Samantha Kamstra

@SammyKamstra
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Technology didn’t make my job easier. It made people louder.

How has technology changed your job? Technology didn’t change my job. People did. It just gave them a platform. Now everyone has an opinion. Unfiltered. Unchecked. Unnecessary. They talk more. Expe…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo
I stopped explaining my no.

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? I don’t say no nicely anymore. I don’t soften it. I don’t dress it up so it’s easier for other people to accept. Because ev…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo

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There’s a version of you that stayed quiet just to keep the peace. That tolerated things you shouldn’t have. That made excuses for people who didn’t deserve them. That carried the weight of relationships that were never yours to fix. You’re allowed to outgrow that version. You’re allowed to become someone who says no. Who walks away. Who protects their energy without apology. That’s not cold. That’s healing. 🖤 #HealingJourney #SelfWorth #Unlearning #Growth

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Walking away from people who hurt you isn’t weakness. It’s clarity. It’s choosing peace over history.It’s choosing yourself over guilt.It’s realizing that love should never require you to shrink, bend, or break just to be accepted. And sometimes the hardest truth to accept is this: Not everyone who shares your blood deserves access to your life. Healing doesn’t always look like forgiveness.Sometimes it looks like distance. 🖤#HealingThroughWords #Boundaries

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Not every book needs to be understood by everyone.

Some books are written for the people who: feel too deeply think too much and aren’t afraid to explore the uncomfortable Dark romance isn’t for everyone—and that’s okay. But for those of us who con…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo
Book day hits different when you’re not just buying stories…

you’re building a library. Every author. Every series. Every dark, twisted, beautiful story. All of it slowly finding a place on shelves that don’t even exist yet. But they will. One day there will…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo
Thank You

1,000 views. It might not seem like a lot to some people… but to me, it means everything. Because behind that number are real people— reading my words, feeling something, connecting in ways I never…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo
Book Taboo

There’s something about the books we’re drawn to that says more about us than we realize. Not the light ones. Not the easy ones. The dark ones. The ones people side-eye. The ones filled with obsess…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo
Some of us don’t read for escape.

We read to understand. To sit inside emotions we don’t always have words for. To explore the darker edges of love, power, and vulnerability. To feel things safely… without having to live them again…

Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo