by Havi Brooks | Oct 8, 2009 | biggification, my personal practice
So the big theme of my Extremely Necessary Vacation has been sovereignty. That’s the very useful word I picked up from my dear friend Hiro and it refers to oh, pretty much everything I’m working on right now. Namely: not caring so much about what other...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 24, 2009 | my personal practice
So I’m a big fan of that weird form of brain exercise known as “free-writing” (uh, worst name ever?) where you ask questions and then just write down whatever pops into your head. It almost always turns out that there are these neat little surprises...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 27, 2009 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification
But maybe a preview? Some of my clients and students and other Right People out there in the world are feeling … oh, conflicted. They want (or mostly want) to be writing Very Personal Ads* but they aren’t. And can’t. *The Very Personal Ads are a...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 13, 2009 | my personal practice
I’m reading the book Slow Time by Waverly Fitzgerald for … I don’t know, probably the fourth time. If you don’t count all the times that I just pick it up and start reading a page or two. It’s one of those “it lives by my bed”...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 4, 2009 | my personal practice
Second post in a short series … But first I need to be all disclaimer-ey … So I find most non-Jennifer-Louden-written self-help-ey books to be pretty insipid — but I adore Wishcraft by Barbara Sher (she’s @barbarasher on Twitter). You can...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 30, 2009 | my personal practice
First post in what might end up being a short series … But first I need to be all disclaimer-ey … So I find most non-Jennifer-Louden-written self-help-ey books to be pretty insipid — but I adore Wishcraft by Barbara Sher. You can download the ebook...