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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...









