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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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