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When Failure is the Solution

Jan 9, 2015 By elinwaldal 5 Comments

When Failure is the Solution

It’s been a long 5 weeks. Now, with the clarity that only comes from getting through a rough patch, I feel relieved to be in a quiet room alone with my thoughts and my computer. Had you asked me on December 1, 2014, if some of the goals I set for myself for the final month […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons Tagged With: failure, Self-Love, Sickness, solution

Alone time

Nov 7, 2014 By elinwaldal 4 Comments

Alone time

The solace I find in re-connecting with myself, whether it is found in the quiet of a slumbering house at dawn, a walk among the trees, or watching the sun slip behind the horizon, is beyond measure. It has been my experience, that when my mind stills, my heart opens up to all that is possible. It wasn’t always that […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Alone, Luna Fest, Self-Care, Self-Love

A Look at Healing

Nov 27, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

A Look at Healing

I want to live where soul meets body and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel what it’s like to be new.—Death Cab for Cutie Though it has been said that time heals all wounds, that has not been my experience. However accepting […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Healing, life lessons, nablopomo, Self-Love, self-talk

Birthday Wish

May 10, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

Birthday Wish

  When I was little every time we drove by a hay truck I would make a wish, eyes closed tight, breath held, words uttered to myself almost as if in prayer. I could not pass a dandelion, whose vibrant color had tuned to seed, without stooping to pick it, fill my lungs with hope, […]

Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: 5oth Birthday, Intention, Self-Love

You are not alone

Oct 18, 2012 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

You are not alone

  Even though decades have past since I left Derrick I still remember at a visceral level how alone I felt back then. The one thing I can say without hesitation to anyone suffering in an abusive relationship is this—you are not alone. Not only are you not alone, you are stronger than you feel. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Abuse Survival, Healing, Self-Love

Stake a claim on your life

Jan 23, 2012 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

Stake a claim on your life

“The day I saw myself as a victor of my own life I ended my victimhood, there is life after domestic violence…claim it and make it your own.” -Elin Stebbins Waldal Staking a claim on my own life, for me, took some doing. What so many people don’t know is leaving an abusive relationship is […]

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Healing, Self-Love

laugh. cry. be.

Nov 9, 2011 By elinwaldal 6 Comments

A few months ago I was talking with my sister, I had shared with her some challenges I was wrestling with, after a 5 minute diatribe, my closing statement just before coming up for air was something like this: “I keep telling myself to snap the fuck out of it! Seriously, what is my problem?” […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: receiving, Self-Love

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