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What is Happening With Migrants Near San Diego?

by Elisa | Oct 4, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Community, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Good Charities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Poverty, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

What is happening with migrants in San Diego? Are there really outdoor detention camps in Jucumba California for asylum seekers? Here’s what I saw.

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.

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?

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.

Making A Difference Through Proximity

by Elisa | Jan 7, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Proximity is powerful.It shouldn’t surprise us to know that there is a direct correlation...

Poem: The In-Between (Lupus in Pregnancy #8)

by Elisa | Dec 22, 2021 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Productivity, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

No one likes being in the in-between seasons of life. I might be a justice seeker, but what does...

#NoHustleNovember and SYSTEMIC Lupus #1

by Elisa | Dec 22, 2021 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Kindness, Life Purpose, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Being admitted to the hospital wasn’t exactly how I expected to start No Hustle November,...

#NoHustleVember And Productivity: Pregnancy in Lupus Update #4

by Elisa | Dec 7, 2021 | Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Productivity, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

What in me won’t stop the hustle for productivity? During this #NoHustleVember while I have Lupus in Pregnancy it important to deal with this.

Why Reaching 20 Weeks is a Big Deal! Lupus in Pregnancy Update #5

by Elisa | Dec 6, 2021 | Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Global Health, Hard Conversations, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Wooowhooo! Guess why today is a big day? Today marks 20 weeks! In the United States this 1/2 way...

Where In the Story? Lupus in Pregnancy Update #6

by Elisa | Dec 6, 2021 | Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Uncategorized | 2 |

Lupus Update in Pregnancy? What’s the real story of having a flare with SLE? Here’s the real narrative.

Not the Baby Announcement I Planned (Lupus #2)

by Elisa | Nov 14, 2021 | Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Hard Conversations, Identity, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

This wasn’t the baby announcement I had planned. Many of you know I am in the hospital. A couple weeks ago I was diagnosed with THE DESPICABLE systemic lupus erythematosus, currently attacking my kidneys, subcutaneous...

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