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When You Watch Your Kid Go Into Surgery and Bleed

by Elisa | May 29, 2020 | Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Family & Relationships, Global Health, Hard Conversations, Raising Kids, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Somewhere down that hallway, the nurse asks me to go in the opposite direction they are rolling my...

What is a Refugee?

by Elisa | May 16, 2020 | Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice | 0 |

What is a refugee? Here are the basics, simply stated, for everyday people who might want to care

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 | 0 |

You can’t color with charcoal. But you can color kindness for better days ahead. The lines have...

Ode to National Parks

by Elisa | Apr 29, 2020 | Adventure, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids | 0 |

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

New Standard: Just Show Up

by Elisa | Apr 17, 2020 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

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

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 | 0 |

Last month, before Coronavirus took over in all its attention-needing glory, I wrote a piece for...

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...

Category: Family & Relationships

When You Watch Your Kid Go Into Surgery and Bleed

What is a Refugee?

Color Kindness: Challenge For #BetterDays

Ode to National Parks

New Standard: Just Show Up

The Ordinary and Extraordinary little black dress

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

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