Coming home to myself in 2023...
Jan 31, 2023
I used to hate my curly hair.
When I was 15 a boy I liked at school made fun of it, and I never really recovered.
Those teen years are pretty transformative, as it turns out.
…it’s been 20 years since I wore my hair naturally, to the point where I didn’t actually know how curly it is.
Earlier this year my coach told me to “take my hair out and whip it around a little bit.”
It was her nice way of telling me to loosen the fq up.
To drop the stories.
To drop my corporate conditioning.
To stop acting how I think I should, and
To step into who I AM.
I’ve spent the last 18 months figuring out who I am - after shedding a lot of things, stories, and people who no longer fit.
And while the whipping my hair around reference wasn’t intended to be literal, for me - it actually was.
Because the truth is I’ve been showing up the way I thought I was supposed to, for a really long time.
Don’t be too much. Don’t be too loud. Don’t say that. Don’t take up too much space. Don’t wear that curly hair.
But I’m shedding that sh*t now.
So here I am, whipping it around.
If you’ve made it this far - consider this your invitation to do the same.
