado, olive oil, etc.
The ability to produce lactase is genetically controlled. Lactose intolerance in adulthood is caused by gradually decreasing activity (expression) of the LCT gene after infancy, which occurs in most humans. As we age we are becoming lactose intolerant. After infancy 65% of the worldwide population is lactose intolerant. Around 10% of Americans, 10% of Africa’s Tutsi tribe, 50% of Spanish and French people, and 99% of Chinese have trouble digesting milk.
Alcohol sensitivity between Asian, American Indians and Caucasian populations has genetic factors. Alcohol intolerance is caused by a genetic condition in which the body is unable to break down alcohol efficiently.
An MTHFR mutation is a problem associated with poor methylation and enzyme production. 60% of the population in the United States have these genetic variations which play a role in the ability to maintain a healthy mood. Those with a mutation may have trouble effectively making folate usable by the body and eliminating toxins from the body.
This is an indication that adapting to local nutritional opportunities has led to the evolution of related genetic differences among the populations of the world.
For the MTHFR mutation, the simple treatment is to take folate in an activated form orally. Eat folate rich foods: Folate rich foods include: Calf’s liver, chicken & turkey liver, Spinach, Black-eyed Peas, Brown Rice, Okra, Asparagus, Lentils, Brussels sprouts, Romaine lettuce, Belgian Endive, Turnip greens, Sunflower seeds, Mustard greens, Oranges & juice, Parsley, Parsnips
Epigenetics – Eating for your epigenome
While the DNA sequence stays the same during the entire life, the epigenome is affected by environment and lifestyle. Some genes that have been passed down in our lineage, don’t serve us, therefore we want them to be “on”. There are lot of cancers that are triggered when certain genes are turned on.
If there is a reason for one of your genes to be turned on (with detrimental effects), the pattern for the condition is passed on through the subsequent generations.
An example of what this looks like is the gene called agouti. When a mouse’s agouti gene is completely unmethylated, its coat is yellow and it is obese and prone diabetes and cancer. When the agouti gene is methylated (as it is in normal mice), the coat color is brown and the mouse has a low disease risk. Fat yellow mice and skinny brown mice are genetically identical. The fat yellow mice are different because they have an epigenetic “mutation.”
When researchers fed pregnant yellow mice a methyl-rich diet, most of her pups were brown and stayed healthy for life. These results show that the environment in the womb influences adult health. In other words, our health is not only determined by what we eat, but also what our parents ate.
In order to maintain the correct patterns of methylation through cell division, new methyl groups are stuck onto freshly-copied DNA. This requires a constant supply of new methyl groups, which can be provided directly from our food, including the trio of molecules methionine, betaine and choline. Alternatively, we can make methyl groups from precursor chemicals, including folate.
Optimize your epigenome, when you can eat foods that provide the building blocks for methylation in the body.
Foods rich in Methionine: Egg whites, fish, Elk, chicken, turkey, tofu, edamame, turnip greens, mustard greens, spinach, seaweed, spirulina, Foods rich in Folate: leafy greens, peas and beans, sunflower seeds and liver
Alcohol can interfere with folic acid in the body, disrupting methylation patterns.
Cigarettes. Apart from damaging DNA, some chemicals in tobacco smoke can change epigenetic marks – effectively a double-whammy for causing cancer.
Another example of “Epigenetics”, World War II and the so-called ‘Dutch mothers‘. A group of pregnant women living in the Netherlands, labouring under starvation conditions imposed by a harsh winter and food embargo, gave birth to relatively small babies. When their children grew up, in relative prosperity, to have children of their own their babies were unexpectedly small. So the effects of poor nutrition on Dutch mothers carried through to their grandchildren.
Adapting to Different Foods
Consider the evolutionary case against daily consumption of fruit/juicing: We lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. A subsequent change brought higher levels of uric acid—which happily provided an antioxidant effect similar to vitamin C’s. But when higher uric acid levels meet high levels of fructose or purines (a chemical found in meat, seafood, lentils), the result can be insulin resistance, hypertension, gout and obesity-related disorders. However, juicing can provide nutrients without a lot of work for the body. Therefore juicing can be very beneficial to those with compromised digestion and juicing can provide “rest” to the organs of the body. Juicing more vegetables limits the fructose and provides valuable vitamins and minerals. Juicing is also a very excellent option when intermittent fasting, say 1-2 days per week. I believe juicing has a useful place in our diets as long as we are honouring where we come from and our nutritional requirements in the present time.
Vegetables rich in Vitamin C: chilli peppers, red (3xC), green bell peppers, kholrabi, Leafy greens (kale, mustard greens, watercress, Swiss chard, spinach), broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts,
Raw vegetables were late arrivals to our diets, long after meat, and even dairy—because they were full of toxins. Lima beans contain cyanide; the phytates in peas, beans, apples and tomatoes can deplete our bodies of essential minerals including magnesium, zinc and iron, Our ancestors developed means of neutralizing such problems by cooking!
Methods have a history of making these often hard-to-digest foods more easily assimilated and their nutrition more readily available. Whether we’re looking at the artisan-style true sourdough baguette, or injera at the local Ethiopian restaurant, fermented, soured, or sprouted grain dishes are rich in enzymes and vitamins. The whole process neutralizes much of the phytic acid that can bind up minerals in the body.
Human beings on this little planet of ours have been eating properly prepared grains in different cultures for millennia, so maybe they know something we don’t? The underlying recommendation is: don’t fear the food – consider it an invitation to really listen to your body.
When it comes to eating ancestrally, the quality of your food is extremely important. Access to fresh produce, quality proteins and health-supporting fats and oils are key. In an effort to bring your body into a healthier state, banish as much of the processed food as possible.
Eating whole foods, not overly processed makes a difference.
Avoid processed sugars and seek out true old-fashioned cane sugars, raw honey and maple syrup in lieu of the common alternatives. Avoid chemical sweeteners like aspartame, etc. It’s been shown over and over again how addictive these substances are, and how many processed foods trigger cravings, and reduce satiation, leaving you hungry and unsatisfied. Refined sugars can increase inflammation, cause cancer, promote dementia, just to name a few of the detrimental effects of refined sugars.
Take a look at your genetic heritage and focus your Traditional Diet on those foods consumed by your specific, cultural ancestors.
Northern European cultures did not consume rice, beans, and corn. These cultures also ate little if any fruit or raw vegetables. The focus is on sourdough bread, raw dairy, fermented vegetables like sauerkraut, and meat, cooked stews and soups.
Latin Americans This eating pattern is a blend of the broad traditional diets of four major cultures: the indigenous people (Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, and other Native Americans), the Spanish, Portuguese, and continental Africans. The focus on maize (corn), potatoes, and beans. Pima Indians in the American Southwest, (and Pacific Islanders) have alarming rates of diabetes (40%)! & obesity (70%) when there diets adopted refined flour and sugar.
African heritage Diet whole, fresh plant foods like colorful fruits and vegetables, especially leafy greens; tubers like yams and sweet potatoes; beans of all kinds; nuts and peanuts; rice, ?atbreads and other grain foods, especially whole grains; healthy oils; homemade sauces and marinades of herbs and spices; ?sh, eggs, poultry and yogurt. It’s naturally low in processed sugar, unhealthy types of fats, and sodium, and includes only small amounts of meats and sweets. Using lots of fermentation to preserve foods.
Asian high consumption of plant foods, including vegetables, rice, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts, herbs and spices. NO dairy. Asians who migrate to North America and Europe see elevated rates of breast cancer as well as prostate cancer.
Feed your Genes
Collin Ruiz, MS, is a nutritionist using superfoods, herbs and supplements to raise up the level of health of her clients. By exploring which foods support the individual, the client has the power to make a big impact on their health and change their life for the better.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Jodee Prouse, on air from August 1st
One Woman’s Wisdom on Rising in Strength from Family Crisis
Learning Through the Tears Hard Truths About Taking Care of Oneself First—And the Power to Stop Enabling
Whether it’s Addiction, Abuse, Divorce or any other Family Trauma, a Woman at the Center
Can Step Out of the Insanity – With Love
Jodee Prouse—The Embattled Woman’s Champion
How many times have you lost yourself in some chronic family crisis, giving and giving until there is no more left to give—and yet you give more. Out of love, out of duty, out of knowing that everyone looks to you?
Whether that awful situation is a result of a horribly dysfunctional family, chronic drug or alcohol addiction, sexual or verbal abuse, living with the mentally ill, raising a disabled or autistic child, the pain of a disintegrating marriage and divorce, the responsibility that comes with parental health care decline, a jailed or arrested partner or some other trauma?
As women, we have often learned from childhood that we are the ones that must be the peacemakers, the problem-solvers, the fixers—the ones to make concessions. And we sometimes do this with dire consequences, losing our selves, sometimes our partners and our children — and even our souls.
Jodee Prouse knows this from experience. Her painfully honest bookThe Sun Is Goneabout trying to halt the alcoholic decline of her beloved brother, amidst a lifetime of family crisis and dysfunction, is both a cautionary tale and beacon of hope for women to find the strength to make painful, but personally healthy choices.
Her story begins as a child where she becomes her sweet little brother’s protector as her alcohol-fueled father rages in the night. The grand-daughter, step-daughter, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, niece, great-niece, aunt, cousin and ultimately sister to alcoholics, she becomes the one pillar of strength in her immediate household as her neglectful and emotionally-withholding mother moves on to a new partner and divorce again. Eventually starting her own family with a loving husband and two children, and beginning a business, Jodee remains her brother, Brett’s best friend and safe harbour.
But as his drinking becomes apparent, grows worse and more self-destructive, Jodee is drawn into a maelstrom of pain, co-dependence, and battle of wills with her other family members. Her deep love for her brother propels her forward to make choices and sacrifices that are disempowering for herself, Brett and others.
Yet, finally, despite the excruciating emotional pain, she comes to realise that she must put herself and her husband and children first—and set boundaries—that she cannot fix someone else’s life. For anyone dealing with an addictive family member, this experience will especially resonate.
But today, Jodee Prouse asserts that the need for women to take back the control over their own lives –and disengage from the maelstrom within a family crisis — to no longer be an enabler — is universal.
Now a full-time speaker and advocate living in Alberta CAN and Oroville, WA, after successfully building and selling her highly regarded beauty company, Jodee is also urging families to stop hiding in shame from “family secrets”—to deal with hidden emotions by sharing, speaking out and getting help, to lance wounds that lead to pain, addiction, rage, regrets and family crisis.
Says Jodee: “I know what it is like to feel powerless to something that takes control over your life. It is not easy to break patterns of all we have ever known, even when our choices hurt us or hurt the ones we love. I know that sometimes these behaviours are etched deep inside…But when we lose ourselves in someone else’s addiction or issue, we are no good to anyone; not ourselves and certainly not the ones we love. In the end, we are not culpable for someone else’s path. Just our own.”
And that’s the deepest form of love and understanding. Through her book and message, Jodee inspires people to: LEARN. ACCEPT. FORGIVE. HEAL.
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Dr. Vie (V) is of Indian lineage born in the throes of apartheid in South Africa and branded as “non-white.” Following an enlightening experience at age 16 as she was about to be killed by a soldier, her perspective of life changed.
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