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Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you.

Sep 24, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you. It’s over. Seriously. I’m done. Pack up your self-defeating attitude and go. Thanks, Elin For years too many to count I have been riding shotgun to this thing called FEAR. Don’t get me wrong I am not afraid to use my voice, that’s a fear I thankfully overcame years […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear Tagged With: Breaking up, Facing Fear, Fear

The (not so) Big Reveal

Nov 23, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Looks as if I won this round of 5 Truths, 1 Lie. No one came close. Of course only 3 people played, versus the 90+ on my new friend Jen’s blog, so I’m thinking statistically speaking the odds were in my favor to pull off the lie… 1). I love going to the beach and […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Fear, NaBloPoMo13, Name Change, Weird Jobs

Phone Calls

Jan 27, 2011 By elinwaldal 3 Comments

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: Women's Health & Wellness 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

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: Women's Health & Wellness Tagged With: Acceptance, Entertainment, Fear, HUGE, Love, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Teens, Tolerance, TV, Weight

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