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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 I have such a special treat for you.

You're going to be so excited as we're facilitating the journey home. I am being

joined today by Tina Lifford, who you all know as Aunt Vai on Queen Sugar,

along with being an incredible gifted deep actor who really embodies characters and brings them to life in life

giving ways. She is also a counselor and is the author of The Little Book of Big Lies, which I have been engrossed in

for the past week or two weeks carrying it around with me. It is such a gift and as soon as I read it I

knew I wanted to share it with you all because this is the core of how we get

disconnected from ourselves and needing to confront these lies so we can tell ourselves the truth.

So I am so glad that you are here with us and here as we are thinking about the term you use of

inner fitness and can you tell us about what is inner fitness? Yes, so inner fitness is, I mean to define it, it is the

development of mental emotional and spiritual skills and practices that support us in becoming more resilient,

developing inner strength and grit, and being able to more proactively resolve, unresolved emotional issues in our lives and just begin to consciously thrive versus react and survive.

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