Safe Spaces Archives - The Average Advocate

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

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.

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?

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...

Spectrum of Belief About Justice Issues: Art of Advocacy

by Elisa | Dec 6, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Leadership, Safe Spaces, United States | 0 |

Not everyone shares the same beliefs, so using the Spectrum of Belief graph helps us to have healthy conversations about justice that aren’t so black and white.

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?

Dear Socrates: The Unexamined Life

by Elisa | Nov 8, 2022 | Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces | 0 |

Socrates didn’t go far enough with his “unexamined life” quote. Does our very survival depend on it?

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)