Social Justice For the Sensitive Soul – Justice Daily S3E6

by Elisa | Jun 26, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

Have you ever felt like you didn't fit the model for classic activism? That you were too empathetic, too normal, too interested in technology, or too sensitive to engage in social change? It's probably way many people don't relate to the term "activist," even if they...

How To Be An Advocate When You Don’t Know Where You Stand: On Palestine/Israel

by Elisa | Jun 13, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

How do we engage in advocacy when we don't know where we stand on a social issue? One of the most divisive topics right now is what is going down in the Middle East, specifically between Palestine and Israel. It is a good example of how people respond (or don't...

Connecting With and Caring For Diverse Cultures with Dr. Michelle Reyes on Justice Daily S3E2

by Elisa | May 26, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Your Voice on Racism

How do we connect with and care about diverse cultures, especially when others we know don’t care?

Poem for Changemakers

by Elisa | Apr 24, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, poetry

Why do Changemakers burnout? This poem for Changemakers was written to help them see their value.

Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn

by Elisa | Apr 16, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Hard Conversations, Leadership, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice

Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?

We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking

by Elisa | Mar 20, 2024 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Stuff of the Heart

We can’t escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let’s be aware of these four elements as we create change.

Safe Water and Hopeful Changemaking: Justice Daily S3E1

by Elisa | Jan 17, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Global Health, Raising Kids, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

Here’s how we can approach changemaking hopefully and advocate for safe water

Reducing Trauma’s Influence in Doing Good: Justice Daily – S2.E2.

by Elisa | Nov 11, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces

How do we reduce trauma’s influence in our work of doing good? In this Justice Daily Interview with Michelle Stiffler, a trauma specialist, we learn about helping us endure beyond burnout and get real about Fight Flight, Fawn, Freeze

What is Happening With Migrants Near San Diego?

by Elisa | Oct 4, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Community, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Good Charities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Poverty, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference

What is happening with migrants in San Diego? Are there really outdoor detention camps in Jucumba California for asylum seekers? Here’s what I saw.

Notes From Birmingham Jail & 60th Anniversary of the March

by Elisa | Aug 26, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Human Rights, Leadership, Seeking Justice, United States, Your Voice on Racism

Honestly, I've never read more than clips of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s works, even though I've talked them up. A major world-changer, Dr. King is mostly known for his "I Have a Dream" speech sixty-years ago during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. On a whim I decided...

Hypocrisy and the Love Your Neighbor T-Shirt

by Elisa | Jul 26, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Hard Conversations, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Love Your Neighbor, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces

Why I couldn’t wear the “Love your neighbor” t-shirt and how we become.

A Road Trip Story: Accepting Kindness When You Rather Give It

by Elisa | Jul 8, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Kindness, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference

How to accept kindness when you rather receiving it.

How Do We Honor a Story?

by Elisa | May 27, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Leadership, Seeking Justice

How do we honor a story? What is ethical storytelling and how can we use it to do good better?

When You Doubt Your Influence as a Changemaker

by Elisa | May 16, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Identity, Leadership, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth

Do you ever doubt that you have influence to make a difference? The playlists that go through our minds, whether positive or negative, really affect who we are. And who we are, especially what we believe about ourselves, really defines how we try to change the world....

Why Do We Start Caring About Justice?

by Elisa | Apr 29, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States

Why Do you care about justice? Here’s how global missions got me started, how my faith challenged me to care and the why-after-why exercise to help you.

How I Used to Fight Human Trafficking vs. How I Fight Human Trafficking Now

by Elisa | Jan 11, 2023 | Being World Changers, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment

I used to fight human trafficking differently than I used to. Here’s how I changed and why.

Spectrum of Belief About Justice Issues: Art of Advocacy

by Elisa | Dec 6, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Leadership, Safe Spaces, United States

Not everyone shares the same beliefs, so using the Spectrum of Belief graph helps us to have healthy conversations about justice that aren’t so black and white.

10 Myths About Being an Everyday Advocate

by Elisa | Sep 14, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Giving Back, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity, Seeking Justice

What types of activism and advocacy myths have you believed? Check these out to learn to do good better!

Using Social Media to Make a Difference

by Elisa | Jun 3, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Leadership, Ways to Make a Difference

How can changemakers use social media to make a difference? Check out this interview with social media expert, Megan Ericson to learn how.

Responses When You’re Privileged

by Elisa | Dec 27, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Leadership, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice

Are you privileged in one way or another? If so, you’ve probably experienced one of the three main responses to privilege.

Kids Books To Raise World Changers

by Elisa | Sep 30, 2020 | Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids, Women's Empowerment

Gosh, these days I feel like I'm getting books on all sides! There are six of us and between our school stuff, work, responsibilities and especially our interests, we are going through books like crazy! In these stacks are some good books to raise world changers that...

Art of Advocacy: When It is Time To Cocoon

by Elisa | Jun 2, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States

I've been writing a lot recently to process what has been going on in the United States. Not only have we been dealing with COVID-19, unemployment and politics, but also something dear to my heart, racism. In my lifetime, the issue of racism has never been brought...

How One Woman Can Change the World: Justice Daily S3E3

by Elisa | Mar 17, 2024 | Being World Changers

Do you really believe you can change the world? Do you know you have something that matters? We have stories of women who have leveraged what they had to make a difference from the corners of the globe they live in. Humanitarian worker, storyteller, and author Ronne...

So You Want to Talk About Race?

by Elisa | Feb 12, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, United States, Your Voice on Racism

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo, has been on my list for a few years, and if I am honest, like most books on racism, it made me feel anxious and uncomfortable to pick up. To my surprise, this book does an excellent job at taking complex ideas and...

Loving Your Neighbor: Digging and Building Sandcastles

by Elisa | Feb 7, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Live Intentionally, Love Your Neighbor, Personal Growth

Loving your neighbor has a lot of similarities to digging sand and building sandcastles. I've had a lot of moments by the ocean to think about this recently. I've been going to the beach during or soon after it has rained. (To my surprise, I even got in the local news...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Identity Crisis #3467 – My Messy Beautiful

The other day, my daughter was excitedly expressing her admiration of the teachers and helpers at her school. I usually resist the temptation to to ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up because at some point in my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

Understanding Terms for Poor Nations vs. Rich Nations

Terms of Poverty Whether in public political addresses or in pleas from non-profits, we have all heard some of these terms thrown around at some point or another. But just because we can infer their general meaning, I...