Margo Talbot is a climber, speaker and coach based in the Columbia Valley, BC. Her twin goals are to visit the remaining wilderness of the planet while sharing her story of healing and redemption. As a sponsored athlete, her travels have taken her from the High Arctic to Antarctica, and the mountain ranges in between.
We live in a hyper-materialistic world, one that directs our consciousness to focus on the outer at the expense of the inner. But if life happens from the inside out, this basically hijacks our internal navigation system and replaces it with mindless conformity to a uniform reality. Anyone who steps outside of this reality is…
When we live in a prolonged state of fear and uncertainty, or in the case or recent global events, one crisis after another, we move into a state that closely resembles what is commonly referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is it really a disorder; or would it be more accurately described as…
We’ve all heard of the fight or flight response, a state where your body prepares for threat by releasing hormones to physiologically and psychologically deal with an imminent threat, or run away from it. But there is a third, often overlooked response called freeze, where you realize your best option is to become immobilized, either…
I can’t say when my anxiety turned into depression, but with hindsight and many years of therapy I know that it goes as far back as I can remember. Long-term anxiety, like the type I lived through as a child, eventually morphs into depression, as feelings of hopelessness and helplessness take over the psyche. Depression…
I don’t recall the exact age I suffered my first panic attack, but I do remember how it felt. As my chest tightened and my breathing became shallow, my oxygen level dropped, and I thought I was going to die. Breathing is fundamental to life, and when it gets restricted, for whatever reason, we fear…
In 1992 I began what became a two-year process of letting go of street drugs so I could spend more time with my new-found love, climbing. When I give presentations, I inevitably get asked the same question: “Didn’t you just trade in one addiction for another?” And I always give the same answer: Yes, and…
There is an invisible architecture of power in our society that is at the root of all forms of abuse, whether it is racism, bullying, or intimate partner violence. A global term for this epidemic is Sociopathic Narcissism, or in the case of the following story, what turned into Psychopathic Narcissism. With the murder of…
One minute it’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and the next thing you know the vaccinated are variant super-spreaders who are responsible for ushering in end times. One person accuses the other of stockpiling livestock medicine, while that other believes we’re all being secretly fed self-spreading vaccines via Mexican tomatoes. As ludicrous as some of…
Thoughts are choices, and they have power. They collect in the psychic atmosphere forming clouds that explode into the theatre of events once they have gained enough momentum. Most people are unconscious of how to wield this creative force, believing instead that they are passive witnesses to events happening outside of, and unrelated to, them.…
This post was originally published on April 16, 2019. By August of that year, the central bankers would meet in Jackson Hole Wyoming to vote for their Going Direct Reset. The following month, the U.S. Federal Reserve would intervene in the overnight lending market, and by March 2020 the world would be swept up in…