by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | May 3, 2011 | Articles, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood
What is change? How do we achieve this illusive concept? How do we master going beyond what we have been taught to do repeatedly either because we saw it or because it was drilled in to us ad nausium? The thing I ask when a client enters my office is “What is not...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | May 2, 2011 | Articles
Dear Victoria My grandmother passed away last summer, and I’m still having trouble coping with her death. What made it extremely hard for me, is that I heard the news from complete strangers who randomly showed up at my front door a few days after she died. I...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Apr 11, 2011 | Articles, Step Into Your Greatness Thinking
Transcribed from my video at www.youtube.com/askvictoria. Multi-generational dysfunction is pervasive. People are doing to their kids what was done to them largely because they are totally unaware and mired in their own rage and shame. The lack of recognizing this is...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Apr 11, 2011 | Articles, Boundaries Work
Transcribed from my video at www.youtube.com/askvictoria. Parents of adult children so often have a hard time letting go. Their expectations are dashed and they feel that they need to get in there and either save their adult kid or control the choices they make. The...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Mar 12, 2011 | Articles, Step Into Your Healthy Adult
We live in a culture in which codependency seems to be normalized. The very relationships that are labeled as nice, healthy and very common in the media are in many occasions unhealthy, over enmeshed and compromised of freedom and joy. Instead, as we scratch below...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Mar 12, 2011 | Articles, Step Into Your Greatness Thinking, Step Into Your Healthy Adult
You cannot have a good relationship with life if your relationship with yourself is off the rails. Developing a “right” relationship” with oneself requires a discipline of one’s thinking and a willingness to be in a teachable state of being with life. When...