Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, welcome.

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

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 grateful that you are here with me on today

as we carve out this sacred time for sanctuary, this sacred time for our homecoming.

And our theme for this week is care, compassion, and love for change agents, activists, and advocates.

We come today to extend to ourselves care and compassion and love so we can have the fuel that is needed that is required for us to

be world changers.

We are in a historic time where there is uprising

and resistance and revolution. and

shifting both internally and externally and for all of those who in diverse ways are working for transformation, both inner and outer,

I want you to know that I see you. I honor you. I celebrate you. I see us. I honor us. I celebrate us, and I invite you to take with me now collective breath.

We have heard the words ring out, I can't breathe, and we have seen them on t-shirts and signs.

We have heard those words chanted,

and we know that a part of trauma

is taking our very breath.

And those of us who are working to stop trauma,

abuse, violence, oppression, racism, many times we are pressing forward with little breath.

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