by Havi Brooks | Jul 21, 2010 | my personal practice
Background: the metaphor technique is something I’ve adapted from Suzette Haden Elgin’s teachings. It’s an amazing tool for destuckifying. It’s also how I discovered that I work on a pirate ship and defeated the hackers. And cured my fear of...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 3, 2009 | ask Havi
Right. So Fizz — who is @relsqui on Twitter (you know, the neighborhood bar/cafe place where I’m pretty much always hanging out) — said a wonderfully true thing the other day: “Reading @havi’s blog the first time is like reading a message...
by Havi Brooks | May 28, 2009 | book reviews, stucknesses & stuckification
So I was going to write something to answer all the people who wonder out loud (well, in email form, mostly) why it is that I require all clients and Kitchen Table-ers to read Nonviolent Communication. And to sleep with it under their pillows own their own copy. But I...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 19, 2009 | stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
I wrote last week about some of the people who believed in me without me ever giving them reason to and how powerful that was. The post triggered lots of stuff — both interesting realizations and also huge amounts of internal resistance — for clients and a...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 3, 2008 | calm techniques, stuff I think about, working on patterns & habits
Because anxiety sucks. That’s why we need coping tactics. Some woman contacted me this week kinda randomly because she was hoping I could give her some techniques to help her deal with anxiety. Which always makes me wish you could hug people over the internet....
