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

dropping judgments
feelings and needs
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
If you’ve been feeling weary or disheartened and stuck in sticky emotional dynamics, I have a story for you this week. Last weekend, I found ...
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Open-hearted living
emotional strength
What Is Openhearted Living?
I began thinking about the places in my life where I show up half-heartedly, instead of full-heartedly and then about those areas where I live ...
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feeling used
emotional alchemy
How to Feel Your Feelings
I’ve come to appreciate the bittersweet relief and freedom that come from allowing emotional weather to pass through me, instead of getting stuck inside of ...
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feel lonely
belonging
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 ...

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death
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 ...

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acceptance
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 ...

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awareness
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 ...

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acceptance
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 ...

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capacity building
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 ...

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emotional intelligence
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 ...

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dropping judgments
feelings and needs
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
If you’ve been feeling weary or disheartened and stuck in sticky emotional dynamics, I have a story for you this week. Last weekend, I found ...
Read more
Open-hearted living
emotional strength
What Is Openhearted Living?
I began thinking about the places in my life where I show up half-heartedly, instead of full-heartedly and then about those areas where I live ...
Read more
feeling used
emotional alchemy
How to Feel Your Feelings
I’ve come to appreciate the bittersweet relief and freedom that come from allowing emotional weather to pass through me, instead of getting stuck inside of ...
Read more
feel lonely
belonging
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 ...

Read more
death
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 ...

Read more
acceptance
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 ...

Read more
awareness
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 ...

Read more
acceptance
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 ...

Read more
capacity building
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 ...

Read more
emotional intelligence
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 ...

Read more

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