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Harnessing Courage: A Life-Renovation

Sep 24, 2013 By elinwaldal 4 Comments

The year was 2007. The red brick wall that my car faced in the parking lot is still visible in my mind’s eye. I stared at it for at least […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear Tagged With: A Memoir of Teen Dating Violence and Its Effect on a Woman's Life, Books, Courage, Domestic Violence, Recovery, Tornado Warning, Twilight

Backseat of a forward moving car

Jul 2, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 8 Comments

  Zipping past me in a blur of color is Rancho Santa Fe, if one were to slow the car–and time–you would see beauty abounds. There by the roadside a […]

Filed Under: On being a parent Tagged With: coming of age, driving, Motherhood, Teenagers

Self-Love

Jun 28, 2013 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

“Self-love is the air beneath the wings of all out relationships.”–Elin Stebbins Waldal

Filed Under: Inspiration

Opportunity

Jun 24, 2013 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

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Shepherding death; letting go of my mother

Jun 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 31 Comments

  It was the sort of awakening that occurs when a phone’s ring interrupts a deep sleep–the kind that if needed, propels one into motion, only there was no phone […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Daughter, Death of Mother, Grief, Loss of Parent, Mother

And the day came…

Jun 13, 2013 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Inspiration

Birthday Wish

May 10, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

  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 […]

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

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