by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 29, 2016 | Personal Growth
Communication practice is a lot like going to the gym and lifting weights. I can see the skills I want to learn, to internalize, to strengthen, but I seriously don’t always enjoy exerting the effort. I want more Ease. Simplicity. Competence. Sometimes,... by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 22, 2016 | Nonviolent Communication
I dread family gatherings. Especially this year. In a few days, many of us will be spending time with families, and many of our families are politically divided.If you are anything like me, you may be wishing you had more choices than the disconnecting fight, flee... by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 15, 2016 | Healthy Relationships
Over the last week, my sense of living in a nation deeply divided intensified.I’m reminded of the ever-present, low-grade fear and anxiety I felt as a young teenager living under a State of Emergency in South Africa under the rule of Apartheid.Caught between the... by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 8, 2016 | Power Dynamics
When we adopted Mr. Whiskerson from the humane society, he was already an old cat with a life-time trauma history. He’d been found neglected and hiding out in a log pile, and although he’d been adopted twice before, his previous owners had returned him to the shelter.... by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 8, 2016 | Power Dynamics
In a village, there once lived a cobra whose bite had taken the lives of many of the people. The leader of the community went to a wise man and said, “We can’t go on like this. The snake is killing off all the villagers. Won’t you please do something about it?” The...