S15/08 27 Steps to Freedom; Ecoli to LIFE

February 18, 2015March 30, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

“Their Story Matters” with Sara Troy and her guest Wendy Mcclelland Aired from February 24th on.

Successful business, own home, raising 3 children, a good life, until she was hospitalised with E-Coli infection of the spine and brain that’s when life changed forever. How she came back is her story in “27 Steps to Freedom”

Wendy Mcclelland

In late 1999 I contracted an e-Coli infection that ate away portions of my spine (along with damaging other internal organs). I spent many months in the hospital, then more in a body cast (from my neck to my knees) as the bones were fused back together. When I was finally released from the hospital, I was still in the body cast and walking with a cane.

I went to live with my parents and was so blessed to have them take care of me. During this time I learned to move again and each day I tried to move a little more. The first few weeks I stayed mostly in bed, and hobbled around from the bathroom and back to my bed.

But, I knew I needed to move again, so each day I challenged myself to go further each day. After a few weeks, I was ready to move from walking around the house to going outside.

My parents lived in a home with a driveway that had a lovely big tree at the end of it. My goal was to be able to walk right to the end of that driveway and get to the tree.

It took me many tries (and many days) to get to the end of that driveway, but when I did I knew I was on the path to freedom. I knew that nothing could hold me back after that day!

It was 27 steps to the end of the driveway, and the more I thought about it I realized that each step represented something I had learned during my journey to healing.

I now feel strong enough emotionally to go back in time, and relive the journey and share the lessons of those 27 Steps.

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Here are the some of the 27 Steps/Lessons I learned along my journey.

Each step is part of a journey through accepting weaknesses, forgiveness, asking for help and more.

Lesson #1 – Accepting Weakness

Lesson #2 – Forgive Yourself

Lesson #3 – Being Afraid is Okay

Lesson #4 – Accept Help

Lesson #5 – Lean on Others

Lesson #6 – Let Go of the Past

Lesson #7 – Forgive Others

Lesson #8 – Small Steps

Lesson #9 – Daily Lessons

Lesson #10 – Trust Yourself

Lesson #11 – Trust Others

Lesson #12 – Trust the Process

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P15/02b Two Lives One Life Time, a Story of Addiction

January 5, 2015November 4, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Pat Reihl. Aired from January 13th

It is a NEW YEAR and is a very good time to invest in yourself. First, we have, to be honest with ourselves and the lives we are currently living, are we serving ourselves or crippling our lives? Pat in her honesty shares with us her path of alcoholic destruction and how she finally placed value upon her own life to become a beacon of hope, care and nurturing for others in recovery. We to can overcome when we decide, to be honest about our choices.

Patricia A. Reihl, MPA, LCADC

Counsellor and Author

Patricia Reihl has worked in the addiction field since 1977. After securing a nursing license, she began a career as a counsellor in a social setting detox, and next worked as a nurse in a 28-day residential program. In 1980 she went to work in a hospital-based outpatient program where she developed and directed a special outpatient track for female clients.

In 1981 Pat became Director of Spring House, a female halfway house in Paramus, New Jersey. During her tenure, the program was taken from the brink of closing to the largest female halfway house in the State. Spring House serves today as a national and international model. Ms. Reihl has returned many women to the community as sober, productive members of society and has become a role model for the women she serves.

Throughout the years she returned to college to complete both a Bachelor and Master Degree. This schooling qualified Pat to serve on numerous national committees and boards. In addition, she represented halfway houses on a sub-committee of the American Society of Addictive Medicine and become a member of the faculty at the Rutger’s Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies. She has instructed professionals across the Country and Europe.

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Pat served as President of the New Jersey Association of Halfway Houses for six years. In 1995 she was elected to a two-year term as President of the National Association of Halfway Houses. During her tenure as National President, she brought the National Convention to New Jersey, assisted five states in creating associations, and raised membership in the association to an all-time high.

Because of a personal recovery starting in 1970, she organised a non-profit group with a mission to memorialise the building at 17 William Street where the book “Alcoholics Anonymous” was written. In October of 1998 she was awarded the “Employer of the Year Achievement Award” by the Bergen County Department of Health presented by the County Administration, and again in 2006 accepted the Wynona M. Lipman Award for Community Service presented by the Governor and State Department of Community Affairs, Division on Women for The Family Afterward. Pat Reihl became Executive Director of The Family Afterward, A Freedom House Program, on March 1, 1999.

Pat has recently become a published author with the writing of her book Two Lives, One Lifetime, a story of generational addiction. In addition, more information can be found about Pat and her book at patreihl.com.

Pat’s interests include running, daily exercise and workout as well as improving her golf game. She has raised 3 children and she and her husband enjoy their grandchildren.

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P14/38b Echoes in the Universe

September 15, 2014September 4, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Aired September 23rd-29th on Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Leonard Goodwin

Echoes In The Universe: A Spiritual Memoir

This book illuminates the overlapping nature of the physical and spiritual realms by tracing the author’s life path as child, husband, father, social researcher, professor, and spiritual seeker. The purpose is to inspire others to recognize and follow their unique paths through these intersecting worlds so as to reach a higher level of spiritual development.

LEONARD tells his story in the form of narrative verse that provides the imagery and feeling for his travels through time:

Growing up in Brooklyn during the dark days of the Great Depression and experiencing hospital traumas and anti-Semitism while appreciating the wonders of the New York Public Library, a sandwich at the Automat, travel to upstate New York in the family’s 1936 Dodge, the New York Worlds Fair of 1939;

Experiencing an early lesson in the struggle for civil rights as a student at the University of Texas in Austin; carrying out social research in Washington, DC, while sharing the dreams and disillusionment of the Kennedy/Johnson years discovering later still, that “success” as researcher and professor is no guarantee of family stability or good health

His spiritual awakening is triggered by an event in the midst of his professional career that tells him he has taken on more than he can handle:

Teaching and heading a Department of Social Science;
Conducting a major research project on the social psychology of the poor;
Raising two children and a dog on his own.

He undertakes Buddhist meditation and Taoist practices where he becomes aware of the interconnection among all beings, and through other teachers and experiences learns about the human energy system and its connection with the spiritual realm. In particul, r he learns of his own purpose which includes transducing energy from the Sound Angel realm to the Earth in order to support the energy grids of the Earth. He experiences an illumination about the Book of Job during the presentation of an academic colleague who survived the Auschwitz death camp during World War II.

Later in life he experiences a near death heart attack in which he is given a spiritual message about Jesus and the choice of returning to his spiritual home or staying longer on the earth plane. After deciding to stay, and being supported in recovery by his second wife, he becomes aware of how Dark forces have orchestrated challenges in his life—including childhood traumas—even as Light forces opened opportunities for professional and spiritual advancement.

The book ends with the author helping to open an important energy portal under the Vatican in Rome and using his experiences to facilitate communal living in the active adult community in which he and his wife now reside.

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Leonard Goodwin is a retired professor and social psychologist who resides with his wife in a Del Webb over 55 active adult community outside of Nashville, TN. Previously he was on the faculty of Earlham College, the staff of the Fulbright Exchange Program and Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He also served as professor and head of the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has published numerous professional articles and the following professional books: Do The Poor Want To Work?: A Social Psychological Study Of Work Orientations; Can Social Science Help Resolve National Problems?; Causes and Cures of Welfare: New Evidence on the Social Psychology of the Poor. His poetry has appeared in a number of publications.

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P14/30b Change Your Belief’s to Change Your Life

July 23, 2014November 17, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Originally Aired July 29th 2014 on Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Rita Soman

What are the Belief’s that are holding you back and how do we change them to benefiting your life?

Author of books, The Thought That Changed My Life Forever and Thank God I Am An Empowered Woman, Psychotherapist Rita Soman, is an expert in helping people with healing the root cause of addictions and mental health related issues and most other life’s problems with PSYCH-K® process that helps in identifying and healing the root cause of problems at the subconscious level of the mind. With over 26 years of experience, Rita believes that blending PSYCH-K process with psychotherapy has proven to be very beneficial in addressing all types of challenges and it works synergistically with most other healing modalities. In just few sessions people begin to restore their happiness and wellbeing and start moving forward toward realizing their dreams. Rita teaches PSYCH-K workshops worldwide and works with people in person, by phone and via Skype.

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Rita gave me a session that helped me understand my blockages, by seeing what was in my way I can now address them and de-power them by giving the power to a new positive inviting voice. Thank you Rita, your kindness and compassion, your understanding of beliefs is inspiring. Sara Troy.

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P14/23a Sacretherapy®: You’re Not Sick-You’re Sacred!

June 2, 2014June 11, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Originally aired Aired June 10th/14 on Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Amelia Kemp.

Dear Sara:

One out of four people listening to your show secretly think they are crazy. And can’t shake the depression. The fog won’t lift. Or have been diagnosed with some kind of mental or emotional illness. They’ve tried psychotherapy, drugs and dozens of other ways to get well, but nothing’s worked.

Well, help is on the way! Holistic psychotherapist Dr. Amelia Kemp, Ph.D, LMHC, has written a revolutionary book that does for mental health what Louise Hay’s 1984 groundbreaking book You Can Heal Your Body did for the physical. Kemp’s From Psychotherapy to Sacretherapy® — Alternative Holistic Descriptions and Healing Processes for 170 Mental and Emotional Diagnoses Worldwide reexamines each condition within a spiritual context that is universal, filling in a key element that is essential for wholeness.

The book is the first to offer alternative holistic ways to describe, interpret and treat those diagnoses and prescribes specific treatments thathonourr the whole person-mind, body and spirit. The book tells sufferers, “You’re not sick- you’re sacred!” In the process, she changes the terminology from “disorder” to “reaction” removing the stigmatization. Kemp helps the person understand that it is either their reaction to the “matter” along with conditioned beliefs or behaviors that is causing the distress, which she calls a “misaligned thought.” Or, what has manifested may be what she calls a ”divine intention.” And in both cases, may be brought back into alignment utilizing the eight sacred steps described in the book.

Marrying elements of traditional psychotherapy to metaphysical and holistic practices, Kemp has created something entirely new–Sacretherapy® She quotes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website: “Mental health is related to the promotion of well-being…” and then goes on to say, “However, the divine part of this well-being appears to be regularly left out the treatment plan for the majority of the population in the world’s western hemisphere. And this major void needs to be filled in order to honor the fullness of the human being.”

The book was written because Kemp believes traditional interventions are fragmented and label people, which causes them to feel sick and defective. Therefore, she seeks to remove the stigma and pathology associated with mental and emotional issues and restore sufferers’ sense of value and worth, while bringing them back to their inherent wellness.

But Kemp’s experience with mental health issues is far from impersonal. After an extremely challenging childhood in an unhappy home and sexual abuse starting at a young age, she suffered with anxiety and depression and was ultimately hospitalized in her 20s. Despite repeated rounds of psychotherapy, medication, periods of slight improvement, and an unending quest for alternatives, there was little change-even while she was studying mental health for her master’s degree.

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It was only when she finally began to explore books and interventions that were spiritual and metaphysical in nature–did she really begin to see dramatic changes. Slowly, Kemp began to integrate these universal principles and concepts into her professional psychotherapy practice with astonishing results. People who previously made little progress, began to make major strides, and ultimately came back into “alignment” with their inherent wellness.

From Psychotherapy to Sacretherapy® offers eight steps to mental and emotional well-being, 24 healing exercises, illustrations and aftercare practices including herbal remedies and energy medicine, and features a powerful chapter on healing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. The 170 alternative and healing processes cover everything from anxiety and depression to family stressors and infidelity to emotional eating/obesity, and encompasses the more severe diagnoses including bipolar and psychosis. Those going through the Sacretherapy process are also offered additional support through Dr. Kemp’s Sacretherapy radio show, which more than 4,000 people have already downloaded.

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Says Kemp, “This books shows you how to realign your mind, body and spirit; relieve a great deal of guilt, reduce self-reproach; and help free yourself from any toxic conditioning, memes or programming you may have acquired during your physical journey, as it unlocks the door to the mental and emotional well-being that has always been yours by divine right!”