The Greatest Dream
But the greatest dream wasn’t really a dream at all. It was a gentle voice, waking me from sleep, deep in the night. It told me everything I needed to know in eight simple words: “Margo, you don’t need therapy. You need love.”
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.
Second Chakra Trauma
Not long after my first dream, I had another. In it, I am on my way to a dance party in the basement of a warehouse in some unknown city. As I begin descending the stairs, panic overtakes me along with a feeling of being totally out of control. In the next instant, a friendly…
Lifestream
One night I had a dream. And in that dream, I saw an image composed of bubbles and fibers; of bright pinks and blues. And for the first time of many more to come, I heard the narrator’s voice: “This is the lifestream, and you are part of it. But in order to fully experience…
Five Steps to Vitality
While I encourage people to find support on the road to mental fitness, the good news is everything you need to heal is already inside of, and around you. The other piece of good news is it’s not about adding anything, but rather, pivoting away from that which depletes you of your energy, and toward…
Windswept Life
I was nine years old when I found out I would have to do body maintenance for the rest of my life. “What kind of God would design my body to be such a make-work project?” I protested to my mother who, at this point, was used to me questioning everything about the world I…
Women Rock Retreats
There’s a lot of focus on “mindfulness” these days, but what does it really mean? I prefer the term “present moment awareness” to describe that state of mind where we are so focused on what is directly in front of us, the rest of the world literally disappears. Whether you’re ice climbing, knitting, or walking…
The Division Bell
The Division Bell Originally used to signal a division, or vote, in the British House of Commons, the name was adopted as the title of Pink Floyd’s fourteenth studio album with the intent to instead find a pathway to unity. Although voting is often seen as the height of democratic process across commonwealth countries, by…
The Life That You Are
When I drove down the parkway to climb my first frozen waterfall, I was a young woman with an uninterrupted story since childhood. My inner narrative consisted of thoughts about myself (I am unloved, life is painful, I no longer want to live) as well as the emotions that accompanied these (hurt, anger, unhappiness.) I…
Beyond Recovery
After decades of healing work, I am convinced that power is at the core of our personal and planetary issues. That is why when people ask me what I do, I tell them I am a Guide to Self-Empowered Healing. In our society, men are trained in the expansion and uses of their power, but…
Still Point
In stillness there is freedom, a state where we are no longer caught in the pain of the past or in fear of future events. Freedom is intimately connected to sovereignty, because free people are harder to control than those who live in fear. And what do we fear? That our wealth will be taken…