Category: Personal Growth

How To Be Intentional the Middle of the Fall

by Elisa | Oct 30, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Giving Back, Leadership, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth | 0 |

How can we be intentional in the middle of it all? We can living purposefully in seasons of...

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Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn

by Elisa | Apr 16, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Hard Conversations, Leadership, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice | 0 |

Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?

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We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking

by Elisa | Mar 20, 2024 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

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.

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Loving Your Neighbor: Digging and Building Sandcastles

by Elisa | Feb 7, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Live Intentionally, Love Your Neighbor, Personal Growth | 0 |

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...

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The Pausing Season: Reevaluating and Renegotiating Commitments

by Elisa | Jan 5, 2024 | Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Discipleship Tools, Identity, Leadership, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Productivity, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

I texted the carpool mom, “See you at 8:45!” She wrote me back, “7:45! 😂 Back to the grind!” I guess have to get my head back in the game! Coming off the holidays, we went on a much needed anniversary...

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Social Change Ecosystems: Justice Daily S2E3

by Elisa | Nov 21, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Justice Daily Interview, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice | 0 |

Did you know each of us have different roles in social change? We all play different parts in doing good, based on our experience, skill, natural bent, and stage of life. Deepa Iyer has mapped out these changemaker roles to give...

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Reducing Trauma’s Influence in Doing Good: Justice Daily – S2.E2.

by Elisa | Nov 11, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces | 0 |

How do we reduce trauma’s influence in our work of doing good? In this Justice Daily Interview with Michelle Stiffler, a trauma specialist, we learn about helping us endure beyond burnout and get real about Fight Flight, Fawn, Freeze

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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?

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Impostor Syndrome for Changemakers

by Elisa | Mar 6, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Identity, Leadership, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice | 0 |

Let’s talk impostor syndrome. A few months ago I wrote on an index card a truth affirmation...

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