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Your Voice On Racism

by Elisa | Jun 5, 2020 | Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Your Stories | 0 |

We need safe spaces to talk about racism. We need your voice on racism. There aren’t always...

Art of Advocacy: When It is Time To Cocoon

by Elisa | Jun 2, 2020 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Human Rights, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States | 0 |

I’ve been writing a lot recently to process what has been going on in the United States. Not...

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...

Journal Through Change Challenge: Pandemic Processing

by Elisa | Apr 23, 2020 | Fully Alive, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces | 0 |

Scrolling hours mindlessly through social media. Watching Tiger King (again). Snapped again at the...

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...

Poetry: Cracking Jar

by Elisa | Apr 6, 2020 | Mental Health, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Through my cracking jar Old and falling apart Let light Expand Breaking past This crippled man, My...

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.

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Your Voice On Racism

Art of Advocacy: When It is Time To Cocoon

When You Watch Your Kid Go Into Surgery and Bleed

Journal Through Change Challenge: Pandemic Processing

New Standard: Just Show Up

The Ordinary and Extraordinary little black dress

Poetry: Cracking Jar

Human Trafficking Meets COVID-19

Five Healthy Ways To Cope With Change From The Coronavirus

Three Ways To Change Your Self-Talk

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

Poem: Jealousy is a Carousel

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