Welcome

Welcome home, cojourners.

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

Yes, it may seem a bit bold, but I am.

Welcome home, Cojourners. I'm Dr. Tama, and I'm glad to welcome you for another episode of the Homecoming

Podcast, where I help to facilitate your journey back home to yourself. I'm a licensed psychologist,

ordained minister, and sacred artists.

And I want to start today's episode, as I often do with a reading.

This is from the book, Dear Artist, a Love Letter, and is written by Jaya John.

And the excerpt is from page 209.

I hope that you will practice gathering up

all the precious things that shatter and save you,

and you will drink from them in a gentle ceremony,

and you will let them seep from you,

adorned in the contours of your soul.

I can see the songbirds drafting high above you, adorned in the contours of your soul. I can see the songbirds drafting high above you.

They recognize you. There can. I can feel the flowers in you building to bud and bloom.

I have faith in you. I believe in you. I know you are a beautiful thing. Always love.

Ah, I invite you to take that in. If it aligns with you, one hand on your heart, one hand on your belly, inhaling in through your

nose, exhaling out through your mouth, recognizing that there are various ways that we end up

disconnected from ourselves. And one of those ways is with psychological abuse,

which is also called emotional abuse. And so on our time today, we want to focus on recognizing

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