Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught writer and artist from the East Coast who now lives and works in Nashville. She is the author of "My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown," a 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: A Journal for Self-Realization" and "Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-Exploration." Her writing has appeared in VOGUE India, Spirituality & Health, and FLOW Magazine, among others.