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About our Rise Today founder

Meet Dr. Erica Harris.

Founder of Rise Today Consulting Services; Founder & Clinical Director of Rising Minds, an online therapy practice; a TEDx and resilience keynote speaker, empowered mindset health coach, podcast host, retired sports chiropractor and kinesiologist — and a passionate mom to two teen boys.

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Twice.Given the gift of a second chance
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A life shaped by resilience

A life shaped by resilience.

Rise Today Consulting Services was born from lived experience, a professional dedication to health and wellness, and a profound belief in the resilience of the human spirit.

For many years, Erica devoted her professional life to helping others achieve optimal health and performance. As a sports chiropractor and kinesiologist, she founded and directed a thriving multidisciplinary healthcare practice in Vancouver, British Columbia — her work centred on movement, recovery, and helping people build stronger bodies and healthier lives.

Yet life has a way of challenging us all. While nursing her youngest son, Erica was abruptly and shockingly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — an aggressive, life-threatening cancer. Despite intensive treatment, she did not respond to salvage chemotherapy. Two leading international medical institutions — one in Canada, one in the United States — ultimately advised that no options remained beyond palliative care. In 2012 she was given a terminal prognosis and expected to live no more than two months.

Faced with the unthinkable, and determined to spend every possible moment with her two young children, Erica fought to return home. There she explored every possible path to healing within the natural-health world — and against overwhelming odds, she achieved remission. That remission allowed her to undergo a life-saving bone marrow transplant, thanks to an extraordinary donor: a complete stranger from Germany who stepped forward to help save her life.

TEDxResilience keynote speaker
2×Transplant recipient & survivor
In Erica’s words
“Twice I was told my life was ending. Twice, strangers stepped forward and gave me the gift of time. My mission now is to help others rise through their hardest seasons and live with more joy and fulfillment.”
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Twice broken, twice rebuilt

Twice broken, twice rebuilt.

The transplant brought new life in more ways than one. Erica’s blood type even changed — from O negative to A positive — a powerful symbol of the second chance she had been given.

Slowly, she rebuilt her strength. Before long she was again hiking mountains, skiing steep descents, and embracing the physical vitality she had once known. But the journey was not over.

Years later, Erica began experiencing severe breathlessness while hiking. Doctors discovered bronchiolitis obliterans — a form of graft-versus-host disease in which her transplanted immune system began attacking her lungs. Once again, her life hung in the balance.

Erica fell to 80 lbs and was prescribed oxygen. She was later given another extraordinary gift — a double lung transplant, made possible through the generosity of a family who chose to give life in the midst of their own profound loss. Through courage, rehabilitation and determination, she rebuilt her life once more — and, when her marriage later ended, dusted herself off and reinvented herself again.

Paying it forward

Three ways to rise.

Witnessing firsthand the resilience of the human body and mind changed Erica’s path. She returned to university and completed a Master’s in Counselling Psychology — and today is the founder of three ways to help others rise.

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Rising Minds — Online Therapy

Compassionate, evidence-based online therapy through secure video and phone sessions for residents of British Columbia and Ontario.

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02

Rise Today Health Coaching

Forward-focused empowerment — not therapy or mental-health treatment — that builds clarity, sustainable habits and momentum toward personally defined goals.

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03

Rise Today Resilience Keynote Speaking

Inspiring audiences worldwide to overcome adversity, cultivate resilience and discover strength in life’s most challenging moments.

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The simple truth

Resilience is not hardness. It is not the absence of pain, nor the denial of vulnerability. Resilience is the quiet, courageous decision to rise — again and again.

Through her speaking, coaching and advocacy work, Erica is committed to paying forward the extraordinary blessings of survival — helping others cultivate strength, perspective and hope in the face of adversity.

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