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Attitude: Perspective Day 16

Feb 16, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 8 Comments

Noelle Pikus-Pace. Wow. Just wow. In the note she wrote to herself that read: “This is it. Don’t get scared now.” followed by a smiley face, Noelle Pikus-Pace set the stage for herself; smile–just smile. I doubt there is a soul alive who watched Noelle Pikus-Pace climb up over the rail and into the stands […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma, Marriage, Memories Tagged With: Grief, Healing, Love, Noelle Pikus-Place, Olympics

A Look at Healing

Nov 27, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

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

Garden Refuge

Nov 8, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

There are images I lean on as if they were a cane when life and schedules seek to untether me from the essence of who I am. In those moments I seek refuge in a nearly meditative state. While there, my mind draws from an invisible well of haphazardly placed images—places, activities, people, which when […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Healing from Trauma, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Gardening, Healing, Letting go, NaBloPoMo13

Buoy Us

Sep 11, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Buoy us  Body, mind, soul swallowed into the abyss the wall fingertips brush against yet not  quite… splash into the memory-well so deep oxygen eludes —no tick—no tock— reservoir of collected tears dive into the depth of our grief surrender bursting lungs buoy us up forever-changed into the light                                                       […]

Filed Under: All things Writing Tagged With: 9/11, Healing

When Words Fail Me

Jan 15, 2013 By elinwaldal 1 Comment

For nearly a month words failed me. It was as if a light turned off inside of me on December 14, 2012 and for countless reasons I withdrew…I withdrew from myself, my family, friends, social media…and for a while I really felt as if very little mattered. It was a dark period. Feelings of hopelessness overtook […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma Tagged With: Depression, Healing, Writing

Missing

Jan 7, 2013 By elinwaldal 4 Comments

A protective wrap keeps the newspaper dry while it’s being delivered. But how do you keep it dry while it’s being read?”—John Dumas   When the news of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy broke on December 14, 2012, it shook us to the core and ever since I have attempted to absorb the enormity […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma Tagged With: Civility, Healing, manhood, Mass Shootings

Healing is a verb

Oct 20, 2012 By elinwaldal 5 Comments

  Healing from trauma is a journey, a journey that in many cases if you are the one in the thick of it, others may become impatient with. It seems to me in our 24/7/365 society that people become uncomfortable when a friend or loved one remains in a place they perceive as “stuck” or […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma Tagged With: abuse recovery, Healing, PTSD, Trauma

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