On the Other Side of Fear
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DEAR YOU
You, the one reading these words
you, with your ancient, wanting heart
you, wondering if you'll ever
get it right
I invite you to pause
for a moment
to listen to the space
between
these words
to the space where softness
rests
and hunger
fades
to the space that so
gently
asks you to
stop
the thoughts
that doubt your worth
to stop the voices that compare
and leave you feeling
less
There is no less
there are no shadows or shoulds, no pretty or good
no bad or broken, no right or wrong in
Love
There is only this breath
and that which breathes it
there is only You
and your giggling, fully blossomed
Self
ready
ready right now
to shine
its newborn
ancient
just right
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About the Book
“It seems laughably inadequate to call Julia Fehrenbacher’s On the Other Side of Fear a collection of poetry. It is that, of course—graceful, lyrical, wise poems about life, love, doubt, faith and the sweet, simple anatomy of a moment. But it’s more than that. On the Other Side of Fear is an invitation to shed the weight of your past, get naked and real and ‘wide-eyed awake to the undeniable poetry of it all.’
“Reading Julia is like waking up to find your dream is still there, all around you, unabashedly grand and utterly obtainable. Her poems resonate with a precise, astonishing power, and each piece of Julia’s art is like a breath of rarified air.
“On the Other Side of Fear feels like coming home … to the home you always wish you had, to the home you deserve, to the home you’ve been carrying around inside you without ever realizing it was there, accessible and welcoming, the whole time. Read these poems and fall in love with your beautiful, imperfect self; in Julia’s words, ‘slow way down/ get close and closer/ listen like crazy to your life.’”
— Judy Clement Wall, writer at AhumanThing.net
About the Author
JULIA FEHRENBACHER is a writer, a poet, and a painter. Her life’s work is to step into her truest, most empowered self so that she may guide others to the same. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband and two little girls.
www.paintedpath.org
www.juliafeh.etsy.com