Talk Story Café

Being willing to step up to the unknown and rendezvous with our highest potential fully-realized can be an obstacle course, awkward and clunky at first, as we trip, stumble, and fall like a toddler in the early journey of discovering balance. The key is to keep getting up and get back to it. Part of […]

One of the more uncomfortable, if not the most confronting, moments at the beginning of any creative process, is finding ourselves standing at the threshold of infinite possibility waiting—intellectually vulnerable, emotionally naked, and paralyzed—for inspiration. Some artists refer to this as the Tyranny of the White. For the poet and composer this threshold is the blank sheet

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the

One way to get in the practice of paying attention to the less-obvious signs the Universe is offering is to take note of the obvious signs right in front of us—literally. For example, how about becoming conscious and intentional of making complete stops at stop signs (and stoplights). I know; I can hear you. What

Getting our emotional buttons pushed can be a jarring and disarming shock to the system, leaving us feeling sucker-punched and triggering any number of reactions along an expansive scale of emotions. These moments remind us of how, no matter what we know, what we do, and who we Be, we are not exempt from being

With the profound advancements of science, we have an amazing tool to assist us in articulating an understanding of the inner workings of the Universe. However, it is when we step out of integrity with science as a power tool that we raise it up to Golden Calf status and use it in the name

When we pray in fear, we can only attract and hear answers and guidance that match our fear. This is so, not because our prayers are unworthy of being heard and answered by a punitive and exclusivist God—good heavens no. Our prayers are always answered by an all-Loving and all-Powerful Creator. We just can’t hear

Deepak Chopra’s lecture series The Higher Self, references the idea that it takes three generations to change a belief. I was intrigued by this concept and explored it further. I came to consider how the first generation of the belief-shift ing process identifies a disconnect with the old belief yet continues to support (enforce) it. The

Shift happens. There is no way around it; the only way is through it. What determines the state of our well-being when we come out the other side is influenced and informed by who we choose to Be while walking through the shift storm. Growing up in Southern California, where the natural phenomenon of earthquakes

A group of psychologists walk into a research lab. Their mission; a case study on child trauma and the will to thrive. The subjects; two boys, ten years of age. The control environment; two large rooms; white; windowless; florescent lighting, empty, except for a twelve foot high, pile of horse manure. Placed alone in each