About Nikki 

 

Nikki Foster-Kruczek was born in West Yorkshire and married Matt in 1997.  She graduated from Southampton University with a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies and Education in 1993 and went on to train as a Church Army Evangelist, commissioned in 1998 as a Pioneer Minister. Nikki worked as a Pioneer Minister in Milton Keynes, Derby, and Colchester and was a well-respected trainer as well as a writer of liturgy, in 2008 she trained as a Spiritual Director. She chaired the liturgy working group and organised the services at St Paul's Cathedral when Church Army became a Mission Community in 2012.  In 2015, a family tragedy led her to resign her commission, and she retrained as a well-being coach, specialising in women with a history of trauma. In 2020 she published her first book and began work on her Psychology MSc which she completed in 2024. The Covid-19 Pandemic sent her OCD into a major disabling crisis which she has learned to live with.

Nikki writes and speaks on a variety of subjects including miscarriage, grief, menopause, trauma, theology, zombies, feminism, and mental health issues. She particularly enjoys bringing together her disciplines to create innovative ideas and expand her thinking.

As half of a writing partnership, in 2020 Nikki added writing book chapters and articles about film and television to her resume and now has several pieces published and in process. She also co-presented a paper about trauma in the Walking Dead to the Theorizing Zombies Conference online in 2021.

Research interests include, disability and inclusion, stigma and stereotyping, post trauma states, feminism, spirituality, worship, Celtic Saints and the unexpected sacred.

A self-confessed Monastic at heart, Nikki is an Associate Member of the Iona Community.