Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from April 16th
I have had many transitions in life; I started of in the UK and in only 14 years there, I lived in five homes. We then moved to South Africa where I had at least 10 homes. I lived in 3 homes in the USA, and here in Canada I have lived in 15 homes and now about to go to number 16, which I hope is my forever home.
In my spirit I am a bit of a nomad, an adventurer an explorer. Now having found a way to explore through my work as a podcaster and book producer, I can be settled in a for ever home, and let my ventures be on-line. I have not lived alone in 43 years, it will be an adjustment, but one I will adjust too. For my 70th birthday this year, I hope to get a lap dog to keep me company, and I will have my Grandbabies over a lot through the years to come, it is lovely to be so close to them now. It is also easier to visit my other children across the waters and for them to come to me, at last.
I would not have this home if it was not for my daughter and her husband, I am there to help with the Grandchildren, they are there for me as I age, a perfect position to be in. I am so grateful for their generosity and for the chance to be nearer to them and the Grandkids.
So as I pack up my home of 5.6 years with dear Audrey, my 90 year old spirit woman, I embark on yet another adventure into a retirement community, where I hope to meet new people in this new city and embrace my new life once again.
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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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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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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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Raising Our Gifted Children with Sara Troy and Professor Selena Bartlett, on air from April 9th
The driving force behind my work is the urgent crisis of children’s mental health crisis and safety online in 2024, a concern that disrupts my sleep and ignites a deep sense of emergency within me. The realisation that in 2024, our children are not safe anywhere on-line has propelled me into action. Disturbing scientific reports showing a significant increase in mental illness driven by excess consumption of online sexual content, alongside the negative impact of social media, highlight the critical need for immediate intervention.
Parents, often the first and only line of defence, are grappling with the challenge of safeguarding their children. My work is inspired by the urgent need to empower clinicians and educators and parents/carers with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to protect their children from the myriad threats they face online. It’s driven by a commitment to transform the digital space into a safer, healthier environment for our young people, where their mental and emotional well-being is protected. This mission, rooted in a deep concern for the well-being of our children and the desire to make a tangible difference, motivates me to continue developing and advocating for solutions that can address this pressing issue.
In today’s digital age, the rise in cyber victimisation and sexual exploitation poses a significant mental health crisis for our youth. The Internet Watch Foundation’s 2023 findings reveal an alarming increase in online child sexual abuse content, much of it self-generated under coercion. Coupled with nearly unrestricted access to digital content, this environment fosters mental health challenges, notably self-harm, suicide ideation, anxiety, ADHD, and eating disorders, which are often linked to childhood trauma and the relentless pressures of social media and excess screen time. BEING SEEN ultimately, is the BIG IDEA, and the special and unique aspect of my work lies in its blend of scientific insight, innovative solutions, and unwavering commitment to positively impacting the digital well-being of children and families. Through “BEING Seen” advocacy, books, and podcasts, I am integrating neuroscience with a deep understanding of the digital landscape’s effects on youth mental health to protect children’s mental health. My work offers comprehensive solutions that mitigate risks and foster resilience and positive mental health among young people.
I am Professor Selena Bartlett, a mother to 5 grown children and an international expert in Translational Neuroscience. I am a Group Leader of Neuroscience at the Queensland University of Technology. I have three decades of brain research and host of the Thriving Minds and BEING SEEN podcasts, author of over 110 research papers and books as well as numerous film and media appearances. I fervently advocate for brain health, penning three public-oriented books, including “BEING SEEN: Master Parenting in the Digital Age. I bring neuroscience to life—providing people and parents with the tools they need to help their children thrive. The Australasian Neuroscience Society recognised my contributions to neuroscience with the Lawrie Austin Award. I democratise access to the latest neuroscientific advances, applying my deep expertise in neuroscience and neuroplasticity to bring brain health to all.
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