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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 podcast at gmail.com. Also after you listen, be sure to like, subscribe, and share. Let's begin.

I am so excited that you all are here for another episode of the Homecoming Podcast,

and today's topic is so significant

as we look at the Journey Home.

Our theme for today is stop contorting, stop shifting, stop hiding, stop

masking, stop scripting,

dating post-trauma.

And we are considering the experience

of those on the journey

who have had some devastating experiences in matters of the heart.

And your experience may be dating post-scape from an abusive relationship.

Your experience may be dating, post-s surviving, childhood abuse or sexual assault. Your experience may be dating post-divorce. Your experience

may be dating post a series of infidelities. Whatever the disappointment, abandonment, rejection, trauma

was, I want you to know that it has an impact on us and the way we show up in matters of the heart.

And if we are to come home to ourselves, we have to heal those wounds that creep into our relationships

that shape us and in a lot of ways cause us to contort ourselves.

To believe we have to be something other than who we are

in order to be worthy of love, in order to be chosen, in order to be respected, that we have to be some other kind of person.

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