Today on the You Can Heal Your Life podcast, we're excited to share a chapter from the brand

new audiobook, Spirits Come from Water, by Nigerian writer, artist, and Ifa and Orisha

Priestess, Ahime Ora.

Ahime delves into themes of ancestral memory, resilience, and the transformative power of connecting

with our roots. Through vivid family stories and sacred traditions, she shows how our lineage

can guide and protect us, offering a path to healing and spiritual wholeness in a world that often tries

to sever these connections. Listen to the full audiobook free with a trial of Empower You

Unlimited Audio at hayhouse.com slash empower you.

We're born into the world with spirit attached to our hips and toes.

Spirit leaves stories in the body, and our growing pains are simply the experience of remembering.

We remember the feeling of spirit and get drawn into the journey of reconnection, almost by force for many of us.

Within our bones plays a hypnotic memory of our ancestors, and the way our lineage danced

with the Creator. The way our lineage extended their light to the Creator with open hands,

the way this light shines back down onto us. We learn of the sacrifices that

created new opportunities for survival for descendants. We learn of the blessings that enclose

our lineage with grace. We remember the feeling. And this is the feeling that returns us back to them.

It is the feeling that teaches us how to properly survive.

My family has focused on the feeling their entire life, particularly my mother, a peculiar

woman with feet curled into herbs and roots, her strength bouncing off banisters

and scaffolding, scaring away aloof boys who attempted to challenge her in Ibadan city.

With Uruble parents, she was raised Christian with a merger of indigenous spirituality in Okpara

inland. There's a family shrine in Delta State that was cemented into place by my great ancestor centuries ago.

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