by Havi Brooks | Nov 28, 2010 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. So my itty bitty personal ads made me realize that it’s time to make a regular practice of trying to feel okay asking for stuff. Even when the asking thing feels weird and conflicted. Ever since I posted the...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 25, 2010 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
I did this last year and the year before, so now it’s a thing. Tradition! Backstory. I feel very uncomfortable with the various forms of culturally acceptable Forced Gratitude that show up this time of year. And, at the same time, it really is such a beautiful...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 24, 2010 | my personal practice
Guess what tomorrow is? The Day of the Lentil Game That Does Not Always Involve Lentils. Oh yes. Three years running makes it an official tradition, apparently. Each year on American Thanksgiving, I come up with my annual list of 77 Things That Don’t Completely...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 23, 2010 | my personal practice
The day before yesterday I was watching myself studiously avoiding a thing, in a variety of clever and fabulous ways. After taking the appropriate amount of time (ninety seconds?) to admire my smoking hot avoidance skills, I went back to what I know. Namely: I know...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 16, 2010 | my personal practice
At the fabulous Week of Biggification in Asheville, we asked a lot of questions. And we asked them after doing hilariously brain-meltingly impossible rounds of Shiva Nata, so that we were in a state of complete and utter mind scramble. Catching ourselves in that...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 15, 2010 | my personal practice
I have been gone. And doing a lot of looking for space in the tight and narrow places. In my body, mostly. In the joints and between the fascia. Space between the vertebrae. But also: In my physical and emotional environment. Activating sources of support and comfort....
