Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life Paperback – August 6, 2025

"Inspiring guidance for personal transformation, based on real-life work."— Kirkus Reviews"If you want a simple step-by-step guide for a fulfilled life, this is the book."— Dr. Deepak Chopra"A wonderfully practical approach to nurturing balance and love in our everyday lives. A fantastic guide. Very highly recommended."— Readers' FavoriteYou've done everything right. So why doesn't life feel right?You're not falling apart. You're showing up for everyone who needs you. But somewhere between the responsibilities and the routines, something essential went quiet. You feel it in the flatness of ordinary days. In the sense that you're living around your life instead of inside it.This isn't a crisis. It's misalignment. And it's far more common than anyone admits.Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life (even when it's messy, hard, and uncertain) is a warm, practical, psychology-informed guide to emotional wellness, personal growth, and real life balance. Not a perfect life. A life you actually love.What makes this different from every other self-help bookMost personal growth approaches want you to think harder, hustle smarter, or adopt a new morning routine. Root-to-Rise takes a different approach entirely. It treats your life as a living ecosystem and guides you through the three questions at the heart of every meaningful life change: What do you actually want? Why do you want it? And which roots need nourishing to get you there?Drawing on human needs psychology and nature-based wisdom, Root-to-Rise helps you identify the six core emotional needs that silently drive your decisions. When those needs go unmet, you feel it everywhere: in your energy, your relationships, your work, and your sense of self. When they're nourished? Everything starts to shift.Built around the Root-to-Rise Framework, this book helps you strengthen your foundation across five key life areas: Health, Family, Relationships, Career, and Friends & Community. Because a fulfilling life doesn't grow from one strong root. It grows from all of them.Inside Root-to-Rise, you'll learn how to:Identify the hidden emotional needs quietly running your lifeStrengthen all five roots, not just the ones demanding your attentionClear the limiting beliefs and fears that have kept you circling the same patternsBuild genuine emotional resilience without burning out or shutting downMake decisions with more clarity, confidence, and self-trustReconnect with your values, your intuition, and your authentic purposeCreate a personal Life-Mapping plan so your next chapter actually feels like yoursThis book is for you if:You feel successful on paper but quietly unfulfilled insideYou're moving through a life transition, reinvention, grief, or major changeYou're burned out, running on empty, or just asking "Is this really it?"You want emotional healing with real structure, not vague inspirationYou're a coach, therapist, or leader who supports others and knows you need this tooWritten by Chandra Lynn, MBA, certified transformation coach, speaker, and entrepreneur with 25 years of leading marketing for some of the world's most recognized brands and artists. Root-to-Rise treats your life as a living ecosystem and uses human needs psychology, nature-based wisdom, and actionable coaching practices to help you nourish it from the roots up.If you're ready to stop just getting through it and start genuinely loving it, Root-to-Rise is your guide.Want to go deeper? Check out Root-to-Rise Workbook: Love Life by Design as part of this book series. Visit glowliving.com for resources and updates. Read more