we begin to create a community that better serves the world.
I am the author and leader of my life;
I work with powerful women so they can become the authors and leaders of their own fabulous lives.
When we truly know ourselves, play to our natural strengths, and lead our own lives,
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I offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, a healer of misery, a messenger of wonder, and an architect of peace.Diane Ackerman
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.Victor Frankl
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.Joseph Campbell
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.Lao Tzu
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu
Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free till they find someone just as wild to run with them.Carrie Bradshaw
Valerie’s approach to coaching is direct, enthusiastic, inspirational, and authentic. She’s survived trauma and transformation a number of times, and emerged able to catalyze and facilitate change…Martha BeckRead More Testimonials">Ph.D.