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Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologists, and sacred

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Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of the Homecoming Podcast and today we are talking about post-traumatic growth.

Post-traumatic growth, recognizing that we are still living in the realities of the coronavirus and while all of those things are going on or also for future listeners who are in the face or in the aftermath of other forms of trauma and difficulty.

For us to be mindful of the very real possibility as we come home to ourselves of growing, growing in the midst of and growing in the aftermath,

a very difficult experiences. So many of you may be familiar with post-traumatic stress and in

another episode we talked about the different ways that we can be affected by trauma and

it may show up in depression or anxiety and

addiction and self-harming behaviors but we also want to be very mindful of the very real reality of post-traumatic growth.

And I want to talk with you about the factors that help us to grow and then the ways in which we can grow as we continue

on this journey together.

And so let us first just center in because I know that everyone has a lot on their plate emotionally and perhaps even in the material realm,

many demands and roles and concerns.

And so let us take sacred pause

and give ourselves gratitude

that we are taking this moment, this season to nourish ourselves, to feed ourselves, to feed ourselves, to feed our minds, our hearts, our spirits, that even with everything that is going on,

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