by Nicole Havelka | Jul 29, 2020 | Community, Healing, Mindfulness, Self Care, Social Justice
One of my goals lately has been to keep myself uncomfortable. For white people like me, it is far too easy to tune out the suffering caused by hundreds of years of enslavement, segregation, and mass incarceration of Black people in the U.S. We are made more...
by Nicole Havelka | Jul 22, 2020 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Pop Culture, Self Care
Blame it on being a Generation Xer. In the 80s, we were among the first to have cable TV. And, I, having grown up in Omaha, Nebraska — a test market because of its Midwest “normality” — got access to cable television, even MTV, earlier than some of the rest of...
by Nicole Havelka | Jul 13, 2020 | Change Leadership, Community, Healing, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
“Fine, God. What do you want me to do?” The question marked my first flailing, frustrated attempt at discerning my life’s purpose. Spurred by successive failed job interviews, I felt caught between the rocky cliff of now and the edge of not yet. I was miserable at my...
by Nicole Havelka | Jul 8, 2020 | Mindfulness, Ritual, Self Care
Climbing on my bike for a ride isn’t just about the exercise. Sure, I need the sweaty, sustained increased heart rate to make my body healthy and to prepare for the races I do, but that’s only the superficial benefit. Taking a bike ride, I get away, see my life, my...
by Nicole Havelka | Jul 3, 2020 | Community, Creativity, Self Care
My mom always regaled me of stories of the one food she craved while pregnant with me: dill pickles. She didn’t crave any other strange foods … just pickles. She worked as a nurses’ aide in a hospital at the time, and she said that the cafeteria workers would give her...
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