by Havi Brooks | Apr 16, 2009 | my personal practice
NOTE: If you’re one of the people who write in because you’re completely confused by the “what’s going on with Havi’s arms?!” question, so am I. Sorry. The short answer is that it’s some sort of stuckified chronic pain that...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 14, 2009 | mindful time management, my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification
Just one thing. That’s been my theme lately. Theme, mantra, guiding principle. I don’t know. Whatever you want to call it. “Just one thing” is different from “one thing at a time” or from “don’t take on too many...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 7, 2009 | mindful time management, my personal practice
So I’ve been doing a ridiculous amount of work lately on my complicated tangle of beliefs, experiences and patterns around Time.* The feeling of “never enough”, the need for more, the lack of trust that this whole issue is going to get easier. *Not...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 30, 2009 | my personal practice
I have been wanting to do some writing about the realizations I’ve had while working on and through the pain in my arms. It’s just that I keep getting tangled up around how to start. It’s hard to draw a map of the healing process when you don’t...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 26, 2009 | my personal practice
Here we go again. If you’ve been reading this for a while, you know that I have long conversations with my stucknesses. I meditate a lot. I talk to walls. And I occasionally let you eavesdrop on my internal dialogue. This is because I have no boundaries secretly...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 1, 2009 | my personal practice, working on patterns & habits
So it’s been exactly nine years since — on one especially excruciating afternoon — I quit sugar and caffeine. Or maybe it was a morning. I’m having trouble remembering the details, but it was definitely February. Actually, I do have this one...