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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 to be with you all for another episode,

and on today we have such an important topic for the

journey home and that is dealing with depression, dealing with depression.

And as we have been disconnected from ourselves either for a season and for some

may feel for a lifetime there can be really a sense of despair and frustration. There can be a

season of hopelessness and powerlessness. And so I want to talk about how we can cope and deal with depression when it arises,

how we can understand it within ourselves and also with our loved ones.

So first to really understand what depression is,

I want you to know that it is different than sadness.

So sadness is very temporary and it has a low

severity and some people have experienced sadness but never have experienced

major depression.

And so if you have not experienced major depression,

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