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Surrender: poems for healing, growth, and love
From the bestselling poetry author of "Burn" comes "Surrender", a poetic journey through healing, change, acceptance, and love.
These beautiful and relatable poems and quotes will inspire and awaken the soul. "Surrender" is about healing, letting go, letting flow, and letting in. It's about closing your wounds, getting out of your own way, affirming the spirit, bring open to love, and standing in your truth.
This book is for you
-You are healing from your past
-You are going through a period of change/transition
-You are ready to move on from heartbreak
-You are queer, closeted, or questioning
-You are on a journey toward self love
-You are ready to claim your power and stand in your truth
-You are ready to let new love in or are currently in love
-You want daily, poetic empowerment
Readers of Emily Juniper, Michaela Angemeer, Rupi Kaur, Shelby Leigh, Beau Taplin, Jennae Cecelia, Whitney Hanson, and FS Yousaf will devour "Surrender".
These beautiful and relatable poems and quotes will inspire and awaken the soul. "Surrender" is about healing, letting go, letting flow, and letting in. It's about closing your wounds, getting out of your own way, affirming the spirit, bring open to love, and standing in your truth.
This book is for you
-You are healing from your past
-You are going through a period of change/transition
-You are ready to move on from heartbreak
-You are queer, closeted, or questioning
-You are on a journey toward self love
-You are ready to claim your power and stand in your truth
-You are ready to let new love in or are currently in love
-You want daily, poetic empowerment
Readers of Emily Juniper, Michaela Angemeer, Rupi Kaur, Shelby Leigh, Beau Taplin, Jennae Cecelia, Whitney Hanson, and FS Yousaf will devour "Surrender".
- GenresPoetry
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2022
84 people are currently reading
238 people want to read
About the author
Stefanie Briar
16 books51 followersStefanie Briar is a queer 37-year-old poet and editor from New Jersey. She is known for creating powerful, relatable, accessible poetry and prose that stands out from the crowd. Her goals are to make her readers feel seen/understood and to prove that poetry is not a dead language. Aside from her own author career, she uses her university degrees and 14 years of experience teaching English to work as a freelance editor. Poets who are publishing books of their own hire her to edit and proofread their manuscripts.
Her latest release, "Iron & Velvet" (2023) quickly joined the ranks of "Surrender" (2022), "Shades of Ruin" (2022), and "Burn" (2021) as #1 bestsellers on Amazon. She also wrote "Cosmosis" and "Homecoming" back in 2020.
Authored Works:
Her debut book, "Cosmosis", a poetic journey through love/heartbreak, was released on 4/26/20. This book is a missions project where royalties are donated to anti-racism causes and organizations, such as Black Girls Code, The Loveland Foundation, and the NAACP.
Briar released her second book, "Homecoming", on 1/1/21. This book of poetry and prose chronicles healing, strength, wisdom, and finding your way back home to yourself.
"Burn", her third book, was released on 4/18/21, and became a #1 New Release. "Burn" is bold, fiery, passionate, and powerful in its poetic journey through the multitudes of life, self, and love. Most of the book's poetry uses fire metaphors, imagery, and/or allusions. Stef cites "Burn" as the book that "put her on the map" as a modern poet.
"Shades of Ruin" was released on 1/11/22, debuting as a #1 New Release in numerous categories and quickly becoming a #1 bestseller. This short collection of poems is an emotional powerhouse, more of a continuously-moving story arc than an anthology, and reads like a poetic novella. It follows a love story from the initial collision all the way up through the letting go. The writing is raw, brutal, honest, passionate, and magnificently crafted.
"Surrender" (Stefanie's personal favorite of her published works) was released on 8/12/22, her 37th birthday. It began its life as #1 New Release in 6 Amazon categories and went on to hit #1 bestseller rankings numerous times, It has surpassed "Burn" as her #1 selling book. Surrender is a celebration of healing, change, acceptance, and love. It poetically chronicles what it is to live, feel, love, grow, let go, and find peace within yourself. No topics are off limits, and this is her most diverse body of work to date. Among the subjects are:
-healing
-overcoming past trauma
-mending the heart
-putting past relationships into perspective
-self love
- personal growth
-claiming your power
-coming out as queer
-sapphic love
-letting love back in again
"Iron & Velvet" released on April 1, 2023 as an instant #1 bestseller. This book is a poetic journey through a heart breaking and then blooming. The first chapter "The Iron" chronicles heartbreak, breaking up, loss, grief, pain, and dark night of the soul. These poems are raw and will grip the soul. "The Velvet" chapter 2, details the journey back to one's center, where healing takes place. It is full of heartfelt truths, bits of wisdom, gentle reminders, sound advice, and extremely relatable poems about coming back home to yourself after your heart has been broken.
Stefanie has a growing readership of over 350,000 across her 2 platforms. She is humbled and grateful to be able to share her love of words with the world.
Her latest release, "Iron & Velvet" (2023) quickly joined the ranks of "Surrender" (2022), "Shades of Ruin" (2022), and "Burn" (2021) as #1 bestsellers on Amazon. She also wrote "Cosmosis" and "Homecoming" back in 2020.
Authored Works:
Her debut book, "Cosmosis", a poetic journey through love/heartbreak, was released on 4/26/20. This book is a missions project where royalties are donated to anti-racism causes and organizations, such as Black Girls Code, The Loveland Foundation, and the NAACP.
Briar released her second book, "Homecoming", on 1/1/21. This book of poetry and prose chronicles healing, strength, wisdom, and finding your way back home to yourself.
"Burn", her third book, was released on 4/18/21, and became a #1 New Release. "Burn" is bold, fiery, passionate, and powerful in its poetic journey through the multitudes of life, self, and love. Most of the book's poetry uses fire metaphors, imagery, and/or allusions. Stef cites "Burn" as the book that "put her on the map" as a modern poet.
"Shades of Ruin" was released on 1/11/22, debuting as a #1 New Release in numerous categories and quickly becoming a #1 bestseller. This short collection of poems is an emotional powerhouse, more of a continuously-moving story arc than an anthology, and reads like a poetic novella. It follows a love story from the initial collision all the way up through the letting go. The writing is raw, brutal, honest, passionate, and magnificently crafted.
"Surrender" (Stefanie's personal favorite of her published works) was released on 8/12/22, her 37th birthday. It began its life as #1 New Release in 6 Amazon categories and went on to hit #1 bestseller rankings numerous times, It has surpassed "Burn" as her #1 selling book. Surrender is a celebration of healing, change, acceptance, and love. It poetically chronicles what it is to live, feel, love, grow, let go, and find peace within yourself. No topics are off limits, and this is her most diverse body of work to date. Among the subjects are:
-healing
-overcoming past trauma
-mending the heart
-putting past relationships into perspective
-self love
- personal growth
-claiming your power
-coming out as queer
-sapphic love
-letting love back in again
"Iron & Velvet" released on April 1, 2023 as an instant #1 bestseller. This book is a poetic journey through a heart breaking and then blooming. The first chapter "The Iron" chronicles heartbreak, breaking up, loss, grief, pain, and dark night of the soul. These poems are raw and will grip the soul. "The Velvet" chapter 2, details the journey back to one's center, where healing takes place. It is full of heartfelt truths, bits of wisdom, gentle reminders, sound advice, and extremely relatable poems about coming back home to yourself after your heart has been broken.
Stefanie has a growing readership of over 350,000 across her 2 platforms. She is humbled and grateful to be able to share her love of words with the world.
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October 5, 2022
Amazing book! So different from a lot of very repetitive poetry books! Stefanie has such a way with words I don’t have a way to explain it properly. I would definitely recommend this book to any of my lgbtq+ gals <3
Here’s a few quotes:
“What I can tell you is that every day
brings the slightest bit of change.
With each new sunrise, you put a little more distance between yourself
and all the tears vou've cried.
Every breath you take moves you further away from all the pain you're afraid you will never escape.
But you will,
and it will get better someday.”
“At the end of the day, we are nothing but broken skin and tired bones, and rushing blood
just hoping we're enough.”
Here’s a few quotes:
“What I can tell you is that every day
brings the slightest bit of change.
With each new sunrise, you put a little more distance between yourself
and all the tears vou've cried.
Every breath you take moves you further away from all the pain you're afraid you will never escape.
But you will,
and it will get better someday.”
“At the end of the day, we are nothing but broken skin and tired bones, and rushing blood
just hoping we're enough.”
August 16, 2022
An empowering and healing poetry book
In Surrender, Stefanie Briar takes the reader on a journey with her as she speaks with beauty, power and great insight on healing and gives the reader ways we can begin or continue our own healing journey. I felt so connected to the power of her words that I was in tears, but tears of healing and letting go. I found the section on “Change” so important as we cannot heal and grow without it. The section “Love” helps others fell that if they work on healing and changing they will not have to search for or force love. Briar’s love poems are so beautiful that they show that it does not matter the gender of the person you love, for love truly is love. I appreciate her bravery in speaking her truth to help inspire and empower others who are still in earlier phases, whether it be that they are lost, or have yet to embark on a healing path. Grateful to read this transformative book so eloquently written. Perhaps one of the greatest lines for me, and where I am on my own journey, “You cannot love someone into choosing you.” Thank you Stefanie for your words and your light.
Michele Scirocco
@phoenixrisingpoet
In Surrender, Stefanie Briar takes the reader on a journey with her as she speaks with beauty, power and great insight on healing and gives the reader ways we can begin or continue our own healing journey. I felt so connected to the power of her words that I was in tears, but tears of healing and letting go. I found the section on “Change” so important as we cannot heal and grow without it. The section “Love” helps others fell that if they work on healing and changing they will not have to search for or force love. Briar’s love poems are so beautiful that they show that it does not matter the gender of the person you love, for love truly is love. I appreciate her bravery in speaking her truth to help inspire and empower others who are still in earlier phases, whether it be that they are lost, or have yet to embark on a healing path. Grateful to read this transformative book so eloquently written. Perhaps one of the greatest lines for me, and where I am on my own journey, “You cannot love someone into choosing you.” Thank you Stefanie for your words and your light.
Michele Scirocco
@phoenixrisingpoet
June 3, 2024
I wanted to read more poetry this year, and TikTok sent me this way. I have to say, the poetry is beautiful, undeniably. I do feel like a lot of the poems dealing with losing someone romantically was really hard for me to vibe with, since that's not something I've experienced--or haven't experienced in a way that I felt personally affected me in such as way as the poet felt it. That being said, some other subjects in here I felt very personally, and it was beautiful to read. I would still highly recommend this collection, if for no other reason than to remind ourselves that contemporary poetry is worth a read as well.
August 15, 2023
Feeling the aching and burning
The ebb and flow of this book was enough to invoke memories I've long buried. There were passages that were able to describe experiences I had not been able to explain to others, and I have felt the same emotions throughout my years. I loved it. I'll be getting a paper copy as well.
The ebb and flow of this book was enough to invoke memories I've long buried. There were passages that were able to describe experiences I had not been able to explain to others, and I have felt the same emotions throughout my years. I loved it. I'll be getting a paper copy as well.
September 6, 2023
Awe-inspiring
I really enjoyed reading this book. There were quite a few pages where I just stopped, because it hit way to close to home, but in a way I have never read/heard about before, but in a good way. Thank you, for this book.
I really enjoyed reading this book. There were quite a few pages where I just stopped, because it hit way to close to home, but in a way I have never read/heard about before, but in a good way. Thank you, for this book.
September 17, 2024
Intense - Exactly how I like it.
This is one of the deepest feel books I have ever read and loved every bit of it! If you're ready to dive deep inside your own mind, body, soul, and heart - Surrender to Surrender. I'm glad I did.
This is one of the deepest feel books I have ever read and loved every bit of it! If you're ready to dive deep inside your own mind, body, soul, and heart - Surrender to Surrender. I'm glad I did.
November 24, 2022
AMAZING...
January 2, 2023
BEST POETRY BOOK ABOUT HEALING, GROWTH, and LOVE 💚 I really enjoyed this book for multiple reasons, but ultimately it was beautifully written and organized.
January 5, 2023
I have a lot of the poems/writings marked so I can go back and read again when needed!
February 4, 2023
Brilliant
Straight to the heart and relatable for the types of loved that rip out your heart and mend it all at once.
Straight to the heart and relatable for the types of loved that rip out your heart and mend it all at once.
February 26, 2023
Good
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 27, 2023
The only reason I gave this book 3 ⭐️’s was simply because there was a lot that I couldn’t really relate to! Still a great read but wasn’t relatable enough.
May 5, 2024
some chapters were better than others, but was NOT a fan of the last few
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