by Havi Brooks | Mar 22, 2011 | mindful time management
There was a time (fine, whatever, most of my life) when I didn’t prepare for things. At all. I didn’t see the point. Thinking about whatever was approaching was stressful, and the dreaded doom of doom was going to happen anyway. Why bother. Avoidance...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 2, 2011 | not hating on yourself
It’s story time today. Ten years ago this May. I don’t want to write about this. And definitely not in the mood to go into all the details. So. Ignoring the mechanisms, the how and why of my world falling apart, some relevant pieces: In May of...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 1, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Something I find both incredibly frustrating and empowering at the same time is how there is at least one exception to just about everything I think is true. So. No big surprise, but I’ve been using this thing of finding the exceptions as part of the...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 18, 2011 | my personal practice
Me: Oh, honey. You’re in pain. My throat: Yeah. Me: What’s going on? My throat: I don’t want to talk about it. Me: *waits patiently* My throat: I have things to say but I don’t want to say them. Me: Mmmm. I have that feeling a lot. My throat: I...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 5, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Or: the difference between process and actual destuckifying. When people set off on the trail of destuckification, it often happens that they hit the Grinding Your Wheels In The Mud phase. What wheel-grinding looks and sounds like: Looping conversations in our head,...
