Where the Lotus Blooms

The bloom is not the end. It is the expression. Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg has survived the compression, practiced the rising, and kept every promise she made in the dark. What she knows now is that the blooming does not wait for the water to clear. It happens in the only conditions available: the murky, imperfect, still-in-progress conditions of a life fully and honestly lived. Where the Lotus Blooms moves through ten Japanese philosophical concepts: Ikigai, En, Ichi-go ichi-e, Omoiyari, Kakugo, Komorebi, Yugen, Furusato, Kachofuugetsu, and Saisei, and carries them through the landscape most wisdom books are afraid to claim: the life you are actually living right now, with the losses still in it and the green still coming back. Each chapter holds philosophy alongside personal story, reflection prompts, and an original haiku. This is not a book for the version of you who has finished. It is a book for the one still in the water, feeling the blooming begin. The lotus blooms in 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.