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'm excited we have a poem submission for this week.

And this week's poem comes from IOEFA Burke. And IOEFA is sending us greetings from Ireland.

I'm so glad you're with us. I'm going to read an excerpt from your poem. What will I find here?

What will I find here if I let myself float in ginger and lemon and lavender? If I feel their warmth

on the back of my neck, feel those waves wash through my tangles and knots, sweeping downstream

the anger, the shame, the stories I have no need to claim anymore. If I let the current take me

where I need to go and breathe, just breathe, inhale faith, exhale fear, give space for life to

ebb and flow here. Give up that endless fight. Let go. If I watch my body sweat out the past,

see it rise from my bones out my skin up into the steam, not ruining anything but adding,

just adding a new tint to the sky scent, beautifully bitter, refreshingly free. This is how release

smells like gently cracking open my chest, leaving my heart bare as an open lily pad,

laying with my arms outstretched, no defense, no apology, just rest, just breath, just me.

Me pouring out and the world pouring in, this is what I have feared. So what will I find here?

A game with no rules for all ages, a recipe for something sweet I tasted as a child,

a guest bedroom I had locked up now welcoming new friends, a tea that suits the headache I had gotten

used to. A dance I know all the moves to, because I made them up as I go along. As in all music there

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