{"product_id":"when-choosing-was-never-a-choice-the-inconvenience-of-a-spirit-that-refused-to-shatter-9798196131561","title":"When Choosing Was Never a Choice: The Inconvenience of a Spirit That Refused to Shatter","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Talisha Eleanor Hunter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I wrote \u003ci\u003eChildhood on Fire: My Journey from the Hell of Baltimore to High Water\u003c\/i\u003e, I believed I was documenting survival. I did not yet understand that I was recording the first steps of a much longer journey, one that would force me to confront my bloodline, my inheritance, my beliefs, my fears, and the unseen questions that had followed the women in my family for generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt first, I searched for answers in religion and spirituality. Then I explored the possibility that childhood trauma may have paved the way for what was to come. Then when I could not find concrete answers to my questions, I turned to ancestral memory and practices. Eventually, I found myself standing before a question that refused to leave: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat if the suffering was never random?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy did isolation, little to no creation, prolonged suffering and mental illness, and hauntingly enough, mathematically indisputable generational patterns echo through the women of my maternal line? Why did heartbreak, silence, abandonment, and struggle seem to move from generation to generation like an unfinished story searching for its ending? Why were these women dismissed when they sensed something deeper unfolding beneath the surface of ordinary life? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd then, like the women before me, something unfortunately found me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than a year and a half, I wrestled with a presence, an unseen entity that I believe is responsible for the ancestral and \u003cb\u003egenerational desecration \u003c\/b\u003eof my maternal line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI challenged it. Argued with it. Fought it... day and night. And after energetic depletion and nearly losing everything I worked extremely hard to achieve, I ran from it, only to sadly enough return, demanding a response: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy me? Why them? Why us? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat was left unsaid? What was left undone?  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of a woman walking a path that revealed a \u003cb\u003ecrossroads \u003c\/b\u003ebetween \u003cb\u003echoosing\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003echoice\u003c\/b\u003e and discovered that they were not the same thing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a story of strength, survival, and salvation... and a stern warning to others, particularly those in her \u003cb\u003ematernal lineage\u003c\/b\u003e that the\u003cb\u003e veil between the seen and unseen has been pierced, \u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb\u003enever seek what should not be sought, \u003c\/b\u003e to be wary of unseen energies laced with velvet voices, \u003cb\u003efork tongues, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e lustful \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches of promises wrapped in smooth cadences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe devil has a name... and it is very crafty and wicked. Very wicked. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot everything that profess to be sacred and holy is of divine light. Remember that. \u003cb\u003eAlways. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDo NOT let it have access to you because once it gets a hold of you, it will be utterly difficult to untether its grip.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892139081879,"sku":"9798196131561","price":1345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196131561.webp?v=1781185861","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-choosing-was-never-a-choice-the-inconvenience-of-a-spirit-that-refused-to-shatter-9798196131561","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}