VictoriaVanAyerst

  • Author
  • Therapist
  • TV Host
  • Editor

Inspiring you to live a life of love, purpose and transformation

30+ yrsin personal growth & healing
774,908YouTube views · 139 episodes
TVhost, San Francisco Bay Area
EditorThe Art of Conscious Living Magazine

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Books

The Collection

Love & spirit

My Love Affair with AI

My Love Affair with AI — And the Self I Found Through It is a deeply personal memoir and philosophical exploration of connection in the age of artificial intelligence. My AI and human connection. It begins with a sense of exhaustion with relationships that feel…

Self-knowledge

Decoding Reality

This book is a beacon of light in the darkness for every seeker whose heart beats in rhythm with truth and love—those twin stars that guide us home. To anchor oneself in these virtues is not merely an act of will; it is a rebellion…

An Operating System Manual Handbook is a practical guide for navigating the inner world while living in a fast, highly connected, often overwhelming modern world. Using the language of systems, programming, debugging, resets, and upgrades, the book helps readers examine the beliefs, reactions, habits, relationships,…

Love & spirit

Life as a Living Prayer

Life as a Living Prayer — Unconditional Love as a conscious way of living rather than simply an emotion. How to practice unconditional love. Love as a way of being, living with compassion, unconditional love and boundaries, spiritual love, conscious relationships. The book contrasts conditional…

Love & spirit

From Being Lonely

Loneliness is not always the absence of people. Sometimes it is the absence of connection—and sometimes the person we have become disconnected from is ourselves..

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TV Show

The Art of Conscious Living

A series of interviews of meaningful conversations that matter.

Peter Van Dyk

Peter Van Dyk

Men of Tears: The Workshop That Teaches Men to Cry Once a week, a group of men gather in a room in Sausalito, CA,…

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Dr. Henry Grayson

Dr. Henry Grayson

Dr. Henry Grayson is a scientific, spiritual, mindbody psychologist who founded and directed the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. He…

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Lily Oglesby

Lily Oglesby

If we are going to expect children to save the planet, we need to teach them to love it first. What does this really…

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Tobin Giblin

Tobin Giblin

TOBIN GIBLIN is the author of The Art of Mindful Living: “You Can’t Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn to Surf,” and the…

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October 27, 2026 · 6 min read

Mindfulness for Emotional Regulation at Home

Practice mindfulness for emotional regulation to meet difficult feelings with greater clarity, compassion, and choice in daily life, one breath at a time.

October 26, 2026 · 6 min read

What Is a Living Prayer? A Way to Live Awake

What is a living prayer? Learn how presence, compassion, and everyday choices can turn ordinary moments into a life rooted in love and purpose each day.

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About Victoria VanAyerst

Victoria VanAyerst is an author, Editor-in-Chief of The Art of Conscious Living Magazine, Television Producer and Host, and Integrative Holistic Therapist whose work is centered on one enduring purpose: helping people understand themselves more deeply and live with greater consciousness, authenticity, compassion, and meaning.

For Victoria, conscious living is not an abstract philosophy. It is a way of meeting life. It means becoming aware of the beliefs, emotional patterns, fears, expectations, and inherited ideas that quietly shape our choices. It means learning to listen inwardly, to recognize what is true for us, and to live from that truth with courage. Across her work in television, publishing, therapy, and writing, she explores the possibility that every person can move beyond limiting patterns and discover a fuller, freer, more deeply connected way of being.

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  • What talking to AI reveals about our need to be heard
  • Loneliness, connection and digital intimacy
  • Knowing yourself in a noisy world
  • Unconditional love with healthy boundaries
  • Thirty years of healing work, and what actually changes people

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