Description:
My Mother Is a Dragonfly is a luminous memoir about family fractures, forgiveness, and the miracles that call us back to love.
Brief description: Amy Scott Rooker is an author and former attorney. Her work explores trauma and awakening through lived experience with identity collapse, psychedelic medicine, and forgiveness. She writes for those who sense the life they've built is not the life they are meant to live-and feel the quiet pull toward something truer. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Review Quotes:
"An act of love-toward the past and the future alike." -Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author
"Deeply unsettling and profoundly redemptive . . . a journey that is as raw as it is luminous. This is not an easy book, but it is a brave one. And in its bravery, it offers something tender: the reminder that healing may not be about fixing what was broken, but about remembering who we were before the breaking began." -Seattle Book Review, five stars
"Riveting and revelatory. . . . A book that had to be written-bold, beautiful, and brilliant. . . . You will not be able to put this book down." -Suzanne Eder, award-winning author, teacher, healer, and guide
"A visceral and intimate memoir about the cost of silence, the weight of perfection, and the courage it takes to come home to oneself." -Caitlin Riley, director, Psychedelic Society of Texas
"A hard-hitting memoir of family, forgiveness, trauma, and recovery. . . . Highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review
"A courageous and deeply moving memoir that bears witness to the lifelong impact of trauma and the strength it takes to keep going. . . . Hope is not naive-it is an act of bravery." -Shonnery Pettit, former president of the board of directors, Center for Child Protection
"My Mother Is a Dragonfly is a courageous and deeply honest memoir about what it means to heal at the root. With rare vulnerability, Amy Scott Rooker invites us into her inner world and shows how childhood trauma doesn't simply hurt-it lives in the body, shaping relationships, behaviors, and self-perception long after the original wounds are forgotten. . . . A powerful story of integration." -Tamara Hostetler, licensed marriage and family therapist
"My Mother Is a Dragonfly is a brave journey through grief, trauma, and remembrance that reveals how pain can become a sacred teacher. . . . This is a story of ancestral threads, mystical signs, and the graceful courage it takes to choose evolution over stagnation and love over pain." -Mary Olivar, executive director, The Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange