It begins with one simple question that completely caught me off guard: "What are you looking forward to?"

I thought I'd have an easy answer, but I didn't. That question led me into a much deeper reflection about hope, anticipation, being present, and how easy it is to spend our lives waiting for the next chapter while missing the one we're living right now.

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I also share what I discovered about the uncontrollable anger I’ve been feeling since Figgy came into our world. And I’ll give you a little secret – it’s not my anger! 

If you’re a hard-core sceptic and don’t really believe in any of this energy and emotional work, well, to be frank, I’m surprised you’re even here! But I do implore you to listen because it is pretty fascinating and makes for a great story, even if you think I’m a little bit of a cray cray woo woo witchy girl.

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I share what I've learnt about my self through this process, the healing of the emotional trauma of being a single special needs mother that's been triggered by our puppy's presence, and what I've hated about it. 

I offer some insight into my view on the lack of authenticity on social media and how damaging that can be because there's no real representation of the struggles I've experienced as a first time puppy owner. 

I share some of the things that have kept me going through this time and how my spiritual teachings and practices have allowed me to see and know that everything is happening in divine timing, and, despite the hardship and emotional turmoil I've been in, everything is going to be okay

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I share a story about the journal I bought over a decade ago to write my memoir in, and how, 10 years on, I can finally say “I wrote a memoir!”

I also share some interesting physical symptoms that presented on the morning I was due to send my book out in the world to agents and publishers, and how memories from my childhood and early parenting journey was impacting on me feeling really good about sending my book out into the world. 

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I talk about how the beliefs I created as a child to feel safe, shaped me into a resilient, self-reliant, helpful and independent adult who was too afraid to ask for help, in fear of being rejected. 

And how a recent cry for help to alleviate the financial burden of purchasing and training an assistance dog for my daughter, who is blind, autistic and anxious, did the very opposite. 

If you feel called to support Mackenzie and Figgy’s journey, you can do so here: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kenzie-get-her-therapy-dog

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This is a  vulnerable and somewhat uncomfortable giant cry for help. 

If you’ve been following me for a long (or even short) time, you’ll know that my daughter, Mackenzie has a disability and the impact of her multi-faceted diagnosis is layered in the most beautiful and complex. 

I’m sharing some insight and reasoning into a big decision we are making as a family - getting a dog that will be trained as a therapy assistance animal - and to achieve the outcome, we need you.

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I’ve made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. 

I share the current astrological and Chinese zodiac influences affecting me and us, as a collective, at the moment. I talk a little into the New Moon in Sagittarius that has just occurred over the weekend, the final new moon and opportunity to set intentions for the beginnings and new energy that are just around the corner with the Universal Year 1 and the Year of the Horse in 2026. I offer some journaling prompts at the end tied into these themes for reflection and forward planning. You can read the post and copy and paste the questions from www.tanyasavva.substack.com/p/the-liminal-space

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I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. 

It’s a gentle reflection following my daughter writing her school captaincy speech and the softness that is blossoming as she ages, despite all that I have feared around that growth. 

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It’s all about the fear that I am causing damage to my daughter’s nervous system, as opposed building her resilience and adaptability as a human being by forcing her to do things she doesn’t want to do.

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It’s titled ‘I'm not ready to let go of my daughter's messy trail of fingerprints on the walls’.

I share how seeing my daughter’s fingerprints on the mirrored doors of my wardrobe when she was two years old made me feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude because I was told, when she was just a few weeks old, that she would never see and may never walk, talk or eat with a feeding tube. And how, almost 17 years down the track, I still love washing the walls of her fingerprints, because it reminds me of all that we’ve achieved to overcome a diagnosis that was pretty dire in those early days.

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It’s titled ‘I can’t be your medicine’.

I speak about the challenges I am currently facing with my daughter's anxiety and the impact that has on her, me and us. I share about a realisation I had that, in considering a path of medication for her, I fee like I’ve failed. But how, in that realisation, I am making a choice to hand over her sufferances to the medicinal world, because I can’t be her medicine anymore.

www.tanyasavva.substack.com/p/i-cant-be-your-medicine

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You can watch it as a reel here on IG.

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It’s titled ‘The sock dilemma’.

I speak about the challenges my blind daughter faces to achieve simple, everyday tasks that able bodied people do without a second thought and how I support her to achieve her goals. 

It’s all about how the humble sock gave me a big lesson in being resourceful, creative, and opportunistic, and how what one perceives as a dead end, to me, feels like a detour. There’s always another way!

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We have the ability choose. When we say YES to something, we have to remember that we’re saying yes to all of it - the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. Or, in the words of the Buddha, what the mind perceives as being pleasant and unpleasant. 

I talk about the mind having a tendency towards pleasure and avoidance of pain and how being aware of my resistance allowed me to see that when I say no, I limit opportunities.

I speak about acceptance and surrender and how I'm venturing on my own surrender experiment (inspired by Michael Singer’s book The Surrender Experiment). 

I am choosing to say yes to life, seeing what doors and further opportunities present by getting my mind out of the way and letting life flow with less resistance. 

Unexpected opportunities and growth can emerge from trusting the process, letting go of control, being in the flow of life and saying yes. 

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It’s titled ‘I always feel good about myself’.

It’s about my passion for learning and the desire I’ve had in recent years to have quality teachers educate and guide me to learn things that I don’t know. And how comfortable I am in making mistakes, because I see it as an opportunity to grow, rather than a failure. 

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I share some recent events that led me to contemplate what I’m passionate about and what I like doing for ME. I talk about how how my daughter’s needs and disability impact on my capacity to participate in the things that I like. Warning…I get a little bit emotional.

I talk about my ability to adapt to my life because of my daughter’s needs, and how I can create a feeling of peace, freedom and joy, no matter what’s happening around me.

I also briefly mention ‘The Passion Project’ - a process that I created to guide women to remember their passions. I’m running a pilot experience over the Easter long weekend and, if successful, will share more about it, with the intention to facilitate it as an event for others.

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It’s titled ‘Savant skills and feeding tubes’.

It’s about savant syndrome and my daughter’s incredible memory and her journey growing up with a feeding tube. On the substack post, which you can read at www.tanyasavva.substack.com you can see some photographs and video content related to the post.

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I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. 

It’s titled ‘Oh, but just how trusting can you be?’

It’s all about the feeling of the loss of financial security and how that’s inherently tied into my sense of worth, and testing the limits of my trust. 

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I dive into some thoughts around authenticity and integrity, the lack of wise and embodied teachers in our world, and the dilution of healing practices because of social media's influence in entertaining the masses, rather than safely guiding clients/participants/students through life changing healing. 

I also eat a little bit of humble pie and laugh at my own humanity. 

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I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. 

It’s titled ‘I’ve been in a funk. And by funk I mean, really freaking irritated’.

I share some truth about feeling pretty irritated and how I have a tendency to retreat when I’m feeling funky. But how sharing what’s real, right now, can help shift the energy. I share the power of being open and honest and how looking at the ‘real’ can create safety and connection. 

I talk a little about the impact of social media’s fallacy of perfection and the impact that has on authentic businesses suffering because the enchantment of deception doesn’t have a home in the real.

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It's also a bit of prelude to podcast 12 where I expand on the breathwork experience I mention in this episode, and riff into thoughts on authenticity and being real.

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It’s titled Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Using EFT to overcome mental and physical dis-ease.

I come off script a little when I am sharing the EFT protocol. You can learn more about EFT from a video I have on YouTube which you can find here. Or Dr. Peta Stapleton's website (who I mention in the podcast) here.

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I chat a little about the importance of emotional regulation within ourselves so we have the capacity to be great space holders, guides and supporters to our little loved ones.

I also chat about a practice that I really love for helping my daughter and myself to move through difficult emotional experiences called EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique (commonly called tapping).

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It's titled Seeing the light through my daughter's blindness, and how I follow her lead.

I talk about a beautiful moment I had with my daughter, who is blind, autistic and has a developmental delay, during some neurological testing, and how exposure to stressful situations as a special needs mum, and yoga, meditation and breathwork, taught me to weather any storm.

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It’s titled Holding on to the past: Losing generational stories and my responsibility to remember them.

I talk about being the daughter of a Greek immigrant, and the lost stories of my father's parents who left their world for a promise of something more in Australia in the 50s. I share how I feel a strong pull towards documenting my only surviving grandmother's story, before it's lost forever. 

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It’s titled Storytelling: the power of community and sharing your story.

I talk about a women's storytelling event I attended recently and reflect on the lost of art of storytelling, and intergenerational importance of connecting, being in community, and having a voice. I share about an incredible opportunity I had to speak at a storytelling event in 2018, and how saying yes to that landed me in Australian actress, Heather Mitchell's house, for a private workshop on how to write and present my story! 

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It’s titled I let it all go, again. As one doors closes, another opens.

I shares how being a special needs mother empowered me to accept change and all the change that is at the forefront of my life right now.

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Forget about enlightenment by John Welwood

Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be,
Not the saint you are striving to become,
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You are already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out,
Touch in,
Let go.

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My insatiable interest in physiology, biology and science started with cadavers in a wet lab in the year 2000 as a university student. But when my life took an unexpected turn in 2009 and my daughter was born with a disability, my interest moved from the physical to the metaphysical, emotional and spiritual. 

Becoming a special needs mum unravelled me to my core. It wasn’t part of my life’s plan but hindsight comes with many gifts and I wouldn’t want my life to be any other way. 

I’ve since been many things in the health, wellbeing and healing space for over 20 years as a therapist, creative and healer. I’ve studied and shape-shifted from one thing to another, time and time again, following my gut, my inner voice and intuition. Despite the ways in which I’ve changed, throughout my conscious evolution, I have consistently been a special needs mum, a student, a writer, and deeply curious. 

I’ve supported many people to ignite radical self responsibility, awaken awareness, release unconscious limitations and reconnect with purpose and presence. Just as my daughter did for me. 

As life thrusts its unexpectedness against me, I choose to loosen my grip on the illusion of control, and allow myself to be swept up in the magic of life’s unfolding. 

So here we are, you and me, on a podcast, where I share an amalgamation of what is real, what is true, what I've learnt, what is current and what I know. This is not a self help space. But you may see yourself in my muse, and I hope that awakens an insatiable interest in you, too. 

Welcome to Whatever You Can Know — your home for what’s real, right now.

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