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Maria Nazarova (Semprericca) was born in the communist Soviet Union in 1969, and moved to Italy at nineteen years old and became an Italian citizen. After separating from her first husband in 1996, she struggled through adversity to support herself and her two children. Through hard work, determination, and without qualifications, she became sought after as one of Italy's leading pattern-makers for all the top clothing fashion designers. After a seven-year marriage, she separated from her second husband in 2010, and again, she was alone, miserable, and weighed 110kg (242 lbs). With the burden of responsibilities sitting heavily on her shoulders and with no prospects for a happy future, she made a promise to God that if her life could change for the better, she would dedicate herself to helping women like her.Maria dramatically changed her life, lost 50kg (110 lbs) in weight, and to honour her promise, wrote her first book, 'The First Law of Paradise'. In 2015 she met her current partner and began a new life in Cyprus, where she still lives and left her fashion industry career behind. Continuing to write, she is a qualified life coach and works in the field of Neurographia, which creates mind and body connections through a combination of art and psychology, and she continues to fulfil her promise by helping women everywhere.
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Kirsty Senior
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Jenny Setchell was born in New Zealand, received her secondary schooling at Nga Tawa, completed a BA at the University of Otago, and has almost completed a Mus B at the University of Canterbury, majoring in organ performance. Although she has played organs in churches of various denominations for more than 40 years, her principal career was as a journalist for most of her working life. In 2005 Jenny left her job as a senior sub-editor at The Press, one of New Zealand's main metropolitan daily newspapers, to pursue her freelance activities. These include website design and maintenance, photography and writing. She has produced 3 books - all of them about pipe organs, and two published by the famous German music publishers Dr J. Butz: "Organ-isms: Anecdotes from the World of the King of Instruments" (2009), "Dem Himmel Nahe" (Looking Up at Pipe Organs and Ceilings) (2015), and most recently in 2017, "Organs and Organists: Their Inside Stories"
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Jane Catherine Severn is a Psychotherapist, Educator and Writer, based in Christchurch. Over 45 years she has researched and developed an original and comprehensive body of knowledge about women's hormonal design and development. As founder and facilitator of Luna House, she teaches a radically new and empowering approach to Menarche, Menstrual Cycles, Menopause and Mature Life via workshops, seminars and courses available nationwide and internationally. She also offers therapeutic consultations in her pioneering modality, Femenome Therapy, and is writing a series of books detailing her discoveries.