by Nicole Havelka | May 14, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Mindfulness, Time Management
My instinct always is to rush to judgment. I love pondering what someone else’s ulterior motives might be, making up an entire backstory as if I’m going to play that person in the TV adaptation of their life. I shut down and believe that they can never change or won’t...
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 | Mar 18, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Mindfulness, Self Care
I went to my delightful massage therapist earlier this week. She asked what she should focus on, and I complained about my lower back – not typically a problem for me. I explained that a few weeks earlier I felt like the usual tightness in my outer hips had reached up...
by Nicole Havelka | Feb 23, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Creativity, Mindfulness, Self Care
There is no one right way to do anything, including yoga poses. For the past few weeks in my yoga class, I’ve been encouraging participants to really make their practice their own. I’ve taken some of the more intimidating yoga asanas (poses) and vary them for what...
by Nicole Havelka | Feb 9, 2022 | Change Leadership, Community, Organizations, Social Justice
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me gush about an interview on the podcast “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders” with Sarah Schulman, a journalist and member of ACT UP, a movement that fought the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. She has recently...
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