Ep 32: Kami Brannon & the Becoming of Who Our Younger Selves Needed

This week's guest is Kami Brannon (she/her). Kami is a therapist based in Columbus, OH. In addition to her therapy practice she and her wife are also working to create a queer campground in Hocking Hills, OH (so cool!). On this episode, Kami lets us into her experience growing up as a Black girl navigating anti-queerness with her family system and religious community. She shares about the challenges this placed in her way and how this continued to impact her as she navigated adolescence and beyond. She lets us into her story of pain and suffering, and then the deeply powerful healing work she engaged in to eventually get to where she is at now. This conversation was such an offering by Kami, I feel so incredibly grateful she wanted to come on to offer her story to this collective work supporting queer healing and liberation.  About the guest:Kami Brannon (she/her) is a 38 y/o black, lesbian therapist and small business owner based in Columbus, OH. She works full-time, in her business, as a queer therapist. Part-time, Kami and her wife, are working to create a queer campground in Hocking Hills Ohio. Most of Kami’s life work has been focused on turning her personal pain into purposeful action forward for the queer community. Her goal is to create the diverse, accessible, safe, queer spaces she would have benefited from. In her leisure time, Kami enjoys spending time in nature with her kids and pets .You can follow Kami’s queer campground on Instagram @brannonacresYou can check out Kami’s Queer Therapy EAP Center at @columbusqueertherapist and www.columbusqueertherapist.com.For more, visit www.secondadolescencepod.com or @secondadolescencepodDownload episode transcript here.