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.
If depression is a symptom of being stuck in the pain of the past, and anxiety a fear of the future, the obvious answer is to align oneself in present time. Your physical body is the vehicle by which you enter present time, but in order to do so you must also have mastery over…
If you want to know the common thread that weaves throughout everything that I write, it is this: to give voice to those topics that our culture prefers to hide. I prefer to take these topics out of the closet and shine light onto them. We live in an age of “smiling depressives”, people who…
Ever since the end of World War II our standard of living has more or less been on the rise here in North America and the rest of the first world. We are currently living a style of life that emperors a century ago could only dream of. We are offered a plethora of choices…
Adolf Hitler did not seduce the German people ─ Hitler was the German people. Carl Jung The title of a book by Wilhelm Reich, Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus was first published in 1933 and remains one of the most important studies on the rise of the Third Reich. Contrary to popular belief, the origin of…
Meanwhile in the Galaxy Gaia turned to her lover Sol Beseeching him for help With her current condition Such was Sol’s love for her That he gave her a fever Of Biblical Proportions Comparable to the Great Flood But instead of cleansing the planet with a deluge Threatened to sear every vestige of life from…
The telephone rang In the middle of the night It was God Thanking me for taking part In an experiment called insanity. “Your willingness to descend Into the depths of darkness Has been much appreciated. May we call you for future follow-ups?”
One of the things I realized during my years of therapy is that my mind had been taken over by powerful emotions that stemmed from events in my early childhood. To that extent my mind, and therefore my life, was constantly being hijacked by pain and anger from the distant past, fueling a deep and…
Whenever I am asked what it is I believe helped me the most in my healing journey, I reply that it is the fact that I listened to my own inner guidance over and above any expert’s opinion. Sometimes my gut instincts told me to do something completely irrational and illogical, and I did it…
By my mid twenties I had recognized the pattern: every time I resurfaced from a depression it was accompanied by the same emotion: anger. I realized that if depression could be characterized as repressed anger, which is a form of powerlessness, then it only made sense that getting in touch with my fundamental power would…
Six years after I resurfaced from my journey through addiction and depression, my sister sent me a revolutionary work by Dr. Gabor Mate. His book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, validates from a medical perspective what I lived through experientially. Dr. Mate is one of those rare breeds of people who go where the…