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My mother. At times she was my best friend and at other times, she was my worst enemy. It took me a long time to decipher what was going on between us. As I got older, I realized I had to take what she told me with a large bag of salt. You see, it was always about her. Your early years are the ones that shape your identity. And with just a single parent as my main communicator and nurturer, my mother inevitably shaped my relationship with the world and with myself. I knew from an early age that there was something wrong, but was too young to identify it let alone find the solution. By my teenage years, I had worked out the dynamics of our relationship and had started to realize how it was shaping my mind and my character. However, knowing something about a problem, and effectively doing something about it, are two quite different things. It took me another twenty years to not only define how I had been shaped, but what it meant, and how I could change it to be the woman I wanted to be. Hence, Rebecca Grows Up . The journey has been enlightening and ultimately freed me to be the person I choose to be, not the person whom I had been trained to be. I finally took charge of my life and it has been an incredibly liberating journey. Almost all of us face the same problem. We are shaped by our early years, intentionally or otherwise, by the roles we play, the behaviors we observe and the relationships that force us into narratives about ourselves. Then later, we have the chance to become the people we are really meant to be through our consciousness, choices and courage. I want to share my journey because in one way or another, there's also a good chance that it's your journey, too.

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A brilliant and enthralling book that captures the trauma and the elements that can prevent young people - especially women - really acknowledge who they are. -Dr. Howard Rankin I absolutely loved this book. It is honest and I felt as though I truly connected to the author. I read it so quickly as I loved it so much! There is also a brilliant toolkit at the end of the book which I have loved for helping work through some of my own life traumas. I HIGHLY recommend this book. You will not regret it!! -Jillian D'hont, Yoga, Reiki & Emotion Code Practitioner I read it cover to cover in one fell swoop. This is a thoroughly engaging, heart-wrenchingly vulnerable, immensely relatable and most of all - page turner of a book!! Wow. So well done. -Paula Wallis

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Rebecca, a Canadian girl who grew up in the beautiful port city of Vancouver, now resides in Richmond, B.C., Canada. In her youth, Rebecca loved individual sport and for a number of years, she competed in rhythmic gymnastics. The commitment and perseverance that was learned through her training, led her to earn a Bachelor's degree of Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia. In 2012 a change in professional direction occurred and Rebecca furthered her education to receive an Infant Development Certificate, also from the University of British Columbia. For the past seven years, she has worked as an Infant Development Consultant, supporting parents and their infants, as a home-based visitor. Rebecca is trained in attachment-parenting and co-facilitates educational parent groups, and works alongside families to help support them in their child's development. The instability and unpredictability of her own childhood home ultimately led to a complete ignorance of who she was well into adulthood. In sharing her story, Rebecca hopes to inspire others to work through their trauma and subsequently free themselves. When she is not writing, she enjoys publicly sharing her story, drinking coffee, spending quiet time with her partner and children, and Rebecca dreams of waking up to the sound of gentle ocean waves (with a cup of coffee).

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