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
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 ...
Befriending Your Defenses
What happens when you perceive a threat or feel hurt or triggered? Are you able to stay choiceful and conscious when your psychological and ...
Learning the Art of Emotional Alchemy
Here are six things you can do to metabolize, process, and transform your emotions into energy, vitality, and empowerment.
Getting Harshness Out of Our Lives
Once we shut down our feelings, our relationships no longer have the potential to be a space for healing, learning, growth, or development. Here ...
Nurturing Compassion
As a guest on the Authentic Parenting podcast with Anna Seewald, I talked about various aspects of the internal work of nonviolence and compassion ...
Narcissistic Defenses
As I tune into national and global fragmentation, polarization, and violence, I find myself drawn to examining the same fragmentation, polarization, and violence within ...
Tuning Into the Energy Behind Your Words
Sometimes, we start talking simply to discharge built up energy. We vent, we rage, we think out loud, we process verbally, we gossip, and ...
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 ...
Befriending Your Defenses
What happens when you perceive a threat or feel hurt or triggered? Are you able to stay choiceful and conscious when your psychological and ...
Learning the Art of Emotional Alchemy
Here are six things you can do to metabolize, process, and transform your emotions into energy, vitality, and empowerment.
Getting Harshness Out of Our Lives
Once we shut down our feelings, our relationships no longer have the potential to be a space for healing, learning, growth, or development. Here ...
Nurturing Compassion
As a guest on the Authentic Parenting podcast with Anna Seewald, I talked about various aspects of the internal work of nonviolence and compassion ...
Narcissistic Defenses
As I tune into national and global fragmentation, polarization, and violence, I find myself drawn to examining the same fragmentation, polarization, and violence within ...
Tuning Into the Energy Behind Your Words
Sometimes, we start talking simply to discharge built up energy. We vent, we rage, we think out loud, we process verbally, we gossip, and ...




