I was re-watching an interview that Oprah
had with DeVon Franklin on YouTube a
day ago and one of the many messages that stood out to me from that interview
was, “Stay in your own
movie.”
Around this very
same time last year in 2017, I discovered that I was 5 weeks pregnant. I for one had no
clue that I was either. In fact, one of my co-workers told me that I didn't
seem like my jolly-ole-self.
I had thought about what she said and gave
it deep thought. She did have a great
point. I was tired, unmotivated while getting work done, and I was very
dizzy. I felt like I was in a daze while at work. My first thought was I must
have caught a cold or I was running a mild fever.
A few
years ago, I felt like I had to stand out in the natural hair community. I went
to the extremes to not look like a cookie cutter image of the next natural. I
bleached, colored, and basically fried my own hair to look different. I wanted
to appeal to brands by looking different. I was
stuck in a place of constantly comparing myself to other natural
hair women that I admired at the time.
To my fellow black sista;
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