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Candace Lynn Talmadge

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Candace Lynn Talmadge

Short Bio

An author, storyhealer, and paranormalist, Candace Lynn Talmadge weaves words into wider realities. She is a former business journalist who knew since age 12 that she wanted to write a novel. She spent decades researching arcane topics, igniting her passion for alternative spirituality.

Eventually Candace Lynn became a Sunan storyhealer and co-authored, with her late wife, two nonfiction books about emotional and spiritual healing. Her profound spiritual transformation resulted in the Stoneslayer dark high fantasy series, a fictionalized autobiography based on four of her past lives.

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Long Bio

When Candace Lynn Talmadge was 12 years old, she read The Lord of the Rings and was captivated. The mother of her best friend handed Candace Lynn a novel and told her, “You can write this.”

That was also the age Candace Lynn experienced an instantly accurate prophetic dream. One Friday night, she dreamt that her mother and she went to visit one of her mother’s friends who was in hospital dying of cancer. Candace Lynn had done that with her mom several times.

In the dream, when they reached the nurses station, one of them said, “I’m sorry. You can’t visit Mrs. Smith. (Not her actual name.) She died at three this morning.”

Candace Lynn awoke and since it was Saturday, it was her job to set the table for breakfast. She was in the kitchen when the phone rang. Not long afterward her mother walked into the kitchen, her eyes red-rimmed. “Mrs. Smith died at three this morning.” Candace Lynn gulped and said nothing. There was nothing for her to say.

That dream, which she never talked about until just recently, opened Candace Lynn to the wider realities beyond the rational/material.
Pursuing those wider realities, she spent decades researching arcane topics to write her novel. That ignited within her a passion for alternative healing and spirituality, while in the so-called real world, she was a business journalist.

She even participated briefly in one of the last of the great newspaper wars in Dallas, Texas. She wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, covering advertising, marketing, media, and retailing. She often managed to scoop the crosstown rag even though four different business reporters covered the same beats Candace Lynn did. It was quite the career experience.

When the patient is ready, the healer appears. In 1986, Candace Lynn met her life partner (eventually her wife) and co-author of her nonfiction. She experienced storyhealing through the Sunan method. At the urging of her spirit guides, Candace Lynn trained to be a Sunan storyhealer working in the energy of human consciousness.

Jana and she wrote nonfiction about how storyhealing at the emotional level, with help from the spiritual body, can achieve powerful breakthroughs that traditional approaches labor for years to achieve yet never attain. They also co-authored nonfiction about a way to contact a deceased loved one.
Candace Lynn’s profound transfiguration through storyhealing also unleashed the fiction she had been struggling to write. The resulting Stoneslayer series is based on four of her past lives and the past lives of family and friends.

More details on Candace Lynn’s professional accomplishments, praise for her writing and novels, and her media interview links are available here.

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The Hunab Ku.

Topics for interviews and discussion

  • Afterlife communication
  • Alternative history
  • Dark fantasy writing/world building
  • Demons/demonic possession/oppression/exorcism
  • Emotional/spiritual healing
  • Grief
  • Nonfiction/fiction writing
  • Past lives /past-life healing
  • Psychic senses
  • Soul communication
  • Spirit guides
  • Sunan storyhealing

FAQs with Candace Lynn Talmadge

Why do you call yourself an author, storyhealer, and paranormalist?

I am trying to include the major facets of my life and being. My career as a writer encompassed business journalism and business storytelling. Along the way I learned to help others (and myself) heal deep wounds using the Sunan method of emotional storyhealing. I co-authored and published two nonfiction books about emotional healing resolution using Sunan storyhealing.

Paranormalist is my way of saying I take my own unique perspective on life and reality. I am not merely a physical-mental being. I am also an emotional-spiritual being, too. Recognizing, respecting, and integrating the emotional-spiritual half of my being with the mental-physical side has widened my realities exponentially.

Finally, I realized something that brought all of this together. As a writer/author, I weave words into wider realities that reflect my own inner journey to reclaim half of me and live out of all of me, not just parts of my being.

What does wider realities mean?

The realities of the heart and soul. The mental-physical half of self focuses relentlessly on this material world. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it is limited. Those who try to live solely out of the mental-physical miss out on half of who they truly are.

The heart and the soul are the parts of our being that connect us to our inner selves, to others, and to the Divine, however we imagine that to be. We cannot live authentic, complete lives while exalting parts of self at the expense of other parts. It just doesn’t work. I know. I tried it for decades and was broken and miserable. Not anymore.

Is there any practical benefit to the emotional and spiritual?

Of course! Or I wouldn’t do it. Trying to live out of only the emotional/spiritual is just as limiting as living out of only the mental and physical. When we as spirits dwell in physical bodies we very much need all of self, not just parts.

Think of trying to go about your day hopping around on one foot. Most of us can do it, but it severely limits our motion and makes us prone to toppling over. Ignoring the emotional/spiritual side of our being is akin to trying to navigate life on one leg only. Ditto for trying to live only out of the emotional and spiritual. Difficult and wobbly at best.

In addition, there is no true healing our physical disease and ailments without first involving and healing the emotional and spiritual, because that part of self is the ultimate source of all physical disease. Physical symptoms or disorders are the outward manifestation of dis-ease that has been stirring for a long time in the depths of our emotions and souls. And by long time I mean over thousands of lifetimes, not just our current physical incarnation.

That sounds like you believe in reincarnation or past lives. Do you?

Yes. Only because so much of my healing has involved dozens and dozens of my own past lives and the past lives of my clients and a few family members, like my late wife.

Here’s the issue with past life exploration. If you take a purely mental approach to it, you will always wonder if it was “real” or just a figment of your imagination.

In the terrific film Coming Back—Reincarnation in America (see it in its entirety for free on You Tube), a series of past life experiments were conducted in Australia by an Australian psychologist. He put under hypnosis three Australian women who had never traveled outside their country. Nonetheless they knew facts about places in European countries that they could not possibly have known without having lived in those locales.

They also had intense emotional reactions to those places when they traveled there physically. Past life exploration does bring up emotional issues, and if you don’t resolve those issues, they rattle around in your conscious awareness and it’s not comfortable.

As a Sunan storyhealer, I take clients through past lives not to prove that reincarnation is real, but to heal emotional-spiritual issues lingering from those lives. That to me is the real point of exploring past lives.

Once the issues are resolved, past lives can then be a tremendous source of great stories for novels. My dark high fantasy series, Stoneslayer, is based on four of my past lives and the past lives of family and friends.