YH24-11. Dr. Timothy Teel & Our Gut Health

March 11, 2024April 6, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Your Health is Your Choice with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Timothy (Tim) Teel, on air from March 12th

Dr Teel is a retired ear, nose and throat surgeon now turned author, coach and course creator. During the last 4 years of his practice, he found more powerful medicine in the food we eat and the thoughts we think and how they affect our health in profound ways. When standard medical treatment failed to adequately address his “globus” patients’ health concerns, he started looking at the food they were eating and found multiple diet triggers that were the true cause of the complaints. When these offending foods were removed, many of their other health complaints resolved…completely. When his own health started to fail, he applied his own brand of medicine and had dramatic results that brought other, even more profound benefits. He now teaches how to enjoy the benefits of feeding our caveman bodies the way they were created to function.

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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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YH24-11. Michelle Rapkin on Sucky Cancer

March 11, 2024March 10, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Your Health is Your Choice with Sara Troy and her guest Michelle Rapkin, on air from March 12th

Michelle Rapkin, three-time cancer survivor and author of Cancer Sucks, but You’ll Get Through It( Broadleaf Books; March 12, 2024). Infused with hope, laughter, and advice, this book curates personal experience with priceless learning from interviews with cancer survivors around the country. Cancer Sucks, but You’ll Get Through It will equip you with the non-medical tools and tips needed to make it through cancer treatment sanely. Because surviving cancer–and thriving–isn’t just about medicine. It’s about managing your needs, emotions, relationships, and more. Rapkin is the bedside friend who gives you the inside scoop. In an interview, she can talk about:

how to talk to your loved ones (and not-so-loved ones) about your diagnosis
why your nose might start running when your hair falls out
how to organize hospital paperwork
what to do when depression rears its head

“Cancer is a cold planet,” Rapkin says, but she serves as a warm guide to help you sidestep or defuse the buried bombs, both around us and within. Cancer Sucks but You’ll Get Through It offers invaluable relief as you move through the scariest terrain of your life, from someone who’s been there.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michelle Rapkin is a three-time cancer survivor. First diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2000, she is intimately acquainted with the ins and outs of cancer. A graduate of Cornell University, Rapkin has spent over thirty years in the publishing industry, working on hundreds of books including more than a dozen New York Times bestsellers. She is the editorial founder of Crossings Book Club. She currently lives in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, just steps from the beach—her happy place.

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AK24-11.The Restoration of Ami by Sam Hawksmoor

March 11, 2024September 24, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Sam Hawksmoor, on air from March 12th

Here we have Sam’s latest book on a child who ran away from a cult, abandoned by her mother, a NASA retired man who lost his wife and and is seeking parts for his car, and a dog who binds them together. Sam have done it again and brought us mystery, underling events and a journey into re-coving from loss and embracing redirections.

You never know what is around the corner, until you stop for a pee.

Remy has one last obsession – to complete the restoration of his ’57 Studebaker Golden Hawk. He’s planned a road trip to Montreal to find a part he desperately needs. It’s a long way from Florida, his Chevy truck is almost as old as he is. There are doubts that he’ll be able to make the drive, doubts about his bladder, his heart, but he’s determined.
At the very first urgent stop in the pouring rain, a dog appears from nowhere and jumps into his truck, quickly followed by a drenched teen. Scared, the girl urgently needs a ride. Ami has escaped from a religious cult desperate to find her mother who abandoned her to the cult when she was just five.
One old man, a desperate teenage girl and Stan the dog are on a road trip into MAGA America. Montreal seems to get further away with each mile they travel.

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Sam says “Ever since I was a child, I’ve found myself lost in the world of words and stories. I am Sam Hawksmoor, and writing isn’t just what I do; it’s who I am. It’s like I discovered my calling before I even knew what a calling was. Each blank page was a canvas for my imagination, a gateway to unknown worlds and uncharted territories.

As I grew, so did my stories. They blossomed from simple tales spun in the backyard to intricate narratives filled with mystery and adventure. The characters I create, they’re more than just figments of imagination; they’re part of me, living and breathing through each line I write.

I take pride in crafting stories that are not just exciting but illuminating. My goal? To transport you, my reader, to places you’ve never imagined. Each page you turn is a step into a new adventure, a mystery unfolding, a journey through the crevices of my mind.

Writing, for me, is an endless exploration. The thrill of creating worlds, the joy of weaving plots, the satisfaction of bringing characters to life – these are the things that fuel my passion. Each story I pen is a piece of my soul, a glimpse into the depths of my imagination.

As you journey through my books, I hope you find the same excitement and wonder that I do in creating them. Let’s unravel mysteries, embark on adventures, and explore the unknown together. This is my world, a realm of imagination and endless possibilities, and I’m thrilled to share it with you.”

‘It’s a terrific story with engaging, interesting characters. What a wonderful dog!’
Walli Leff – New York

From the author of ‘We Feel Your Pain’ and ‘The Book of Ashes’ – the Delaney & Asha mysteries.

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C24-11. Renzo Del Castillo’s Poet within.

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Renzo Del Castillo, on air from March 12th

I want to focus on bridging the gaps between people, building connections and empathy through creation, art, integrity and love.

Originally, I had an abstract goal to publish a book before I turned 40. However, in the last 7 years I lost a significant number of my loved ones: my dad, my grandmother, my best friend’s mom, my cousins, my dog, etc. The relationship I thought was going to evolve into marriage broke down during this time. I felt life had stopped giving me things and had started to take them away, which makes absolutely no logical sense, but this is where I was at emotionally. Writing the poems that make up this book allowed me to process everything I was feeling during this time. This is why the book is called “Still;” I had to learn to be in the present moment and allow myself to feel and process whatever I needed to. Also, in Spanish, “still” means “todavia,” as in I’m still here. No matter what I’m still here and those that have moved on are with me in my memories and what they taught me. We’re here and this is our story and it means the world to me that anyone who reads this book will know them and love them too.

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Renzo Del Castillo was born in Lima, Peru, in 1983, and was educated at the University of Florida, leaving with a B.A. in English, specializing in Victorian Literature, and an M.A. in Mass Communications, specializing in Intercultural Communications. Renzo currently resides in Miami, but he prioritizes traveling in order to experience and be exposed to the tenets of other cultures. He strongly believes that it is through art that we find the divinity of truth, the pathway of communication with others; that through this connection we are made whole. While he has spent the last 15 years as an executive in the healthcare industry, Renzo has been previously published in literary publications such as Literary Yard, the Acentos Review, the Scarlet Leaf Review, and the Ekphrastic Review, as well as his debut poetry collection, Still.

We left Peru when I was 5 because my family had received death threats from Shinning Path. We went from being upper middle class/ or lower upper class to starting from 0 here in the states. I saw my parents struggle to put food on the table to the point where they would tell my sister and I to eat dinner, that they had already eaten, when that was a lie because some days there wasn’t enough for all of us. That marked me. I was driven to make money because money equals safety. I went full Scarlett O’Hara: As god as my witness my family wouldn’t go hungry again, you know? Since we had limited financial means, my family gifted me with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of art, which was my escape. It was only in my early 30s that I achieved financial security, and that’s when I began to travel and my mind was blown and expanded by the different people and cultures I met. I saw that we weren’t that different across the world. Almost everyone I’ve interacted with wanted to love and beloved, to be under.

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C24-11. Shelley J Whitehead on Relationship & Heartbreak.

March 11, 2024March 10, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara troy and her guest Shelley J Whitehead, on air from March 12th

Shelley J Whitehead is no stranger to loss and grief. Over her decades in private coaching practice, Shelley has used her qualifications and life experience to help bereaved, dumped and divorced individuals to overcome their pain of endings and to transform their lives. She is well known for helping heal broken hearts.

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Shelley J Whitehead, an award-winning relationship coach and published author with a unique blend of personal and professional experience, offers deep insights into the realms of love, loss, and personal growth. Born in South Africa and now London-based, her approach to coaching embodies resilience and wisdom with deep and soulful insight.

Shelley’s own heart has walked through the fires of loss — from the heart-wrenching departure of a partner to cancer to the sudden dissolution of a marriage. From these ashes, she’s unearthed a profound truth: heartbreak, in its rawest form, offers a mirror to the soul, illuminating hidden dreams and passions. With lyrical wisdom, Shelley guides individuals on a transformative journey through their heartbreak and steers them towards a life abundant in love and connection.

Over her decades in practice, Shelley has amassed a diverse set of qualifications and accreditations. Notably, she is a Certified Life Coach (New Insights UK, ACCPH), Certified Transpersonal Coach (IACTM), and Encounter-Centered Couples Coach (EcCT, with Hedy Schleifer). Shelley also holds certifications in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and as an Advanced Authentic Self Empowerment Facilitator (ASE). She is accredited with the International Association of Coaches, Therapists, and Mentors (IACTM).