by Havi Brooks | Jun 19, 2011 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these VPAs to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted. I always get useful information about my relationship with various...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 23, 2010 | my personal practice
The day before yesterday I was watching myself studiously avoiding a thing, in a variety of clever and fabulous ways. After taking the appropriate amount of time (ninety seconds?) to admire my smoking hot avoidance skills, I went back to what I know. Namely: I know...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 28, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
Yesterday was about Day 4 Syndrome. How its day-4-ness isn’t limited to Day 4, because there are bigger patterns at work. These patterns have to do with process and completion, and how scary it is to not see the end. And then to see it. Even though it’s...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 13, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
My friend Michael has this theory. It’s been at least a decade since he explained it to me so there’s pretty much no way I can do justice to its twisted brilliance/hilarity, but the basic idea is this: Sometimes we fall out of synch with the world. Or with...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 18, 2010 | my personal practice
Huh. This is one of those posts that requires some background. Here it is: I was projectizing it up at the Projectizing Rally (Rally!), which is great fun, by the way. And got hit with a mini moment that turned out to be two different forms of anxiety. I decided to...