A quiet space for clarity, healing, and peace of mind.
Welcome. I'm Tarra. After twenty-eight years as a therapist, I now write about the small awakenings that shape a life, what I've come to call our flashpoints of awareness.
A gentle welcome
"Every single experience we have in our lives offers choices for transformation, leading to healing, clarity and peace of mind. Accepting and processing our emotions with support, moves us beyond whatever discomfort we may be feeling with each given moment. This practice of awareness offers us an open door leading to the magnificent love within us that when shared, is the essence of creating miracles in our lives."
"The stories within this illustrated book are true vignettes from some of my life experiences that have shaped and transformed me. I offer them in hopes they serve you in deepening your appreciation of yourself and everything surrounding you. Inside are moments of love, acceptance, laughter, grief, and appreciation for the gift of life."
The Bookshelf
Two works written from the therapist's chair and a life fully lived.
Flashpoints of Awareness
A gentle gathering of personal stories, small stumbles, and the quiet corrections that shaped a lifetime of therapeutic practice.
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Sanity: Lost & Found
An honest look at childhood wounds, shame, and the long path home through resilience, compassion, and forgiveness.
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Voices Tarra returns to again and again, where science and spirit meet.
"Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a Spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, a Spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must seem humble."Albert EinsteinTheoretical Physicist
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of the atom to vibration. I must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."Max PlanckFounder of Quantum Theory
"The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings."Dr. Erwin SchrödingerNobel Prize Winning Physicist
"As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form."Paramahansa YoganandaYogi and Philosopher
From the Pages
Excerpts from Flashpoints of Awareness.
"I believe that despite the chaos in the world, all is not lost, for we are also witnessing and benefiting from many relatively recent discoveries. Because of quantum physics, we now have lasers, fax machines, cell phones, medical imaging and the like. All from previously unknown properties and capabilities within our phenomenal world."Tarra Judson StariellFlashpoints of Awareness
"Like gravity, the truth will always return to us to be once again rejected or acknowledged."Tarra Judson StariellFlashpoints of Awareness
"It appears that many of us are like the prisoners of Plato's Cave, mistaking appearances for reality and living accordingly within that belief system. We seem to be conducting our lives as if we are separate individuals, independent from the effects of our thoughts and behaviors on ourselves as well as others."Tarra Judson StariellFlashpoints of Awareness
"Jumping dimensions seems to be what we humans are capable of when we open our minds to another way of living. Surrendering our ego to the Spirit within us is what I liken to being guided by our right-mind."Tarra Judson StariellFlashpoints of Awareness
"I became a therapist to understand how all this could happen to me. I believe in its value as well as what healthy relationships, companion animals, nature and the underlying force animating it (God) offer. They are energetically interactive and present an unlimited potential for healing and inoculation from being carried away by 'trance-like survival mechanisms' or unconscious and malicious behaviors. Human beings who are available for connection or those who are in their 'right mind' and possess the capacity for an energetic exchange, or relationship, offer the potential for healing from a trauma and/or preventing emotional shutdown (dissociation). Furthermore, physical movement and expressing one's emotions through art, therapy, dance, yoga, intimate relationships, and so on, are also powerful healing agents in transforming trauma into a learning experience."Tarra Judson Stariell, LMFT, Retired Sanity Lost and Found: A True Story of Brainwashing and Recovery
Conversations & Interviews
Selected interviews where Tarra shares the heart of her work.