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.

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Let's begin.

Welcome home, co-journers.

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

And I'm grateful we have a poem submission for this week.

And the submission is by Aisha Said, but she is submitting a poem that was written by Derek

Walcott. The poem is entitled Love After Love.

The time will come when with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door

in your own mirror, and each will smile at the others welcome and say, sit here, eat.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.

Give wine, give bread, give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all

your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror, sit, feast on your life.

Oh Aisha, I love this poem and you are correct in your message that it really echoes our journey

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