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 appreciative that we have a poem submission from Ariel LaShel.

The poem is entitled Rare Botanical from their book Evoke, Evolve and Elevate.

And I'm going to read and excerpt the first page of the poem, Rare Botanical.

The false belief that I'm not good enough has had me in a chokehold for years.

I let my body go limp, so fear will loosen its grip.

Then I hit it with an uppercut, put some distance between us, and take a gulp of fresh

oxygen.

The very atmosphere has changed since the last time I inhaled.

Hate, do we missed?

Puffs itself inside my windpipe and twists, its vapors around the words of newfound wisdom.

From the wounds I've had to withstand, may the battered breeze I exhale be worth something.

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