17-50 Consumerism is not Festive, Love is.

Join Sara Troy on Sara’s View of Life, on air from December 12th


Is Christmas all about gifts — who can buy bigger, better, and more than last year?
Or is it about love, kindness, and the togetherness of our families and communities?
I believe it’s the latter.

We get so consumed by the consumerism of it all that we forget the generosity of kindness and love. Sharing a table filled with good food and wonderful company — whether family or strangers who become friends — is deeply fulfilling and reminds us what this season truly celebrates.

Don’t get me wrong, I love giving gifts too. But I am no longer a slave to gift-buying. The greatest gift I can offer is my heart — through a letter, a card, a call, a video chat… simply reaching out and connecting. That human warmth lasts far longer than anything wrapped in paper.

We have children today who expect everything they ask for — and tantrum when they don’t get it. What are we teaching them? That happiness comes from things? The real gift is attention, love, and guiding them to live from the inside out — to care for others and to know the joy of giving.

Young or old, rich or poor, in the end it is love — loving ourselves, and being loved by others — that truly enriches life. That is the greatest gift of all.

So this season, share your love. Share your time. Share your attention.
Put down the phones. Talk to one another. Reach out to those who are alone and bring them in. Let no one feel forgotten or left out in the cold.

Because we all want to belong.
We all want to know someone cares.
And that — more than anything — is the true spirit of Christmas.


SARA SPEAKS FESTIVE LOVE AND TOGETHERNESS THIS SEASON. 


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C 17-51 The Ball of Human Kindness with Gabriella van Rij

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest  Gabriella van Rij, on air from December 19th on. 


KINDNESS EXPERT, GABRIELLA VAN RIJ, DISCUSSES THE BALL OF HUMAN KINDNESS® CAMPAIGN

The ball of Human Kindness® movement began during November 2013 in Tulare, CA and has since made its way across the nation, making news wherever it goes. “The ball represents a child or adult someone that does not know how to fit in or someone that feels it cannot belong; to a group, family or even your spouse or partner,” says Gabriella van Rij [pronounced “Ray”], widely acclaimed kindness expert. “As a society, we have dropped the ball of Human Kindness®. Will you help me pick it up?”

A tireless speaker and consultant to students and school faculty, Gabriella has travelled across North America, speaking at school assemblies, corporations, and community halls, providing a practical approach for ending bullying and creating safer communities through her 4-step kindness program. “One moment, one person, one kindness—is all it takes to help someone go from a negative space to a positive place, BE the difference!


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GABRIELLA VAN RIJ [pronounced “Ray”] began her life as an orphan in Pakistan and without the determination and kindness of two strangers, she would not have been adopted into her new family. Today, Gabriella relentlessly champions the Kindness movement and tackles the social issues that plague our society. With a brave and compassionate voice, she speaks at businesses, universities, corporate training events, school assemblies, community centres, places of worship, and on network shows. Her uplifting talks to motivate, challenge, and provide the groundwork for lasting progress. She is an acclaimed author of three books. With All My Might is her mesmerizing memoir of one of the first cross-cultural adoptions. I Can Find My Might is part self-help, a part practical resource for students, parents, and educators. Gabriella’s personal experience creates a boots-on-the-ground approach to bullying and self-acceptance that is nothing short of magical. Watch Your Delivery is Gabriella’s third and latest book, based on one of her popular presentations of the same name. Gabriella’s #DareToBeKind campaign brings her bullying prevention program to schools, communities, and corporations across the US. Gabriella has been seen by millions on Dr. Phil, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. She also writes for the Huffington Post and the NY Daily News. In 2017, Gabriella van Rij was elected as Secretary General of the World Kindness Movement.

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TSM 17-51 The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences

Their Stroy Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Dr. Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh, on air from December 19th

Dr Penny Sartori (Near-Death Experience expert and academic), and NDE experiencer Kelly Walsh share in this interview about their unique double perspectives on NDEs in their groundbreaking new book: The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences: How the Messages of NDEs Positively Impact the World.

Penny and Kelly have brought together powerful stories from people from around the world, and across a vast range of backgrounds, all of whom have had their lives transformed for the better in some way after their NDEs, including Kelly herself. After years of trauma, Kelly tried to take her own life in 2009. She then had a near-death experience in which she felt divine love and connection, and heard the words ‘like-minded souls will collaborate to change the world’. This showed her how valuable her life is and how much she can do to benefit the world. Since then, she has been devoted to positivity and to helping children in need, most notably through her charity she founded (where all profits from the book will be donated). 

This book brings together the best elements of questions about consciousness, life after death, and the cracks in our health and mental health care systems, alongside the personal, powerful, and ultimately positive real-life stories of ordinary people and their extraordinary experiences. 

As a society, we are all taught to fear death, yet for those who have touched it, and returned to tell the tale, the message they’ve brought back is drastically different. Unconditional love, divine understanding, and true universal connection await us on the other side. We can all benefit from this message, without nearly having to die first; all we have to do is listen to what those who have had an NDE are trying to convey.
NDEs are often transformative, not only on an individual level, but on a collective level too. In The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences, NDE expert Dr. Penny Sartori and near death experiencer Kelly Walsh brings together a selection of inspiring stories from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences. These have changed the course of their lives, empowered them to be their true selves, and show each and every one of them the power of love and acceptance.
The contributors range in their ages, backgrounds, beliefs, creeds, and careers, yet what ties them together is the remarkable metamorphoses in their lives after their NDEs. Some struggled to integrate back into regular life, and repressed their NDEs, whereas others felt so much love and joy during their NDEs that they actively wanted to experience another. Some had their marriages dissolve as their partners couldn’t understand what they had been through, and others found their soulmates having been empowered to finally believe that they deserve love. From
setting up support groups for other NDEers, to founding charities and programmes across the world, the unconditional love and interconnectedness experienced by all these people has led to them putting more positivity into the world.
Drawing extensively on her career as an intensive care nurse and on the results of her doctoral research into NDEs, Dr. Sartori examines the NDEs from an academic perspective, whilst Kelly Walsh draws on the knowledge of her own NDE from a spiritual perspective, offering a balanced viewpoint on this phenomenon. With their combined wisdom we learn about NDEs, and from them. With forewords by Dr. Mick Collins and Neale Donald Walsch, and contributions from esteemed medical professionals such as Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD, this book offers expert insight and credibility, alongside the heart-warming accounts by people from all walks of life who experienced life transformations after their NDEs.
The book describes how NDEs have helped some contributors overcome suicidal feelings, has led another to come to terms with their transgender identity, and it reveals the inadequacy of our health system that can wrongly perceive NDEs as mental health problems. While recent years have seen a dramatic change of attitude towards NDEs, they are still widely misunderstood, understudied, and not adequately acknowledged. This is a huge detriment, to those
who don’t receive proper support, and to the wider world, who are missing out on their beautiful messages of peace, love, and respect; Everyone is interconnected, and nobody has to fear death.
This book is crucial in transforming the way we perceive NDEs, consciousness, life after death, palliative care, a more compassionate healthcare system, and our universal human connection. It inspires people of all cultures and faiths to see how the love experienced during an NDE has the capacity to heal minds, bodies, and souls.


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Dr Penny Sartori PhD, RGN is an expert in NDEs,
having been an intensive care nurse for 17 years and having undertaken the UK’s first long-term prospective study on them, for which she was awarded a PhD. She wrote the bestseller The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (2014),
which was serialised in the Daily Mail, as well as What is A Near-Death Experience? She has had her work featured, and been interviewed, across national and international press and radio. She lectures across the world, and currently teaches at
Swansea University.

Kelly Walsh is the founder of the Positivity Power
Movement and Love Care Share charitable foundation.
Her life’s work has been inspired by an NDE she had in 2009 following a suicide attempt, and subsequent spiritual experiences she has had since. The words she shouted out following her experience- ‘like-minded souls would collaborate to change the world’- have been the driving force for the creation of this book and the work she now does. Her experience also inspired her to create a children’s character, Positivity Princess from Planet Positavia, who is on a mission to create a
more loving, caring, sharing world. The royalties from The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences will go towards supporting projects aimed at making a positive difference in children’s lives through the work of their charitable foundation.

Penny: http://www.drpennysartori.com/index.html

Kelly: http://www.kellymichellewalsh.com

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C17-50 “The Forever Letter” with Elana Zaiman

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Elana Zaiman, on air from December 12th

Elana Zaiman (1)I believe that we each want to better understand ourselves; make ourselves known to the people who matter to us most; deepen our relationships, and heal what may be broken between us.

                                        We can do this by writing Forever Letters.

Forever Letters share our values and wisdom; asks for forgiveness and offers forgiveness; expresses our gratitude and love. They are transformative, taking us to our ultimate truth, our authentic self. They enable us to live with the intention of being our best self. They are a gift of support and connection.

You can write to your parents, children, siblings, other family members, friends, colleagues, teachers, students, mentors … anyone who matters to you.


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My Path to Becoming a Rabbi and a Writer

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island in a family of six: my mom and dad, me, my sister, Sarina, and my two brothers Ari and Rafi. All I knew growing up was that women could not be rabbis, at least not in the Orthodox synagogue where my grandfather served as the rabbi, not at the Orthodox elementary school I attended and not in the traditional Conservative synagogue where I belonged, and where my father was the rabbi.

History records the first woman rabbi to be Regina Jonas of East Berlin, Germany who was ordained in 1935. In 1972, when I was 10, Sally Priesand became the first woman rabbi ordained in America’s Reform movement. l knew nothing about these women until much later in my life, and though I had no childhood aspiration to become a rabbi, I did imitate my father on the rare Sabbath mornings I did not go to synagogue. I convened a congregation of my stuffed animals. I sat them in a circle on my bedroom floor, placed prayer books in front of their faces, kippot on some of their heads, and I became both rabbi and cantor, leading services, chanting traditional melodies, announcing pages and, I believe, delivering an occasional sermon

My mission in my work, writing, and life is to bring people together; to enable all people (especially children, elders, and those who feel marginalized in our society) to be heard; to guide people to find meaning in their lives and to live into this meaning; to question the wrongs we encounter and to have the courage to change them; to do our best to right the wrongs we ourselves create; and to appreciate how each one of us is a precious and necessary gift that contributes to the larger whole of our world.

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17-47 Clarifying the Words of Participation

Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air November 21st

Often we do not know what our words really do mean to others, so I decided this week to speak to some clarity of words I am using in my invite to all of these opportunities.

When you say I am looking for collaborators, just what do you mean, we as in the definition here I am looking for like minded people who wish to align our work to enhance production on both fronts. We see a synergy and know that our collaborative efforts will help each other.

I tried at inviting Subscribers, but did not see any results, but will give it another try in the new year with different others. Subscription is great but people are in a niche and do not always see things put of the box.

I Love a Sponsor, because they see the benefits that not only profile their agenda but are in support and celebration of what they are sponsoring. I will be seeking sponsors for our Community program which will be supporting and celebrating those who have need for a focus on their wonderful work and who are an inspiration to all, but need our help to reach more.

Joint Ventures, so many of us are doing great work, but now and again doing a joint venture with someone can really expand ones arena and support both parties in many ways. One has to make sure that both parties can deliver and that their intentions are real and authentic.

Partnerships. Like minded people who see the benefit of working with a party to build a better platform. I am seeking such partners in Toronto and indeed the word, who see this platform and wish to be a part of it to see its growth and benefits to the world and what opportunities it has for them. One has to make sure that their intent is authentic and that they believe in your platform for this to really work.

 Advocates. I love advocates for they are your supporters and audience. Their enthusiasm and sharing gives you the foundation to your platform and also encourages us to keep doing it.

Donators. We are a Donation station, other than a few hosts who pay to be on air with us, we survive on donations. Some times some people are extraordinarily giving, but every cent helps and small of big, keeps a purpose going.


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Word Definitions. 

Donationsan act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.

Subscriptionsthe dues paid by a member of a club, society, etc.

Sponsor. a person who makes a pledge or promise on behalf of another.

Supporterto explore or examine in order to discover:

Partner. a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavour; sharer; associate.

Joint Venture. a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter temporary partnership.

Collaboratorto work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary working together in support of each other:

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