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
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
What Is Openhearted Living?
How to Feel Your Feelings
Why We Feel Lonely in a Crowd
Have you found yourself wondering if you’ll ever find “your people”? I’ve been hearing about this a lot recently … People feeling deeply lonely ...
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 ...
5 Ways to Find Energy in Stressful Times
Many of you have been telling me lately that you’re feeling exhausted by the pandemic and volatile global events. In times like these, I ...
How to Let in More Light
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year. After today, our days will ...
How to Release Our Attachment to Outcomes
I learned recently that airline pilots spend about 90% of flight time off-course. Using feedback from their on-board guidance system and from air traffic ...
What Does It Mean to Be “Self-Resourced”?
I often ask people to assess how resourced they believe they are to have a particular conversation, and this often leads to a tilted ...
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 ...
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
What Is Openhearted Living?
How to Feel Your Feelings
Why We Feel Lonely in a Crowd
Have you found yourself wondering if you’ll ever find “your people”? I’ve been hearing about this a lot recently … People feeling deeply lonely ...
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 ...
5 Ways to Find Energy in Stressful Times
Many of you have been telling me lately that you’re feeling exhausted by the pandemic and volatile global events. In times like these, I ...
How to Let in More Light
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year. After today, our days will ...
How to Release Our Attachment to Outcomes
I learned recently that airline pilots spend about 90% of flight time off-course. Using feedback from their on-board guidance system and from air traffic ...
What Does It Mean to Be “Self-Resourced”?
I often ask people to assess how resourced they believe they are to have a particular conversation, and this often leads to a tilted ...
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 ...









