August 2022 – Elshan Asadi
My Crave Experience It was an abrupt change. I was lost – Out of the la-la-land, into the sea – drowning in an ocean of intangible species. I found myself knocking on doors. Crave was one. A random email led to a bigger connection. I can’t describe how it feels like to play two opposite […]
March 2022 – Chantel Aquart
Come. Rest. “I hope that Crave can be the place this year that says “Come” to all our leaders who are laboring and are heavy laden. “Come. Rest.” ~ Spoken by Chantel Aquart, Chair-elect, at the Crave V Welcome Dinner in February, 2022 Chantel speaking at the 2022 Welcome Dinner. The full verse of Matthew […]
November 2021 – Michele Van Son Neill
Confessions of a Founder: This is so about you My mom would have turned 78 later this month. She was a kind soul and she died too young. I miss so much about her, but especially her simple direct wisdom. “Life is daily” was a good one. Another favorite: “Men. Women. What was God thinking?” […]
May/June 2021 – Debra Hendrickson
Dreams for Our Future One of my favorite quotes is from Eleanor Roosevelt who said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”. Four years ago I was approached by Michele Van Son Neill to assist her in the creation of her dream…a new spiritual leadership program she called “CRAVE”. […]
April 2021 – Hanah Murphy
Coming Full Circle At the very beginning of my time in Crave, we were asked to choose a word which represented the intentions we set for our upcoming year of exploration and growth. I chose the word “circle”. As in, full circle; referring to the cyclical nature of life and the regenerative connections made through […]
March 2021 – Shanay Pugh
Crave being a beginner … Crave taught me that it is ok to be a beginner. I joined the Crave IV Leader class with high anticipation. My project was just an idea at the time. I hoped to bring coaching to inmates or “returning citizens” leaving prison and jail, to help them reconnect with their […]
February 2021 – Terri Hartman
How Crave Has Changed the Direction of My Life I have been a book lover for as long as I can remember. Promoting literacy has always been a passion of mine. In August of 2016 I installed a Little Free Library (littlefreelibrary.org) in my front yard. It brought me such pleasure to share books with […]
January 2021 – Katie Brown
Oh, So Very Grateful Last January, my husband and I took what we know now was our last trip for a long time. We went with one of our favorite couples for a long weekend in the Keys, one of our favorite places. I had been traveling in North Carolina on business the week prior, […]
December 2020 – Stephanie Preston-Hughes
Permission to Be Human One of the characteristics that makes a strong Crave leader is holy discontent. Knowing that something is just not right, and it necessitates a response. This strikes a chord in me because of my profession as a mental health counselor. People pay to see me because something isn’t quite right in […]
November 2020 – Addie Hartnett
Turning “Something More” into Something Real Two and a half years after graduating from the inaugural Crave class, I am living out the vision that Crave helped me set for myself. At 27 years old, I joined Crave as a starry-eyed social worker with a dream of a world where everyone had what they needed: […]
October 2020 – Dylan McCain Allen
Central Florida knows how to come together. So why can’t we work together? Our community is so good at building a network and making connections to ideas and people that matter. When we can, we love to collaborate. But, we don’t cooperate well at all. To me it feels like trying to sweep a floor […]
September 2020 – Shelly Denmark
The Ever-Expanding Crave Universe” Stephanie Preston Hughes: “Is the Crave Universe an intentional description?” Me: “I don’t know. I’ll have to ask Michele Van Son Neill, our Founder.” SPH: “Because it’s a perfect analogy to the ever-expanding universe we live in. The Crave family keeps getting bigger as we help people make more and more […]