by Havi Brooks | Sep 24, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
Step 1 on the way to calming the heck down (the one everyone skips) Whenever you’re flipping out or just having a bit of a “moment”, the tendency is to jump in right away and search for the way out. And when you don’t find it, you feel more...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 10, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, working on patterns & habits
Gee, thanks for the paradigm shift Hanging out in the waiting room of my doctor’s office the other day, I meant to catch up on some work. Instead, I got distracted by a handout called “The Top Ten Ways to Calm Down and Get Rid of Stress”. Or...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 21, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
I know you don’t speak Yiddish but Gaaaaaaah! You’re barely two minutes into the conversation and all of a sudden you’re in a fight. Or not in a fight, but irritable enough to get in one. The words have somehow gotten twisted together. Everything is...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 7, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, working on patterns & habits
No, seriously, where are all the nut jobs? I finally got around to watching Word Play last night — a 90 minute homage to “puzzle master” Will Shortz and his wonderful world of crosswordsmithery. “Finally” because everyone I know has...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 22, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, working on patterns & habits
Exacerbating your patterns or learning from them? When I was teaching in Berlin last year, a series of bizarre and marvelous coincidences landed me a house-sitting gig in a gorgeous house in Steglitz, a quiet little neighborhood in the west side of the city. While I...
