I'M OVER IT!

Can I be vulnerable?

If you’ve browsed my website, you might notice its clear, direct “handle it and get on with living” vibe. It’s deliberate, and here’s why…

We’re in the heart of medicine making—turning heavy, dim vibrations into vibrant, life-generating forces. Part of this work involves confronting powerful, opposing energies. Anyone engaged in this path, be it an Ifa priest or a Christian pastor, knows how intense it can get.

Holding space for clients often involves hours of divination, counseling, and intense spiritual work to help disperse oppressive patterns and forces. Whether actively working with a client or just visiting someone’s home, the higher and lower vibrations make themselves known. It’s an everyday reality in this line of work.

I’d grown accustomed to this way of life and delighted in the beauty and handled the malignant stuff as needed. Over time, I became highly efficient in spiritual warfare, and I was able to shift away from it, using less and less energy for direct battle. Bliss! But in the past 10 months, I found myself back in the trenches, and honestly? I’m over it.

I say that with all the joy in my bones, because one indication of and inspiration for a magnanimous shift - is being tired. 

Here’s what I learned though:

1. Before I found myself "over it", I experienced a heart-womb opening. I'm feeling everything more acutely. A glace, a spoken word, is now translated as a feeling. It's quite disarming. It's as if the heart-womb opening, deeper feeling space organically pulled me out of the "fight". To that end, I say when you're not sure how to dislodge a pattern, breathe into your heart-womb.

2. There were remnants of a dated, internal coding to fight, more accurately to FIGHT OTHER PEOPLE'S BATTLES. I’d done a lot of that in my life; stepping in front of a loved one to protect them from an aggressor, physically and situationally. I’m too grown to be busting people upside the head, instead I'd been fighting spiritual, mental, and emotional battles that weren't mine. While I moved past much of that, I hadn’t uprooted it completely. I really didn’t know how nuanced it was. It’s deep programming - the oldest child shouldering the responsibility to fix every.got.damn.thing AND to never be free of that responsibility. This identity became wrapped up in my self-worth.

3. The “negative” energies themselves aren't the real issue. It is the manufacturing of situations that cause trauma and suffering, and trafficking in attributes - hate, self-importance, deception, etc. - that attracts and provides safe spaces for these energies to get comfortable and emboldened. And because I had a habit of jumping in as the “fixer,” I was constantly on call for these energies that wanted an audience.

So, things have changed. How I hold space for clients, how I show up for loved ones, how I mother, how I am as a daughter and a lover—it’s all shifted. My clientele has shifted, too. Removing that deep-rooted programming in myself is attracting people who are ready to get to work and get it done. There’s no wallowing, no stubborn attachments to loops of old patterns, no expectations that I will carry or work for them - only energized souls showing up to leap forward. 

Intent: “focus your energy in the most efficient manner to get on with the business of living a vibrant life”. Say less.

As for those malevolent energies? They’re staying out of my way.

So, this New Moon, I invite you to be over it—whatever “it” is for you. Feel everything that comes with it: irritation, relief, maybe a few tears, laughs, or curses. Send “it” off with style and power. Then, let yourself get on with the business of living vibrantly.

Be Free,

Iya Ife