This is a follow-up post about the Hypnotherapy Project, which I collaborated on in July and August of 2007 with Los Angeles-based hypnotherapist Greg Beckett. You can read more about this experiment, what motivated it and what we hoped to accomplish here; you can read all of the entries in chronological order here. I have [...]
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Hypn07, Day 20: Yackity yak
This covers day 20 of 30 for the Hypnotherapy Project, which I’m collaborating on with Los Angeles-based hypnotherapist Greg Beckett. You can read more about this experiment, what motivated it and what we hope to accomplish here. Sometimes I come to Greg’s and talk. And talk and talk and talk. A lot of this “figuring [...]
This is essentially the first post about a 30-day experiment I called “the Great Hypnotherapy Project, which I collaborated on in July and August of 2007 with Los Angeles-based hypnotherapist Greg Beckett. You can read more about this experiment, what motivated it and what we hoped to accomplish here; you can read all of the [...]
A lot of what I do here on communicatrix-dot-com, or try to do, anyway, is externalize my process. Not because I’m a narcissist, but because I learn best from other people who externalize their own processes, so it’s kind of natural to do the same. But the other reason I externalize publicly is to do [...]
You would think it would be easier to clean your damned apartment than to adjust your mood. Yet this second of my 21-day salutes was way, way harder, and not just because I’m a slob. Making the first meditation about something as obvious as focusing on the happy made the process of writing about it [...]
After my recent stumping for the sisterhood, this is going to sound like a reversalist smackdown, but a story in this Sunday’s LA Times (I know, I know, but I like the ritual of fresh comics in bed) set me off. Big time. And I tried to ignore it, really, I did, but here I [...]
Cheering the Hell Up, Day 15: Sticking a Fork in It
Things you never thought you’d be saying: The terms of the settlement prevent me from discussing specifics of the case, but the hell is finally over. Things you have longed to say: The hell is finally over. Let the grieving begin… xxx c Photo by douglucymills via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.
Several things struck me as interesting about my brief turn on stage this past weekend. First, I’d forgotten how much I love hanging out with actors, as an actor. For the past few years, I’ve been spending more and more time around actors in other capacities, graphic designer, bartender, butt-in-the-seat support. Most actors are fun [...]