"The Blooming of the Lotus for Professionals" is a unique resource for all those professionals who impact the lives of survivors of childhood incest and sexual abuse.

Survivors often feel alone in their experiences, with emotions that linger long after the trauma is over. In her groundbreaking poetic memoir, "The Blooming of the Lotus: a spiritual journey from trauma into light," Robin Lynn Brooks takes survivors on her deeply personal journey of healing. As she travels on her awe-inspiring quest down into the abyss and back out again, she lets survivors know they are not...

Now in her early 70's, the author looks back on her life: her family, the choices she made and the paths she took--with the last 60 years as a backdrop. She tells her very personal stories of the legacy she received, the impact of McCarthyism on her childhood, coming of age in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's, and how she found her voice in the second wave of the women's liberation movement of the mid-1970's. She describes her transformation from a self-hating and hiding fat child into a proud fat woman who joined the fat liberation and size acceptance movements and...