by Havi Brooks | Dec 13, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself
News flash: self-mastery is a big ol’ waste of time As the new year approaches and resolutions start piling up, it’s easy and tempting to slide into “self-mastery mode”. You’re determined to do it right this time and beat your bad habits...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 28, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification
Dealing successfully with uncomfortable, high-stress (holiday) situations There is no stress like the stress of having to be nice to people you don’t actually feel like being nice to. Welcome to the holiday season. Here in America we are bombarded with Christmas...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 14, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, working on patterns & habits
The worst thing about Thanksgiving The worst thing about Thanksgiving is the flood of email, newsletters and essays trying to shove another dose of gratitude down your throat. Don’t get me wrong. I’m seriously pro-gratitude. Done right, it hooks you up...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 1, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification
Exactly just how nutty would you have to be to try and define reality in a few paragraphs of a newsletter? Would the most full-blown smart-aleck know-it-all alive dare to even attempt it? Ordinarily I’d label it a futile endeavor — doomed by necessity to...
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 | 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...
