Fear Differential is a universal story of transcendence. It's about how the main character – Maria, overcame her personal fears and how she navigated her outer reality by going inwards and listening to her inner guidance. She plunged into the hardship of a challenging nursing career, naïve and weak at fi rst, but emerged confi dent and strong to face the many challenges in her work and personal life. Falling in love with her patient as her marriage falls apart, she re-discovered her inner joy. Witnessing so much suffering in her patients before they die, she found her own truth unraveled in the horrors of medical nightmare. She found strength as she coped with the betrayal of her toxic co-workers and learned to fl ow through the battles she endured working in the transplant unit. Her path to self-discovery took her to a tranquil setting in a Buddhist retreat center where she journeyed through her inner landscape and experienced a homecoming. And at the same time connecting with the natural world in a deeper level. She felt renewed after she emptied herself in the silent void only to be challenged again, this time with a bigger test to her faith. She found the courage to move on after her losses, deaths and divorce in times of Covid, through acceptance and letting her be swept away by the currents of her life without resistance… just like the old man in the river embedded in her childhood memory. It's a story of triumph over adversities, turning her wounds into wisdom and how her belief in a Higher Power and her connection with it played a crucial role in overcoming obstacles in her life. Maria's story is not unique. Her experiences are shared by all nurses working in the trenches of 'sick care'.
