Welcome home, I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist.

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 the same as personalized therapy.

I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you want to request specific topics or to submit a poem for me to read on the podcast,

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Please call me by my true name, a journey for understanding by Ken Williams.

I am the embodied spirit of my ancestors. I am the rich red soil of Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Mali, Africa.

I am the offspring of West African kings and queens. I am the earth, the air, the fire and the water.

I am life. I am the slave master and the occupant of his ship. I am the offspring of abduction, displacement and human trafficking.

I am the ship, the bow, the stern, the rudder, the coal. I am life. I am the son that dances and kisses the mountainous ridges of the Caribbean.

I am the colonizer and the colonized. I am their supremacist thoughts at that influence my upbringing.

I am the product of the volcanic soil deep within my Caribbean ancestors. I am life.

I am the plantation owner, the stevedor, the worker and the field hand picking bananas and cutting sugar cane.

I am the offspring of hardworking, resilient, strong people. I am my grandmother, my grandfather, my mother, my father, my brother, my family.

I am my mother's tenderness and my father's fire and persistence. I am life.

I am the pain I feel from living in this racist white supremacist society.

I am a sound mind and ability to see it and not be gaslighted by it. I am the friend to my pain.

It guides me and protects me. I am what I am, a survivor, vulnerable, connected, healthy, driver,

take note stuff, social justice fighter, disruptor, educator, program developer, researcher, storyteller, friend.

I am what I am, I am I am I am life.

Thank you so much, Ken. I appreciate you sharing your poem with us and also sharing your journey.

It is so important for us to think about the realities of injustice, inequity, discrimination, bias, oppression, racism.

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