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...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 24, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
What if it’s not about giving up on things? There’s this thing that happens that drives me crazy. Well, it’s a thing that I do. I can put off making a decision — for what turns into way too long — because I don’t want to have to...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 19, 2009 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification, stuff I think about
We ended on something of a cliffhanger last time. So I should probably give you a tiny bit of background. The very short version is that I talk to walls. And myself. And a duck. Really, if you keep reading now, you’ve no one to blame but yourself. 🙂 The...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 12, 2009 | mindful time management, my personal practice
Email Sabbatical: is it all it’s cracked up to be? Man, I love pretending that this blog has anything at all to do with the world of hard-hitting journalism. I just read my own subtitle in Announcer Voice and totally cracked myself up. Moving on. So Mona and...