Where the Lotus Rises

The lotus has surfaced. Now comes the harder work. For years, Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg survived the in-between. She found the pause, the beauty in the broken places, the language for what was happening inside her. What she discovered next was that surviving was only half the work. The other half was building something with what she had learned. Where the Lotus Rises moves through ten Japanese philosophical concepts: Shu-Ha-Ri, Shoshin, Hansei, Shikata ga nai, Kodawari, Fudoshin, Gaman, Oubaitori, Kokoro, and Shokunin, and carries them through the landscape most growth books skip: the slow, unglamorous work of becoming who you are on purpose. Each chapter holds philosophy alongside personal story, reflection prompts, and an original haiku. This is not a book about arriving. It is a book about the rising itself: the practice, the endurance, the devotion to the specific, unrepeatable life you are building. The lotus is moving toward the light. So are you. 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.