The Lotus Within

You did not wake up one morning and decide to disappear. It happened quietly. A yes here, a yes there. The forms, the meals, the appointments you booked for everyone but yourself. You became the one who remembered, the one who held it together, and somewhere in all that holding, you lost track of the woman doing the holding. You are not broken. You are not failing. You are a person who has been giving for a long time, in a life that kept asking. Drawing on her doctoral research into the well-being of working mothers, Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg names the three things a hard life quietly steals, choice, confidence, and connection, and offers a gentle way to find them again. Not a program. Not ten more things to fail at. Just a map back to yourself, and permission to walk it at the pace of a real life. The lotus does not become something new. It becomes what it already was. So, gently, will you. Start here. The Lotus Within is the foundation of The Lotus Renewal Series. Learn more at exedpublishing.com. AUTHOR BIO Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg holds a Ph.D. in psychology and is the founder of ExEd Publishing, the home of Sage Lotus Press. She writes for women navigating midlife, loss, and becoming. Find her full catalog at exedpublishing.com.