by Havi Brooks | Dec 12, 2017 | my personal practice
Begin with the breaking There are so many stories I want to share with you, where do we begin? Begin with the breaking A story about a bottle I have been crying for six months straight, riding the rage waves of this painful breakup, the betrayal-and-loss, crashing...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 1, 2017 | my personal practice
[A breath before beginning] Our culture places an obscene amount of value on facing fears, confronting what is terrifying. In fact, we often act as though the only breakthroughs of understanding and healing that are meaningful (hello, month of meaning) are the ones...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 17, 2017 | my personal practice
Meaning what, exactly I love having a word to accompany each month, or really, to accompany me each month as I passage through, focal point and talisman, this month though has feeling especially Baader-Meinhof-esque, that is, the phenomenon of frequency illusion, aka...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 14, 2017 | my personal practice
Derailed. This morning all my plans for a day of Making Big Progress On The Project were waylaid by what is ultimately, I hope, a minor crisis or maybe even not a crisis at all, but which felt/feels more like an enormous insurmountable disaster, and I cried, in...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 3, 2017 | my personal practice
A chicken of Do you remember when we used to chicken (as a verb) on Fridays? A shared ritual in the form of PAUSING TO REFLECT, then checking in here to share what was observed. The check-in-ing sounds like chickening, the words get tangled up, as sometimes happens to...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 17, 2017 | my personal practice
Paths I am driving across North America because a bridge told me to (more on that later) and I am walking labyrinths in each place I pass through, it is absolutely remarkable how many labyrinths hide in plain sight, you might be in Cody, Wyoming, land of big sky and...
