Your Inner Tree; Building a Mindfulness Toolkit, is written by the author of the memoir A World Turned Upside Down; A Memoir of Healing. It is a self-help book that offers personal anecdotes and includes the reader in an ongoing dialogue as it offers guidance on surviving and thriving through trauma and life’s ongoing challenges. It emphasizes resilience as a flexible, adaptive process, not a process that involves one bouncing back to the life that once was. Resilience is the process of using creativity, self-belief, and acceptance to define a new or slightly altered pathway while embracing new directions and new limitations. Resilience is the ability to move forward, at any pace. The author shares personal insights on grieving loss, managing negative thoughts, and finding hope amid uncertainty.

At the heart of this journey is a powerful visualization—the Tree as Self—a metaphor for foundation, grounding, strength, resilience, change, and renewal. Just as every tree must find its ideal soil and withstand the changing seasons, each of us must learn how to stay rooted amid life’s storms and how to navigate and adapt to survive.

“At the heart of this book is the sustained metaphor of the tree as self… this imagery serves as both a grounding visualization and an analytic framework for examining safety, trust, control, grief, and growth in the aftermath of trauma…
An uplifting guide for anyone struggling to stay grounded on shifting earth.”  – Kirkus Reviews