by Nicole Havelka | Jun 9, 2022 | Change Leadership, Mindfulness, Organizations, Self Care, Social Justice
“The Great Awkward.” I stopped and clicked quickly on this title while scanning through researcher and storyteller Brené Brown’s “Dare to Lead” podcast list the other day. She and her sister Barrett Guillen, who work together, shared raw and honest reflections on...
by Nicole Havelka | Apr 12, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Healing, Mindfulness, Pop Culture, Self Care
The other day, I put my car key fob in a sweatshirt pocket and washed it with the laundry. Fortunately, the fob still worked after I dried it out and put in a new battery. The next day, I went to the grocery store only to discover that I left my wallet at home. The...
by Nicole Havelka | Mar 24, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Mindfulness, Self Care
Packing and preparing to get out of the apartment was a slow, arduous process. I used to be a lean, mean, packing machine. But for this work trip, my first in two years, I put my suitcase out three days before I had to leave because I wasn’t sure how long it would...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 22, 2021 | Advent & Christmas, Antiracism, Community, Social Justice
Pay attention, and tune into hope. That’s what I’ve been asking people to do in my weekly yoga classes and my Mindful Advent Yoga Series. So I thought I’d put my hope-filled reflections out there, too. Here are five things (plus an honorable mention) that have...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 15, 2021 | Advent & Christmas, Mindfulness, Ritual, Self Care
In the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to make exercise a higher priority than it’s been in the past year. My gym location closed due to COVID, which meant my master’s swim group lost its space to gather. The pressure of starting a business ate into the time I would...
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