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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. I am glad that you are on the journey with us for another week and another episode of the

homecoming podcast and I hope you all are writing your poems about your homecoming

journey. You can send them to me at homecoming podcast at gmail.com.

And on this week our topic is growing pains, growing pains.

growing pains.

So many people when they think about healing or growth,

recovery or change, We often paint a very rosy picture, a very upbeat picture and we talk about

all of the benefits which are important right to acknowledge

you know that people will talk about I feel more free I feel more connected to myself. I feel aligned. I feel like I'm living from my values. I feel empowered.

You know, all of these positives which are important and I also want to name the truth that healing can be painful that healing and growing can be uncomfortable, which is why so many of us avoid dealing with issues

because of the discomfort.

Many of us even have started therapy and dropped out because it got uncomfortable.

And so one of the important things for us to name

as we think about this homecoming journey is that

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