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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 back, co-journers. I am so glad that you're here on today, and we have a poem from Sammy and for those who are new you can

write a poem about your homecoming journey and send it to me at homecoming podcast

at gmail dot com and here is Sammy's poem

there's a me-shaped hole inside myself waiting for me to come home, try as I might to fill the void with others who seem the same.

I found out it never truly helps. one else fits in this space so I crawl in it's

tight at first the walls seem to be coming down then I relax and I feel loved as the void it wraps around. This emptiness

that I once feared is a galaxy of stars and the sun is not a sun at all but my big beautiful heart.

Oh my goodness Sammy thank you so much for that poem. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it's so true what you say that the space in us, which is for us, we cannot fill with another person.

We cannot fill with another substance, with another thing, with the busyness of work.

There is a part in our hearts that is specifically for us.

And we have to really be intentional about coming home to that place.

And so on today is dealing with dissociation, disconnection, and spacing out.

De association, disconnection, and spacing out.

Some of us have been dealing with so much stress and trauma that we may find ourselves

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