Publications

Publications For Reflection, Healing And Growth

self help, self love, self development

Growth begins where
discomfort meets courage.

No Mud, No Lotus is a heartfelt guide to self-love, healing, and personal transformation. No Mud, No Lotus

A heartfelt guide to self-love, healing, and personal transformation.

Inspired by the truth that growth often rises from life’s hardest moments, this book helps you reflect, reconnect, and rediscover your inner strength through the Garden Map—a pathway to blooming the lotus within, even from the mud you are in right now.

More than just a book, it includes gentle exercises, reflections, and practical prompts throughout the journey—so you won’t just read about healing, you’ll feel guided step by step as you grow.

If you feel lost, overwhelmed, or ready for deeper meaning, this book is a gentle reminder:

There is nothing wrong with you.
There is only something waiting to be understood.

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Bending, Growing and Flowering in Body and Spirit.

We are often told that aging is a process of fading. Science and ancient wisdom tell a completely different story: it is a sacred initiation.

Scheduled for release in October/November 2026, The Rare Bloom, Deeply Rooted serves as the perfect, soulful follow-up to No Mud, No Lotus. This book bridges cutting-edge modern science—specifically the landmark Stanford University study on the massive biological shifts women experience around ages 44 and 60—with profound spiritual devotion.

Drawing rich inspiration from the resilient Lucky Bamboo—a sacred plant that builds hidden networks underground, bends beautifully in the fiercest winds, and produces a legendary, rare flower only once in its lifetime—this guide offers a practical, comforting roadmap for women navigating the ages of 35 to 60 and beyond.

Featuring expert clinical contributions and gentle, universal food remedies powered by a well-known TCM organisation, alongside Doreen’s personal, curated daily practices—including The Morning Positivity Sky Ritual and The Nightly Self-Love Ritual—this book is designed to help you care for your mind, body, and soul.

You do not have to fear the passing of time. Your changing form is simply the line where your magnificent spirit is expanding.

Self-love and emotional healing journey

A gentle reflection on emotional presence, parenting and the quiet pressure many families carry unseen

Many parents spend years trying to become everything their children might need. They carry responsibilities, worries, expectations, emotional pressure, and the invisible fear of getting things wrong. Somewhere along the way, many quietly lose the ability to rest, soften, or simply be present inside ordinary moments.

No Perfect Parent, No Perfect Child is a compassionate exploration of emotional overwhelm, nervous systems, silent unhappiness, self-love, regret, healing, and the quiet ways families shape one another across time.

Written with warmth, honesty, and emotional insight, this book gently reminds readers that children do not need flawless parents. They need emotionally safe humans willing to keep learning, growing, repairing, and loving honestly through imperfect moments.

Through reflective stories, calming metaphors, practical observations, and gentle exercises, Doreen Lee invites readers to look beyond behavior and begin understanding the emotional world quietly living underneath it.

More than a parenting book, this is a book about emotional humanity, softness, and learning how to reconnect with ourselves and the people we love before life moves too quickly past us.

If you have ever wondered whether you were doing enough, carrying too much, or longing to become more emotionally present with the people you love, this book was written for you.

Perfection was never the true measure of love. Presence was.

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Where Strength Meets
Stillness.

Some men spend so much of their lives carrying responsibility that they no longer notice how much of themselves has been left behind along the way.

Trees Beside the Sea is a contemplative exploration of strength, identity, loneliness, responsibility, and the quiet emotional burdens many men carry throughout life. Through the symbolism of weathered coastal trees and the ever-changing sea, doreen lee gently examines what happens when strength becomes a place where men disappear inside themselves.

Without judgment or instruction, this book invites readers to pause and reflect on the expectations they have carried, the roles they have fulfilled, and the misconceptions that may have shaped the way they live, love, work, and endure.

Rich with nature-inspired reflections, personal insights, and guided exercises, Trees Beside the Sea offers a safe and thoughtful space for men to reconnect with themselves, rediscover what truly matters, and learn that resilience is not found in carrying everything alone.

This is a book for any man who has ever felt tired beneath the weight of responsibility, and for anyone who wishes to understand the silent storms that often exist beneath a steady exterior.

Magnificent spirit is expanding.

Front cover of Trees Beside the Sea by doreen lee, featuring a weathered coastal tree standing beside the sea under a calm sky.

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