Fear Differential

Fear Differential is a universal story of transcendence. It's abouthow the main character Maria, overcame her personal fearsand how she navigated her outer reality by going inwards andlistening to her inner guidance. She plunged into the hardshipof a challenging nursing career, naive and weak at fi rst, butemerged confi dent and strong to face the many challenges inher work and personal life. Falling in love with her patient as her marriage falls apart, shere-discovered her inner joy. Witnessing so much suffering in herpatients before they die, she found her own truth unraveledin the horrors of medical nightmare. She found strengthas she coped with the betrayal of her toxic co-workersand learned to fl ow through the battles she enduredworking in the transplant unit. Her path to self-discovery took her to a tranquilsetting in a Buddhist retreat center where shejourneyed through her inner landscape andexperienced a homecoming. And at the sametime connecting with the natural world in adeeper level. She felt renewed after sheemptied herself in the silent void only tobe challenged again, this time with abigger test to her faith. She found the courage to move onafter her losses, deaths and divorce intimes of Covid, through acceptanceand letting her be swept away by the currentsof her life without resistance just like the old man in theriver embedded in her childhood memory. It s a story of triumph over adversities, turning her wounds intowisdom and how her belief in a Higher Power and her connectionwith it played a crucial role in overcoming obstacles in her life. Maria s story is not unique. Her experiences are shared by allnurses working in the trenches of sick care .