by Havi Brooks | Jun 9, 2011 | not hating on yourself
When things aren’t working, even the tiniest time-out = magic. Yesterday things were very much not working, so I ended up making a list of the various ways available to me when I need to push the reset button. Here it is. Reset! Let’s see. You could… Take...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 2, 2011 | not hating on yourself
It’s story time today. Ten years ago this May. I don’t want to write about this. And definitely not in the mood to go into all the details. So. Ignoring the mechanisms, the how and why of my world falling apart, some relevant pieces: In May of...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 18, 2010 | not hating on yourself
The message I got from my brain yesterday (my post-flailing newly-descrambled charged-up brain) was as follows: Replace worry. To which I said, huh? And then I got this: Replace worry with curiosity. Curiosity. I like this so much. And here’s why. It’s...
by Havi Brooks | May 19, 2010 | not hating on yourself
Right now it seems like most of my friends and clients are in various stages of that uncomfortable, unpleasant, overwhelming thing that is being completely burnt out. Burnout. Ugh. Being in it is sucky and terrible. We know that. From ridiculous amounts of experience....
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 | Sep 17, 2009 | not hating on yourself
We were talking about the relationship between shoe throwing (people saying hurtful things out of nowhere) and sovereignty (the state of not giving a damn what people think because you are the king or queen of your life). And there were lots of things I didn’t...
