Where the Lotus Grows

The lotus does not grow somewhere beautiful and easy. That is the whole point of the lotus. For years, Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg had the clinical language for suffering: the frameworks, the research, the evidence-based everything. Then she had to use it on herself. What she found was that psychology could name what was happening. It could not move her through it. What could was older. Where the Lotus Grows moves through ten Japanese philosophical concepts: Ma, Mushin, Mono no Aware, Kintsugi, Wabi-Sabi, Musubi, Kaizen, Natsukashii, Mitate, and Yutori, and carries them through the one landscape most self-help books avoid: the in-between. The space between who you were and who you are becoming. Each chapter holds philosophy alongside personal story, reflection prompts, and an original haiku. This is not a book for the healed version of you, looking back. It is a book for the one in the middle of it, who picked this up because something is still looking. Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator, and writer, 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 Invincible: How to Embrace Failure and Achieve Transformational Success. She lives in New York City with her daughter and their two cats