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Aired August 19th-25th on The Writers Divine Den with Jackie VanCampen and her guest Kathy Sparrow
Kathy Sparrow is a fantastic editor and book coach. She was one of the editors for my first book and is now helping me with my second solo book. On this interview, Kathy will share practical and useful tips to help you on your writing journey.
Join us and be inspired.
Kathy Sparrow is an award-winning author, speaker, and creativity/leadership coach. Her work has appeared in national and regional magazines, and she is the author of numerous books, including her memoir On the Mother Lagoon: Fly Fishing and the Spiritual Journey and her novel, soon to be released, The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout.
A Master RIM® Facilitator, she has trained with Jack Canfield–one of the top human potential leaders in the world–and is a member of his assisting team. A former university professor of writing, she now dedicates much of her time to helping others develop their messages and share their stories with the world.
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Aired August 19th-25th on Songs For Everyone with Michael Averill and his guest Don Alder.
In part 2 of an interview series with Don Alder, world renown finger style guitarist, listen to his advice to musicians with regards to making the best out of disastrous on stage situations, and how he fell into the world of Harp Guitar.
PART ONE
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Harp Guitar Song “Sayonara” that Don makes reference to in the interview:
For me No, I can’t, it is very hard to come out of a dark cloud and the feeling of despair. For me I know it is a case of chemical imbalance which takes me over and eats away at my gut and very being.
People see me as someone who is always upbeat positive and with a believing of living life, only some know of my darkness that I live in. Many do not want to know, they like the person who goes after life and believes in what is possible no matter how many times I get knocked down. It is not that they don’t care but that they do not know what to say or do about it when I am in darkness.
I discovered through my Wise Health host Suma Nathan on Self Discovery Radio a product a natural nutrient called Q96 that feeds the brain and rebalances our equilibrium. This product works and for 4 months I kept my anxiety at bay. Even though physiatrist are finally understanding the benefits to this nutrient, it is still far from the main stream and supported by medical. It was great having the 4 months of anxiety and depression gone, and no matter what family crises, running a radio station, renewing a business, finding a new home etc., it got me through and for that I am grateful.
It is not all bad, something always good comes out of it if we survive it, I got offered a radio show 6.5 years ago that set me on this path that came from my depression, go figure. Comedians get their material from those dark places, it is just sometimes the darkness is too much and you can’t find your way back home. We have to be in purpose or we look at our lives as useless, we have to know we count or why be here and when in the darkness, there is no warmth no hand no touch to make you feel less alone, only the cold dark.
I am not like this all the time, it comes in waves, we do feel the pain in our bodies and mind soul and heart, it all hurts, sleep is so very important not so easy to do when you’re so down, or it is all you can do and not wake up to any possibility as your just too tried. There are many modalities that can help, this nutrient Q96, meditation, yoga, walks, dancing singing living, if you can overcome the pain enough. When in this state it is so very important that you be active in any way, find a purpose, make yourself do something, put yourself around people that care, understand it is hard to be around jolly people if you feel no joy within, do not take it personally for we appreciate your efforts.
Removing yourself from your direct pain is the key, go to a movie that removes you from you, do a sport, go for a run, help out somewhere, help someone else, that is what I love to do and it gives me a reason to still be here. Depending on if your nutrient low or struggling with mood swings that consume you, there is always an answer, look to your diet it is a key for your recovery. For me always has to be natural, I know that antidepressants make me worse and do not help in my recovery. I have to be natural, focusing and doing something outside of myself, I guess that is why I do the radio, I interview people who have overcome and I celebrate their D.I.V.A (dreams, inspirations, visions, aspirations) as it helps me find my own, plus I am so inspired by what they all bring to the table that the pride I have in my hosts and what the station stand for is a reason to fight this ugly disorder completely.
So I will overcome, I always do, time to be productive and override the pain, I have every reason to live as I have a purpose that is so much bigger than I, and knowing that these shows we do is helping people around the world find their own strength light and purpose is a reason to keep on fighting, even though I may need some help from time to time.
SO please don’t judge us for what we do, for sometimes it is out of our control, don’t tell us to snap out of it or be too aggressive with your solution, understand, anxiety and depression do HURT so help us heal with love support and belief in us and help us see the joy of life again so we may find the light once more.
I have done many shows on this from anti-bullying to featuring the Q96 and its results, you can find them at mental-challenges-shows
Don’t judge don’t demand just shed some light and help us back, please.
Always a believer
Sara Troy.
Originally Aired August 5th-on demand on Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Mirela Sula
Mirela Sula has just launch a Magazine in London UK called The Migrant Woman, (now called Global Woman) we are going to discover her journey to not only as an accomplished author, a Psychotherapist and an emigrant but also to the fact she truly is living her D.I.V.A with her ability to dream, inspire, visualize and aspire to what is possible. We will discuss her magazine The Migrant Woman and her latest book, “Don’t Let your mind go” and how you with an open mind heart and soul you can live your divine journey in life.
Mirela Sula was born in Albania. Graduated with a degree in Language and Literature, and then with a Master’s Degree in Counselling and Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Mirela specialises in Positive Psychotherapy and Family Therapy. She worked as a journalist for the “Panorama” daily newspaper, and was the editor-in-chief of the weekly supplements, “Psychology” and “Woman”. Mirela was the founder and at the same time editor-in-chief of the “Psychology” magazine, and then publisher of “Psycho-Style” one of the most successful magazines in Albania. She was a panellist of a very popular show called “Love 
story” in Albania. She was also involved in several projects supporting women’s rights: First leader of the Women’s Network “Equality in Decision Making”, and Executive Director of the Albanian Centre for Positive Psychotherapy. Mirela has been a lecturer on psychology topics at different Albanian University locations, is passionate about literature, and is the author of several published books.
Mirela has been residing in London since September 2012 with her 15 year old son, working on a PhD in Psychology at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, at Regents University. She has been the Editor in Chief of the “Albanian Woman” newspaper published in London, and now she leads the “Migrant Woman” Magazine in London. She also works as a trainer of Domestic Violence at Solace Women’s Aid, London UK.
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Mirela practises meditation and was the first person that introduced TM in a small country like Albania, to an audience unfamiliar with this. With the support of philanthropist Hetem Ramadani she led the TM project in Albania, giving the opportunity to all the Albanian people to learn techniques of meditation with TM trainers from Maharishi Centre.
Her latest book
In “Don’t Let Your Mind Go” psychotherapist MIrela Sula draws on her own personal and professional experiences and those of her mother to produce a book that is poignant, profound and moving. The stories she shares are wise, insightful and beautifully written.
Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., best-selling author of Transcendence and The Gift of Adversity.
“This book is filled with pearls of wisdom laced with stories that make the pearls shine. Anyone reading it will be inspired and guided in the process of cultivating a healthy, thriving mind. I recommend it to everyone. “
Harville Hendrix, Ph. D. Author, Getting the Love You Want and co-author with Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph. D. of Making Marriage Simple
Endorsement from Albanian personalities
Through this book, Mirela Sula showed that the greater hunger of the human being is not money, titles, sex, etc… But it is the activation of dimensions that exist inside our potential to live in fullness. The author does not make changes but passes amendments, namely making radical transformations to find the meaning of life in all of its stages. Mirela Sula, with this book teaches us that, if the “WHY” exists then there is a “HOW.”
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