Welcome home,

Yes, I am.

Despite the lies I've been told, I still am.

Yes, it may seem a bit bold.

Welcome home, cojourners.

I'm glad you're here for another episode. I'm Dr. Tema, licensed psychologist,

ordained minister and sacred artist, here to help facilitate your journey back home to yourself.

I am so glad that you're here and hope that you give yourself gratitude and appreciation for investing this time in your healing, your wellness, your growth, and your

empowerment. I'd like to start our episodes with a poem, and today's poem is by Dr. Jaya John.

It comes from his most recent book, We Birth Freedom at Dawn, Volume 1.

And it is an excerpt from A Shia, a soft story of pilgrimage and peace. And it reads, for the first time in her life,

Aisha tasted the spice of what it felt like to exist as a sacred thing. Her old anxieties and their artifacts of rushing, racing, and panicking

were a faint and distant form on a far horizon, walking away from her. A Shia performed ceremony in her heart.

She said goodbye to her old stories and began to feast on this new

spice of sovereignty. As Meadow held her in its many affections, Asheya became the most tranquil

water. She changed to mist and back to water again. She was learning a new way of being.

She smiled at her discovery. As love coursed through her mending, Ashea quietly laughed herself

into a deep, peaceful permission to flow in a boundless and beautiful way.

She became ceremony.

Her fragrance blessed all living things.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. It is my hope and prayer that each of us would grow and evolve and heal so that our very fragrance, that our presence will be a blessing. And on today, we're going to talk about

tranquility. Tranquility is a sense of calmness, of inner peace. It is a decision to not live an inner noisy life, an inner violent life. It is a decision to shift out of high

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