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,

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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 a poem submission for this week.

And the poem is entitled Freedom Within Me by Ila Fejdani.

My freedom is within me.

It always was looking for it in you was where I went wrong.

I carried in my thinking and in my thoughts.

I feel it in my voice and in my words.

I embodied in my stance and in my slant, even if you can't understand.

My freedom is within me.

It always was.

The story you are telling that you have spun has made me so dizzy, overwhelmed, lost.

I somehow was made to believe that my pain was my cross to bear,

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