by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Feb 4, 2018 | Articles, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood, 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 yourself requires disciplined thinking and a willingness to be in a teachable state with life. When living by these principles, a...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Sep 5, 2011 | Anxiety and Depression, Articles, Boundaries Work, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood
Transcribed from my video at www.youtube.com/askvictoria. L is engaged to a man who has a previous family. He does not set boundaries and he is passive when it comes to dealing with his hurricane borderline personality adult daughter. She is in danger of completely...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Jul 11, 2011 | Articles, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood
Commitment phobia is a very painful experience both for the one who engages in the pattern and for those who are involved with that person. Usually the art of pushing and pulling and seduction are the domain of the commitment “phobe.” The answer dwells...
by Victoria Lorient-Faibish | Jul 11, 2011 | Articles, Boundaries Work, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood
Question Hi Ms. Lorient-Faibish I’m trying to overcome a fear I have with confrontation. When someone does or says something offensive to me, I have trouble voicing my feels to the person, because I usually fear the outcome. I worry about hurting the other...
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 | Dec 16, 2010 | Articles, Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Childhood
I notice that so many suffer for so long with unresolved anger toward parents that they wish had been different. There is almost a refusal to step into their adulthood fully for fear that that would mean that they did not suffer and that they were condoning what had...
