Whatever You Can Know.

In this episode, I am reading a post I 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 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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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 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 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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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 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 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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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.

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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. 

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!

www.tanyasavva.substack.com/p/the-sock-dilemma

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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 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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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 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 comfortable I am in making mistakes, because I see it as an opportunity to grow, rather than a failure. 

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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 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 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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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 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.substack.com you can see some photographs and video content related to the post.

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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 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. 

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This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.