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Bowing Out Gracefully

by Yvette Erasmus | Aug 23, 2016 | Communication, Compassion, Dialogue, Empowerment, NVC, Reactivity, Relationships, Self-sabotage, Slowing Down, Universal Human Needs

This week I have the pleasure of responding directly to a question that someone recently sent me: I was recently having a conversation with my sister about how to gracefully bow out of a situation when we know we need to give ourselves time to re-energize.I...
5 Steps for Working with Anger Nonviolently

5 Steps for Working with Anger Nonviolently

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’...
Embracing Laziness

Embracing Laziness

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...

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