by Havi Brooks | Dec 1, 2017 | my personal practice
[A breath before beginning] Our culture places an obscene amount of value on facing fears, confronting what is terrifying. In fact, we often act as though the only breakthroughs of understanding and healing that are meaningful (hello, month of meaning) are the ones...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 14, 2017 | my personal practice
Derailed. This morning all my plans for a day of Making Big Progress On The Project were waylaid by what is ultimately, I hope, a minor crisis or maybe even not a crisis at all, but which felt/feels more like an enormous insurmountable disaster, and I cried, in...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 12, 2014 | my personal practice
I spent twelve days doing nothing but coughing, and then the coughing changed. Instead of accompanying my every move (ha, move is possibly not the correct word since I was barely getting out of bed), the coughing became intermittent: a visitor, not a roommate. Its...
