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WORK TITLE: The Fatherless Daughter Project
WORK NOTES: with Denna D. Babul
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CITY: Atlanta
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Children: West, Elise, Hoyte.
EDUCATION:Graduated from Wesleyan College; earned doctorate from Georgia State University.
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Therapist and author. Also worked as elementary and middle school teacher, in television, fundraising, and public relations.
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Author Karin Luise earned a doctorate in counseling from Georgia State University as a step toward a new career as a public speaker and holistic healer. “As the coauthor and cofounder of The Fatherless Daughter Project,” wrote a Huffington Post contributor, “she has not only found beautiful pieces of her own healing, but she is also committed to spreading that same resilience and restoration.” She is the coauthor, with registered nurse Denna Babul, of The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives. In the book she explores her own healing process following the loss of her natural father and her stepfather. “Combining decades of work in the educational, spiritual, and clinical fields, along with a host of transformational life experiences, Dr. Karin works and teaches from a holistic perspective. She recognizes that the mind, body, emotions and spirit work together to create the state of whole body health, or dis-ease, for each person,” stated the contributor of a biographical blurb to the author’s Web site, the Karin Luise Home Page. “Dr. Karin has earned acclaim as an inspirational speaker in Atlanta and has given keynote messages at clinical, professional and private venues. She has received mentoring and teaching from leaders in her field, including Gabriel Bernstein.”
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 15, 2015, Grace Bonds Staples, “Offering Fatherless Daughters a Place to Heal.”
Publishers Weekly, April 4, 2016, review of The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives, p. 80.
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Fatherless Daughter Project Web site, http://fatherlessdaughterproject.com/ (March 14, 2017), author profile.
Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ (March 14, 2017), author profile.
Karin Luise Home Page, http://doctorkarin.com (March 14, 2017), author profile.
Points North Atlanta, http://pointsnorthatlanta.com/ (October 28, 2015), author profile.
Radio MD, http://radiomd.com/ (March 14, 2017), author profile.
Seven Ponds, http://blog.sevenponds.com/ (November 18, 2016), Ellary Allis, review of The Fatherless Daughter Project.
Dr. Karin Luise Author, Therapist, Motivational Speaker. Brave Mom of 3. Co-Founder, TheFatherlessDaughterProject.com - DoctorKarin.com
Dr. Karin Luise is the co-author of The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives (June, 2016; Avery Press: Penguin Random House). She is a sought after integrative therapist, inspirational speaker and spirituality expert.
Dr. Karin is a featured blogger for The Huffington Post as well as on her own site, www.DoctorKarin.com. She has been featured on a wide range of media discussing an array of psychological, spiritual and lifestyle issues, including Redbook, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Huffington Post Live, The Atlanta Journal & Constitution and FoxNews, ShareCare Radio, NBC, CNN.com, the Examiner, and many others.
Combining decades of work in the educational, spiritual, and clinical fields, along with a host of transformational life experiences, Dr. Karin works and teaches from a holistic perspective. She recognizes that the mind, body, emotions and soul work together to create the state of whole body health, or dis-ease, for each person.
Dr. Karin started her professional journey as an elementary and middle school teacher, earning her Early Childhood Education degree from Wesleyan College. Years later, after trying her hand in television, fundraising and PR, she followed her calling as a therapist and earned her doctorate in Counseling Education & Practice from Georgia State University, focusing on Adult Lifespan Transitions.
Dr. Karin has earned acclaim as an inspirational speaker and has given keynote messages at clinical, professional and private venues. She has received mentoring and teaching from leaders in her field, including Gabriel Bernstein, completing her Master Class Level I and II trainings.
As the co-author and co-founder of The Fatherless Daughter Project, she has not only found beautiful pieces of her own healing, but she is also committed to spreading that same resilience and restoration to women worldwide.
Karin joyfully resides in her Atlanta home with precocious 7 year old twins, West and Elise, miracle son, Hoyte (6) and rescue dog, Tucker. She finds her mojo doing yoga, being in nature and dancing on the couch to 80’s music.
What you would find out if you were sitting next to me at dinner:
I’m a listener. I want to hear your story because I care and am truly intrigued by the layers of other people’s lives. I am open, nonjudgmental and thoughtful in my conversations and work with others. I want to know where you come from as well as understand your energy, passions and ‘stuck places.’
I am inspired by people that are searching, eager to grow and honest about themselves. I relish deep conversation, especially topics that focus on the human spiritual experience. I appreciate humility and am fascinated by the wholeness of a person. If we were to work together, I would want to know about your physical health, thought patterns, beliefs, emotional experiences and spiritual place in the world. There are no wrong answers, and you will find out quickly that I pass no judgment about your history. I have experienced and seen it all, and have learned that we all have something to teach each other.
I am passionate beyond belief about transformation, psychological imprinting, spiritual searching, the afterlife, animals, Mother Earth and the wonder of children. I love hearing about connections and life meaning and, in fact, did research connecting both to wellness in my doctoral program. The results were that they all influence the other positively. BIG TIME.
Colors and birds make me happy . . . I am obsessed with hawks and spiritual signs . . . and I love to celebrate life with live music, dancing and hosting dinner parties. I have a quick wit, a soft presence and a love for the sea. I insist on open mindedness, crave to know more and am obsessed with new adventures.
You’ll hear be talk about my ‘former lives,’ and while I believe fully in past lives, I am actually referring to the multiple people I’ve been in THIS life. I have been a grade school teacher, a Bible study leader, a baseball wife, a Southern belle, a survivor of abuse, a fundraiser, a single lady, a PR consultant, a personal manager, a therapist, a writer, an educator, a researcher, an author, a volunteer, a wife, a trauma specialist, a mother of three, a fighter for a medically fragile child, a blogger, a college professor, a healer, a spiritual communcator and a mother of 2 golden retrievers and 1 rescue dog.
I am known for teaching master’s students how to be counselors, teenagers how to follow their hearts, and grown-ups how to meditate themselves into a place of beautiful peace. I have spoken in front of thousands as well as sat in countless sacred spaces with one. I love leading with prayer (if requested), finishing with laughter and dancing on the couch with my kids when I get home.
While I was raised in a conservative Christian family (Lutheran, then Pentacostal), with a mother who became a Presbyterian minister, I have found myself living a life of spiritual openness and acceptance of all faiths, aligning myself with the true teachings of Christ (with a little Buddha on the side). I believe in the individual spiritual journey and love helping people to find the lit path to their own, unique spiritual journey.
I think you’ll like me, but if you don’t, I’m okay with that. Everything happens exactly as it should.
My Brief Bio:
Dr. Karin Luise is a sought after counselor, author, educator and inspirational speaker with specialties in spirituality, resilience, and women’s issues. She is the co-author of the The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives.
doctor karin luise and her book
Dr. Karin is a featured blogger for The Huffington Post as well as on her own site. She has been featured on a wide range of media discussing fatherlessness and an array of psychological and lifestyle issues. These include Redbook, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Huffington Post Live, The Atlanta Journal & Constitution and FoxNews, CNN.com, the Examiner, OMRadio and many others.
Combining decades of work in the educational, spiritual, and clinical fields, along with a host of transformational life experiences, Dr. Karin works and teaches from a holistic perspective. She recognizes that the mind, body, emotions and spirit work together to create the state of whole body health, or dis-ease, for each person.
Dr. Karin started her professional journey as an elementary and middle school teacher, earning her Early Childhood Education degree from Wesleyan College. Years later, after trying her hand in television, fundraising and PR, she followed her calling as a therapist and earned her doctorate in Counseling Education & Practice from Georgia State University, focusing on Adult Lifespan Transitions.
Dr. Karin has earned acclaim as an inspirational speaker in Atlanta and has given keynote messages at clinical, professional and private venues. She has received mentoring and teaching from leaders in her field, including Gabriel Bernstein, completing her Master Class Level I and II trainings.
As the co-author and co-founder of The Fatherless Daughter Project, she has not only found beautiful pieces of her own healing, but she is also committed to spreading that same resilience and restoration to women worldwide.
Karin joyfully resides in her Atlanta home with precocious 7 year old twins, West and Elise, miracle son, Hoyte (5) and rescue dog, Tucker. She finds her mojo doing yoga, walking under the trees and dancing in her living room to 80’s music.
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Karin Luise, Ph.D., is a counselor, writer, educator, and inspirational speaker specializing in spirituality, women’s issues, and holistic well-being. She is a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and has been featured on HuffPost Live, in USA Today, and in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her passions include helping others find inner peace and life purpose. She resides in Atlanta with her three children and rescue dog, Tucker.
Offering fatherless daughters a place to heal
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During moments of heart-wrenching soul searching in 1998, Denna Babul began penning a memoir about the pain she felt from having twice lost her father: the time he divorced her mother and again 10 years later when he was murdered.
The first time she was 3 years old and the second time she was 13.
“I remember riding home from the funeral having a conversation with myself and God,” Babul said. “A voice said to me, ‘Yeah, your childhood is gonna suck but your adulthood is going to be great. This happened to you for a reason. You will do big things.’”
For years after, Babul was like so many other fatherless daughters, in and out of failed relationships, looking for love, and uncertain if she would ever be able to get love right because she had not been raised in a family with both a mother and a father as an example.
Babul was hardly alone, but for years, her conversations with Karin Luise amounted to monologues, then one day Luise just opened up. She’d been twice abandoned, too: once when her natural father signed over custody of her to her stepfather and again when her stepfather walked out of her life.
Both, they agreed, had been badly damaged by different ways in households where secrets sometimes became more important than safety and sanity. Secrets are that way. They cover the guilty and confuse the victims.
“I honestly thought every teen cried herself to sleep at night,” Luise said. “But when I got to college and finally opened up to friends, it became clear that things had gone terribly wrong in my home. It had just been my normal.”
As their friendship deepened, Luise and Babul discovered they had more in common than initially thought. They resolved to do what they could to stop the cycle and create a sisterhood that would bring healing to other women and empower them to move from victim to victor.
Their journey began in earnest in 2008 when Babul was invited to appear on NBC’s “Today” show with Meredith Vieira.
I know you’ve written a book, Vieira said during the segment about family secrets. “What do you want people to really know about being fatherless?”
“That your past doesn’t define you,” Babul told her. “In fact, you can use it to redefine who you want to become.”
And that is? Vieira asked.
“The voice for fatherless daughters around the world,” Babul responded.
It was the first time in her life Babul had told someone publicly why she was fatherless. She was 38 years old. She walked off the stage and realized the memoir she had written about her experience growing up without her father wasn’t about her at all.
She wanted to write the book that she wished she’d had when her father died, a guide that meets you where you are developmentally, emotionally and spiritually, that walks you through the journey of fatherlessness. However and whenever it happens.
Still, years passed without Babul rewriting another word. She married and she gave birth to two children, but she never stopped thinking about a way to get her message out to women.
One day she Googled a film company and started producing a documentary. Luise, who’d recently earned a doctorate in psychology at Georgia State University, would be the resident therapist for people being interviewed for the documentary.
“Some people find their story by watching it,” she reasoned. “Some by reading it and some people need to experience it.”
The latter, they decided, would mean establishing a nonprofit that would provide a place for girls to learn from one another and grow, that would raise awareness about the fatherless generation of girls in trouble.
In 2014, they finished a short documentary, and this year they finished the book, “The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives,” scheduled to be published in June by Avery of Penguin Random House.
In Buckhead last week, they launched the nonprofit the Fatherless Daughter Project (http://fatherlessdaughterproject.com) at an event that drew nearly 200 people from across the Southeast.
That number alone is an indication of how big this is.
We’ve known for a long time the important role fathers play in their children’s lives, but most of the discussion has centered around daddies and sons, African-Americans in particularly.
Study after book after study, though, show that when a father is absent, the daughter suffers in ways unimaginable and too numerous to offer here.
Here are just a few. Girls who grow up without their fathers are more likely to use isolation as a coping mechanism; more likely to let their emotions go underground and erupt later in life when they experience abandonment again; and are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and experience sexual promiscuity and sexual avoidance.
“I grew up in an extremely dysfunctional home,” Luise said. “But the pain worsened for me like it does for so many other girls who are abused because they are taught to keep the secrets. We have to start telling the truth gently so that healing and freedom can come.”
Babul said they’re still learning from each other to be stronger versions of themselves.
The good news is things are changing.
A Pew Research Center study in 2013 found that fathers have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend with their children since 1965.
I hope things will continue to improve, that efforts like Fatherless Daughters will take hold, help sweep away the denial, and a new resolve to find healing will emerge.
I think Babul and Luise have a good shot at helping us turn the corner and building not just healthier daughters but healthy families.
Denna Babul & Karin Luise
in 2015 Savvy and Successful Women, Profiles Posted on Oct 28 2015
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KARIN LUISE (left): Dress and leggings by Bohemia; Shane Co. sterling silver jewelry: hammered bangle, amazonite earrings, double strand necklace, sea blue agate triple strand; diamond and black agate bracelet, green amazonite ring DENNA BABUL (right): Wardrobe is her own; Shane Co. yellow gold infinity cuff, diamond bangle, gold bar necklace; sterling silver smoky quartz earrings and black agate ring; sterling silver yellow gold necklace
Growing up fatherless is a topic you won’t find blowing up Facebook, Twitter or local news channels. That is why Denna Babul and Dr. Karin Luise passionately bring awareness to a hushed reality, creating thunderous voids for so many. Together this dynamic duo has birthed The Fatherless Daughter Project: an overarching movement including a book, documentary and nonprofit organization. After speaking with hundreds of fatherless women, the pair realized the need for support and help was both widespread and lacking.
“Being fatherless is a journey that changes and evolves throughout your life,” Babul explained. “The goal is to go from fatherless to forgiveness to fearless.” Babul and Luise met in their 30s here in Atlanta, became fast friends and discovered they shared a bond of loss and healing. Ultimately, both kicked to the surface armed with the tools, skills and desire to help others still struggling.
After an appearance on the “Today” show, where she spoke candidly about losing her dad at age 13, women came out of the woodwork asking Babul for advice. They wrote. They called. She stumbled onto an ah-ha moment: women needed a platform to share what it’s like facing the years without a dad for guidance or hugs or help. Babul explained that without a supportive dad, every girl walks through life robbed. Starting this month, listeners can tap into her weekly podcast, “The Empower Hour,” on iTunes.
Their empowering book, “The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives,” is set to hit shelves spring 2016. Readers will discover not only stories from a wide variety of fatherless women, but two personalities woven throughout the text: the outspoken, sassy personality of Babul coupled with Luise’s calming clinical voice.
“We purposefully created a book that did not focus solely on the gloomy pain of the loss,” Luise explained, “but rather always returned to hope, empowerment and resilience.”
Luise operates a private practice specializing in stress coping, relationships and resiliency. And she should know. As a girl, she suffered multiple layers of father loss: first with the detachment of her natural father, and again with a stepfather who adopted her, then released the lifeline.
Through it all, Luise believes in restoration. She encourages women to invest in themselves through therapy and pursuing inner-wholeness. Never give up. A protective yet pliant heart may garner surprising results. In her own life, Luise’s natural father has finally become more present, to the point of stepping up as an engaged grandfather to her three children.
“Miracles are always possible,” she granted.
Among other publications, Luise blogs for The Huffington Post and has been featured in USA Today and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her “Ask Dr. Karin” column is found within the pages of Southern Seasons Magazine.
As for Babul, on top of creating a community and support system for fellow fatherless women, she serves as a direct sales manager for Cardiovascular Systems, a Fortune 500 medical company. In a rich Southern accent, deepvoiced yet impossibly peppy, Babul credits her husband John for holding down the fort while making her roles as mother, speaker, author and life coach possible. She also acknowledged her mother as inspiration in dealing with the loss of her own dad, who passed at the premature age of 42.
“The only time I saw my mom cry was over burnt cookies at Christmas,” Babul smiled. She praised her mother’s backbone and work ethic as examples of how to conduct oneself through tough spells.
“You can take what happened in your life and not let it define you,” Babul said. “Use it to redefine who you want to become.”
As a plucky PhD and brave Mom of 3, Dr. Karin carries with her a colorful bag of relatability, experience and insight … with a side of unavoidable humor. A compassionate educator on spirituality and wellness, Dr. Karin found her calling after her own losses and a decade of personal reinvention. She is here to meet you where you are. Often called “the therapist who feels like family,” she is known for wrapping the truth up in a hug with a squeeze of inspiration.
Dr. Karin Luise is a sought-after psychotherapist, writer, motivational speaker and co-founder of The Fatherless Daughter Project. True to her hometown, Dr. Karin was born, raised and resides in Atlanta. Not being raised by her biological father, and having been abused by her stepfather, Dr. Karin never had a space of safety in the life of a man as she matured. Growing up in fear, distrust, and unaware of how to relate to men, Dr. Karin has transformed and rebooted her life, and now lives by her ultimate goal: to uncover your authentic truth and stand inside it in strength, peace and purpose.
Dr. Karin received her Early Childhood Education degree from Wesleyan College, her Master’s degree in Counseling from Argosy University, and her PhD in Counselor Education and Practice from Georgia State University. After college, Dr. Karin taught elementary and middle school before setting out on her journey as a therapist and educator. Back in the 90’s, Dr. Karin had a year of writing and producing her own live television segment, “Karin’s Korner,” on the local NBC affiliate in Atlanta.
A humanitarian at heart, Dr. Karin is deeply committed to the mission of the Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities for over a decade, as well as Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Karin is happiest when she is entertaining, cooking, practicing photography, stretching in Pilates and playing with her three children and family dog.
Additional Information about The Fatherless Daughter Project:
The Fatherless Daughter Project (TFDP) is an Atlanta-based non-profit (501c3) that is tied to the upcoming book by Denna Babul and Dr. Karin Luise, The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives, and formed to give back, educate, and hold a place for true sisterhood. The non-profit is committed to local, national, and global outreach for fatherless daughters, mothers, fathers, siblings, and those who love them- to encourage growth, healing and transformation in their lives and relationships.
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The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives
Denna D. Babul and Karin Luise. Avery,
$25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59463-369-0
Babul, a life coach, and Luise, a counselor and inspirational speaker, join their expertise and experiences--both grew up without their biological fathers--in this wide-ranging look at how fatherlessness affects women. Their text (as well as a forthcoming documentary) draws on over 1,000 interviews and a social media survey to conclude that the loss or absence of a father can cause a woman to suffer effects that include self-doubt, sadness, anger, fear, resentment, and difficulty trusting. They discuss the primary ways that loss can occur, such as divorce, death, abandonment, and incarceration, and explore how age at the time of loss affects a daughter's response. On the flip side, they find that fatherless daughters also exhibit strength, resilience, and self-awareness, among other positive traits. About 91 percent of the women surveyed have "something they wished to say" to the fathers they lost, so the authors offer advice on when to give an emotionally estranged father another chance, and when to maintain distance (such as in the case of physical or emotional abuse). With interesting personal stories woven throughout, fatherless daughters will find this to be a supportive and encouraging guidebook to reclaiming their lives and healing their wounds. (June)
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Book Review: “The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives”
A book for women who have lost their fathers due to death, divorce, neglect or abandonment
Posted on November 18, 2016 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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Building on interviews with more than 5,000 women who have lost their fathers due to death, divorce, neglect or abandonment, authors Denna Babul, R.N., and Karin Luise, Ph.D. examine the effects of that very particular loss in their moving book “The Fatherless Daughter Project.” The authors draw on both their personal experiences and professional expertise to share tools for healing. They also provide insight into the lives of thousands of women who continue to be affected by the loss of their fathers years after the loss occurred. They stress that each woman has a unique story with unique manifestations. Yet there are some common threads that bind the experiences of fatherless daughters.
The gift of a book like this is that it validates those commonalities. Then it offers tools for healing once the reader has identified the destructive patterns in her life. The book also takes care to highlight the resilience and successes of women who carry the weight of this loss.
Each of the authors identifies as a fatherless daughter. Babul lost her father due to divorce and early death. (Her father was killed, though it’s not known why or by whom.) Luis lost her dad due to divorce, adoption and family dysfunction.
The authors create a tone of solidarity and deep understanding through the tender way they invite other fatherless daughters to join them in processing the effects of the absence. Research shows that over half of the best friends of fatherless daughters are also fatherless. That shared tragedy creates a unique empathetic bond.
Photo of a fatherless daughter jumping in the air looking happy and free
The book spends quite a bit of time exploring the different ways the loss of a father can happen. Thus, there is a great deal of information for those whose fathers have died. The authors specifically address the consequences of foreseen versus sudden death, suicide and fathers who died violently.
“The Fatherless Daughter Project” also includes exercises to encourage self-reflection and the transformation of insights uncovered into growth. It includes tips for coping when you miss your dad. It also has tips for claiming your capacity for resilience. Finally, it offers tips for changing thought patterns and for recognizing the gifts your loss has given you — strength, intuition, compassion, a whole host of coping skills and deeper self knowledge. For those who belong to what Babul and Luise call the sisterhood of fatherless daughters, this book is a mine of wisdom, validation and encouragement.