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Human Trafficking Meets COVID-19

by Elisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Leadership, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States | 0 |

What is happening with trafficking and the coronavirus? Here are some changes in the anti-trafficking world as human trafficking meets COVID-19.

Five Healthy Ways To Cope With Change From The Coronavirus

by Elisa | Mar 22, 2020 | Fully Alive, Global Health, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Everyday I ask myself how I can serve you. It is difficult to know what concerns you the most as...

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...

Which Do You Fear? Failure Or Success? (and overcoming Self-SABOTAGE)

by Elisa | Feb 3, 2020 | Fully Alive, Identity, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

What are you afraid of moving forward? Fear of Failure or Fear of Success? And in that, how do you overcome self-sabotaging.

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.

What is Lament and How It Helps Everyday People Make a Difference

by Elisa | Oct 11, 2019 | Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Mental Health, Refugees and Immigration, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice | 0 |

The first time I heard it, I asked the same question: What is lament? And why do people who care...

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

Beyond Herodias: Kingdom of Forgiveness

by Elisa | Sep 5, 2019 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Identity, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

What does forgiveness look like? Elisa Johnston speaks about two different singers, the kingdom of forgiveness, and how to forgive.

Awareness of Trauma Within the Church to Overcome It

by Elisa | Sep 1, 2019 | Create Awareness, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Human Trafficking, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Sex Trafficking, Spiritual Discipleship, United States, Women's Empowerment, Your Stories | 0 |

No one really likes to talk much about trauma (like abuse or trafficking), including the everyday...

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.