by Havi Brooks | May 19, 2010 | not hating on yourself
Right now it seems like most of my friends and clients are in various stages of that uncomfortable, unpleasant, overwhelming thing that is being completely burnt out. Burnout. Ugh. Being in it is sucky and terrible. We know that. From ridiculous amounts of experience....
by Havi Brooks | Apr 11, 2010 | my personal practice
I said goodbye to some things over the past few days, and it has been less than fun. And I’ve been thinking about loss in various permutations. The loss of something that can’t come back. Someone asked me this week what I did when my friend died. And I...
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 | Feb 16, 2009 | ask Havi
For some reason we’ve been covering meditation-related stuff kind of a lot lately, what with the whole discussion on how to dump some of the meditation-related shoulds as well as my wacky tales of conversations with blocks. So I bet lots of people have this...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 9, 2008 | my personal practice, not hating on yourself
I have to tell you a story. All true. It’s about the second-worst summer of my life. And to understand the second-worst summer of my life you really have to understand the week or so preceding it. Bad things come in threes? I was 19. Living in Tel Aviv. Studying...
