Dr. Yvette's Blog

Inspiration and Encouragement for Your Personal Growth Journey

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

healing
Three Kinds of Inner Work

Our vision for how things could be, gives us the courage to try new things in the present, and as we move in ...

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inner work
capacity building
What Does it Mean to Do Your Inner Work?

Getting your personality to serve your soul :-)

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desire
What Does it Mean to “Do Your Work”?

Being liberated and loving, empowered and empathic … takes a certain kind of fortitude and work

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emotional alchemy
The Art of Suffering

Our rage, our sadnesses, our crises each bear the seeds of our personal transformation.

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Inner Work & Discernment
How to Rest, Rejuvenate and Reconnect

Staycations can be so much more restful than going away … how do you rest?

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childhood
Who Do You Think You Are?

Is your self-container too thick or too thin? Reflections on what it means to have a healthy sense of self.

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acceptance
You Have No Choice About What You Want

The only choice we really have, is to follow or suppress what our hearts long for ….

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Inner Work & Discernment
The Real Work is About Love
I love what Pema Chodron says about compassion being grounded in mutuality, self-knowledge and self-acceptance: “Only when we know our own darkness well, can we ...
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awareness
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 ...

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Inner Work & Discernment
True Peace: Reflections from Bali

There can never be peace between nations until it is known that true peace is within the souls of men.

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healing
Three Kinds of Inner Work

Our vision for how things could be, gives us the courage to try new things in the present, and as we move in ...

Read more
inner work
capacity building
What Does it Mean to Do Your Inner Work?

Getting your personality to serve your soul :-)

Read more
desire
What Does it Mean to “Do Your Work”?

Being liberated and loving, empowered and empathic … takes a certain kind of fortitude and work

Read more
emotional alchemy
The Art of Suffering

Our rage, our sadnesses, our crises each bear the seeds of our personal transformation.

Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
How to Rest, Rejuvenate and Reconnect

Staycations can be so much more restful than going away … how do you rest?

Read more
childhood
Who Do You Think You Are?

Is your self-container too thick or too thin? Reflections on what it means to have a healthy sense of self.

Read more
acceptance
You Have No Choice About What You Want

The only choice we really have, is to follow or suppress what our hearts long for ….

Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
The Real Work is About Love
I love what Pema Chodron says about compassion being grounded in mutuality, self-knowledge and self-acceptance: “Only when we know our own darkness well, can we ...
Read more
awareness
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 ...

Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
True Peace: Reflections from Bali

There can never be peace between nations until it is known that true peace is within the souls of men.

Read more

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