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Finding my way back

The past couple years have been such a journey for me. Whoever said that we are supposed to have it all figured out by age 30 lied... yup that was a flat out lie!!  I've always known that I wanted some kind of digital presence, I've always known that I wanted to be an entrepreneur but I've never quite got it to click. Over the past years that I have been absent from this blog I've gone from working a fulltime 8-4, to creating my own hair product line, opening an online retail store, having several part time jobs, whew I am getting tired just writing this lol.  Then came 2020..... the year covid hit. There was a lot of silence, stillness and healing in 2020. I needed a time out. I needed to stop.  If I am being totally honest 2020 rocked me in ways that I still cannot quite put into words. Maybe one day, far far into the future looking back I could explain. At present I sit here in June 2021, still trying to catch my footing, not wanting to go back to the mundane activit...
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Finding my way back

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The past couple years have been such a journey for me. Whoever said that we are supposed to have it all figured out by age 30 lied... yup that was a flat out lie!! 

I've always known that I wanted some kind of digital presence, I've always known that I wanted to be an entrepreneur but I've never quite got it to click. Over the past years that I have been absent from this blog I've gone from working a fulltime 8-4, to creating my own hair product line, opening an online retail store, having several part time jobs, whew I am getting tired just writing this lol. 

Then came 2020..... the year covid hit. There was a lot of silence, stillness and healing in 2020. I needed a time out. I needed to stop. 

If I am being totally honest 2020 rocked me in ways that I still cannot quite put into words. Maybe one day, far far into the future looking back I could explain.

At present I sit here in June 2021, still trying to catch my footing, not wanting to go back to the mundane activity of life. Have you ever been there? 

This fear of settling, a fear of never reaching my full potential, a fear of never building something beautiful. 

I want to wake up each day with excitement, looking forward to life. Am I being naive? Comment below if you understand what I mean. 

So I reassessed my life and asked the questions, what do I love, what makes me tick? 

Simply put: I am obsessed with improving my quality of life, then teaching others how to do the same.

How does this relate to a haircare blog you might ask? 

As small as it may seem, being frustrated with our hair can negatively impact our quality of life. 

When I am not happy with my hair, it can really affect my confidence and how I show up in the world; and I know that many woman feel the same way.

That's why I started this blog 10 years ago. 

Because taking care of our hair is not difficult, it's just different!

I'm so happy to be back, I'll be posting what happened with my hair over the years that I've been MIA. Let's just say my hair has also been on a journey and is on it's way back to waist length.  

So that's it for now.....here's to figuring life out, growing my hair back and to starting over.

Cheers! 

Renesha Michelle


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