by Havi Brooks | Apr 18, 2011 | stuff I think about
I’ve got freedom on the brain right now, because of pesach starting tonight. It’s an odd, crazy, wonderful holiday. We burn things and fold things and hide things and scrub things. And dip them. But mostly there’s a lot of thinking about freedom,...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 8, 2011 | my personal practice
A few weeks ago in one of the Very Personal Ads, I asked for “birthday rituals”. Not really knowing what would show up, but just hoping that something would emerge. And nothing showed up until then it did. I felt drawn to write a letter to me a year from...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 23, 2010 | my personal practice
The day before yesterday I was watching myself studiously avoiding a thing, in a variety of clever and fabulous ways. After taking the appropriate amount of time (ninety seconds?) to admire my smoking hot avoidance skills, I went back to what I know. Namely: I know...
by Havi Brooks | May 11, 2010 | stuff I think about
One of the lovely people in my Kitchen Table program was having a serious hard. She was dealing with too many iguanas at once and everything was starting to be the crazy. So I said something like awwww sweetie, that sucks. And then I said: Sending love and...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 10, 2010 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification
Background: the metaphor technique is something I’ve adapted from Suzette Haden Elgin’s teachings. It’s a terrific tool for destuckifying. We play with this one at the Kitchen Table and some of my wacky events. It’s mainly an excuse for me to...
