Rooting & Rising Offers a New Living-Systems Approach to Healing Through Change
DENVER, CO — December 10, 2025 — Rooting & Rising is a workbook for the moments when the ground shifts—when the body, identity, or life itself is reorganizing. Designed for people navigating surgery, chronic symptoms, emotional transitions, or burnout, it offers a living-systems path for healing at the speed of biology.
Born from Lex Amore’s own preparation for major surgery—after years of chronic symptoms, neurological injury, and cyclical pain—Rooting & Rising began as a personal lifeline. What started as a way to track energy, offer a soft grounding spot for moments of uncertainty, hold fear gently, and build capacity without pressure evolved into a comprehensive workbook for anyone moving through a threshold moment.
“There are seasons when the ground shifts beneath us,” Amore writes. “Healing isn’t a straight line—it’s a living rhythm. This workbook honors the intelligence already present in the body and in nature.”
Drawing from nervous system science, ecological resilience, trauma-informed pacing, and compassionate inquiry, Rooting & Rising reframes healing as a seasonal process. Instead of rigid timelines or productivity-driven recovery plans, the workbook mirrors how forests regenerate after fire, how roots strengthen underground, and how ecosystems adapt to new conditions.
Structured around four universal phases—Preparation, Threshold, Recovery, and Integration—the workbook includes:
an 8-week preparation phase for building capacity
a tender threshold week for navigating uncertainty
a 12-week recovery arc shaped by nature’s regeneration rhythms
tools for grief, fear, identity shifts, and emotional reorganization
nourishment, movement, and sleep supports for rebuilding energy
pacing maps, belonging cues, communication scripts, and ritual frameworks
long-term integration practices for returning to life with clarity and steadiness
“This is not a planner,” Amore emphasizes. “It’s a soft, steady place to land. A structure without pressure. A reminder that healing is grown—rhythm by rhythm, season by season—not forced.”
While originally designed to support her own surgical recovery, Amore soon realized the framework applied far beyond one medical moment. The workbook now serves people healing from illness, burnout, stress collapse, emotional upheaval, or identity change; preparing for postpartum or perimenopause; navigating career shifts, relocations, or relationship transitions; or sensing a threshold season approaching.
At its core, Rooting & Rising rests on a foundational truth: “You are a living system.” The body, like any ecosystem, is responsive, relational, and shaped by context. Conditions—not willpower—determine capacity. When rest, nourishment, boundaries, and belonging are present, resilience emerges naturally. Amore’s work invites readers into this ecological perspective.
“Healing is, at its essence, an act of kinship,” she writes. “When we align with the patterns that sustain life, we begin to heal in ways that support not just ourselves, but the systems we’re deeply interconnected with and a part of.”
Rooting & Rising extends the lineage begun in Amore’s first book, The Resilient Living Systems Playbook, offering a more intimate, hands-on application of living-systems principles to personal healing and daily life.
Book Details
Title: Rooting & Rising: A Living-Systems Workbook for Moving Through Change
Author: Lex Amore
Release Date: December 10, 2025
Format: Print edition
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9798276534299
Imprint: Independently published
Retail Price: $19.99
About the Author
Lex Amore is a storyteller, regenerative strategist, and founder of Heal with Amore, where she integrates mindfulness, movement, and nature into pathways of personal and systemic healing. She holds a Master of Science in Biomimicry from Arizona State University and has collaborated with hundreds of biomimicry groups and practitioners worldwide, sharing this practice across diverse settings—from youth programs and university classrooms to corporate boardrooms. Her work illuminates the interconnections between body, culture, and ecology. Through her writing and coaching, Lex invites people to remember their belonging in the living world—through breath, embodiment, and relationship.
For Review Copies, Interviews, or Media Inquiries: Please contact Lex Amore at lex@healwithamore.com or visit www.healwithamore.com/contact.
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