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: Relational Integrity
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. ...
When People Are Indirect, Try This
Take time to make the implicit, explicit
3 Things That Might Save Your Relationship
Repeating patterns in an unhappy relationship? Three patterns to work on in yourself …
Bridge the Divide: 3 Lessons Vacationing with My Ex-husband
How to Get Ready for A New Conversation
Finding the balance between unbridled, hurtful self-expression and self-silencing or avoiding conflict is an ongoing dilemma for many of us.
Do Words Matter?
Connection and effectiveness don't lie in the words themselves. They lie in your energy. In your open-heartedness. In the spirit that you bring to the conversation. ...
What SuperChickens Teach Us about Collaboration
We need to redefine leadership as an activity in which conditions are created in which everyone can do their most courageous thinking together.
This Little Language Hack will Empower You
What would it be like to claim your choices and your actions with confidence?
The Sacred Practice of Relationship
Sacred relationships - at home and at work - strengthen our courage, self-acceptance, patience, forgiveness, grace, vulnerability, humility, compassion, sense of humor and compassion.
Want More Togetherness? Try This.
When you want to speak your truth gently but firmly and aim for a mutually beneficial, collaborative outcome, use a series of questions like the ones on ...
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. ...
When People Are Indirect, Try This
Take time to make the implicit, explicit
3 Things That Might Save Your Relationship
Repeating patterns in an unhappy relationship? Three patterns to work on in yourself …
Bridge the Divide: 3 Lessons Vacationing with My Ex-husband
How to Get Ready for A New Conversation
Finding the balance between unbridled, hurtful self-expression and self-silencing or avoiding conflict is an ongoing dilemma for many of us.
Do Words Matter?
Connection and effectiveness don't lie in the words themselves. They lie in your energy. In your open-heartedness. In the spirit that you bring to the conversation. ...
What SuperChickens Teach Us about Collaboration
We need to redefine leadership as an activity in which conditions are created in which everyone can do their most courageous thinking together.
This Little Language Hack will Empower You
What would it be like to claim your choices and your actions with confidence?
The Sacred Practice of Relationship
Sacred relationships - at home and at work - strengthen our courage, self-acceptance, patience, forgiveness, grace, vulnerability, humility, compassion, sense of humor and compassion.
Want More Togetherness? Try This.
When you want to speak your truth gently but firmly and aim for a mutually beneficial, collaborative outcome, use a series of questions like the ones on ...