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Three Ways To Change Your Self-Talk

by Elisa | Feb 25, 2020 | Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Identity, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces | 0 |

Let’s be clear: The rhetoric you speak over yourself isn’t just meaningless or just “words.” What you speak (inside your head or outside) determines the course of your life. (And best yet, you can...

Simple Solution To Bring Gratitude Into Our Busy Lives

by Elisa | Nov 22, 2019 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Raising Kids | 0 |

We’ve started a tradition in our home which turned out to be a simple solution to bring gratitude...

Poem: Jealousy is a Carousel

by Elisa | Oct 28, 2019 | Community, Fully Alive, Identity, Safe Spaces | 0 |

Jealousy is a carousel is a short poem about community, identity and overcoming insecurity to find joy.

Start Here If You Want To Help Your Kids Love Others, Live Justly and Make a Difference

by Elisa | Oct 9, 2019 | Busy Moms, Raising Kids, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

For Parents Who Want to Help Their Kids Love Others, Live Justly and Make a Difference One of the...

UnZombie: Loving Someone Out of the Darkness and Back to Life

by Elisa | Oct 2, 2019 | Family & Relationships, Life Purpose, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

What is it like to live with someone who is suicidal? As Suicide Prevention Awareness should go all year, this is a sneak peak into the unique relationship between my housemate and I as she was loved “out of the darkness” – raw and real look inside of our Safe Tribe

Ten Ways to Support a Special Needs Parent

by Elisa | Sep 6, 2019 | Community, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Not Sure About How To Help Special Needs Families Either? There tends to be some tension regarding...

Creatively Leading and Making a Difference as a Change-Making Mama

by Elisa | Sep 1, 2019 | Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Leadership, Your Stories | 0 |

MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH CREATIVITY I was honored to be interviewed by The Most...

The Most Challenging Random Act of Kindness That Made Me Love My Enemies #KindnessQuest

by Elisa | Aug 29, 2019 | Adventure, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

On our second official #kindnessquest — our vacation road trip where we daily practice random acts of kindness–I was particularly challenged to do something kind in a “love your enemies” type of way, to see them as people who matter, rather than those who made my life hard.

Talking With Your Kids About Refugees With the #ThreetoFlee Challenge By World Relief

by Elisa | Aug 3, 2019 | Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Good Charities, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration | 0 |

Once I began talking with my kids about refugees with the #ThreeToFlee challenge by World Relief that I realized this conversation was long overdo.

Breathe Please: Recovering From a Near Death Experience

by Elisa | Jul 21, 2019 | Family & Relationships, Hard Conversations, Identity, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

Last week I almost died when I had lung failure. As I am recovering from my near death experience I’m having to learn to breathe – breathe please – be a boss at life, overcome false guilt and process suffering with community and proskuneō worship.

The Seven Things Keeping You From Practicing Random Acts of Kindness

by Elisa | May 31, 2019 | Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Productivity, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Last year my family went on a KindnessQuest, an amazing adventure chalk-full of random acts of...

Warrior Princess: Fighting For Our Girls Young

by Elisa | Apr 7, 2019 | Children-in-Need, Community, Identity, Stuff of the Heart, Women's Empowerment, Your Stories | 0 |

What soundtrack do women hear their whole lives? We can give our girls a way to fight for themselves when they are young by teaching them to be warrior princesses

Category: Family & Relationships

Three Ways To Change Your Self-Talk

Simple Solution To Bring Gratitude Into Our Busy Lives

Poem: Jealousy is a Carousel

Start Here If You Want To Help Your Kids Love Others, Live Justly and Make a Difference

UnZombie: Loving Someone Out of the Darkness and Back to Life

Ten Ways to Support a Special Needs Parent

Creatively Leading and Making a Difference as a Change-Making Mama

The Most Challenging Random Act of Kindness That Made Me Love My Enemies #KindnessQuest

Talking With Your Kids About Refugees With the #ThreetoFlee Challenge By World Relief

Breathe Please: Recovering From a Near Death Experience

The Seven Things Keeping You From Practicing Random Acts of Kindness

Warrior Princess: Fighting For Our Girls Young

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