by Victoria Allen | Sep 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama Have you ever wanted to help a family member or close friend who has a tendency to suffer quite regularly? Maybe they are chronically depressed or...
by Victoria Allen | Sep 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I”m as proud of what we don’t do as what we do!” ~ Steve Jobs Is your ‘No’ Ninja on board to keep you Loving you? If you look at your life, maybe just this week, I suspect there may be a few things you could have said “no” to but you...
by Victoria Allen | Mar 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging.” ~ Brene Brown, author of Daring Greatly. When I recently...
by Victoria Allen | Mar 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
“For one person to love another, this is the most difficult of our tasks.” ~ Rilke Awe….those first days and months of relationship feels like a series of magical moments. A new found glow fills our spirit with excitement and we can’t wait to...
by Victoria Allen | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.” Are you managing You in the midst of our world’s transition and our collective divide, confusion and pain? It shows up...
by Victoria Allen | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Being kind is much more valuable than being right, for sometimes all a person needs is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens.” ~ Unknown Often, I work with couples where each person is genuinely interested in taking...
by Victoria Allen | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact with two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C.G. Jung If you are like me, most likely you’ve had a challenge or two in relationships. Maybe you tangled with a...
by Victoria Allen | Nov 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Notice the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” ~ Bruce Lee I remember one of my teachers using the phrase ~ the winds are up. She was referring to a confused state of mind. The wind element...
by Victoria Allen | Nov 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” ~ Neil Gaiman I suspect you’ve tapped in to the tumultuous winds of upheaval in our country over the past few weeks. I know I have. The collective consciousness has been and still is...
by Victoria Allen | Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
You miss intimate connection in your relationship…and you don’t know how to get it back. You reach out over and over again to a friend…who doesn’t reach out or have time for you. You have good ideas about how a family member should be running their life…but they...