by Yvette Erasmus | Mar 31, 2020 | Power Dynamics
“Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to...
by Yvette Erasmus | Oct 17, 2018 | Personal Growth
The next time you are triggered, transform judgments (yours and theirs!) with three practical self-resourcing practices that will help you stay both honest and kind. Imagine this. Your extended family has traveled from afar to gather for a festive holiday celebration....
by Yvette Erasmus | Nov 15, 2016 | Healthy Relationships
Over the last week, my sense of living in a nation deeply divided intensified.I’m reminded of the ever-present, low-grade fear and anxiety I felt as a young teenager living under a State of Emergency in South Africa under the rule of Apartheid.Caught between the...
by Yvette Erasmus | Oct 19, 2016 | Power Dynamics
This evening, in a moment of total distraction I badly burned the tips of my fingers on my right hand. I even heard them sizzle. I kid you not. (Short bit of writing today: Typing. Seriously. Hurts.) Many people have been asking me how to empathize with and...