13 Copies
a day of surrenderance
Shameless Self-Promote Sunday!
I hope all you lovely humans are resting, recouping, and maybe a little bored—bored enough to check (and read!) your emails, hehe.
Today, I want to share a bit more about my second poetry book, Die with Me: Surrendering to Suffering.
Yes, the title is a bit… stark. But it speaks directly to what the book is about: loss, grief, and the necessity of embracing change. Die with Me is an invitation—a call to action. It’s a collection of poetry that poured out of me in the year after I lost my dog, Tabby.
Tabby wasn’t just a pet; she was my first experience of unconditional love. Animals are pure elements; they love without the complications of human consciousness. Tabby taught me this form of love—the truest form.
When she passed, a part of me went with her: the part that held onto limiting beliefs about love, that sought conditional love, that was traumatized, lost, and addicted. Her death facilitated my rebirth, but that rebirth demanded a price—surrendering to suffering.
I had to surrender to the grief of losing her and the parts of myself that needed to be released so I could experience a rebirth in how I show up in the world. The poems in this collection walk through my journey of surrender.
Can you relate to this experience? We can all relate to life’s ebb and flow. But can you relate to choosing surrender in order to ascend, to transform?
This book is for you, for anyone at the crossroads between resistance and surrender. My hope for us all is that we choose surrender, again and again.
In many spiritual traditions, 13 symbolizes transformation, change, and rebirth—a movement beyond the ordinary into the mystical. This is because 12 represents completion (as in 12 months, 12 zodiac signs, 12 hours), and 13 marks the start of a new cycle, symbolizing movement beyond the ordinary and into the spiritual or mystical.
It just so happens that to reach the #20 bestseller spot in Amazon’s Death, Grief, and Loss category, I need to sell 13 copies in 24 hours.
Reaching that spot would help the book find more people who might choose surrender too. Your support, and more than that, your own surrender, would mean the world to me—precisely because it will help change the world.
Blessed be,
Hunni Bloom
