I’m Every Woman: How Woman Are Uniquely Positioned To Change the World

by Elisa | Apr 15, 2025 | Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment

Why does now matter for women? We have a unique positioning to make a difference for the world at large. Here’s why:

April Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Apr 1, 2025 | Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Global Health, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

How can you begin doing good in April? Start here for social good awareness, advocacy, and activism days

Five Steps To Begin Restful Changemaking

by Elisa | Nov 25, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

A Path for Restful Changemaking: I'm not shy about my story of burnout while having my life revolve around changemaking. But how did I move out of that onto a more restful and sustainable path for changemaking? For those looking for some guidance to pivot the way they...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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...

June Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Jun 17, 2025 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Ethical Fashion, Global Health, Good Charities, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through June's themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already out there. This reduces a lot of the stress,...

May Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Jun 17, 2025 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

Want to make doing good easier? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through May's themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already out there. This reduces a lot of the stress, overwhelm, and...

A Lament For Hungry Babies

by Elisa | May 27, 2025 | Being World Changers

The other day, reading updates about what was happening in Gaza with lack of aid and malnutrition, my emotions were getting out of control. When we feel like this as changemakers, we have to remember we are acting in Phase Two of Rising Up, a stage marked by intense...

Want to make doing good easier? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through May’s themes and advocacy days.

by Elisa | May 11, 2025 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Global Health, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already out there. This reduces a lot of the stress, overwhelm, and hindrances around changemaking. So here is how you do it. Choose one of the slides below or one of the "extras" in the "Other Notable...

When Your Dreams Change

by Elisa | Apr 16, 2025 | Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Identity, Leadership, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship

This picture always makes me smile, depicting some of my favorites from my teenage years: my favorite shirt, a favorite friend, and my favorite activity--messing around with music. You could often find me here, writing music at our beloved piano, Cable Nelson. Cable...

Will The Real Woman’s Day Please Stand Up?

by Elisa | Mar 9, 2025 | Global Health, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Women's Empowerment

Will the REAL Woman’s Day please stand up? I’ve been disappointed by so much of the content I’ve seen on International Woman’s Day for the past few years. Why?

March Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Mar 6, 2025 | Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Global Health, Human Rights, Mental Health, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment

Want to make doing good easier? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through March's themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already out there. This reduces a lot of the stress, overwhelm, and...

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...