The Average Advocate | Empowering Everyday Changemakers

What Is Mutual Aid? Why Community Care Is How We Learn to Love

by Elisa | Dec 19, 2025 | Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Recovery, Seeking Justice, United States, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

What mutual aid really means, why it matters more than charity, and how community care during a hysterectomy reminded me how we learn to love.

I’m Every Woman: How Woman Are Uniquely Positioned To Change the World

by Elisa | Apr 15, 2025 | Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Why does now matter for women? We have a unique positioning to make a difference for the world at large. Here’s why:

April Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Apr 1, 2025 | Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Global Health, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

How can you begin doing good in April? Start here for social good awareness, advocacy, and activism days

Five Steps To Begin Restful Changemaking

by Elisa | Nov 25, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity | 0 |

A Path for Restful Changemaking: I’m not shy about my story of burnout while having my life...

Social Justice For the Sensitive Soul – Justice Daily S3E6

by Elisa | Jun 26, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit the model for classic activism? That you were too...

How To Be An Advocate When You Don’t Know Where You Stand: On Palestine/Israel

by Elisa | Jun 13, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

How do we engage in advocacy when we don’t know where we stand on a social issue? One of the...

Poem for Changemakers

by Elisa | Apr 24, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, poetry | 0 |

Why do Changemakers burnout? This poem for Changemakers was written to help them see their value.

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?

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.

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

What is Happening With Migrants Near San Diego?

by Elisa | Oct 4, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Community, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Good Charities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Poverty, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

What is happening with migrants in San Diego? Are there really outdoor detention camps in Jucumba California for asylum seekers? Here’s what I saw.

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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What I’m I About?

Like you might be, I’m a busy parent, a leader of some, and I even burnt-out while doing world-changing things (surprise!). I re-calibrated. I’ve grown. And now use my experiences (both the good and bad) to continue empowering you to make the difference you were born to make in the world–but this time out of a spirit of rest and wholeness.

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