About the Author
Victoria Baker is an author, photographer, speaker, and the creator of a digital gratitude diary, Grateful, found on Instagram @victoriabakermof. For nearly twenty years, she developed marketing, fund raising, and publicity offices for NYC publishers and nonprofits. Following her older son, Ian’s autism diagnosis, Victoria advocated for his educational and medical needs. In 2007, she testified before the N.J. Senate Education Committee for The Burden of Proof legislation. Today, she is a special educational paraprofessional by day and a retail associate at Kohl’s by night.
She successfully completed several state mediations on her son’s behalf. When bullying and learning were juxtapose, one on the increase and the other in decline in his middle school years, she and Ian homeschooled. Victoria’s writings and inspirations as a single parent of two have been published in Autism Parenting Magazine, FamilyTimes, Time4Learning.com, and her first book, The Making of Faith available since 2015 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble online.
The pandemic ignited her wish to share whispers of her Creator’s longings for humanity. She paired these love notes with photos of beloved trees in her neighborhood. Curious how world religions embraced the energy of trees, she searched. What was found, Victoria wove into her second book, When God Talks to Trees He Whispers published in 2020.
Moving through the next four years with an undiagnosed, searing pelvic pain that impacted any kind of movement was challenging. With God’s Grace and her loving sons’ support, she began to pray, worship, and thank God ahead of time. As she let go and surrendered everything with gratitude; answers, specialists, and healing flowed from the Source above and within.
Having a heart for others pain, and living her own, she began culling entries from her 2020 grateful blog on Instagram to create a 52-day introspection of that perplexing year. This remembrance is brought to life with happenings in the world, her community and inspirations to manifest the practice of gratitude. Grateful, Victoria’s third book published on Amazon March 1, 2025.
Long before and through her journeys, Victoria has been a star gazer, tree whisperer, and dream believer. Seeking sacred spaces in nature, her younger son Danny’s music and soulful wisdom, Ian’s humor and gifts, yoga, prayer or in the messiness of life, Victoria believes that Divine Love surrounds and lives in each of us.
The Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Their word for autism, Takiwatanga “In his | her own time and space,” is a gentle reminder that we are all moving through different stages of becoming and knowing our true selves with Spirit. Victoria hopes her connection with Spirit might inspire vibrancy in the life of her readers.
About the Grateful blog, a reader shared, “I was very moved by your reflections and blown away by their beauty, poignancy and deeply spiritual and intimate connection to yourself and your audience. What occurred to me is that this labor of love has come forth as the result of what little I know of your life struggles. I offer my impressions to you with great humility because I see that you have chosen to create beauty from the cracks and imperfections that life has given you. Not everyone is able to accomplish that.”
– Jo Briant
Victoria Baker is an author, photographer, speaker, and the creator of a digital gratitude diary, Grateful, found on Instagram @victoriabakermof. For nearly twenty years, she developed marketing, fund raising, and publicity offices for NYC publishers and nonprofits. Following her older son, Ian’s autism diagnosis, Victoria advocated for his educational and medical needs. In 2007, she testified before the N.J. Senate Education Committee for The Burden of Proof legislation. Today, she is a special educational paraprofessional by day and a retail associate at Kohl’s by night.
She successfully completed several state mediations on her son’s behalf. When bullying and learning were juxtapose, one on the increase and the other in decline in his middle school years, she and Ian homeschooled. Victoria’s writings and inspirations as a single parent of two have been published in Autism Parenting Magazine, FamilyTimes, Time4Learning.com, and her first book, The Making of Faith available since 2015 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble online.
The pandemic ignited her wish to share whispers of her Creator’s longings for humanity. She paired these love notes with photos of beloved trees in her neighborhood. Curious how world religions embraced the energy of trees, she searched. What was found, Victoria wove into her second book, When God Talks to Trees He Whispers published in 2020.
Moving through the next four years with an undiagnosed, searing pelvic pain that impacted any kind of movement was challenging. With God’s Grace and her loving sons’ support, she began to pray, worship, and thank God ahead of time. As she let go and surrendered everything with gratitude; answers, specialists, and healing flowed from the Source above and within.
Having a heart for others pain, and living her own, she began culling entries from her 2020 grateful blog on Instagram to create a 52-day introspection of that perplexing year. This remembrance is brought to life with happenings in the world, her community and inspirations to manifest the practice of gratitude. Grateful, Victoria’s third book published on Amazon March 1, 2025.
Long before and through her journeys, Victoria has been a star gazer, tree whisperer, and dream believer. Seeking sacred spaces in nature, her younger son Danny’s music and soulful wisdom, Ian’s humor and gifts, yoga, prayer or in the messiness of life, Victoria believes that Divine Love surrounds and lives in each of us.
The Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Their word for autism, Takiwatanga “In his | her own time and space,” is a gentle reminder that we are all moving through different stages of becoming and knowing our true selves with Spirit. Victoria hopes her connection with Spirit might inspire vibrancy in the life of her readers.
About the Grateful blog, a reader shared, “I was very moved by your reflections and blown away by their beauty, poignancy and deeply spiritual and intimate connection to yourself and your audience. What occurred to me is that this labor of love has come forth as the result of what little I know of your life struggles. I offer my impressions to you with great humility because I see that you have chosen to create beauty from the cracks and imperfections that life has given you. Not everyone is able to accomplish that.”
– Jo Briant
