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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

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Let's begin.

I am so glad that you are here for another episode of the homecoming podcast.

And today our topic is healing our abandonment issues.

Healing our abandonment issues. issues, many times in life we end up operating from a place of anxiety and insecurity because of the losses we have faced. It can be

losses as a result of death. It can be losses as a result of a relationship ending.

It can be losses as opposed to,

as a result of people walking away, being ghosted, being rejected, being abandoned.

And emotionally when we have these experiences,

we can become fearful that it will happen again.

That relationship spaces take on a sense of instability and we can begin to wonder if there is

something wrong with us if we are lacking in some way if we have the capacity to be loved to

be cared for or people to actually stick around to stay with us in truth,

and in honesty, and in faithfulness and with consistency.

And when we end up having abandonment issues that guide our behavior, our decision-making, our conversation,

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