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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
• Speaks candidly about childhood sexual abuse and how trauma shapes identity.
• Offers a rare perspective on high-functioning survival and identity collapse.
• Explores grief, psychedelic healing, and spiritual awakening with nuance and depth.
• Challenges conventional narratives around healing and forgiveness.
• Holds the complexity of trauma without reducing it to tidy redemption.
• Leaves audiences seeing their own lives with new clarity.
SAMPLE TALKS
• Childhood sexual abuse within a family system, silence, and generational trauma
• High-functioning survival and self-abandonment after abuse
• How trauma drives addiction and disordered eating-and coming home to the body
• How grief and loss rupture identity and open the door to awakening
• Psychedelics as catalysts, not cures— and the necessity of integration
• Experiencing signs after her mother's death-and how it changed her fear of death
• What spiritual awakening actually is and why it cannot be forced
• Identity collapse when success, roles, and old assumptions no longer fit
• Presence as a return to agency and choice in each moment
• Reclaiming parts of the self across time-healing beyond linear narrative
• Forgiveness as freedom without excusing harm or requiring reconciliation
• Why healing is not about fixing yourself or being broken
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