Let it Unfold

Let It Unfold: Love, Loss, and Surrender

A deeply moving exploration of loss, transformation, and awakening.

Award-winning poet and author S’Marie Young shares an intimate journey through love, heartbreak, and self-discovery in this evocative collection of poems. As she navigates the unraveling of a marriage and the closing of a long career, Young embarks on three spiritual retreats in an Indian ashram, seeking solace and renewal. At home in the vast stillness of the California desert, she finds both grounding and grief-until she makes the courageous choice to leave, releasing the past to embrace the unknown.

Inspired by the timeless power of grace, these verses weave together moments of doubt, empowerment, and surrender, permeated by a force existing in the homeland of an ancient spiritual lineage. Let It Unfold is more than a collection; it is an invitation to explore the depths of your inner being, witness the interplay between suffering and grace, and experience the unfolding of your life’s calling.

For readers seeking poetry that is revealing, honest and transformative, this book takes you into new ways of seeing and being.

Young’s first book, Emergence a Path to Presence won the 2024 Nautilus Silver award in the category of Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood and a 2024 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention in Spiritual/Religious.

Author Biography

S’Marie Young is a Conscious Leadership Executive Coach, author, and a former Senior Vice President in commercial real estate. After decades of building and nurturing successful enterprises, she redirected her focus toward personal transformation and presence-based leadership-helping others lead with authenticity, clarity, and heart.As a certified coach with over 30 years of experience in meditation and self-development, S’Marie integrates strategic insight with presence centered listening. Her work bridges the practical and the poetic, inviting clients and readers alike to stand in their truth and lead from within.In Let It Unfold: Love, Loss, and Surrender, she shares the wisdom of a life lived intentionally-offering reflections that illuminate the path from striving to surrender, from survival to spaciousness.