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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:

Will The Real Woman’s Day Please Stand Up?

by Elisa | Mar 9, 2025 | Global Health, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Will the REAL Woman’s Day please stand up? I’ve been disappointed by so much of the content I’ve seen on International Woman’s Day for the past few years. Why?

Why Should We Care About Women?

by Elisa | Dec 12, 2017 | Art of Advocacy, Create Awareness, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Does the term “women’s rights” make you cringe? Or does it make you feel...

Women's Issues: Confronting My Junk as a Christian Woman

by Elisa | Nov 11, 2017 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Create Awareness, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

We all have junk, crap, wounds from the past that trigger us every once in awhile. For me, one of...

Why I Told My Daughter About Periods in Target, Controversial Seahorses, & Why 100,000,000 Girls Can’t Go To School

by Elisa | Oct 27, 2016 | Children-in-Need, Family & Relationships, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Did you know that over 100,000,000 girls around the world can’t go to school simply because...

How to Change a Woman’s Life for International Women’s Day

by Elisa | Mar 8, 2016 | Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

(Note: This was written for Women’s Day 2016, but even though that is past, Kiva.org is...

Love Thy Community: The Angel in a Fashionable Red Coat

by Elisa | Oct 24, 2014 | Busy Moms, Create Awareness | 2 |

I met an angel in a fashionable red coat yesterday. I liked her a lot. I wish I took a selfie with her, but maybe she wouldn’t have shown-up in pixels anyway. On Facebook, my picture of us would just be a blank spot...

Sex Trafficking 101

by Elisa | Oct 21, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

A Sexy Cause On the 21st of each month, Steph at Encouraged in Heart has been writing a series on the injustice of Human Trafficking, or modern slavery, in support of a great organization, the A21 Campaign. As part of this, she...

Review: Nefarious, Merchant of Souls

by Elisa | Sep 25, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Good Charities, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Women's Empowerment | 3 |

Last week, the Loudoun Human Trafficking Task Force had the pleasure of hosting Nefarious: Merchant of Souls produced by the organization Exodus Cry. In a nutshell, it was excellent. Nefarious is a documentary on a...

Essay: The Slaves of Today

by Elisa | May 10, 2012 | Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

This guest post is by Kit, a blogger for Readingteen.net. Kit usually reviews young adult books, but attempted to tackle the subject of human trafficking for an assignment. I love Kit’s use of the stories of modern slaves...

International Women’s Day 2012

by Elisa | Mar 7, 2012 | Good Charities, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

So this day which is yearly acknoledged, is here once again. March 8th: International Women’s Day. We celebrate it because women are so often not celebrated. In fact, they are the most oppressed group on earth. Why women?...

Book Review: Fast Living

by Elisa | Nov 5, 2011 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Women's Empowerment | 4 |

This review is on the book Fast Living by Scott C. Todd (September 2011). This book was released along with the Live 58 Movement and 58: The Film. If you are interested in figuring out what these are, check out Average...