by Yvette Erasmus | Feb 14, 2022 | Feelings
Have you found yourself wondering if you’ll ever find “your people”? I’ve been hearing about this a lot recently … People feeling deeply lonely and isolated in their primary relationships People wondering if “their people” are out there, and if they are, where to find...
by Yvette Erasmus | Apr 12, 2021 | Personal Growth
Our very existence is relational. What we do to each other, we are doing to ourselves. Everyone we meet and whatever we experience is mirroring something back to ourselves, about ourselves. In the same vein, every relational dynamic is co-created. One...
by Yvette Erasmus | Oct 21, 2020 | Personal Growth
For most of my life, I’ve felt like the “black sheep” in my family. I never quite fit in comfortably. I was too intense. Too serious. Too introverted. Too difficult. Too outspoken. Too “otherwise” as mother would often tell me. Or...
by Yvette Erasmus | Oct 29, 2019 | Feelings
When you were younger, were you ever sent to your rooms with instructions to “pull yourself together” and to come back out “when you’re in a better mood” – or some version of that event? I was. Did you somehow pick up the message...
by Yvette Erasmus | Jun 11, 2019 | Healthy Relationships
Driving to school last week, I asked my teenage daughter, “What do you think is the biggest difference between life in Egypt and life here in Minnesota?” We’ve been back and forth between the States and the Middle East multiple times in the last years, and I was...