Today, we’re stepping into a conversation every one of us has brushed up against—some of us bruised, some of us bitten, some of us still crawling back from the dark. We’re talking about fear… the real kind. The kind that lives under the ribs. The kind that swallows children whole and follows adults into every room.

Our guest today—writer, illustrator, and truth-teller Cynthia Breheny—has written a book that does what so many others fail to do. Please, Don’t Feed the Fears doesn’t teach children to run from fear, suppress it, medicate it, or pretend it doesn’t exist. Instead, Cynthia walks us straight into Fear’s belly and shows us the way out.

This episode is a lighthouse for anyone who has ever felt stuck, small, or alone.
It’s a hand reaching back through the dark saying:
“Come on. You can do this. I’ve been here too.”

Stay with us.Take a breath.Let’s open the door.

Fear has teeth. It can freeze you mid-step, swallow you whole, and convince you that you will never crawl back into the light again. But in this Scarlet Frequency episode, author and illustrator Cynthia Breheny turns toward that monster with an unexpected truth:
Fear isn’t the enemy. Misunderstanding it is.

Reading her Quill essay aloud, Cynthia brings listeners deep inside the emotional ecosystem behind her children’s book, Please, Don’t Feed the Fears—a gentle, whimsical guide for anyone (child or adult) who has ever felt swallowed by their own worry. Instead of preaching avoidance or “fighting your demons,” she offers something far more radical: integration. Listening. Understanding. Compassion for your own biology.

Cynthia pulls back the curtain on her own story—growing up in a house where Fear ruled everything, where bravery was discouraged, and where trust was treated like a liability. When no one came to help, she became her own guide. Over years of therapy, study, panic attacks, and spiritual searching, she discovered what no self-help book had ever told her:

Fear is not an illness. Fear is not a curse.
Fear is a part of you, and it can be befriended.

This episode is for every child who trembled alone in the dark.

For every adult still carrying the echoes of those rooms.

For every parent desperate to help a child who hides inside their own mind.

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When Hazel Moon steps behind the microphone, she is not simply “recording an audiobook”—she is midwifing a story into sound. In this article, read aloud in her own voice, Hazel Moon reveals the hidden labor, the intimate rituals, and the reverence that shape every finished audiobook. She brings listeners into the quiet sanctum of her work: the pre-dawn script study, the pronunciation hunts, the emotional mapping, the obsession with silence as its own form of punctuation.

She refuses shortcuts. She refuses caricature. She refuses to perform characters as hollow soundbites. Instead, she embodies the breath, the cadence, the energy of each figure on the page. Her method is a discipline of devotion—four hours of preparation, performance, editing, and mastering for every one hour delivered to the listener’s ears.

In an industry that often celebrates speed and spectacle, Hazel Moon stands firmly in the lineage of women who choose craft over convenience. Her voice work is an act of stewardship. Precision. Tenderness. And a fierce respect for the author’s creation. This read-aloud is a masterclass in the art of doing things well.

Hazel Moon is a narrator who approaches her craft like a scholar, an artist, and a guardian all at once. She studies the entire text before she records a word—tracking emotional peaks, character instincts, and the architecture of the story. Her refusal to “fake” deep male voices or drown narration in accents is not modesty; it’s mastery. She prioritizes truth over theatrics.

Her process is rigorous: consistent mic setup, meticulous editing, silence shaped with intention, and final mastering to ACX technical precision. She does not rush. She does not cut corners. “Each recorded hour takes at least four,” she states—and the depth of her work proves it. Hazel is not merely reading a book. She is resurrecting it.

Hazel Moon reminds us that storytelling is sacred work—and that when a woman lends her voice to a book, she is performing an act of artistic lineage.

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In this piercing and tender conversation, author felicia klingenberg joins The Red Tent Storytellers to read from her memoir a little bit of god — a haunting chronicle of survival, silence, and self-discovery. From the ashes of childhood trauma to the light of creative defiance, Felicia’s words remind us that truth-telling is sacred work, and women’s stories are revolutions in themselves.

Listen, feel, and remember: we are not alone in the telling.

When Felicia Klingenberg began writing a little bit of god⁠ , she was doing more than crafting a memoir — she was excavating truth from centuries of silence.

In this deeply moving episode of The Red Tent Storytellers, felicia joins Blackbird Peeja for an intimate conversation about memory, art, anger, and the long road to healing. Together, they explore the courage it takes to face family, faith, and the shadow of trauma — and the redemptive beauty of finding voice after decades of repression.

From her first poem at eight years old to her adult confrontation with truth, Felicia’s journey is both a warning and a beacon. Her story spans the forbidden, the feminine, and the fiercely sacred — a testimony to every woman who has ever been told to stay quiet.

“When I open the pages of a book, I open the doors of a prison — not to release the prisoners, but to join them.”

— Felicia Klingenberg, a little bit of god.

Felicia Klingenberg is an author, survivor, and truth-teller whose words pulse with courage. Her memoir, A Little Bit of God, spans four centuries of lineage, faith, and defiance — tracing the ripple effects of generational trauma and the quiet revolutions born from confronting it.

In this episode, she speaks with surgical precision about the cultural silencing of abused children, the patriarchal rot inside “respectable” families, and the rage that ultimately becomes fuel for transformation. Her story isn’t only about survival; it’s about alchemy — transmuting suffering into language, anger into clarity, and silence into art. Through her lyrical honesty, Felicia becomes both witness and warrior for every woman learning to trust her own voice again.

Felicia’s words remind us that liberation begins the moment we dare to name what was never supposed to be spoken.

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