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What’s WRONG with this PICTURE

Sep 3, 2011 By elinwaldal 3 Comments

What’s WRONG with this PICTURE

We were away for the majority of the summer—and for the most part—I was unplugged. Now home—reengaged with all that our world spits out on a daily basis I have to say this week has left me feeling syphoned, depleted…but not defeated. Bait and outrage still abound… I can’t stop wondering what would happen if […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Women's Issues Tagged With: Sexualization, Violence Against Women

Running home to me

Apr 20, 2011 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

Running home to me

  For years I was a runner. I have run from people, places, jobs, situations, success…you get the point…if I could run from it, many times I would but for the most part, that is a thing of the past. On a different level I also have been an on again off again runner–as in for […]

Filed Under: Exercise Tagged With: health, running, Self-Care

First Thread of Forgiveness

Apr 18, 2011 By elinwaldal 2 Comments

First Thread of Forgiveness

   For years I closeted my past with deadbolts, hammer, and nails. Over time, what first began as a faint thud, gave way to repetitive knocks. I could hear them, those skeletons in my closet, they would not give up. Their relentless pursuit was to get me to stop, listen, and feel. As if employed […]

Filed Under: Healing, Life Lessons Tagged With: Forgiveness, Self-Love, Survivor

Phone Calls

Jan 27, 2011 By elinwaldal 3 Comments

Phone Calls

It stems back to a different phone call. The phone call where I learned Jimmy’s mom had been killed in a car accident in a car that had made it’s own somersault launch from the freeway. We know it happens. We lived it. That is a phone call I never ever want to get again.

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: car accident, Fear, Friendship, Love, memories, Texting and Driving

There’s Something HUGE Coming Our Way

Jun 25, 2010 By elinwaldal 7 Comments

There’s Something HUGE Coming Our Way

REAL life that is. What’s a “Pseudo Life?” you may be thinking. Of course all lives are real. But more times than not what is depicted for us as viewers of Television and Big Screen is a small view. Kind of like looking into a telescope backward? Things get narrow and really far away. Now we […]

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Acceptance, Entertainment, Fear, HUGE, Love, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Teens, Tolerance, TV, Weight

Fort Hood, the silence is deafening.

Nov 13, 2009 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

Along with the rest of the country I am deeply saddened and disturbed by the tragic massacre that took place at Fort Hood. The many articles that have been spawned since this heinous act remind me how as a nation we do things backwards: responding to crisis versus effectively working on prevention. Now that the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Abuse, Cost of War, Fort Hood

When this was my life ‘movie’, I had no voice.

Nov 13, 2009 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

After previewing this video I am drawn backward, apart from the fact that I was never an actress… this film rolling before my eyes could be me, could be anyone who has been trapped in the paradigm called abuse. I am painfully reminded that I have a daughter now and little else but preventing that […]

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Life Movie, Teen Dating Violence

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