Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest James Charles originally aired June 30th
Mental Challenges and Autism are even more evident today, but are we any closer to understanding them and the gifts they can be? Meet James Charles who has worked in the mentally disabled world for a long time only to discover he has always had Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Having struggled with social interaction and emotional development as a child, James was badly bullied and found himself consumed with overwhelming feelings of fear and anxiety. It wasn’t until he entered his fifth decade that the diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder proved to be a revelation. It was only after he began to recognize the signs and symptoms of his patients in himself while he was working as a mental health practitioner, that he found the courage to seek out an official diagnosis. Suddenly released from the feelings of guilt, confusion and distress he had experienced since childhood, James embraced life anew, began studying to become a life coach, and finally realized that his autism was, in fact, a gift.
His book “Becoming Unique” is a moving and informative account of one man’s journey towards Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whilst delivering practical and constructive advice for those living with autism, Charles also examines the positive attributes of the disorder, which he calls a diffability. Becoming Unique is also a story of faith, as James examined his relationship with God and how he made peace with his diagnosis. A rare and valuable first-person narrative about living with autism, James Charles’ story will stay with the reader forever stay with you.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Jasmina Agrillo Scherr aired from June 9th on.
ASpiritual Memoir and Inspiring Treatise on How Heart-Resonance, Intuition and Resilience Get You Past the Tough Times and into the Thrive Times
Jasmina Agrillo Scherr knows about resilience. Her life has never been easy. As a child, she felt different from the get-go because she sensed and saw what others couldn’t. Her mother–manic, depressed and irrational–wanted to take her to “head doctors.” Jasmina suffered through illness and appendicitis—while living with a mother who was “a walking time bomb.” As a teen, her best friend suffered a mental breakdown. She left home early to make her way in Maine and earn a fine arts degree –putting herself through college while working a variety of jobs. Next came a rocky and unfulfilling marriage. Then, a brain tumor that nearly killed her and made her fight back to regain her full mental and motor skills. And lastly, a heartbreaking divorce.
Yes, Jasmina knows about resilience, but she also knows the joy of buoyancy and a life filled with spiritual blessings, a loving son and late in life, an adoring husband. She knows the beauty of connecting to the world beyond this reality, serving others, and being guided toward the light whenever at a crossroads.
An International Odyssey Offers Healing and Wonder
Her new book Mirror of My Soul, Sanctum of My Heart, is a spiritual memoir and inspiring treatise on how heart-resonance, intuition, and resilience can get you past the tough times and into the thrive times!
Filled with mystical experiences that kept guiding her forward, she relays the astonishing visions, dreams, and guidance that opened for her–even long before this grandchild of Italian immigrants elected to follow her wandering soul to India to become a disciple of a leading spiritual guru. In this modern day, real life Odyssey, you travel with her from the ancestral sorts of Sicily to New England, India, South America and Southern California’s paradise of sunshine. And through her book, her healing is now our healing, as she provides the wisdom and inspiration to be in one’s heart, looking for inner truth.
Jasmina Agrillo Scherr has walked the path and then held her hand out to others. Spiritual pilgrim, yogi mystic, meditation coach, brain recovery counselor, and spiritual healer, she has spent more than 25 years inspiring people the world over, teaching them how to access and use the power of their heart to impact consciousness, health, performance, creativity and relationships.
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Today, she offers coaching programs on Resilience Training, Transforming Anxiety, and Heart-Based Divorce Recovery —helping people over the hurdles that she once had to leap. She also offers a coaching program called Our Miracle Heart that transforms people’s life through increasing their conscious connection to their hearts. Her newest program The Cosmic Heart Resonance Technique™– is a unique practice to deepen the connection to spirit and access the laser guidance to heal and grow! In addition to her coaching programs, Jasmina’s mini and full guidance, energy healing and intuitive guidance sessions are popular with people to experience a fast and effective way to de-stress, heal and connect with spiritual intelligence.
Mirror of My Soul, Sanctum of My Heart brings readers to a new level of awareness for their own potential. Readers discover:
How to pay attention to their dreams and other signs of guidance
How to make life easier and less intimidating through heart resonance and Heart Time
How to recover from divorce with grace, strength, forgiveness and self-love
How to find inner strength, wisdom, and guidance to persevere in the face of adversity How to find resilience and buoyancy — to thrive though and after the difficult times.
Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Alice BillmanVicki Tashman and Marilyn Van Houten aired from June 9th on.
Cancer has become commonplace today, and we know that stress, DNA, chemicals are causing it, but who do you turn to for support when your’e going through it? You join a choir.
ALICE BILLMAN
FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HEROES UNITE PRODUCTION/DIRECTION:
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THE HEROINES CHOIRimproves the mind, body and spirit of breast cancer victors and their supporters while inspiring audiences through the healing art of chorale.
Professional Bunhead from NYC, travelled abroad extensively via her art form and escaped the limitations of her neighbourhood, family, culture and socioeconomic predisposition at an early age. Having first-hand knowledge about the power of transformation through the arts, Alice, used her training to create opportunities for others to have similar experiences. She founded her non-profit agency, Heroes Unite in 1990 as a response to the community need in Miami due to the lack of services and resources for underserved populations ranging from the HIV populations, terminally ill children, families of domestic abuse, underserved youth, poverty-stricken, oncology patients and most recently breast cancer victors. With a strong theatre background, using the arts as a viable method for empowerment was a natural fit. From the first organic community garden in North Miami to Mobile Micro Theater all offerings under Heroes Unite result in high scoring measurable outcomes delivered with patience, mindfulness and humanism. Over the course of the past 25 years in Miami, we have served thousands of people discover the bounty within via programs, events and projects all based in a variety of well managed, professional arts offerings.
Arts 4 Healing is yet another free contribution to the Miami community to fuse the medical and arts communities in sharing proven tools to for anyone seeking enhanced wellness.
Marilyn Van Houten is a Registered Nurse with 46 years of nursing & administrative experience. She has owned a case management company, Rehab Case Management, for 27 yrs and has been very interested in the rehabilitation of breast cancer survivors, assisting them to become “thrivers” not just survivors through choral music and the camaraderie of the Heroines Choir.
She is a past President of the local Case Management Society of America as well as National Board of Directors. She was awarded the “Case Manager of the Yr Award” by the local CMSA chapter for her advocacy of breast cancer patients. Currently, she is serving on the PFAC (Patient Family Advisory Council) of the Baptist Hospital Breast Center. She also served on the patient advisory committee for Baptist Hospital new Comprehensive Cancer Center assisting with the design of the planned structure.
As a nationally certified Case Manager and Certified Disability Management Specialist, she is aware of the importance of assisting those who have faced potentially life-threatening illnesses.
The current medical community has little to offer breast cancer survivors in terms of “what’s next” after treatment ends. Through Marilyn’s contacts in the community, we have formed a partnership with Your Bosom Buddies, assisting us with our rehearsal space & a stage. As the Coordinator for Buddie for You, matching up trained mentors with newly diagnosed, she has recruited new choir members as well as many of those she is personally mentoring.
Through her personal, educational and management background Marilyn has been instrumental in developing goals, measurable outcomes, and identification of important partners such as the University of Miami, HealthSouth Rehabilitation & Baptist Hospital Breast Center.
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Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Bohdan.W. Wojciechowski airing from May 26th on.
I wanted to tell you about a new book by The author B.W. Wojciechowski, as he cares very much about the environment and how we can do our part to fix the world for future generations.He is a professor, engineer, scientist, and author and has travelled over 40 countries and lectures on humanity, technology and our history.
His book Zamora Texts: The Year 9000 is a fascinating and thought-provoking compilation of essays that offers an eye-opening prediction on what the world might look like from the perspective from a professor in the year 9000.
In this world, science will make possible near-luminal space travel and, among others things, climate control and clean free limitless energy. How can we get there? Zamora Texts: The Year 9000 has some ideas!
The Author: Bohdan W. Wojciechowski was born in Wilno Poland (now Vilnius Lithuania) in 1935. In 1941 he, together with some of his family, was deported to Kazakhstan, along with hundreds of thousands of other Poles. His family was among the fortunate ten percent or so who returned from this exile, escaping via the Middle East and eventually reaching Scotland where he and his mother were reunited with his father.
In Scotland, he belatedly began his schooling in 1943. There he completed both Scottish and Polish high school requirements before the family moved to Canada, where he obtained a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in chemical engineering and was awarded a PhD in Chemistry Summa Cum Laude in 1962.
After spending several years working in the petroleum industry in the United States, he returned to Canada where he taught chemical engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario until 1997, specialising in kinetics and catalysis related to hydrocarbon processing. His travels, lecturing and consulting work with industry, universities, national, and international organisations resulted in visits to more than 40 countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China, Nigeria, South Africa, much of Canada and the USA, and most countries in Europe.
When he retired, his thoughts turned away from technical matters to trying to organise what he had learned about social issues during his travels into an understandable whole. He observed that our leaders spend their time debating and trying to solve problems by treating each problem in isolation from other pertinent issues, without taking due notice of objectivity, past experiences, or of the interdependencies and realities which make a perfect solution impossible in any one case. All we can hope for are optimal solutions coordinated within the total social fabric, and at this time we lack adequate tools to establish where the optimum may lie. Instead, we follow ideological theses.
His current “Zamora Texts” books present his thoughts in “fictional/ historical,” form, as lectures looking back from the year 9000 CE over 14,000 years of documented human progress.
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Having struggled with social interaction and emotional development as a child, James was badly bullied and found himself consumed with overwhelming feelings of fear and anxiety. It wasn’t until he entered his fifth decade that the diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder proved to be a revelation. It was only after he began to recognize the signs and symptoms of his patients in himself while he was working as a mental health practitioner, that he found the courage to seek out an official diagnosis. Suddenly released from the feelings of guilt, confusion and distress he had experienced since childhood, James embraced life anew, began studying to become a life coach, and finally realized that his autism was, in fact, a gift.
His book “Becoming Unique” is a moving and informative account of one man’s journey towards Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whilst delivering practical and constructive advice for those living with autism, Charles also examines the positive attributes of the disorder, which he calls a diffability. Becoming Unique is also a story of faith, as James examined his relationship with God and how he made peace with his diagnosis. A rare and valuable first-person narrative about living with autism, James Charles’ story will stay with the reader forever stay with you.
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