Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tamah, 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 I have exciting news for you all. The NAACP image awards

have given a nomination to the Homecoming podcast for podcasts and the category of lifestyle and self

It is their first year giving awards to podcasts and we have received a nomination. And I need

you all to vote. Many of you have written me over the two years asking how can I support the

podcast? Well, this is your opportunity. So grab a pen and let me give you the website so you can

vote for Homecoming. The web address is vote dot NAACP image awards dot net vote dot NAACP image awards

dot net. And I need you all to vote this week when you listen to the podcast. If you're listening to

the last week of January, I need you to vote because voting closes in the beginning of February.

And so when you go to the website, you're going to scroll down to the podcast category. And our

specific subcategory is lifestyle self help. So please vote and anyone you have shared the podcast

with in the past. If they enjoyed it, you can give them the links so they can vote as well.

I am so grateful for the nomination. I'm blown away and excited for more people to learn about

Homecoming. All right. So we have a poem submission this week as well. And actually this poem

is from Madeleine Truth. And Madeleine has been waiting for a minute for their poem to be shared.

And so I'm so excited to share an excerpt on today from Madeleine's poetic reflection.

I know my life purpose is as a wounded healer. And the reason for why I was brought onto earth

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