About me

37-page Destuckification sampler (enjoy!)

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Convictions, beliefs and such

Things I believe in

Love. Love is awesome. And it’s inside you which is kind of weird but also really liberating because it’s there whenever you need it.

The generosity of strangers.

The often hard-to-access inner ability to really, truly get to know yourself — with all of your stucknesses and horribleness — and like yourself anyway.

Things I don’t believe in

Mt. Hood.

Things I don’t believe in but wish I did

The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Alas, Pastafarianism is not for everyone.

A whole page? Just for me? Oh boy!

Duck-positive thinker-of-thoughts and writer-of-words. Habits educator. Trilingual bookworm. Baker of great (sugar-free) bread. Boggle fiend. Web 2.0-curious. Occasional smart-ass. Full-time eccentric.

Havi Brooks

That’s me. Hi.

What’s with the duck?

Selma is my assistant (think: good cop). She’s co-taught workshops with me in various exotic places. Selma does not like being toyed with. She also takes full responsibility for any inappropriate wordplay or puns you might find on this site.

Work

The Fluent Self is a complete system of self-learning and self-work (how to learn stuff about yourself so you can do things differently). It’s also the name of my business.

My find-out-how-you-work-and-rewrite-your-patterns-business. I help bright, creative independent professionals (or people who want to be independent professionals) rewrite their patterns and habits so they can do what they’re meant to do.

The point is helping people work through all the overwhelming, sometimes-terrifying stuff that gets in the way of doing what they love and being wildly successful at it. In a smart, mindful way. But hey, wait a minute, now we seem to be talking about you. This page is all about me, see? Let’s get back to me.

Convictions, beliefs and such

See sidebar.

Additionally, my life philosophy* may be summed up as follows

1. Napping is good. So is going to bed early.
2. There isn’t much that’s more important than this: Use your powers for good. Live by what you teach. When you can’t, forgive yourself.
3. Give as much time as you can spare to things like yoga, or other forms of spending time with your breath and body that don’t go by the name of yoga but essentially are, and to quiet, intentional, guilt-free navel-lint-contemplation.

* Just my take on things, not something you need to adopt or anything.

Three things you might or might not know about me

1. I’m actually the #2 world expert in … something you’ve probably never heard of. Shiva Nata is a little known form of yoga brain training that looks like a martial art form and acts like drugs-that-make-you-smart-and-hot.
2. Sugar-and-caffeine-free since February 2000.
3. I hate the word “dipthong” with a passion. Always have. In fact, even typing it is creeping me out to the point that I have just decided that I will never look at this page again. Also the way it looks … seeing two vowels squeezed together into one wrong vowel-creation brings me physical pain. Do not send me anything with the dreaded d*pth*ng.

A website is a pretty weird way to have a conversation

If you still want to get in touch (in a d*pth*ng-free way): havi at fluentself dot com

You can also find me and possibly even connect with me in elsewhere land. It’s often best to start with a quick where-we-know-each-other-from (and if we don’t, you might want to profess fandom or pretend you read my newsletter or something).

Elsewhere: Twitter | Linked In | Facebook

Looking forward to maybe getting to know you at some point, or at least hang out with you in the big wonderful soup that is the online world or — as I like to call it — the land of blog.

Take care and be in touch if you’re so inclined,
Havi (and Selma the duck)