Author: Nicole Roccas
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Joyful Sorrow: A 7-Week Lenten Group Coaching Program
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About Joyful Sorrow The capacity to tolerate paradox—to hold tension, complexity, and apparent contradiction without rushing to resolve it—is closely tied to both spiritual well-being and psychological resilience. Yet many faithful Christians—especially those shaped by past wounds, spiritual burnout, or legalistic formation—find themselves approaching Lent through rigidity, over-effort, or resigned…
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Restore: A 6-Week Trauma Transformation Journey from the Christian East (Coming November 2025)
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What happens when your faith and your wounds meet? Restore is a gentle, trauma-informed group coaching program for Orthodox Christian women who long to grow spiritually again after wounding experiences. Together, we’ll explore how Christ meets us in our pain and invites us into deeper healing, hope, and restoration.
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Now Introducing: The Re-Creation Podcast 🎧🎉
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Friends, I have something so exciting to tell you! If you subscribe to my client newsletter or peek at my Substack profile, you may have seen hints—but now it’s official: >>The Re-Creation Podcast is now out in the world! The Re-Creation Podcast is a weekly show where my co-host Eleni Opperwall (a registered therapist) and I…
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Fall 2025 Weekly Writer Group: Enhance Your Writing Skills
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A 10-week, 90-minute generative writing session focused on creative skill-building. These meetups emphasize writing new, fresh content guided by prompts that encourage you to practice specific writing techniques, explore different parts of speech, or experiment with imaginative elements.
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Worshiping without a Blessing: An Ode to Typika Season (New on Substack)
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This time of year growing up, opening our backyard pool for the summer revealed a dark soup of algae, bloaded Nerf balls, and even a dead squirrel. But somehow, after the hard work of skimming and chlorinating, that pool became the most luminous part of the summer months. I’ve been…
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Rebuilding After Divorce: A 6-Week Group Coaching Program for Orthodox & Eastern Christian Women (starts May 20)
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✨ UPDATE ✨ (4/14/2025) I’ve extended the start date to May 20 and lowered the price as part of a special beta round—see below for updated details! I’m also holding a free info session on May 6 to help you to learn more about the program, my approach, and whether…
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Set Goals That Heal, Not Hurt: SAFER Goals Workbook Now Available!
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Grow Without Sacrificing Wholeness Struggling to move forward without losing balance or burning out? This workbook helps you grow at your own pace—without sacrificing self-compassion or joy. Introduction: Goals Don’t Have to Be Grueling You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through personal growth ♥ For many of us—especially those…
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Enhance Your Writing Skills | Winter 2025 | 12 Week Faith-Based Writer Group
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Winter 2025 Weekly Writing Meetups (Jan 9 – Mar 27, 2025) public service announcement I don’t know who needs to hear this but… Having a regular writing practice doesn’t have to make you want to drill a hole in your head. Overview Morning pages? More like boring pages. Confession: even…
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Memoir Writing Circle: A Trauma-Informed Space for Creative Growth | Winter 2025
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A safe space to level up your memoir or autobiographical writing (January – March 2025) A writing critique group That doesn’t make you want to join a witness protection program. Program Overview Writing is deeply personal, especially when it’s rooted in our lived experiences. This trauma-informed memoir writing circle is…
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Enhance Your Writing Skills | Fall 2024 | 10 Week Faith-Based Writer Group
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Morning pages? Try *boring* pages. Having a regular practice doesn’t have to make you want to drill a hole in your head.