Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tamer, 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.

If you want to request specific topics or to submit a poem for me to read on the

podcast, email me at homecomingpodcast at gmail.com. Also to build our community,

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Welcome home co-journers. I'm glad you're here for another episode.

And I'm excited we have two poems that were submitted for this week's episode.

And both of them are about spirituality and the journey home to ourselves.

And one of the things we have consistently said in this podcast is the importance

of holistic health. And so we attend to our psychology, to our physical bodies,

as well as to our spirits and our communities. And so this first poem is by

Brooke Green and Brooke is writing to us from New Jersey. This piece has no title

and it reads, I heard recently that your home is supposed to be a place where

people can experience God, his love, his peace, his embrace and joy.

I look in the mirror and ask myself, how does it feel to be home?

My eyes are clear, steady and honest. My mouth utters at once, good.

When everyone else has gone to sleep and the record player stops,

it feels good to be home. It feels good in my home. God lives here.

He guards my heart when anxiety or past mistakes try to break in.

He's constantly working, come and see his studio in the back.

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