Eleanor Skelton

Harvest House garage sale set for June

This article was originally published in The Examiner on June 1, 2017. By Eleanor SkeltonStaff Writer Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at 1350 N. 23rd Street in Beaumont, is holding a garage sale to benefit Harvest House on June 10 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Harvest House (now known as Embracing Freedom) is a nonprofitContinueContinue reading “Harvest House garage sale set for June”

Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past

I asked myself why I stopped writing last year and the answers were revealing. Some days, there are just too many ghosts. It’s difficult to imagine typing out what you’re really thinking when the other half of your brain is imagining another person reading what you write and mocking you for being sentimental. Don’t listenContinueContinue reading “Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past”

Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall

I got this book from a giveaway over at SpiritualAbuse.org a couple of summers ago, when I was blogging about leaving fundamentalism. Stolen Innocence is Elissa Wall’s memoir of leaving the fundamentalist Mormon church (FLDS) as an adult. She was told to marry one of her cousins when she was only 14. Elissa gives a good historyContinueContinue reading “Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall”

Being really honest about my daily life with anxiety

Content note: self-harm I realized something the other day. My anxiety has always been really bad. It used to make me throw up when I was a kid. Or get really dizzy. I often couldn’t put it into words. But it’s only just now that I could start expressing it in a way that myContinueContinue reading “Being really honest about my daily life with anxiety”

Going Organic: Mid-County businesses band together, encourage community

Desiree McPhillips stands in the Mid-County Victory Garden, just behind Shear Madness, her organic hair salon. Photo: Eleanor Skelton This article was originally published in The Examiner on May 18, 2017. By Eleanor SkeltonStaff Writer Selling and consuming organic products and food has been a growing trend nationally since the early days of the newContinueContinue reading “Going Organic: Mid-County businesses band together, encourage community”