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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 want to request specific topics or share your progress, email me at homecoming

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I am so glad that you all are joining us for another episode, and today our focus is self-compassion and I am excited to welcome our first

visitor and guest for the show author and therapist Andy Colbert. I am glad that you are here with us to talk about your book

TriS softer. A fresh approach to move us out of anxiety, stress, and survival mode and into a life of connection and joy.

So I recommend you all going into the new year, Try Softer, with self-compassion.

Andi, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

Oh, it has been a pleasure connecting with you online and I was excited to read your book it is such a gift one of the

things I like about your work is the integration of spirituality with psychology and

many of us are people of faith,

but experience those issues either not addressed at all

or address separately.

So it's so wonderful that you have this resource that connects mind, body, and spirit.

So I want to start by asking you about how TriSer became important to you.

And I know in the book you start off talking about burnout,

so maybe you can tell us about that.

Yeah, yeah, so I sometimes say try softer is sort of the work of my life. I have, I just, it's been this journey of really so I'm a survivor of trauma in my own life and what I didn't know for a long time is that I had learned to adapt to being in the world by basically white knuckling it all the time.

Like always coming from this place of hyper-vigilance, what's going to come next, I have to be the best,

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