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	<title>Elin Stebbins Waldal</title>
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		<title>Overcoming fear and denial: teen dating violence and parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[________________________________________________________________________________________ It&#8217;s National Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month so what&#8217;s a parent to do? I speak with parents all the time and the number one thing I hear from them is this: &#8220;I really don&#8217;t worry about my kids being in an abusive relationship, they haven&#8217;t been raised with abuse in the home.&#8221; &#8211;And from there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/02/overcoming-fear-and-denial-teen-dating-violence-and-parenting/</link>
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		<title>Freedom of thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[___________________________________________________________________________________________________ The old saying goes &#8220;you are what you eat&#8221; yet lately I have been pondering another aspect of what I am. My soul is fed on the thoughts which roll through my mind and most days they serve me well, yet there are days when what I think becomes noise, a noise which reaches a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/freedom-of-thought/</link>
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		<title>Stake a claim on your life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The day I saw myself as a victor of my own life I ended my victimhood: there is life after domestic violence&#8230;claim it and make it your own.&#8221; -Elin Stebbins Waldal Staking a claim on my own life, for me, took some doing. What so many people don&#8217;t know is leaving an abusive relationship is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/stake-a-claim-on-your-life/</link>
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		<title>Love changes the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world, how am I changing the world? This question has coursed through my veins; it has arrested me somehow with the enormity of the global population. Tumbling through my mind as if they were unattended clothes belonging to anyone other than me—round and round—are the myriad feelings I have experienced in my contemplation about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/love-changes-the-world/</link>
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		<title>NYC sidewalk story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an eighth-story window I could see them as they made their way down the city sidewalk. A boy and his mother, she with his scooter wedged under her arm toy in hand, walked a few steps behind him. The boy, who seconds earlier had been running, slowed then stood as if towed to a stop by his curiosity. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/12/nyc-sidewalk-story/</link>
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		<title>It is not only time to talk: It is time to empower future generations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hosted by Liz Claiborne, Inc. and partners, this December 8, 2011, will mark the eigth annual &#8220;It&#8217;s Time to Talk Day&#8221; &#8211;a national day of dialogue and awareness on domestic violence, sexual assault and teen dating abuse. Held at the Liz Claiborne headquarters in New York City, the event will gather thought leaders, and match them with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/12/it-is-not-only-time-to-talk-it-is-time-to-empower-future-generations/</link>
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		<title>Make a change, be the change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Make a change, be the change Punching, Slapping, Shooting, Strangling, Killing; Actions that take part in relationship violence; Day by day, Around the world, are girls, Victims, Abused by their lovers; Their “soul mates”; Minute by minute, Innocent women Dying, Suffering, Crying; Shredded to pieces, Left scattered in the wind; Feeling shame and humiliation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/11/make-a-change-be-the-change/</link>
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		<title>laugh. cry. be.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/11/laugh-cry-be/</link>
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		<title>We should be outraged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  8 killed in Southern California salon shooting I learned of this tragedy from my friend Marissa. Marissa works countless hours providing education to individuals about domestic violence. She contacted me while I was driving north to Orange County-her devastation rang through the phone receiver.  Her words remain solidly in my mind, &#8220;We need to create legislation that makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/10/we-should-be-outraged/</link>
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		<title>Read for a Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read for a Cause, a promotion to benefit Love is Respect.Org     This October in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month I will donate 20% of  Tornado Warning sales made directly on my website to Love is Respect.Org How to participate in *Read for a Cause: Purchase an autographed copy of Tornado Warning directly from my website Write LIR [...]]]></description>
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