SPEAKING & appearnaces
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About Amy
Amy Scott Rooker speaks about trauma, identity collapse, and the unexpected ways healing begins. A former corporate attorney and tech executive, she shares the personal journey behind her memoir My Mother Is a Dragonfly—and the deeper questions it raises about grief, awakening, and what it means to rebuild a life that is truly your own. Blending storytelling, insight, and lived experience, her talks resonate with audiences navigating loss, transformation, or the quiet sense that the life they’ve built may not be the life they are meant to live.
Speaking Topics
WHY BOOK AMY
• She speaks candidly about childhood sexual abuse and how trauma shapes identity
• She knows what it means to “have it all” and still feel disconnected
• She speaks clearly about awakening, psychedelics, identity collapse, grief, coping strategies, and integration
• She challenges conventional narratives around healing and forgiveness
• Holds the complexity of trauma without reducing it to tidy redemption
• She speaks to a growing cultural reckoning around abuse, silence, family systems, and the lifelong cost of carrying what others refused to name
• She leaves audiences with new questions about their own lives—and greater permission to tell the truth
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TOPICS AMY CAN DISCUSS
• Childhood sexual abuse, family systems, and silence
• High-functioning survival and self-abandonment
• Trauma, self-abandonment, and returning to the body
• Grief, identity rupture, and awakening
• Psychedelics as catalysts—and the work of integration
• Signs, loss, and the fear of death
• Spiritual awakening—what it is and isn’t
• Identity collapse when success no longer fits
• Forgiveness not as absolution—but as grace
• When what breaks us becomes the way through
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