by Yvette Erasmus | Sep 19, 2022 | Boundaries
Life is a constant dance of give and take – of offering and receiving. It feels wonderful when we are giving to our loved ones from a place of wholehearted generosity. Those easy, openhearted yesses are so satisfying and mutually beneficial. But, when we’re...
by Yvette Erasmus | Sep 12, 2022 | Personal Growth
As I was cleaning up my study this weekend, I came across journals I had kept when I was in college many years ago. Browsing through them, I happened upon this quote I’d written down back then as I was listening to Anthony de Mello quoting Chuang Tsu: When an archer...
by Yvette Erasmus | Dec 13, 2021 | Nonviolent Communication
Learning how to work with life, instead of against it, has been a lifelong practice for me. As a little girl, whenever something would go wrong, adults around me would often begin investigating to find out who was to blame. Take, for example, the case of the chewing...
by Yvette Erasmus | Jul 12, 2021 | Personal Growth
Have you been noticing the various stages that we all go through on our healing and personal transformation journeys? You know, there’s the “waking up” stage when we realize that things aren’t what they seemed, and we begin questioning old assumptions and beliefs. And...
by Yvette Erasmus | Feb 16, 2021 | Healing Trauma
One of the biggest threats to conscious, compassionate connection is when our old-brain defensive mechanisms kick in. Once activated, these ancient survival systems run roughshod over our good intentions. Whatever strategies and skills we’ve been...