by Havi Brooks | May 31, 2023 | my personal practice
Picture of flower friends: Striking coral red flowers glow in a field, Castilleja, sometimes called paintbrush or prairie-fire Delayed Reaction Wish Fulfillment Monday morning, tail end of May. Cate and I met up early at the trailhead and walked for an hour, the sun...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 19, 2012 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these VPAs to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted. I always get useful information about my relationship with various...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 21, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
I was setting up the HAT (acronym for the page in which Havi Announces a Thing)* for the Great Ducking Out. And it occurred to me that there’s kind of no point in giving people an option for sneaking out of something if you don’t help them with how to do...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 10, 2008 | calm techniques, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
Let’s pretend that you have to have an awkward, uncomfortable conversation or confrontation or something else that begins with “con” coming up. And I’ll just go ahead and assume that you’re totally not looking forward to it. Anyway, even...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 25, 2008 | mindful time management, noozletter, working on patterns & habits
Hey, so this is one of my self-work-themed noozletters that people always used to wish they could comment on. Now you can! Enjoy. When you really don’t want to make that call … There’s nothing like a case of phone call dread. Just to be clear,...
