by Nicole Havelka | Dec 29, 2020 | Advent & Christmas, Change Leadership, Community, Mindfulness, Yoga & Church
When you think of love, what immediately pops into your mind? I’m a little ashamed to admit that my mind most immediately jumps to my favorite rom-coms — When Harry Met Sally, Keeping the Faith or the 1980s TV show Moonlighting (Remember that?) I can’t get enough of...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 16, 2020 | Advent & Christmas, Community, Healing, Mindfulness, Ritual, Yoga & Church
Leading up to the third Sunday of Advent this year, I kept thinking about the 2006 movie “The Pursuit of Happyness.” The movie stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, an aspiring entrepreneur and sales person who gets an opportunity to do an unpaid stockbroker internship...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 9, 2020 | Advent & Christmas, Change Leadership, Community, Faith Formation, Healing, Mindfulness, Yoga & Church
“Peace can be difficult to feel because of the chaos that surrounds us.” I wrote that line more than a year ago for my 2019 Mindful Advent series, but is really true now. Everything in this year feels like chaos — the disruption of a pandemic, the helplessness created...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 2, 2020 | Advent & Christmas, Change Leadership, Healing, Mindfulness, Ritual
I’ve written before about how I slept with a bedside lamp on (not just a nightlight) until I was 11 years old. As a child, I was prone to having nightmares about things I had read about or watched on TV. I saw shadowed ghosts in the hallway outside my bedroom. I saw...
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