The Lotus Apothecary

An apothecary is where you go when something aches and you are ready to tend it. This one is stocked with five Japanese concepts instead of tinctures. Each has carried people through impermanence and loss for centuries, and each is built here into a seven-day arc you can actually hold. This is not philosophy kept at arm's length. It is philosophy put to work in the ordinary evenings of a hard year, when the clinical language runs out and you need something older to lean on. Ma teaches you to stop filling every silence. Oubaitori loosens the grip of comparison. Kintsugi shows you how to mend without hiding the break. Mono no Aware helps you hold what is fleeting a little more tenderly. Ikigai returns you to a reason to rise. Five concepts, thirty-five quiet mornings, one gentle way back to yourself. Read them in order, or reach for the one you need today. Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator, and the founder of ExEd Publishing. She is the creator of The Lotus Chronicles, the author of When the Body Can't Forget and Your Body Is Not the Enemy, and a contributing author to Invisible and Exhausted: How to Embrace Failure and Achieve Transformational Success. She lives in New York City with her daughter and their two cats. Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator, and the founder of ExEd Publishing. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and has spent more than twenty years working alongside women, families, and educators as a psychologist, a yoga teacher, and a mind-body practitioner. She writes about starting over in midlife, and about the small, steadying practices that carry a woman through it. She lives in New York City. Find the full catalog at exedpublishing.com