Throw it in the pot.

This is a thing I picked up from Tapas about six years ago. It’s completely brilliant in a fractal flowers sort of way. The idea is this: Everything you’re choosing to do for yourself probably has some sort of purpose or intention. But don’t stop...

On PTSD.

Yesterday morning I had a moment. The simplest trigger: at a cafe, an old framed portrait on a white wall that reminded me of something from then. And I was off. Cycles of panic, terror, helplessness, pain, fear. And then I came back. Doing the things that help me be...

Ask Havi #29: Getting up earlier?

Note: it is almost impossible to get on the Ask Havi list. This person got in by a. being one of my clients or students, b. flattering the hell out of my duck, and c. making life easy on me by being clear about what the question was and what details I could use. Here...

Explosions.

The thing I was planning to write today got erased from my brain. Because of the explosions. I honestly thought I was mostly over all the post-traumatic stress crap that accumulated in my mind/body from a decade living in the Middle East. Hahahahaha. No. This is my...
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