Color Kindness: Challenge For #BetterDays

by Elisa | May 1, 2020 | Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Ways to Make a Difference

You can’t color with charcoal. But you can color kindness for better days ahead. The lines have been set. The world waits in wonder. And now is your chance to move and make a difference with light and beauty. Obviously, I am speaking in metaphors. Most of us are still...

Ode to National Parks

by Elisa | Apr 29, 2020 | Adventure, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

National Parks, we can’t wait until you reopen! In the meantime as COVID19 continues, we hope the bears enjoy the parks in peace

Journal Through Change Challenge: Pandemic Processing

by Elisa | Apr 23, 2020 | Fully Alive, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces

Scrolling hours mindlessly through social media. Watching Tiger King (again). Snapped again at the kids because they can’t get their dang school from home project done. You keep hiding in the bathroom. It is 4pm. Your morning coffee has been reheated ten times....

New Standard: Just Show Up

by Elisa | Apr 17, 2020 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship

Life has changed. There is a new standard. It is to just show up. Here is how.

Still Making A Difference In A Pandemic Through A Dress

by Elisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Giving Back, Human Trafficking, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice, Your Stories

This is a guest post from my fellow writer, Sarah Butterfield, about still making a difference during COVID-19 through Blackout Trafficking. I was so glad she was able to share her story, because I for one, relate! [wd_hustle id="6" type="embedded"/] I met Elisa...

The Ordinary and Extraordinary little black dress

by Elisa | Apr 6, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Identity, Life Purpose, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference

Last month, before Coronavirus took over in all its attention-needing glory, I wrote a piece for the online magazine, Grit and Grace Project. Thanks to COVID-19, it got lost in the shuffle for both of us, but even though it is a little later for you to join Blackout...

Poetry: Cracking Jar

by Elisa | Apr 6, 2020 | Mental Health, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart

Through my cracking jar Old and falling apart Let light Expand Breaking past This crippled man, My frail humanity I've driven out at dusk and fog Moving slowly As the glowing orb falls Lights taper down away, Gone to bed But building up in me Where I am dead Radiate...

Human Trafficking Meets COVID-19

by Elisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Leadership, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States

What is happening with trafficking and the coronavirus? Here are some changes in the anti-trafficking world as human trafficking meets COVID-19.

Freedom of Movement: Phobias, Wanderlust, Quarantine and Modern Slavery

by Elisa | Mar 26, 2020 | Being World Changers

How many of you love living in quarantine for COVID-19? Having wanderlust and some weird phobias myself, I definitely do not! Now, how many of you think of modern slavery (or human trafficking) in connection to freedom of movement? I'm guessing not many of us, even...

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

What to Do With that Blasted Holy Discontent (I used to be a radical)

I used to be a radical. I used to be a radical–until I wasn’t. After high school, I...

Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Giving Back, Socially Conscious Brands

How Politics Pushed Me To Only Buy Ethically Sourced Clothes

It might be hard to believe, but it has been two years since our last presidential election....

Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States

3 Tips to Be a Peacemaker

When the world is crazy or when we care about something a lot, how do we do advocacy well. Here are three tips to be peacemakers!

Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking

Want to Bring Freedom to the Exploited (Right Now)?

Ready to do something about exploitation now? Help us find partners or volunteer for Blackout Trafficking!

Leadership

A New Year, They Said: A Poem for Changemakers in January

Its a New Year, and with it, demands for volunteering, ministry, activism, and more more more! This satirical poem addresses giving from fullness and restful changemaking

Spiritual Discipleship

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

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