{"id":30,"date":"2013-10-26T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:31:42","slug":"writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/writings\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Several articles I have written can be found at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elonashelley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ElonaShelley.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Stepping Stones to Joy <\/em><\/strong>is a work in progress. Subscribers to my blog will be notified when it is available.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pMHRV6\">Journey to Joy<\/a>: Rising Above the Clouds of Perfectionism<\/strong><\/em> explains how perfectionism crept into the fabric of Elona Shelley&#8217;s young life, robbing her of joy and happiness for many years. Discover how God rescued her and taught her to rise above the recurring clouds of perfectionism. Experience the joy of God&#8217;s pure love for all of his children.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pUzHKB\">Confessions of a Molly Mormon<\/a>: Trading Perfectionism for Peace, Fear for Faith, Judging for Joy<\/strong><\/em> (2013) tells of Elona\u2019s struggle with perfectionism, and explains how having a gay son helped her transform from a guilty, depressed Mormon to a free and joyful Mormon. The chapter titles allude to feelings she once tried to hide so that she could appear to be the perfect Molly Mormon. Such chapters as \u201cGod and his tattletale angels,\u201d \u201cUsing the iron rod as a weapon of self-destruction,\u201d \u201cYou can only watch Johnny Lingo so many times,\u201d and \u201cLet the hunger pains begin,\u201d have caused readers to laugh, cry and rejoice in the love and mercy of the Savior.\u00a0 This little book will inspire you again and again as you walk with Elona along the path of freedom, peace, faith and joy.\u00a0 At <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elonashelley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ElonaShelley.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0you can see the covers, read the\u00a0introduction, listen to an interview with Carole Mikita of KSL Radio, see the press release, and find out where it is available.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4sL6W5P\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CMM_Cover-Front-3.jpg\" alt=\"CMM_Cover Front-3\" width=\"302\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CMM_Cover-Front-3.jpg 302w, https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CMM_Cover-Front-3-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several articles I have written can be found at ElonaShelley.com. Stepping Stones to Joy is a work in progress. Subscribers to my blog will be notified when it is available. Journey to Joy: Rising Above the Clouds of Perfectionism explains how perfectionism crept into the fabric of Elona Shelley&#8217;s young life, robbing her of joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elonashelley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}