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The Healing We Avoid
Your triggers aren't proof that you're broken.  They're signals - messengers from the parts of you that learned how to survive.

For more info: www.TheHealingWeAvoid.com

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What Color Is Your Soul?: Healing The Illusion Of Our Separateness
The world is changing and we all know it and can feel it!  As a result, the methods and tools we use to connect with others from different lifestyles, cultures, backgrounds and belief systems must adapt to today's needs as well.  "What Color Is Your Soul?" looks at Human Diversity and Inclusion through a scientific spiritual lens.  In this latest book, Niambi injects humor, creativity, and insight while providing a refreshing approach from an actionable perspective.  This book is for everyone!
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Timely and definitely needed.  A must read."  ​- Jane Elliott, Anti-racism Activist, Educator
...an exciting, thought-provoking, heart-opening journey - a great  read!" - Dr. John Shealy, Psychotherapist & Life Coach
We must transform ourselves, collectively and individually and this book offers a call to that work." - John Biewen, NPR, Scene on Radio Host and Producer
...an inspiration for others of any cultural background...Thank you." - Dr. Jiiniikwe Medicine Bird, Native Music artist and actress 

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Spirit of Wisdom
Occasionally, it may happen that the great energies of creation will express their messages of wonder and of hope through words spoken into the world of time and space.

That happened in July of 2005 when Divine Wisdom, as Thoth, the Ancient One of Egypt, was heard by a few on the little blue planet Earth. One of these was Marie D. McCohnell. So here, in collaboration with Flaming Rainbow Books, are those three lessons of fire and initiation through Wisdom, rendered for those whose hearts may call.

We learned that humankind does not progress and evolve so much through its own efforts; but rather, information is given as we become ready. These transmissions come now as part of that new knowing from the Divine, given now into universal consciousness.

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​A MIGHTY WORD OF WISDOM!
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Restoring the Light: An Inter-Dimensional Prayer to Reclaim Your Life Force Energy and Spiritual Power
This isn't just a book it's a journey.  A journey that will guide you to: 
  • Reconnect with Your True Self: Learn how to align with the flow of time and draw back your energy from past, present, and future experiences.
  • Break Free from the Past: Release old contracts, vows, and beliefs that have held you back.
  • Embrace Your Divine Blueprint: Restore your life force energy to every part of your being.
  • Move Forward with Grace: Carry the light you've restored into every aspect of your life, knowing that you are supported, guided and infinitely powerful.

Available Now!

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Restoring the Light is a heartfelt, empowering companion on your path to spiritual awakening and personal transformation. Let it inspire you, uplift you, and remind you of the incredible power that lies within.
Order your signed copy today! 

Project Butterfly Book and Workbook

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20th Anniversary Edition (originally published in 2003), Project Butterfly continues to be a reassuring must-read for teen girls and every adult who supports or works with girls.  With clarity and sensitivity, Niambi Jaha-Echols and Friends explore the physical, emotional and social aspects of growing up.  Niambi provides a touch of ancient wisdom as she supports and encourages young women and girls through the changes and challenges of life using the life cycle of a butterfly as a wonderful model of transformation.
For Additional Information, visit: www.projectbutterfly.com
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Inspiring the Souls of Our Girls (2nd Edition)

Many teen girls wear their "tough girl" exterior creating a barrier between themselves and their fragile hearts and the world.  Don't be fooled by her eye rolling and the sucking of her teeth.  If you look deeply into her eyes, past her fears, hurt, shame and sadness, you will see a spirit that wants deeply to find and fulfill her purpose and mission. 

Originally published in 2015, this second edition contains practical tools, stories, anecdotes and invaluable insight to empower both girls and those that support them.

An invaluable tool for anyone looking to enhance their outreach to our girls!

Available Summer 2026

Governance as Ceremony: Restoring Purpose, Relationship, and Spirit to the Work of Social Change
Beneath every policy, agenda, and board vote lives something we rarely name out loud: a mission has a soul—and the way we govern either protects that soul or slowly suffocates it.

​Governance as Ceremony: Restoring Purpose, Relationship, and Spirit to the Work of Social Change
is an invitation to reimagine governance not as cold compliance, but as spiritual architecture—the living structures that hold purpose, power, people, and possibility. Written for founders, board members, executive directors, and justice-centered leaders—especially those carrying Spirit-born missions—this book tells the truth about why so many nonprofit and movement spaces become “airless,” even when their work is sacred.


Part manifesto, part guidebook, and part circle, Governance as Ceremony is for anyone who knows—deep down—that our missions deserve more than Robert’s Rules and survival-based leadership. It is a call to build boards as circles of care, treat conflict as a portal, move money with integrity, and create structures that let people breathe. Most of all, it is an invitation to become what this moment requires: a Ceremony Keeper—one who governs with courage, tenderness, truth, and Spirit, so the work of social change can endure without losing its heart.
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Available Fall 2026

What if the patterns governing your life are not merely beliefs - but vows?
In Sacred Contracts: From Hidden Vows to Spiritual Sovereignty, Niambi Jaha-Echols reveals the invisible agreements women make and inherit in order to survive, belong, remain lovable, or stay safe. Formed in response to pain, shame, scarcity, betrayal, and disconnection, these hidden vows can quietly shape everything from self-worth and visibility to comparison, mistrust, and the fractured space between women.

With spiritual depth, emotional honesty, and an original Sacred Shadow framework, this book helps readers uncover the contracts beneath their lives, work with the portals that reveal them, and move toward Spiritual Sovereignty—a return to self-trust, sacred permission, embodied truth, and freer relationships with themselves and others.
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This is not simply a book about healing what lives within us. It is also about healing what has lived between us: the scarcity, silence, self-betrayal, and mistrust that keep women disconnected from their own truth and at odds with one another. Through compassionate insight and transformative language, Sacred Contracts offers a path for naming the vow, releasing the contract, and reclaiming the wisdom, power, and wholeness that have always belonged to us.
Healing Our Roots: Releasing Epigenetic Wounds Through Ancestral Regeneration
Beneath the soil of your being lies the roots of generations past.  Within their silent memory are wounds, fears, resilience and forgotten truths that continue to shape how we live, love, and lead today.  

​Healing Our Roots invites you to journey beneath the surface - to where inherited patterns, ancestral memories, and epigenetic wounds live within the body and spirit. With compassion and courage, this book guides you to release what no longer serves, to honor the lineage you carry, and to participate in the sacred work of restoration and repair.

This is not a journey of magical thinking or passive healing. It is a call to conscious engagement - a willingness to meet what has been buried, to extend the. hand of reconciliation across generations, and to nurture the regeneration that becomes possible when healing begins at the root.

Available Spring 2027

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Grounded in both spiritual wisdom and lived understanding of generational trauma, Healing Our Roots offers a path toward resolution, reconnection, and renewal. It reminds us that while our roots may be tangled, they share a common origin - and when we do the work of healing together, transformation spreads beyond the individual to families, communities, and future generations.
This is a journey of awakening, restoration, and deep connection - an invitation to reclaim the vitality, balance, and wholeness that belong not only to our roots, but to our shared humanity.
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Awaken Your Purpose.  Embody Your Light.
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