Welcome home, I'm Dr. Tema, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist.

And this is Homecoming, a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself.

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same as personalized therapy.

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Let's begin.

Welcome home co-journers.

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

And today we're going to talk about self-harming behaviors.

As we make the journey home to ourselves, we want to interrupt any forms of self-harming

so that we can choose to live, to thrive, to flourish.

As we understand self-harming behaviors, I want to talk about what they are, what some

reasons are that people may engage in them and what you can do to interrupt those behaviors.

So there are a number of reasons why people describe harming themselves.

It is a way of dealing with overwhelming emotions.

Sometimes people use self-harming behaviors to express something that is hard for them

to put into words.

Self-harming behaviors are physical actions and they can be a way of making an invisible

pain visible to yourself or visible to others.

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