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Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist, and sacred artists.

And this is Homecoming, a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself.

While I will provide weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this

podcast is not a substitute for therapy. I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you

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I'm glad you're here for another episode. We're going to focus today on healing, emotional eating.

Healing emotional eating.

Many of us have been medicating our pain

and our disconnection from our self with food.

And this particularly can get heightened during holiday seasons.

But throughout the year, we can have what we identify as food cravings that are actually much deeper than a food craving, but it is our heart, our minds, our spirits that are calling out to us.

And I invite you to consider sometimes when you are hungry it is not food you are

hungry for. I invite you to consider that you can be full of food and still empty.

So we have to, we need to, come to terms with, what is it I am actually hungry for?

What is it I source of my emptiness? The emptiness that no matter what I eat or how much I eat it does not truly get filled,

that it actually is not enough because it is more than a physical hunger.

But emotionally, spiritually, mentally,

I need to be nourished emotionally,

spiritually mentally I have some pain that is uncomfortable to sit with

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