Intentional LivinG & Personal Grow
-Be Fully Alive-
What Is Mutual Aid? Why Community Care Is How We Learn to Love
What mutual aid really means, why it matters more than charity, and how community care during a hysterectomy reminded me how we learn to love.
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?
When Your Dreams Change
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...
I’m Every Woman: How Woman Are Uniquely Positioned To Change the World
Why does now matter for women? We have a unique positioning to make a difference for the world at large. Here’s why:
Five Steps To Begin Restful Changemaking
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...
How To Be Intentional the Middle of the Fall
How can we be intentional in the middle of it all? We can living purposefully in seasons of change! Hi Changemakers! This coming week might feel significant for you if you are an American. It is a big week for me, too—today is my three year anniversary since my life...
Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
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
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.
Loving Your Neighbor: Digging and Building Sandcastles
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...
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