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

Welcome home.

I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist

and sacred artist, and this is Homecoming, a podcast

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 homecomingpodcasts

at gmail.com. Also, after you listen, be sure to like, subscribe, and share. Let's begin.

Welcome home co-journers. I'm glad you're here for another week and I'm excited. We have

received so many poems that I'm actually going to read to today. And if you're new and you write

a poem about your homecoming journey, you can send it to me at homecomingpodcasts at gmail.com.

And the first one I'm going to read is from Kata. And Kata is with us all the way from Germany.

So I am so glad that you are a co-journer and that you sent in your poem. And it reads,

I need to own my affairs for the better. To improve my skills, getting rid of old habits,

I want to fly, fly, fly. Don't want to be ruled by disguise and denial. I am starting to see my own

self crystal clear, saying farewell to those old gray unusable fears. In this world, we need to

protect ourselves with self-made shields. Homecoming is to know what is serving me, to find out what is

hurting me, meeting allies together. It is healing in the deepest sense. No one went to draw the

sword, telling my truth in any words, and went to proceed into withdrawal, taking stock of myself,

combining my inner selves, learning how to deal with inner inconsistencies, and loving them,

taking the hands of my sister, grief, spending time with her and getting released.

Knowing that she's my friend, my most honest teacher, sheltering myself from disbelieving in me,

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