by Yvette Erasmus | Feb 28, 2022 | Communication Relationships NVC
There have been a lot of triggering events this week. If you’ve been feeling heavy, disillusioned, raw, frustrated – you’re not alone. I feel like I’ve been inundated with chaos and bad news, and it’s been hard to go about my daily... by Yvette Erasmus | Jul 22, 2016 | Empathy, Empowerment, Kindness, Revenge, Self-sabotage, Suffering, Violence
Walking the dog this morning, I noticed my mind playing out a revenge fantasy that I have been harboring. Have you noticed how when people hurt us in deeply enduring and life-altering ways, we sometimes feel like the only way out of our pain and suffering is to hand... 
by Yvette Erasmus | May 2, 2016 | Anger, Communication, NVC
The second time I got expelled, it was for my defiant noncompliance with “hazing” rituals at a boarding school in South Africa. I was 13 and taking on the world. I would not wear the winter uniform in the height of an African summer. I would not carry seniors’... 
by Yvette Erasmus | Apr 25, 2016 | Communication, Compassion, Growth, Inner Truth, Laziness
On Sunday, I spent a luxuriously lazy day on my couch reading books, cuddling with my cats, hearing rumbles of thunder and drippy raindrops, drinking multiple cups of coconut chai tea. Heaven. Truly. But every now and then, a twinge of guilt and self-recrimination...