by Havi Brooks | Dec 13, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself
News flash: self-mastery is a big ol’ waste of time As the new year approaches and resolutions start piling up, it’s easy and tempting to slide into “self-mastery mode”. You’re determined to do it right this time and beat your bad habits...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 1, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification
Exactly just how nutty would you have to be to try and define reality in a few paragraphs of a newsletter? Would the most full-blown smart-aleck know-it-all alive dare to even attempt it? Ordinarily I’d label it a futile endeavor — doomed by necessity to...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 21, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
I know you don’t speak Yiddish but Gaaaaaaah! You’re barely two minutes into the conversation and all of a sudden you’re in a fight. Or not in a fight, but irritable enough to get in one. The words have somehow gotten twisted together. Everything is...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 22, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, working on patterns & habits
Exacerbating your patterns or learning from them? When I was teaching in Berlin last year, a series of bizarre and marvelous coincidences landed me a house-sitting gig in a gorgeous house in Steglitz, a quiet little neighborhood in the west side of the city. While I...
