Welcome home, cojourners. I'm so glad you're here for another episode. I'm Dr. Tama,

psychologists, ordained minister, and sacred artists here to help facilitate your journey back home to yourself.

And on today, we're going to start as we do most weeks with a poem.

And this week's piece is entitled,

An Exert from Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman.

And this is by Sonia Sanchez.

If you're not familiar with her work, get into it.

It is amazing.

And so just an excerpt from that piece, picture her rotating the earth into a shape of lives becoming. Picture her leaning into the eyes of our birth clouds. Picture a woman.

Picture yourself. Jumping rivers. Her legs inhaling moons. Picture her saying,

you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Imagine her words.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Imagine her humming.

How many days we got for we taste freedom.

Picture her words.

There's two things I got a right to death and liberty. Ah, this poem about freedom is really a foundational piece as we think about for this episode, breaking the cycle of unhealthy

relationships. Breaking the cycle of unhealthy, toxic, dysfunctional relationships.

And if you have one of those relationships, I know it can break your confidence and it can break

your self-esteem, but then there are those of us who it has been multiple relationships.

It could be multiple romantic relationships, multiple

platonic relationships, and you get to the point like Fannie Lou Hamer said, I'm sick and tired of

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