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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

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Let's begin.

Thank you for joining us again for another episode of Homecoming.

And on today, our focus is recognizing detours.

Recognizing detours.

So we are on the journey home, the journey home to ourselves and I'm grateful that you have chosen to be a

co-journer with us and I am also mindful both as a mental health professional and as an individual that has

had to go on her own healing journey that we can get distracted along the way,

that we can be doing some beautiful work for ourselves,

making progress, getting more connected, and then you can find yourself either stuck or moving backward.

And so I want to highlight for you what some of the detours are on the journey home so that when

they show up in your path you can recognize them and do a divine walk around that

there are some pits that are recognizable and so we want to not

keep landing in the same pit. So one of the detours on the journey home is numbing our pain instead of healing our pain.

Numbing our pain instead of healing our pain. Numbing our pain, instead of healing our pain, that's when we say, I know that I'm disconnected

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