Your heart extends out many feet before you, 
and it was wonderful just to be in your lovely soft presence.
Mary Ryan, Blue Dragon Apothecary

Robin Lynn Brooks
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About Robin

Robin is referred to as “one of the iconic people” in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and “like a prophet for many.” 

She is a published poet and playwright, and her art has traveled nationwide. She received her Masters in Sculpture at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is working on a prose sequel to The Blooming of the Lotus, a memoir on the year 1980 when her life began, a book on healing through nature, and one on healing through art.  

The earth is vital to Robin, as are the elements of nature. Her very name is born of the earth. The meanings of “Robin” and “Brooks” are obvious, and her middle name “Lynn” means “clear pool of water.” 

Robin lives in western Massachusetts on an old farm that borders the state forest. It was here that she found her first mothering — in the earth. The white pines behind her house shelter her. The Lake in the woods is her temple. This was the place of nurturance that gave her the support to heal and to create The Blooming of the Lotus.
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In her own words...

I am a survivor of a brutal childhood. 

It wasn’t until both of my parents were gone that the worst of the memories began to surface.

I had not written poetry for a very long time, but as I faced these memories, suddenly poems began to come. In so many of them, I wrote my way to the other side.

As the poems kept rising up out of me, I realized I wanted to share the process of my own healing with other survivors. I wanted to offer hope and healing from all that I had learned. I also wanted to inform the professionals who interact with survivors so they might come to know what it means to feel this kind of pain and confusion and maybe help.

Five years and hundreds of poems later, I had finally moved from the darkest abyss out into the light and to the fulfillment of who I am. In the process, I wrote ​The Blooming of the Lotus: a spiritual journey from trauma into light.

Author Robin Lynn Brooks wrote the book, an instrumental part of her healing. 
She collaborated with trauma specialist Dr. AnDréya Wilde who organized the poems clinically to follow the natural order of healing. Dr. Wilde also wrote the Foreword.
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Dr. AnDréya Wilde holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has been in private practice for over 35 years, specializing in both relationship issues and in PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). She has worked extensively with individuals and couples who have experienced all forms of trauma originating from emotional issues in childhood, as well as with survivors of sexual, psychological, physical, and psychic abuse.

Dr. Wilde has, for 12 years, been a senior clinical consultant working with Vietnam veterans who have experienced PTSD from serving in Vietnam. She has also provided couples therapy as well as individual work with their partners. 

Dr. Wilde emphasizes the importance of integrating spiritual as well as emotional healing in whatever context resonates for each client. She believes that the actual heart of healing not only involves healing one’s current past, but that true healing also involves learning to live fully in one's Present.

Dr. Wilde can be reached at 413-323-1133