Kami Redd
she/her/hers
she/her/hers
Welcome to my channel. I’m Kami Redd, a chef, entrepreneur, wellness professional, and author. My focus is Healthy – Healed – Whole, starting with my own life.
This space follows my journey as I rebuild my health, restore my peace, and reconnect with the parts of myself I’ve ignored for years. I share cooking therapy, practical nutrition lessons, trauma-based emotional wellness insights, and honest conversations about intimacy and aging — all from the viewpoint of a woman over 40 working to feel grounded again.
If you’re healing, growing, or finding your way back to yourself, you’ll feel at home here.
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Kami Redd
I want a better life, but the familiar pain I’ve learned to navigate still tries to pull me back because it feels safer than stepping into the unknown. I’m learning that wanting more and fearing more can exist at the same time, and that breaking old cycles requires patience, honesty, and the courage to stop choosing what hurts just because I recognize it, and I will stop letting comfort convince me to stay small. I will choose what supports me instead of what simply feels familiar, even when my fear argues with me.
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I kept calling familiar pain ‘love,’ and every time I accepted less than I needed, I deepened the wound that told me I didn’t deserve more, so now I’m practicing choosing myself first, even when it feels uncomfortable, because that is the only way I break the habits that once kept me hurting.
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My past has a way of pulling me backward when I’m not grounded, and when I slip into old versions of myself, I forget how much work I’ve done, so I’m teaching myself to pause, breathe, and choose the present on purpose so regression doesn’t keep tricking me into believing I haven’t grown.
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Every time I silence what I feel, the pressure builds until it explodes in ways that leave me confused, ashamed, or exhausted, and I’m learning that the only way to stop that cycle is to treat my needs as valid the moment they show up instead of waiting for the fallout to force me to pay attention.
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My relationships are not undone by the present; they shake because old wounds still whisper in moments that should feel safe, reminding me how deeply my history shaped the way I love. I’m learning to separate who I’m with from who hurt me before, choosing to respond to what is real instead of what I fear, because love grows stronger when I stop letting the past make decisions for me.
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Kami Redd
Life took pieces of me long before I understood how much I needed them, and now I’m rebuilding in places that still remember the pain that carved them out. I’m choosing to fill those empty spaces with honesty, gentleness, and steady effort, because healing becomes possible when I stop pretending I’m untouched and start nurturing the parts of me that survived anyway.
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I spent years learning how to stay alive by numbing myself, and now I see how that survival skill turns into a barrier every time I need connection but can’t feel anything real. I’m teaching myself to stay present long enough to recognize what I need instead of shutting down out of habit, because I deserve relationships that respond to who I am, not who I had to be to cope.
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I’ve spent years fading out of moments because my mind learned to protect me by retreating, not because I didn’t care. Those quiet disappearances kept me safe when I was younger, but now they cost me more than they save me, and I’m teaching myself to stay present long enough to prove I don’t have to abandon myself to feel safe.
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