by Havi Brooks | Jan 26, 2011 | calm techniques
One of the things we do at Rally (Rally!) is this: We dream up superpowers. Nothing fancy. Just whatever pops into your head in a given moment. Some are fun. Some are silly. Some are weighted, some have capes, some are bashful, some come with provisos and caveats,...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 18, 2010 | calm techniques
The other day, Kris asked how I’d managed to not go into my victim stuff while getting pulled out of the line again at the airport. It’s complicated. And it’s worth a few posts, but in order to talk about it, I need to explain about safe rooms. A...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 9, 2009 | calm techniques, not hating on yourself
I have to say, all the talk about leaps of faith and jumping off cliffs and waiting for nets to appear is … kind of disturbing. Not that I doubt the legitimacy of the sensation for a moment. I don’t. In fact, those are pretty accurate descriptions of what...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 7, 2009 | calm techniques, stucknesses & stuckification
The thing I was planning to write today got erased from my brain. Because of the explosions. I honestly thought I was mostly over all the post-traumatic stress crap that accumulated in my mind/body from a decade living in the Middle East. Hahahahaha. No. This is my...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 1, 2009 | calm techniques, stuff I think about
So I’ve found myself in this uncomfortable pattern lately here on the blog. It’s like I can’t stop alternating between two widely separated points on my personal continuum. Either I’m letting you spy on my process as I do some deep, personal...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 10, 2008 | calm techniques, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
Let’s pretend that you have to have an awkward, uncomfortable conversation or confrontation or something else that begins with “con” coming up. And I’ll just go ahead and assume that you’re totally not looking forward to it. Anyway, even...
