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
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 ...
How I’m Staying Afloat in Tumultuous Times
I spent this weekend immersing myself in the latest research on narcissism, psychopathy, grandiosity, magical thinking, and delusional disorders, and I’m feeling deeply disturbed. ...
My Formula for Overcoming Defensiveness
If we want to overcome defensiveness, we need to make peace with ourselves and develop trust in ourselves. We need to lean into our ...
Grow Up Your Inner Child
When we get triggered and reactive, let's practice loving up our inner child. Let's see our reactivity as a childhood fear of punishment and ...
Opening Your Heart to “Them” – And Why It’s So Hard
Each of us will bump up against our empathy edges, those places we just don’t want to go, those people we just won’t let ...
Permission to Get Messy
I was recently invited to a social event with a group of people who know me in a very particular work-related way. They were ...
Trust Your Journey: Being with What Is
Have you been noticing the various stages that we all go through on our healing and personal transformation journeys?
Journeying with My Internal GPS
I just returned from a week in Egypt and the journey home was...challenging. To put it mildly. The experience reminded me about the power ...
From Wallowing and Venting to (Self) Empathy
We can relate to wallowing and venting with compassion, consciousness, and clear intentions, recognizing them as temporary aspects of a developmental journey, or we ...
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 ...
How I’m Staying Afloat in Tumultuous Times
I spent this weekend immersing myself in the latest research on narcissism, psychopathy, grandiosity, magical thinking, and delusional disorders, and I’m feeling deeply disturbed. ...
My Formula for Overcoming Defensiveness
If we want to overcome defensiveness, we need to make peace with ourselves and develop trust in ourselves. We need to lean into our ...
Grow Up Your Inner Child
When we get triggered and reactive, let's practice loving up our inner child. Let's see our reactivity as a childhood fear of punishment and ...
Opening Your Heart to “Them” – And Why It’s So Hard
Each of us will bump up against our empathy edges, those places we just don’t want to go, those people we just won’t let ...
Permission to Get Messy
I was recently invited to a social event with a group of people who know me in a very particular work-related way. They were ...
Trust Your Journey: Being with What Is
Have you been noticing the various stages that we all go through on our healing and personal transformation journeys?
Journeying with My Internal GPS
I just returned from a week in Egypt and the journey home was...challenging. To put it mildly. The experience reminded me about the power ...
From Wallowing and Venting to (Self) Empathy
We can relate to wallowing and venting with compassion, consciousness, and clear intentions, recognizing them as temporary aspects of a developmental journey, or we ...








