A whole page? Just for me? Oh boy!

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.

One thing you might not know about me

I’m actually the #2 world expert in …

… something you’ve probably never heard of. Shiva Nata is brain training that looks like martial arts and acts like drugs-that-make-you-smart-and-hot.

One thing you probably don’t want to know

I dislike the word “diphthong” with a passion.

In fact, even typing it is creeping me out. I will never look at this page again!

It’s my kryptonite.

One thing no one should know about me

My filing system is organized by chakras.

I know. I warned you, though.

Define yourself in a ridiculously limited series of words.

Uhhhh …. thinker-of-thoughts. Writer-of-words. Educator. Trilingual bookworm. Obsessed with patterns. Baker of great (sugar-free) bread. Boggle fiend. Occasional smart-ass. Full-time eccentric.

Havi Brooks.

That’s me. Hi.

How do you pronounce that?

It’s HA-vee.

Like if you’re saying “Harvey” with a Boston accent. That probably doesn’t help at all. Let me distract you with my duck!

Yeah. What’s with the duck?

Selma is my assistant business partner (think: good cop). She’s co-taught workshops with me in various exotic places. She’s kind of a diva, but then she also gets more fan mail than I do.

Fun fact: She has also been called a whore by no less a personage than the fabulous Naomi Dunford. This is also inappropriate, but she’s weirdly proud of it. Selma, I mean. Not Naomi.

Is it true that …?

Yes. No. No. No. Yes.

Yes. No. No. No. Yes?

I am a pirate queen.
I don’t do sugar. Or caffeine.
And you can’t email me because I’m on email sabbatical. I mean, you can try — but the First Mate will write back.
I have been known to talk to monsters.

And … The Fluent Self?

The Fluent Self is a complete system of how to learn stuff about yourself so you can rewrite your patterns and do things differently.

My duck and I help bright, creative, kooky people destuckify their stuff so they can do the thing.

So they can work through all the overwhelming, sometimes-terrifying goo that gets in the way of doing what they love and biggifying it like crazy. 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: do you have any?

See sidebar.

Life philosophy?*

1. Napping is good.
2. So are pretty much all forms of quiet, intentional, guilt-free navel-lint-contemplation.
3. Use your powers for good. Live by what you teach. When you can’t, forgive yourself.

* Just my personal take on things, not something you need to live by or anything.

Looking forward to maybe getting to hang out with you in the online world of bloggery and fabulousness.

Or maybe we’ll get to meet “in real life”, as the kids say, if you come to one of my programs at The Playground.

Or on Twitter. I’m @havi — say hi whenever. Actually, you might want to say kazoo instead. I’ve heard that works really well.

Take care, my dear! See you on the blog.
Havi (and Selma the duck)