Dr. Yvette's Blog
Stories and learnings from my own personal journey into deeper compassion, healthier relationships and nonviolent living. Please feel free to leave comments and questions on any posts; I love being in conversation with you.
Category: Feelings
What Does It Mean to Grieve Well?
What does it mean to grieve well? How can we stay in relationship with these inevitable and natural experiences of loss, in the most ...
What Does It Mean to Be “Emotionally Literate”?
Developing our emotional literacy is a significant aspect of becoming more resourced to have difficult conversations, but what does it actually mean to have ...
From Wallowing and Venting to (Self) Empathy
We can relate to wallowing and venting with compassion, consciousness, and clear intentions, recognizing them as temporary aspects of a developmental journey, or we ...
Learning the Art of Emotional Alchemy
Here are six things you can do to metabolize, process, and transform your emotions into energy, vitality, and empowerment.
Your Anger is Welcome Here
Unbridled self-expression with no care for the impact, is abuse. Endless care for the other, with no authentic self-expression is codependent and enabling. ...
The Art of Suffering
Our rage, our sadnesses, our crises each bear the seeds of our personal transformation.
Share the Emotional Load
Our strength and resilience is amplified by the quality of our relationships.
How to Process Your Emotions
Processing, digesting and metabolizing our emotions is not the same thing as just talking about them, and often just talking about them can ...
Feeling it, Fixes it
Although we often want to move away from unpleasant feelings to avoid them, remember that often simply feeling it, fixes it.
Emotional Strength Training
What do you do when your feelings get hurt? Well, let me tell you what didn't work for me recently, and what did. ...
What Does It Mean to Grieve Well?
What does it mean to grieve well? How can we stay in relationship with these inevitable and natural experiences of loss, in the most ...
What Does It Mean to Be “Emotionally Literate”?
Developing our emotional literacy is a significant aspect of becoming more resourced to have difficult conversations, but what does it actually mean to have ...
From Wallowing and Venting to (Self) Empathy
We can relate to wallowing and venting with compassion, consciousness, and clear intentions, recognizing them as temporary aspects of a developmental journey, or we ...
Learning the Art of Emotional Alchemy
Here are six things you can do to metabolize, process, and transform your emotions into energy, vitality, and empowerment.
Your Anger is Welcome Here
Unbridled self-expression with no care for the impact, is abuse. Endless care for the other, with no authentic self-expression is codependent and enabling. ...
The Art of Suffering
Our rage, our sadnesses, our crises each bear the seeds of our personal transformation.
Share the Emotional Load
Our strength and resilience is amplified by the quality of our relationships.
How to Process Your Emotions
Processing, digesting and metabolizing our emotions is not the same thing as just talking about them, and often just talking about them can ...
Feeling it, Fixes it
Although we often want to move away from unpleasant feelings to avoid them, remember that often simply feeling it, fixes it.
Emotional Strength Training
What do you do when your feelings get hurt? Well, let me tell you what didn't work for me recently, and what did. ...