<div>Had an interview about my story yesterday. </div> <div>We had booked it before I went to Canada for the World Championships. </div> <div> </div> <div><em>It's something new and exciting coming up and they wanted to have my story as a part of it. </em></div> <div><em>(I can't tell you more right now..) </em></div> <div>It was a great inteview, but the topic that was suppose to be the main focus, was not really the main focus anymore....</div> <div>"Elin Harkonen, the girl with an overcoming story"</div> <div> </div> <div>Yes I have an overcoming story, I broke my neck 4,5 years ago but I surviuved and managed to recover.</div> <div>I went through an identity-crise, life-crise, self-harming behaviour, evil thoughts, depression, frustration... </div> <div>I was stuck in a nightmare and I didn't have the energy to get out of it. </div> <div> </div> <div>Until one day, when I decided. <br />I decided that that wasn't the life I wanted to live. </div> <div>That wasn't the life I was meant to be living. </div> <div>I was meant to do something bigger, something greater, something with a purpose. </div> <div>I did survive for a reason, <strong><em>a big reason. </em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div>I am here to make a difference. I am here to help people. <br />I am here to inspire and motivate people that GIVING UP is NOT an option. </div> <div>Life is worth fighting for. </div> <div> </div> <div>I know it is. </div> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Sometimes we have to BREAK something to be able to MAKE IT. </strong></em></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div>I am not encouraging you to go out and break your neck to be able to live the best life possible, of ocurse not! <br />I am encouraging you to break the habits that are not good for you, I am encouraging you to break and change the things in your life that are limiting you from living the BEST life possible.</div> <div>I did not only BREAK my neck, I needed to break and change so many difference things to be able to recover and become the person I am today. </div> <div> </div> <div>It has definitely NOT been easy, and I have been doubting many times during these past years. </div> <div>But I never gave up. And neihter should you! </div> <div> </div> <div>I am here to help if you need me, so please do not hesitate to send me a message <3 </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Why did the inteview change focus a bit? </div> <div>Unfortunately am I right in the middle of another trauma...and it will be another overcoming story, eventually... <br />I just have to overcome it first! </div> <div><strong><em>But I will, cause GIVING UP is not an option. </em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> </div> <div> </p> <div> </div> <div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div>