Dr. Yvette's Blog

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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: Relational Integrity

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How to Navigate New Beginnings

Join me in exploring the ways that we're individually and collectively going through an intensive — and necessary — period of letting go old ...

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connection
5 Signs of Securely Attached Relationships

Here are 5 relational states that can contribute to more healthy, securely attached relationships in your own life.

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healing
Relationship Green Flags & What’s Working

Imagining what we do want and what we are reaching for can be a powerful way to charge up your relationship with some inspiration ...

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communication skills
4 Key Practices for Responding to Triggering Comments

Let’s change the conversations, show up in our full humanity, maintain our commitment to increasing consciousness and compassion, and cultivate creative new conversations that ...

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awareness
Cultivate Relationships & Detox Judgments

Keep doing the inner work of lifting the oppressive field of judgment, shame and blame, and cultivating compassion, awareness and our ability to call ...

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communication skills
How to Heal a Rift: 9 Phrases to Try.

Accept what the other person wants, honor their boundaries and preferences, reconnect and heal the pain … if and when you can.

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hurt
When You Unintentionally Hurt Someone

Giving inspired by love is infinitely more meaningful and life-affirming than tasks completed resentfully and then evaluated against the mirages of an ideal. ...

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communication skills
When People Are Indirect, Try This

Take time to make the implicit, explicit

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boundaries
3 Things That Might Save Your Relationship

Repeating patterns in an unhappy relationship? Three patterns to work on in yourself …

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building bridges
Bridge the Divide: 3 Lessons Vacationing with My Ex-husband
Today, I have been hanging out with my daughter’s father and his family in Antalya, Turkey. Yup: Vacationing with my ex-husband, ex-in-laws and ex-extended family. ...
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change
How to Navigate New Beginnings

Join me in exploring the ways that we're individually and collectively going through an intensive — and necessary — period of letting go old ...

Read more
connection
5 Signs of Securely Attached Relationships

Here are 5 relational states that can contribute to more healthy, securely attached relationships in your own life.

Read more
healing
Relationship Green Flags & What’s Working

Imagining what we do want and what we are reaching for can be a powerful way to charge up your relationship with some inspiration ...

Read more
communication skills
4 Key Practices for Responding to Triggering Comments

Let’s change the conversations, show up in our full humanity, maintain our commitment to increasing consciousness and compassion, and cultivate creative new conversations that ...

Read more
awareness
Cultivate Relationships & Detox Judgments

Keep doing the inner work of lifting the oppressive field of judgment, shame and blame, and cultivating compassion, awareness and our ability to call ...

Read more
communication skills
How to Heal a Rift: 9 Phrases to Try.

Accept what the other person wants, honor their boundaries and preferences, reconnect and heal the pain … if and when you can.

Read more
hurt
When You Unintentionally Hurt Someone

Giving inspired by love is infinitely more meaningful and life-affirming than tasks completed resentfully and then evaluated against the mirages of an ideal. ...

Read more
communication skills
When People Are Indirect, Try This

Take time to make the implicit, explicit

Read more
boundaries
3 Things That Might Save Your Relationship

Repeating patterns in an unhappy relationship? Three patterns to work on in yourself …

Read more
building bridges
Bridge the Divide: 3 Lessons Vacationing with My Ex-husband
Today, I have been hanging out with my daughter’s father and his family in Antalya, Turkey. Yup: Vacationing with my ex-husband, ex-in-laws and ex-extended family. ...
Read more

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