Rootlines: A Memoir

Rikki and her sister, Linda, fell out four months ago. Linda has lethal abdominal tumors and needs a bone marrow replacement. Rikki refuses to accept that she is too old to donate. Despite the wounding between them, Linda's email ignites a wild aspiration in Rikki to become the perfect donor and heal herself, her sister, and their family roots. Rikki builds herself into a stem cell factory using Muay Thai kickboxing and vegetarian nutrition and finds her own power through meditation and yoga. Together, the two sisters beat lymphoma and rediscover the intimacy and love of their innocent childhood.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Publisher: She Writes Press

Four months ago, Rikki and her sister Linda had a falling out, and they haven't spoken since. Linda's email, however, ignites a wild aspiration in Rikki: she will become the perfect donor, the perfect match, with the healthiest, most vigorous cells possible. Rikki rises with intent to heal herself, her sister, and their roots, the patterns formed in their family of origin that have quietly shaped their lives.

Rikki walks through the science while confronting dogma that limits how the mind can transform the body. She builds herself into a stem cell factory using Muay Thai kickboxing and vegetarian nutrition. Working through childhood wounds and mental limits with meditation and yoga, she finds her own power, as well as ways to show up for Linda and walk with her from the edge of death to a new life. Together, the two sisters beat lymphoma, and as they rediscover the intimacy and love of their innocent childhood, they heal the intertwined roots of their family pain.

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 214 x 140 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781631527531