Stuff of the Heart Archives - The Average Advocate

Advocating Well For the Homeless

by Elisa | Sep 13, 2021 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Life Purpose, Personal Growth, Poverty, Raising Kids, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

What does it look like to advocate well for the homeless? Especially when we are just everyday people? Learn some tips and wisdom here!

How Stories Heal Us and Prevent Burnout for World Changers

by Elisa | Jul 8, 2021 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Discipleship Tools, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Human Trafficking, Identity, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States, Women's Empowerment, Your Stories | 0 |

Working through our own stories and triggers are essential as we make a difference if we want to be fully alive and prevent burnout. Check out this interview covering this.

One: Poetry About Hope in Injustice

by Elisa | Jul 1, 2021 | Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

A poem about hope and healing in the midst of oppression.

Jerusalem Old City Easter Series

by Elisa | Apr 4, 2021 | Adventure, Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Life Purpose, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Peace Comes at a Price Here’s my pic from the alleged Garden of Gethsemane. True, the olive...

Excavation – Farewell 2020!

by Elisa | Jan 1, 2021 | Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Leadership, Live Intentionally, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Well, we just celebrated the East Coast NYC Ball drop. In California (You’ve gotta love that...

Lament for the American Church

by Elisa | Jun 16, 2020 | Being World Changers, Community, Discipleship Tools, Family & Relationships, Leadership, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

Over the last three months, I’ve been trying to answer one question often–what does it mean to be the Church where I live, through this season? Of course I have ideas, but I don’t have the answer. And so I...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Purpose Roadmap

by Elisa | May 11, 2019 | Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Identity, Personal Growth, Stuff of the Heart, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

You are important, and the story you live is important too. This is why I...

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Advocating Well For the Homeless

One: Poetry About Hope in Injustice

Excavation – Farewell 2020!

Lament for the American Church

When You Watch Your Kid Go Into Surgery and Bleed

Poetry: Cracking Jar

Five Healthy Ways To Cope With Change From The Coronavirus

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

UnZombie: Loving Someone Out of the Darkness and Back to Life

Purpose Roadmap

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