The Family Tree Series: Embracing Your Mother Daughter Roots for Forgiveness, Fulfillment and Freedom (Vol. 2)
by Rebecca Harrison
Family Tree: Embracing Your Mother Daughter Roots for Forgiveness, Fulfillment and Freedom (Vol. 2)
As daughters, our mother is our first and most important role model. We look to our mom for guidance and reassurance as we learn to navigate the world around us and overcome the obstacles in our path. Unfortunately, not every mother-daughter relationship contains all the love and support necessary for daughters to flourish, leaving wounds that take many years and intentional work to heal.
Eleven mothers and daughters have collaborated to whole-heartedly share their deeply personal journeys of love, loss, and powerful healing. Every story offers the reader a deeper understanding of the importance of this bond, real hope and guidance for those healing this relationship, and hands-on tools for mothers who want to create a foundation for her daughters to shine. Immerse yourself in these authentic stories and discover your own pathway to more love, forgiveness, fulfillment, and freedom.
The bond between mothers and daughters, while eternal, can be as difficult as it is deep. Each of the heartfelt stories in this book reflects on the relationship between mothers and daughters, giving us insight into each author’s world and the challenges they faced.
– Lilly A Gwilliam, RN, MSN, JD, author of Generations of Motherhood: A Changing Story
Co-Authors (Volume 2)
Ange Frymire
Ange Frymire leads an active, passionate life as teacher, writer, facilitator, mentor, life coach, communicator, and therapeutic counsellor. She founded a boutique communications firm in 1992 and began teaching in 1995, which mushroomed into teaching business writing to first-and third-year university students. She was one of several authors who wrote Fundamentals of Public Relations and Marketing Communications in Canada and has had numerous stories and articles published since 1992. Her debut novel will be launched in 2020.
Her study of the human psyche and behaviours led her to thirty years of senior-level business expertise in communications, social responsibility, employee engagement, media relations, and stakeholder development. After her husband became ill, she focused on her studies with Clearmind International in psychodynamic, therapeutic counselling and is now a licensed, registered RTC.
She is a tireless volunteer for boards and committees who specialize in the humanity of society, including at-risk populations. Giving back to the community has been a passion that rewarded her with the “Canadian Mentor of the Year” award by the Canadian Public Relations Society, as well as being named a fellow with its College of Fellows due to twenty-plus years of outstanding leadership in her field.
Melissa Schooling
Melissa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a minor in Spanish along with teaching credentials in both general education and special education from Cal State University in Long Beach, California. She also holds a Master’s of Education degree from the University of New Orleans in Adult Education and ESL. She worked as an elementary school teacher for ten years in Southern California and is currently in her fifth year as a teacher with the North Vancouver School District.
Melissa has over twenty-five years of experience working in the beauty and cosmetic industry as well as working closely with doctors as a clinical aesthetician specializing in skin rejuvenation and the treatment of teenage acne. She is a make-up artist for special events and offers classes. She also provides customized treatments for her Be Beautiful Now clients in her home treatment oasis.
Melissa is also a certified health and wellness coach who is passionate about coaching individuals and assisting them to claim their true beauty and self-worth. Another passion project on the horizon is her first children’s book, The Little Gem , which she plans to publish next year. She lives with her husband Sean, and puppies, Luna and Nola, between California and Vancouver.
Katerina Melan
Katerina is a transformational coach, writer, healer, and intuitive change-maker. She is deeply committed to raising global consciousness and helping women reclaim their voice, enabling them to rise up and step into their power and purpose from a place of leadership, radical acceptance, and self-love. She achieves this by drawing from over a decade of her own personal healing work, her comprehensive coach and leadership training, and the experiences she gleaned in overcoming her own struggles with sexual trauma, codependency, abuse, and addiction. She believes strongly in the power of ancestral healing and that the key to freedom begins with facing our shadows and healing our deep inner child wounds.
In her former life, Katerina spent twenty-seven years as a sales and marketing strategist in both the software and real estate development industry. She also holds a teaching degree and has a deep passion for art therapy and working with children. She loves painting, photography, travel, adventure, and spending time in nature.
Katerina recently left the business world to dedicate her life to one of service, healing, and inspiring humanity.
Crystal Charmaine
Crystal is a mother of three busy boys and a wife to a loving Aussie husband. She is a consultant, an entrepreneur, and an aquatic and wildlife biologist and environmental scientist with two decades of experience working in the wilderness throughout North America. She has also spent the last six years mentoring others in entrepreneurship and collaborating with women on empowerment and personal growth.
Crystal has observed and studied human-nature interactions on a global scale. She has instructed several training programs focused on our multifaceted and multidimensional environment, as well as how to be better land stewards. In addition to her work, her passions include being in the mountains and on the water, writing, speaking, travelling, going on adventures with her boys and hubby, and spending time with friends and family around a campfire or a feast.
Jenine Reverente
Jenine is a free spirit, a dreamer, an artist, and a full-time student of life. She believes in savouring each moment, breathing deeply, eating slowly, kissing passionately, and loving fully. She’s a night owl who creates art, makes jewelry, and writes poetry in the quiet, potent hours after midnight. She has a poetry book in the works which she plans to have published in the near future.
Born in Manila, Philippines, Jenine moved to Vancouver, Canada, with her family in 1988, where she currently lives with her sweetheart, Ray. Her formal education includes interdisciplinary design studies, spa therapy, and clinical hypnotherapy. She later became a certified yoga instructor and has been sharing her passion for the practice since 2009. She believes that her role as a teacher is to help guide and hold space for people to fully tap into their true authentic selves and step into the fullness of who they are with courage, compassion, and grace.
Jenine is honoured to have been a part of this collaborative book and hopes that the stories shared in it will open the hearts and help heal wounds that long to be healed.
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.
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Nina Luchka
Nina is passionate about helping moms create a life and body they love and reconnect to their inner Feminine Fire. Through her own struggles and challenges that came from being a mom of four and an entrepreneur, she has gained a wealth of knowledge in fitness, nutrition, energy healing, wellness, and self-care.
Nina has stepped on the best stages in the world as an IFBB pro, including the Arnold Schwarzenegger Class, competing against the best in the world. She is a fitness expert, professional IFBB figure athlete, Holy Fire II Karuna Usui Reiki Master, EFT Level 2 Practitioner, conditioning coach, Feminine Fire coach, yoga teacher, holistic health coach, and nature lover. She also homeschools her kids, Aspen (ten), Cruz (seven), Knox (five), and Steihl (three).
Nina guides women to find their passion and spark their inner Feminine Fire through exercise, feminine movement, life coaching, nutrition, holistic wellness, and energy work. To find out more, please contact her at one of the links below.
Terry Jackson
Terry Jackson is a traditional Native grandmother who has fostered her spirituality and creativity throughout her life. She celebrates the sacredness of the feminine and shares her story to encourage women on their journey through life. As a global wanderer who has traveled to Machu Picchu, Egypt, Dubai, Europe, and other places near and far, Terry is an experiential learner whose life lessons have come from a variety of experiences, including being adopted and finding her birth family.
Terry is also a certified massage therapist, aromatherapist, and hypnotherapist. She enjoys creating jewelry, writing, beading items for her pow wow regalia, and making lotions and potions utilizing her knowledge of essential oils.
She and her husband opened the only Native-owned trading post in Tucson, Arizona in 2005. Their first inventory included many pieces from their own collection, and they now have a well-stocked trading post with something for everyone. It is an anchor in the Tucson community and enjoys solid relationships with the University of Arizona, the American Indian Law School Students Association, the Tucson Indian Center, the VA Hospital, and more.
Diane Lund
Diane is a Reverend with the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministries and has been offering A Course in Miracles Study Groups for over twenty-five years. Currently, she is working on a series of books about A Course in Miracles, to be published in 2020. The first book, TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN TO GET YOUR LIFE RIGHT SIDE UP: Reverse Thinking on Life’s Big Questions, Relationships, Work and Career, presents the readers with stories from Diane’s life that illustrate how A Course in Miracles changes one’s thinking from fear-based to love-based. She will also launch six mini on-line courses that offer tools, meditations, and exercises to help students create everyday miracles in their own lives.
Diane is the owner and Creative Director for her company Creative Wonders Communications, which has been helping business owners and entrepreneurs increase their brand’s visibility, credibility, and profitability for over twenty-five years. Diane has won many awards for her creative communications work, including the International Silver Summit Award for online marketing effectiveness, the Visioneers International Network Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ethics In Action for Community Care, and The Best Business Award by the Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
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