Healing takes time. Your story matters.
The Lotus Rising Journal is a quiet space to write and reflect; created with transplant patients in mind, and open to anyone walking a gentle path of healing.
You don’t have to navigate this alone
Many transplant patients find themselves feeling isolated and uncertain as they move through the long, unpredictable path of healing.
The medical side of recovery is often well supported, but it can be challenging to find gentle spaces to hold the emotional mix of fear, gratitude, and grief that can come after a transplant.
Without that space, it can be hard to honor the pace of healing in a way that feels true and compassionate.
The Lotus Rising Journal was created as a space for reflection, giving transplant patients a place to pause, write, and simply be with their own story.
Through gentle prompts, affirmations, mantras, and reflection pages, it offers a way to process feelings without pressure or expectation. It’s not about rushing toward answers, but about creating room to breathe, to notice, and to honor each step of healing in your own time.
The Lotus Rising Journal
By Anne Norris
$34.95
The Lotus Rising Journal is a 6x9" softcover, spiral-bound guide created especially with transplant patients in mind. Inside, you’ll find 200+ pages woven with gentle writing prompts, affirmations, reflection pages, mantras, and coloring pages; each designed to offer comfort, calm, and space for your own words.
More than just a notebook, this journal is a supportive tool for honoring your healing journey, processing emotions at your own pace, and finding light in the quiet moments along the way.
The Lotus Rising Journal is designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Each page offers something different: a writing prompt to spark reflection, a mantra to bring calm, a coloring page to invite stillness, or open space for your own words. You don’t need to follow a set order; simply turn to the page that speaks to you in the moment.
There’s no right or wrong way to use it. Some days you may write a few lines, other days you may just sit with a quote or shade in a drawing. The journal is meant to move with you, offering a gentle rhythm of pause and presence as you continue your healing journey.
About Lotus Rising
Welcome, I’m Anne Norris. In 2014, everything shifted when my brother passed away. Not long after, I started losing my hearing. We didn’t realize at the time that it was part of something bigger.
Five years later, at what I thought would be just a routine appointment, I was told I was already in stage 4 kidney failure. In 2020, I was diagnosed with Alport Syndrome, a genetic condition that explained both my hearing loss and kidney disease. By 2021, I began the long, exhausting process of being added to the transplant list and was finally approved on Good Friday of 2022.
One year later, again, on Good Friday, I got the call that someone who had been testing for me was a match. On June 7, 2023, I received my transplant. I didn’t realize until a year later that June 7 was also the date of my brother’s first transplant. The universe has a way of showing up in the most mysterious ways.
At the same time, I was managing the responsibilities of my professional career. For years, I’ve served in leadership roles, all while navigating serious health challenges in the background.
I’ve learned how to perform under pressure, but I’ve also learned that real strength doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from pausing, listening, and finding new ways to heal. Since then, life has been a mix of hope and hard moments: rejection scares, hospital stays, skin cancer, infections, and open-heart surgery. It’s been the hardest season of my life and the reason Lotus Rising was created.
Writing gave me a way to process what I was carrying, to make sense of the messiness, and to keep moving forward. Out of that practice came the Lotus Rising Journal; space I created for anyone walking through healing, loss, or transformation.
The transplant wasn’t the end of my story. It was the beginning of a new chapter. My hope is that these pages remind you that, wherever you are on your journey, you don’t have to walk it alone.
With Love,
Anne