A Memoir
By Amy Scott Rooker
AVAILABLE MAY 12, 2026
“An act of love—toward the past and the future alike.”
—Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author
About My Mother Is a Dragonfly
What if healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken—but remembering what’s true? A luminous memoir about family fractures, forgiveness, and the miracles that call us back to love.
For decades, Amy Scott Rooker lived split in two: the bright, high-achieving woman everyone saw and the invisible girl inside who carried unspeakable wounds. She tried to outrun the pain with perfection—law school, prestigious jobs, an ever-shrinking body. But underneath it all, she was barely holding on.
Then her mother died. With her death came rupture. The fragile order Amy had built her life around began to crumble. She couldn’t pretend anymore. Something inside her refused. And somehow—her mother did too. Signs began to appear. Dragonflies.
So began Amy's journey to heal. Through psychedelic medicine, mystical experiences, and unflinching self-inquiry, Amy discovered the strange intelligence of pain—how every hurt can become a doorway, every loss a lantern. She learned to forgive what almost broke her and to love the woman rising from the wreckage.
My Mother Is a Dragonfly is a testament to the fierce, tender work of reclaiming your life—not as a story to be fixed, but as the one you came here to live.
“Deeply unsettling and profoundly redemptive… a journey that is as raw as it is luminous.”
—Seattle Book Review
About the Author
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—not as absolution, but as grace. Her debut memoir, My Mother Is a Dragonfly, chronicles how one woman’s deepest wounds became the doorway to her freedom.
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.
