Category: Family & Relationships

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 | 0 |

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 | 0 |

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 | 0 |

Do you ever doubt that you have influence to make a difference? The playlists that go through our...

Reframing Welcome With Women of Welcome

by Elisa | Mar 25, 2023 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

What if you are bad at welcoming internationals? Can you reframe your welcome?

What Happens Between Tijuana and San Diego

by Elisa | Nov 24, 2022 | Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Identity, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States | 0 |

What happens between two cities? When you are growing into a world changer, how does one find purpose? And do we ever arrive?

Courage to Live (Lupus #13)

by Elisa | Aug 9, 2022 | Adventure, Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Can we live courageously when it is easier to just not live? From a woman who will not let lupus overtake her.

Mini Essays: Roe vs. Wade, Support Group and the Question

by Elisa | Jul 23, 2022 | Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Family & Relationships, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Three things to be cautious of and equip you in the abortion vs. pro-life debate. (From a woman hemorrhaging blood, who had an unplanned pregnancy and almost died from it this year)

A Blessing For Your Body

by Elisa | Jul 5, 2022 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Here is a blessing to you

Healing from Postpartum Depression, Anxiety and PTSD (Lupus and Pregnancy #12)

by Elisa | Jun 5, 2022 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

The Struggle of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety: Honesty I’m not a good liar, but somehow...

Living With an Invisible Illness (Lupus and Pregnancy #11)

by Elisa | Jun 5, 2022 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Global Health, Hard Conversations, Identity, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

How many medical items on my desk can you name? Today I decided to clear it off a little. It has...

Poem: Waiting (Pregnancy and Lupus #10)

by Elisa | Jun 5, 2022 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Identity, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Personal Growth, poetry, Raising Kids, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

On waiting for the arrival and kairos, the appointed time

My New Job: Lupus in Pregnancy #9

by Elisa | Feb 19, 2022 | Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice | 0 |

“Well, I did tell you that if you continued this pregnancy, it would become your new part-time job,” my OB said with a smile. As I look at this week’s schedule, I’m really feeling that “new job that...

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