Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tamer, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist. 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 the same as personalized therapy.

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Welcome home co-journers. I'm glad you're here for another episode. And I'm happy that we have a poem submission from Hilda Oral. And this piece is entitled Help.

Now more than ever, the dimness of your soul cries out. Now more than ever, I need something more tangible to survive on.

Now more than ever, how long will you be out of tune with me? How long will I sit here and watch you, not be who you were created to be?

Now more than ever, how long will you keep ignoring, how long will you keep living in the noisiness of the flesh? How long will you be comfortable being far away from home?

Don't you hear your heart cry out to you? Don't you hear the teeny bits of yourself struggle to be seen and connect with?

Now more than ever, we were created to be in sync and not ruled from the flesh. More than ever, I want you to hear me.

Now more than ever, I want you to sit here with me. There's sameness here. There's peace here. There's passion here.

There's compassion here. Now more than ever, like the tides of the ocean coming and going, there's stillness in just connecting with me.

It's alright to just sit here sometimes. There are ideas here. Now more than ever, I know external help is good, but start from right here, will you?

You have all the help you need to start right here. Look around. Now more than ever, you will sit back. Will you sit back and keep waiting for saving somewhere or the permission to listen to within?

Because I'm right here, waiting for a chance to be looked at again, a cry for help to return home to oneself.

Oh my goodness, Hilda, this is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for reminding us to tune in to ourselves.

Sometimes we are searching so much out there looking so desperately for external connection while we have lost sight of ourselves.

And we know that relationships can be healing and healthy and an important part of life.

And at the same time, we want to be tuned in to our truth, to authenticity, to stop silencing ourselves.

And so Hilda, thank you so much for sharing your poem. And if others have poems or vows, you want to share with our community, send them to homecomingpodcast at gmail.com.

And Hilda's poem really connects with our topic for today, which is self abandonment. What are the ways that we have abandoned ourselves and thinking about what that has cost us over the long run and the desire to really come home to yourself, to become more clear about who you are and what you need.

So I invite us to take a moment of sacred pause to think about the ways that we have left ourselves behind.

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