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
awareness
How to Tell if Someone is Good for You
Today, the way that I figure out whether or not someone is good for me or welcome in my life is by simply paying attention ...
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Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Trust: Our Ability to Respond
One of the things I love about the relational practice of nonviolence is how it frees me up to field a much wider range of ...
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Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Connection Builds Self-Trust
Our degree of self-trust is directly related to our self-connection and self-esteem. When we like ourselves, we hold our imperfect, messy and awkward selves in ...
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Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Trust: Grounded in Goodness
Whenever we feel insecure, hesitant, or afraid, one of the first places our minds go is to questions like: What really happened? What am I ...
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empowerment
Do You Trust Yourself?
Three types of self-trust that lead to relational safety.
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acceptance
What’s the Point of All This Personal Growth and Healing?
As someone who is deeply invested in healing, self-development and human transformation,, I can sometimes approach my own healing and personal growth with a very ...
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Inner Work & Discernment
What is Healthy Self-Esteem?
I often talk about “loving ourselves up” through life. We know we have healthy self-esteem when we’re able to love ourselves up every time we ...
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awareness
Three Choice Points
How do you respond to suffering – yours and mine? It seems like a simple question, but our answers to this question can reveal profound ...
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emotions
What Anger Tells Us
I’ve been reflecting on the pain of separation from people we love, on loneliness and on how much it hurts when we feel alienated from ...
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emotions
Transforming Our Relationship with Anger
I love working from home since I live right across the street from a nature reserve. I can throw on my shoes and be out ...
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awareness
How to Tell if Someone is Good for You
Today, the way that I figure out whether or not someone is good for me or welcome in my life is by simply paying attention ...
Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Trust: Our Ability to Respond
One of the things I love about the relational practice of nonviolence is how it frees me up to field a much wider range of ...
Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Connection Builds Self-Trust
Our degree of self-trust is directly related to our self-connection and self-esteem. When we like ourselves, we hold our imperfect, messy and awkward selves in ...
Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
Self-Trust: Grounded in Goodness
Whenever we feel insecure, hesitant, or afraid, one of the first places our minds go is to questions like: What really happened? What am I ...
Read more
empowerment
Do You Trust Yourself?
Three types of self-trust that lead to relational safety.
Read more
acceptance
What’s the Point of All This Personal Growth and Healing?
As someone who is deeply invested in healing, self-development and human transformation,, I can sometimes approach my own healing and personal growth with a very ...
Read more
Inner Work & Discernment
What is Healthy Self-Esteem?
I often talk about “loving ourselves up” through life. We know we have healthy self-esteem when we’re able to love ourselves up every time we ...
Read more
awareness
Three Choice Points
How do you respond to suffering – yours and mine? It seems like a simple question, but our answers to this question can reveal profound ...
Read more
emotions
What Anger Tells Us
I’ve been reflecting on the pain of separation from people we love, on loneliness and on how much it hurts when we feel alienated from ...
Read more
emotions
Transforming Our Relationship with Anger
I love working from home since I live right across the street from a nature reserve. I can throw on my shoes and be out ...
Read more