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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.

Welcome home, co-journers. So glad that you're here for another episode of the homecoming podcast and I'm so glad

that the podcast is being supported by Pepperdine University online and I really love

teaching at Pepperdine because of the great colleagues and faculty.

We have such incredible researchers, practitioners, scientists, and educators.

And so being able to be in community

with those who you can grow together, learn with,

really reminds us of the scripture,

iron sharpens iron.

And when we are within the range of those

who are intellectually stimulating

and at the same time compassionate and caring towards students

mindful about teaching really as an act of service and empowerment it's

inspiring so I love teaching at Pepperdine, working with the people I work with,

learning from them as I also share my areas of expertise. And the students are so wonderful because there is the online program. We have students who are from all over all different walks of life, different backgrounds and life experiences and so when we get in the classroom and start talking about psychology and how to bring about healing how to help people to restore and recover, the engagement is really inspiring and exciting.

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