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: Inner Work & Discernment
Getting Harshness Out of Our Lives
Once we shut down our feelings, our relationships no longer have the potential to be a space for healing, learning, growth, or development. Here ...
Nurturing Compassion
As a guest on the Authentic Parenting podcast with Anna Seewald, I talked about various aspects of the internal work of nonviolence and compassion ...
Narcissistic Defenses
As I tune into national and global fragmentation, polarization, and violence, I find myself drawn to examining the same fragmentation, polarization, and violence within ...
Tuning Into the Energy Behind Your Words
Sometimes, we start talking simply to discharge built up energy. We vent, we rage, we think out loud, we process verbally, we gossip, and ...
How to Savor the Good
How to Cultivate Vitality
Caring for our inner environment starts with being willing to make the profound shift away from constantly focusing on what is wrong with ourselves ...
How to Get Out of Fear and Judgment Ruts
When you find yourself stuck fear and judgments of others, what helps you switch gears and live from more compassion and consciousness in your ...
Growing Like Diamonds and Pearls
How to Deal with the Stress and Anxiety of These Times
Here are four practices to help with stress and anxiety, and a story about butterflies to inspire.
Life in 2020: Growing in Rocky Soil
We all have a part to play, but we cannot be everything to everyone. Are you clear on your particular role or are you ...
Getting Harshness Out of Our Lives
Once we shut down our feelings, our relationships no longer have the potential to be a space for healing, learning, growth, or development. Here ...
Nurturing Compassion
As a guest on the Authentic Parenting podcast with Anna Seewald, I talked about various aspects of the internal work of nonviolence and compassion ...
Narcissistic Defenses
As I tune into national and global fragmentation, polarization, and violence, I find myself drawn to examining the same fragmentation, polarization, and violence within ...
Tuning Into the Energy Behind Your Words
Sometimes, we start talking simply to discharge built up energy. We vent, we rage, we think out loud, we process verbally, we gossip, and ...
How to Savor the Good
How to Cultivate Vitality
Caring for our inner environment starts with being willing to make the profound shift away from constantly focusing on what is wrong with ourselves ...
How to Get Out of Fear and Judgment Ruts
When you find yourself stuck fear and judgments of others, what helps you switch gears and live from more compassion and consciousness in your ...
Growing Like Diamonds and Pearls
How to Deal with the Stress and Anxiety of These Times
Here are four practices to help with stress and anxiety, and a story about butterflies to inspire.
Life in 2020: Growing in Rocky Soil
We all have a part to play, but we cannot be everything to everyone. Are you clear on your particular role or are you ...
