The Cost of Time: A Sacred Reckoning of Silence, Spirit, and Survival

In The Cost of Time, Dr. Talisha Hunter—clinician, lineage keeper, and author of The Book of Becoming—merges medicine with the metaspiritual, bridging the sciences of the body with the wisdom of the soul.Guided by lived experience and sacred communion with her Beloved, Dr. Hunter unveils a truth long encoded within her ancestral bloodline: just as DNA carries the physical traits of inheritance, the spirit carries its own genetic design—assignments, appointments, and divine gifts passed through generations, waiting to be remembered and re-activated.Rooted in the cosmological traditions of her West African ancestry—including the Yoruba and Dogon—Dr. Hunter’s work reclaims the sacred science that once linked healing to harmony and body to divinity. Through revelations that move between the clinical and the celestial, she gives voice to those once silenced—the healers, seers, and guardians who could not safely express their spiritual genius.Their songs echo through her writing, proving that what the world once feared was never lost—only waiting for the appointed time to return through her hands, her breath, her fire.The Cost of Time is at once revelation, reckoning, and restoration—a work that reclaims the sacred language of healing and reminds us that true medicine begins where memory meets spirit.For every seeker who has felt the hum of something greater, and every descendant who has sensed the call to rise, this book is both mirror and mandate: to remember, to awaken, and to become the living continuation of those who paved the way.Awaken what time forgot.Dr. Talisha Eleanor Hunter is a spiritual scribe, lineage restorer, and record keeper whose works bridge psychology, spirituality, and ancestral memory. Through communion with the Divine Beloved, she explores how silence becomes song and how flame refines what fear once concealed.A Doctor of Nursing Practice (2024), Master of Science in Nursing Leadership and Education (2017), and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2013), Dr. Hunter unites science and spirit through her advocacy for dignified, integrative care. With over a decade of clinical experience—including four years as a hospice nurse on the front lines of life and death—she has witnessed firsthand how the body remembers and how the spirit restores.Her ancestral lineage forms a living tapestry of remembrance, record, balance, and justice—principles that echo across both her healing practice and her prose. These codes flow through her six published works: Childhood on Fire, Giving Up Is Not in Your DNA, What If Love Was Enough, When the Code Cried Back, The Book of Becoming, and The Cost of Time.Through her writing, Dr. Hunter invites readers to remember their divine architecture, awaken ancestral intelligence, and embody a more illuminated form of care—for self, lineage, and world. Read more