Welcome home, I'm Dr. Tama, 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.

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Let's begin.

Welcome home co-journers.

I'm glad you're here for another episode.

And I'm excited that we have two poem submissions that I want to share with you on today.

The first one is from Rian.

And Rian's poem reads,

nothing changed except my whole world.

Once I spoke that demon truth out loud, not the white horse gallant brand of ethereal goodness

truth, but the real filth that is my truth, dredged in dirt decades deep, desperate, purging

herself pure from that putrid stink.

In her first gasp of fresher air, she reached blindly for any shovel and she began to dig,

clearing out that rot, cleansing her vessel clean, coming home to her body,

to embody the love she could only now begin to allow to flow from and into and through her.

Finally, feeling, making a home for her dirt in me.

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