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.

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, email me at homecomingpodcastsatgmail.com. Also to build our

community, don't forget to like, subscribe and share. Let's begin. Welcome home co-journers. I'm

glad you're here for another episode. And it is our first episode of this new year. And

traditionally, on our new year, I like to announce our top cities and top countries for listeners.

And so for this past year of 2021, I'll first name our top 10 cities. And they are number one

Los Angeles. Number two, Chicago. Number three, Atlanta. Number four, Brooklyn. Number five,

Johannesburg. Number six, Houston. Number seven, Toronto. Number eight, New York. Number nine,

Philadelphia. And number 10, Charlotte, North Carolina. All right. And now I want to share our

top 10 countries for this past year of where we have the most listeners listening from.

Number one, the United States. Number two, Canada. Number three, the United Kingdom. Number four,

South Africa. Number five, Australia. Number six, Kenya. Number seven, Germany. Number eight,

France. Number nine, Nigeria. And number 10 is Sweden. Oh, my goodness. Thank you all so much

for another year of listening to the Homecoming podcast. And if your city or your country was not

named, just keep listening and sharing it with your community, knowing that we have a global

circle of co-journers. And we are all making our way back home to ourselves. So I'm excited. We

have a poem submission on today. And this poem comes from Tanya Castan and Tanya lives in Florida.

And the poem reads, being gaslit, realizing it and seeing truth, it's illuminating all the

barriers crumble. You're told why it's imperative you shrink and succumb to authority and to answer

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