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 I want to start off by

thanking you all for your support and buying the homecoming book. As a result of your support,

we're now the number one book in clinical psychology. And I encourage you to continue making your

orders for both the hard back and the audio book. And once you have read your book, please

go back to the website where you purchased it and leave a book review. So others will know what

you gained from homecoming. And I'm excited because we have a poem on today. And this poem is

entitled Grief in V by Sarah. After her father died, friends gathered around her table,

where tears fell into wine, where laughter touched old photos on her computer screen,

where stories filled air like butterfly wings, friendships love held her up like crutches,

and then she walked again. And when my time for such grief came, I longed for such a rose to

grow from thorns, and yet my grief stayed hid like a bottle of whiskey stashed in the tool shed,

like an opiate habit, just another prescription to fill. How in the hell can you envy grief?

Well, like everything else, addiction steals, it robs grief too.

Yes, thank you so much, Sarah, for this important piece, both on grief and on addiction.

And recognizing some people have a cloud of witnesses, have an army of supporters,

helping them get through it. And for some people during their grieving season,

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