In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 29th of October 2025. 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 ‘Building resilience or creating traumatic imprints?' 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 b...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 27th Sept 2025. 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'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 fee...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 13th Sept 2025. 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 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 ...

In this episode I share a poem/piece I wrote for substack, inspired by my 44th birthday. You can watch it as a reel here on IG. Support the show Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 9th May 2025. 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 ‘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. ...

In this episode I share a realisation about the power of choice and feeling resistance to an essential part of a new job I started. 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 t...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th April 2025. 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 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 comfor...

In this episode I talk about how not working at the moment has opened up some space to focus on myself, which feels incredibly confusing, because I have been all give give give for, well, forever. 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...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 10th April 2025. 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 ‘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....

In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 2nd April 2025. 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. Connect w...

In this episode I share a story about a recent experience I had at a breathwork event and how all the 'bells and whistles' diminished the experience. I talk about the influence of social media luring and enchanting people into healing spaces that fail to create a safe space to heal. 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 masse...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th March 2025. 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 r...

In this episode I am reading a poem that I wrote a coupe of years ago called 'On Judgement'. I decided to read it recently because I've been noticing myself judge! I share a little bit about how I watch, with curiosity, the ways in which my mind judges people and experiences. 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. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagr...

In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 14th March 2025. 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 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 YouT...

In this episode I talk about my love of being barefoot. I share all of the amazing benefits of going barefoot and the importance of connecting to the earth; often called earthing or grounding. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.

In this episode I share a story about an experience my daughter had at school that caused a big emotional outburst and the way that I supported her through that. 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 - Emotiona...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 1st March 2025. 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 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 ...

In this episode I offer a little intro and insight to me, your host Tanya Savva, giving a little snap shot of my life trajectory and career. I introduce the fact that I am a special needs mum, how following my intuition has lead me to life changing and affirming decisions, and the influence of numerology on making decisions like starting a podcast and a substack platform. I also share the poem that inspired the title of my podcast Forget about enlightenment by John Welwood Sit down where...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 21st February 2025. 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 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 importanc...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 24th February 2025. 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 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 the...