Fear invites the impossible to happen
Meera opens with a story about almost drowning at a birthday party as a little girl, and uses her journey to taking swimming lessons in her 30’s as a way to chronicle her relationship with fear. She teaches us that fear, if you look at it right, reveals what you want most out of life — and that making friends with your fear can help you to find the life you’re meant to live.
About the speaker
Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught writer and artist who believes that anything is possible. Everything she creates is based on this simple principle.
She is the author of My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown (Penguin Random House) a beautiful meditation on fear and how it can help us become who we really are-if we let it.
She is also the author of two journals: Made Out of Stars (Penguin Random House), a journal for self-realization that encourages the belief that we are already whole. Start Where You Are (Penguin Random House), is a journal for self-exploration that is designed to help others understand that the answers they are seeking are contained within themselves.
She has worked with incredible clients all over the world, including Lenny Letter, FLOW Magazine, Sagmeister & Walsh, Anthropologie, Food52, and Vogue India. Born and raised on the east coast, she now lives and works in Nashville, TN.
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