No matter where you are, what you look like, or what you're going through, you can create

sacred space and connection with birds and begin to heal.

Today on The You Can Heal Your Life Podcast, you'll hear a chapter from licensed marriage

and family therapist, Tamawat's brand new audiobook, Keep Looking Up.

In this excerpt, Tamah shares her emotional journey of finding comfort and inspiration

from her feathered friends, while providing practical tips and tools to help you.

You can listen to the full audiobook free with the trial of the Empower You Unlimited

Audio app.

Visit hayhouse.com-mpower-you to download the app today, that's hayhouse.com-mpower-you.

Nest.

Where ever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back for home is the best, mod Lindsay.

My first vivid memories about birds are as a young black girl growing up in my family's

nest in San Diego, California during the early 60s.

Both my parents, Jim and Fran, heralded from black family traditions rooted in the south

with a distinctive defiance for ingesting prescribed stereotypes and their confining expectations.

My little brother James and I were the chosen ones, both having been adopted, me at two

days old, and five years later, James Jr. at three months of age.

We lived in a modest middle-class neighborhood nestled in a pocket of the city that still

had dirt roads that dipped and bumped the cars to and from their homes.

We took pride in the fact that smooth asphalt was all around on our street, except if you

turned right at the bottom of the big dangerous hill.

Our house sat at the end of a row of newer, modest-sized homes situated on half-acre

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