The Family Tree Series: Embracing Your Father Daughter Story for Forgiveness, Fulfillment and Freedom (Vol. 1)
by Rebecca Harrison
Family Tree: Embracing Your Father Daughter Story for Forgiveness, Fulfillment and Freedom (Vol. 1)
Whether fathers raise their daughters consciously or unconsciously, the impact lasts a lifetime. Three fathers and eight daughters share how their lives have been shaped by these foundational relationships. When strong Dads protect their daughters with encouragement and wisdom, strong women will flourish. Unfortunately that does not always happen. Some of the empowering stories show the pathway to healing and peace. Rebuilding and strengthening the father daughter bond is possible.
Co-Authors (Vol. 1)
Darren Kaulius
Darren Kaulius is an entrepreneur, speaker, writer, facilitator, and coach. For over twenty-five years he has had a dynamic impact on hundreds of people including business executives, parents, teachers, coaches, athletes, and youth. His signature talks have included “Winning Mindset (We All Want A Little More)” and “How To Win At Everything Every Time.” Darren uses his experience, passion, and humour to encourage his audience to be the change they need in their own lives, which in turn creates positive change in the world around them.
Fascinated with human behaviour and the learnings from his own life, Darren has dedicated his life to helping groups and individuals “Look At It Differently” (L.A.I.D), helping them create and live a more meaningful and joyful life. Whether he is mentoring individuals, coaching teams, or facilitating programs, Darren’s commitment to others’ personal growth is authentic and a true demonstration of leading with purpose.
Kim Barsanti
Kim was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1965 and was raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She attended Concordia University in Montreal, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre in 1987. She worked as a stage manager for theater, dance, and other large events for fifteen years and has worked as a talent agent/manager for professional film, TV, and theatre actors for over twenty years. This included running her own agency, Muse Artist Management, for over ten years before it merged with Lucas Talent—the largest talent agency in Western Canada and the second largest in the country—where she is currently working today. Kim is also a volunteer for the Pacific Northwest Bulldog Rescue and has served on the board of the Sunshine Coast Hospice Society for three years. She is a strong proponent of the importance of people learning to talk about death, dying, and grief.
Kim lives in Robert’s Creek with her two senior English bulldogs Maggie and Buddy. She is an active member of the recovery community and will be clean and sober for twenty-five years as of September 2019. She loves her partner Rochelle Curé and their two boys, Randy and Parker. She enjoys Starbucks’ decaf Americanos, bulldogs, Canucks hockey, playing Scrabble, and cooking.
www.lucastalent.com
www.coasthospice.com
www.pacificnwbulldogrescue.org
Rosalyn C. Raindancer
Rosalyn C. RainDancer is the founder of The Conscious CEO Experience™, the world’s first holistic and integrated business coaching, leadership development training, and strategic growth consulting company. Rosalyn believes that conscious leadership and personal healing is the foundation for success in business, and that entrepreneurship is the most powerful vehicle for change in the world today. She is committed to supporting founders and CEOs of small to medium-sized enterprises who struggle with stress and burnout to elevate their authentic leadership so that they can be more effective leaders who grow sustainable companies and inspire high-performing teams.
Integrating growth and healing of the mind, body, and spirit along with some of the best strategic tools and frameworks for success, Rosalyn stands behind her client’s vision 100% while gently and fiercely guiding them to bring their vision into reality over the long term.
Proud to be a multi-potentialite, polyglot, and multi-faith, the world is Rosalyn’s playground. She is happiest when travelling the world with her multicultural circle of friends and family. Rosalyn is a big fan of the healing wisdom of Mother Nature, and she can pretty much be bribed into anything involving her first love, which is food.
Julie Salisbury
Julie Salisbury is the author of Around the World in Seven Years—A Life Changing Journey and the founder of Influence Publishing and InspireABook Coaching. She specializes in helping authors to write and publish their books as a strategy to fully live out their purpose.
Julie is more than a publisher—she draws on her product marketing career of over twenty years to focus on strategic business and marketing goals, helping authors to reach a global market via traditional and online media and publicity and through strong global distribution and sales. She has been featured as a guest on many radio talk shows, on Shaw TV, and in the press. In the UK, she was interviewed on prime-time regional television and was the subject of a four-page feature article in the Daily Mail “Femail” edition.
Julie is a sought-after professional speaker and won the 62nd Golden Gavel Speech Competition in 2008 as well as many other regional and national Toastmaster speaking awards. She has been the keynote at many conferences, and her 2017 TEDx titled “The Gift of Dyslexia” and has had more than 40,000 views. Julie was recognized with the prestigious Woman of Worth “Spirit, Success and Soul” award and the “Unlimited Woman of Creativity” award in 2013.
Ricky Shetty
Ricky Shetty is an internet marketer and Digital Nomad from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is happily married to his wife Anne and they have three wonderful kids together (Rianne, Ryan, and Renzo). One of Ricky’s most famous websites is DaddyBlogger.com where he writes about fatherhood and family travel with young kids.
Connie McConnell
Connie is a Communications and Event Specialist living on Vancouver Island with her husband and three kids. She wrote this story as an homage to her dad, whom she deeply loves and has such respect and admiration for.
Connie feels that it is an honour to share her story in this book, and she hopes it brings some hope to people who are struggling to heal their father/daughter relationships. If she can find her way through a sea of resentment, hurt, and anger and come out the other side with a healed father/daughter bond, there there’s hope for anyone!
Storma Sire
Storma Sire is a former trauma and suicide prevention distress line counsellor for the Vancouver Crisis Centre and is a decedent of the Akan Tribe in Ghana. Storma was diagnosed at the age of seven with sickle cell disease, and recently she has co-founded the Sickle Cell Association of BC. She was indoctrinated as a Buddhist in 2001 under Lama Tseniur Rinpoche and has explored various styles of meditation, ritual, and shamanism. She has been teaching creative art and writing classes for over a decade and has worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery for over five years.
Storma’s published novel Lessons in Magic won the 2006 Best Emerging Writer/Illustrator in Children’s Literature from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her poetry was published in the historical anthology called The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, which is the first of its kind in Canadian history.
www.sicklecellassociationofbc.com
www.behance.net/user/?username=StormaSire
Scott Wood
Scott Wood grew up in Edmonton, Alberta where he studied biomedical engineering technology. He also started his young family here before moving to the Vancouver area in British Columbia. Scott has two beautiful, wonderful girls who are twenty-one and eighteen as well as two fantastic boys who are fifteen and thirteen.
In the last few years, Scott has begun exploring his creative and artistic side. He has been performing as a singer in a few bands, and he has been an actor in three stage plays. Last year he was nominated for and won the Community Theatre Coalition award for “Best Actor” for his lead role in Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun.
Scott lives in White Rock, BC with his partner Trish. He is very honoured to be able to share his story about his relationship with his daughters.
Megan McEwen-Nekrash
Megan McEwen-Nekrash has always been an entrepreneur at heart with a passion for helping others see their own greatness. A trained healthcare practitioner, Megan practiced as a Registered Massage Therapist for nearly twenty years and co-owned a multidisciplinary clinic with her husband for nine years.
Megan has since taken her combined love of wellness and business to new heights by building a virtual health and wellness business alongside her husband. Together, they have impacted over 260,000 lives globally, and this number continues to grow daily. Her vision of showing others what is truly possible by taking control of their health has created a ripple effect of positivity on health, family, and community.
Megan lives with her husband and two children on Vancouver Island and loves the outdoors, running, and world travel.
Dominique Vincenz
Made in Hong Kong and born to a Swiss father and a British mother, Dominique lived a “gypsy” lifestyle during her youth. Her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer were replaced with ones of being an investment banker, businesswoman, and finally, homemaker.
At the age of thirty-eight, she was a married with two young children and chose to make a radical change, embracing a sober life and finding solace on her yoga mat. During these last thirteen years, she became certified as a yoga teacher and has brought her teachings to mental health facilities and addiction centres, offering her students the opportunity of healing past wounds to create a new, meaningful life. In 2017 she published a collection of 200 poems—Awakenings (Sacred Meditations 2006-2017) —the first part of her sometimes dark, always humour-filled journey in sobriety. This year, as she completes her training as a recovery coach, she awaits the publishing of her second poetry book with more hope and excitement for what each new day will bring.