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Andrea Torrey Balsara
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🌱 Sharing Stories, Art & Energy Healing Work
📚 Kidlit Author & Artist ⎮ Reiki Master 💜
🦋 Discover Books 🦋 Workshops 🦋 Coaching ⬇️ click link below

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Andrea Torrey Balsara @torreybalsara.bsky.social · Mar 20
In this photo I am standing with Joey, a donkey. In the post I explain that I am a children's and young adult author and illustrator, but that I'm also an energy medicine practitioner. In addition to writing and illustrating, I also work with people and animals to help them heal. I volunteer every week at a donkey sanctuary using energy medicine to help rescued donkeys to heal.
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Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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💜 Just for today, I'm focusing on what makes me happy--my family, my dogs, volunteering at the donkey sanctuary, enjoying the first snowfall of the season. ❄️

#MindfulCreativity #CreativeWellness #HealingThroughArt #EnergyForCreatives #FocusOnJoy #EverydayMindfulness 💜 🌟 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I’ll be at the Holiday Market in Oshawa this Saturday, Nov 8 with my picture books & YA novels—great gifts for readers of all ages! Over 40 local makers & vendors will be there too. Come say hi! 📚✨

#CanadianAuthor #CanadianIllustrator #ChildrensBooks #YAFiction #ShopLocalCanada #ReadersOfCanada
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A girl who can speak to animals. 🌟
A rat who serves a tyrant. 🐀
A secret that could destroy them both.The Great & The Small — a YA story of survival & finding light in the darkness. 💔 ✨

#CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DarkYA #BookTrailer #StorytellingMatters #BookTokCanada #BookMarketing #IndieAuthor
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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This blog post is to all of us #writers who like to break the rules. 💥💥💥

#writingtips #WritingYA #CanKidLit #Writerslife #YAfiction

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A. T. Balsara: Why Rats? Writing the Unconventional in YA Fiction
“Why rats?” The man’s voice was thick with scorn, like he’d just stepped in something disgusting. It was 2017, and the first edition of my young adult novel, The Great & the Small, had just come out....
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November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Ever notice how, no matter how much you achieve, it can still feel like you’re not enough? 🎨✍️ For many of us — especially those carrying old wounds — that feeling runs deep. 💔

#CreativeHealing #MindfulCreativity #ArtistsMentalHealth #SelfCompassion #HealingThroughArt #MentalHealthMatters
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #author #writerscommunity #indieauthor inventingrealityediting.com/2...
I Don’t Need Permission to be Called an Author
Authors who haven’t published often like to think of themselves as an “aspiring author,” an “aspiring novelist,” or an “aspiring writer.” They act as if by not being published they are somehow…
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November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Going down the Halloween aisle past life-size "witches," I realized what I was seeing: older women. Here’s to us “witches.” 💜🦋

Read my blog — link in bio. 🔗

#WomenOver60 #CreativeAging #HealingThroughArt #MentalHealthMatters #EnergyMedicine #FeminineStrength #ArtistLife #AuthorLife
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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These coloring pages include questions that spark meaningful conversations. Use them--and if you have suggestions for more topics, I'd love to hear them. Tag me; I'd love to see your finished pages! 💜 🎨

#CharacterDevelopment #MindfulParenting #RaisingLeaders #CreativeKids #ConsciousParenting
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When the rights of Black people and people of color are trampled, the rights of ALL people are trampled ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿.

The oppression of one is the oppression of ALL. #UnityinDiversity is a TRUTH.

#HumanRights #UnityInDiversity #EqualityForAll #StandTogether #SocialJustice #OneHumanFamily #LoveIsStronger
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Your kindness changed their world 💕😊
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October 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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My picture books come with free colouring pages you can download from my website. 🖍️📚 They make great gifts for kids—I also do school presentations if your class or library is looking for a visit. 📚 Click link for details. 💛

#kidlitillustrator #picturebookauthor #CanKidLit #readaloudbooks #kidlit
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I have some new paintings! 🎨💛
I really love these. They're still available—message me if you want details.

#artistlife #intuitiveart #healingthroughart #mixedmediaartist #creativeflow #artasanoffering #quietcreativity #soulfulart #originalartforsale #CanKidLit #Illustrator
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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When we’re stuck in fear, everything scrambles—our thoughts, our nervous system, our energy ⚡🧠 In this video, I’ll walk you through a simple energy medicine technique to help fear move through you—so it can finally release. 👋😮‍💨

#energyrelease #emotionalclearing #ptsdtools #nervoussystemsupport
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We owe it to future generations to work towards a world of true justice and humanity. #climatejustice #socialjustice #ecojustice
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#Mathur, the groundbreaking youth-led #climate Charter case brought by 7 young litigants challenging Ontario’s weakened 2030 target, has made history.

Six years in, as we wait to hear whether it will be heard by the #SupremeCourt, we're looking back on how much it has accomplished. 👉 bit.ly/44H1oiZ
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving!! May we all find ways of helping others, being of service, being grateful for our blessings, and sharing them. 💜✨💓

#CanadianThanksgiving #GivingThanks #Thankful #SpiritofGiving #helpingothers #makeadifference #CanKidLit #Kidlitauthor #Canada
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This month's newsletter is about the all the stuff I pushed down and REALLY didn't want to deal with.

This month, I DEALT with it. 😱🎨

Read the full story → click the link in my bio. 💪🏻

#healingthroughart #artistjourney #firstartshow #innerwork #ptsdrecovery #artisanoffering #CanKidLit #PTSDHope
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Me, too. ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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If we want a world of compassion, of true justice--a world based on kindness and mutual respect--it starts with the way we treat animals. #WorldAnimalDay - Oct 4.
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#BeKindToAnimals
#AnimalRescue
#DonkeySanctuary
#DonkeysOfBluesky
#AnimalAdvocacy
#BeTheChange
October 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...
Mercury Justice for Grassy Narrows
I just signed the Grassy Narrows petition calling on Justin Trudeau to honour his treaty obligations and commitment to reconciliation. Join me in signing here https://you.leadnow.ca/org/petitions/merc...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A good day at the Savannah Marketplace at @junglecatworld 🥰

I even met some new friends, like “Tiny” the giant tortoise, a 21 yr-old rescue. 🐢 ❤️

#artistsofbluesky #kidlitillustrator #kidlitauthor #yaauthor #writerslifeforme #CanKidLit
Shows a table of children’s books for sale and me standing next to the table. Shows a small gallery of my wildlife paintings. Me, showing a painting that has sold. A giant tortoise going for a walk.
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I'm excited about sharing my paintings for the first time & a little nervous! 😅 I'll be selling my books as well, incl. The Great & the Small. Please come out!! 💜

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#SupportLocal #DurhamRegion #Clarington #shoplocal #andreatorreybalsara #kidlitauthor #kidlitartist #yalit #savannahmarketplace
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"...a story well worth reading."

The Great & the Small by @torreybalsara.bsky.social
via Midwest Book Review and @storymonsters.bsky.social

#YABooks #TheGreatAndTheSmall #YABook #CanKidLit
THE GREAT AND THE SMALL - REVIEW "This is a modern-day take on the old story of the Plague of long ago, with a twist of a human interacting with an animal. It includes a bit of history wrapped up in fantasy, resulting in a story well worth reading." https://www.midwestbookreview.com/cbw/sep_25.htm#StoryMonstersInk The Great & the Small A.T. Balsara Thank you for Midwest Book Review and Story Monsters #YABooks #TheGreatAndTheSmall #YABook
September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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After years of writing, revising, and starting over—my sister and I BOTH have our novels featured in the September issue of Kirkus Reviews. Same month, same magazine. After DECADES of separate work! 🦋

#AuthorLife
#IndieAuthorCommunity
#FictionThatMatters
#TruthInFiction
#YAfiction
#KeepWriting
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM