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ALL THINGS NATURAL✨🌱
Mother|Natural Hairstylist|Natural Weight-loss|Fashionista|Life-Style|Gracefully Grieving👼🏾
💪🏾🏃🏽‍♀️@killthedaywithnae

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200+ pound runner… but what’s the PLUS?! 👀😂

Well, today I stepped on the scale and saw 230 POUNDS! 😮‍💨

And listen, I almost didn’t share this, but y’all know how we do over here. REAL. RAW. AUTHENTIC. 🤎

Living with Hashimoto’s, navigating grief, dealing with fatigue, and trying to figure out this weight-loss journey has NOT been easy. Especially when you’re someone who is already very active!

But I also had to ask myself a question… Have I stewarded this space well?

Because while some things have been outside of my control, there are areas where I KNOW I can do better. And this season is about taking accountability without beating myself up in the process.

So for the next SIX WEEKS, I’m taking y’all with me! The workouts, the nutrition, the hard days, the victories, and everything in between!

This isn’t just about losing weight. It’s about learning to take better care of the body God has given me.

And one thing is for sure… BABY, WE GON’ KEEP SHOWING UP! 😂🏃🏾‍♀️🤎

Kill the Day with Nae! 🔥

#runnergirl #plussizerunner #runforyourlife #runtok #runeveryday taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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2 days ago

🩵🤎 H O M E C O M I N G 2026 🤎🩵

Gabe & Lakyn understood the assignment!!! 😍✨ My boy was so handsome and Lakyn was absolutely STUNNING!

TIME SLOW DOWN!!!🥹

#DIDTHAT
#junioryear
#homecoming
#perfection taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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11 days ago

Knowing the Word and LIVING the Word are two completely different things. 🤎

I’ve known Proverbs 3:5–6 most of my life. I could quote it before I truly understood what it meant to LIVE it.

And I’m learning that “lean not unto thine own understanding” isn’t only about what I have to let go of.

It’s also about WHO I get to lean on. 🥹

Sometimes we are so busy trying to figure everything out ourselves. Trying to make the plan. Find the answer. Control the outcome. Make it make sense.

And sometimes, WE are the very thing standing in our own way. 😭

Because when I stop leaning solely on what I can see, what I know, and what I can figure out, I make room to trust the One who sees what I can’t see.

The One who knows what I don’t know.

The One who supplies every need.

The One who can direct my path better than I ever could.

Maybe surrender isn’t always about losing control.

Maybe sometimes it’s realizing I was never meant to carry the responsibility of figuring EVERYTHING out in the first place.

I don’t just want to know enough Bible to sound like I know God.

I want to know God enough to TRUST what He says.

There’s a BIG difference between Scripture I can quote and Scripture I’m willing to obey.

Still BECOMING. 🤎

#FaithJourney #TrustGod #inChrist #faithtok #becomingher taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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14 days ago

My mama almost took me OUT on this run today! 😭🥹🤎

Today marks three years since my sister went to her heavenly home, and I decided to run 3 miles in her memory.

What I didn’t expect was for this run to become such a beautiful picture of what grief can look like on the other side of some of those really hard days.

I ran from my house to my mama’s house, and LAWDDD… listening to this woman talk about how she’d had her teary moments that morning, but still seeing the joy, hope, and strength she carried throughout the day?! 😭 Then to hear her say with complete confidence that she knows where her baby is and that she’ll see her again one day…

Bout TOOK ME OUT. 🥹🤎

But watching her also made me realize something…

The apple really doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

I talk so much about resilience and how God has carried me through grief, but today I got to SEE where some of that strength in me comes from.

Then I ran from Mama’s house to check on my niece @mami_cetaa before making my way back home.🫶🏾

Three miles.
Three years.
Three women connected by one person we love so deeply. 🤍

And this run wasn’t about pace. It wasn’t about time.

It was about being able to show up.

Because there was a time when grief looked like me lying in the bed unable to move. Today, grief looked like running through my community, checking on the people I love, laughing with my mama, seeing my niece, remembering my sister, and thanking God for carrying us through every version of this journey.

Grief and joy can collide.

You can miss them and still smile.
You can grieve and still have joy.
You can have hard moments and still find joy somewhere in the middle of them.

3 miles for you, sis. Love you ALWAYS AND FOREVER!! 🤍🏃🏾‍♀️

#runnergirl #plussizerunner #runforyourlife #runtok #runeveryday taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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16 days ago

We are the new adults. 🥹🤎

This weekend reminded me that at some point, the traditions we grew up in become ours to carry.

The trips. The family gatherings. The group chats. The pictures. The stories. The moments our children will one day look back on and call their childhood.

Tomorrow makes three years since my sister passed away, and I think I understand this differently now.

We aren’t just making new memories… we’re carrying old ones forward. 🤎

Take the trip.
Call your people.
Take the pictures.
Make the memories while you still can.

Family is worth the effort. Always. 🤎

#FamilyMemories #GriefJourney #FamilyTraditions #LifeAfterLoss #MakingMemories taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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18 days ago

The perfect protective style DOES exist 😍

I’m not gonna lie, y’all… human hair crochet has been an absolute GAME CHANGER in the hair world. 👏🏾

It’s cute, convenient, easy to maintain, and can be styled so many different ways without constantly manipulating your natural hair. We love a protective style that still gives us OPTIONS. 😍

And y’all know with me, healthy hair is always the priority. Every style comes with a shampoo + treatment curated specifically to your hair’s needs before we ever get into the styling. 🤎

So you’re not just leaving cute… we’re taking care of the hair underneath too. 👏🏾

Rumor has it I’m always late posting 😂 but it’s officially been ONE MONTH since this install, and my client is still wearing this style and it’s going strong! 😂♥️

Ready for this look?
Book the Half & Half Crochet ✨
Link in my bio.

#HumanHairCrochet #ProtectiveStyles #CrochetHairstyles #NaturalHair #HairTok taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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18 days ago

HER….😉💙
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#westernwear #foryou #westernfashion #demin taken in Baylor University by @naturallyna3

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18 days ago

D I S C I P L I N E🫡

You don’t have to have it all figured out. You don’t have to be the best at it. But you DO have to keep showing up.

And just like that… I think we have a new series. 👀🏃🏾‍♀️💭

Conversational Pace Conversations
EP. 01 | DISCIPLINE

Keep showing up. 🤎

#runnergirl #plussizerunner #runforyourlife #runtok #runeveryday taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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21 days ago

5 miles before the sun rose…☀️ 🏃🏽‍♀️

I had ONE goal this morning: finish all 5 in under an hour.

But the real win wasn’t the time.

It’s seeing what happens when you keep showing up. Run after run. Slow days. Hard days. Days you feel like it and days you don’t.

Eventually, the thing you once had to work so hard for becomes something your body knows how to do.

Whatever you’re working toward right now… keep showing up. 🤎

Kill the Day with Nae 🏃🏾‍♀️
5 miles with Nae.🤞🏾

#runnergirl #plussizerunner #runforyourlife #runtok #runeveryday taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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22 days ago

Slow Saturdays with my son 🤎

The further we get into his junior year, the more real it’s becoming to me that my baby won’t be home forever. In two short years, he’ll be off to college, building his own life… and whew. 🥹

These days, time just feels a little different.

So I’m finding myself wanting to hold onto the ordinary moments a little tighter. The random conversations. The laughs. The dancing. The mornings when I ask, “You wanna come run with me?” and he actually says yes. 😂🤎

Today it was just a Saturday morning 5K.

But to me? It was time with my son.

And somewhere in those 3.1 miles, Mama still managed to sneak in a life lesson 😂 because every day won’t be easy, and you won’t always feel like doing what needs to be done. But learning to show up anyway will carry you a long way.

I’m learning to appreciate these days while I’m still living in them. 🤎

3.10 miles with my boy. 🏃🏾‍♀️🤎
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#runnergirl #plussizerunner #runforyourlife #runtok #runeveryday taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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a month ago

Some things really are like riding a bike…you NEVER forget! 😂 15 years behind the chair will do it every time! 😮‍💨🔥

But here’s a little story time and fun fact about me…

Before I ever became the hairstylist y’all know today, before the natural hair, silk presses, healthy hair care and all the things…there were BRAIDS. 🤎

One of the very first skills my mama taught me as a little girl was how to braid hair. I was probably around 11 years old when she taught me how to do THE BEEHIVE. If you know, YOU KNOW! 😂 A true old school classic! I practiced that thing OVER AND OVER until I got it!

Who knew all these years later it would still be one of the reasons I can give you one of the FLATTEST installs?! 😮‍💨👏🏾

Fun fact…I actually DO installs! 😂 My regular clients already know. But I’m very particular about the kind I do. I only do versatile, natural looking installs. The kind where you can’t quite figure out if it’s her hair, leave out, a wig or an install.

Because if you can tell exactly where her hair stops and the install starts…we got a problem. 😂

If it doesn’t move, blend and look NATURAL…I don’t want it! 🤌🏾

They aren’t currently listed on my booking site because it’s not a service I’ve been heavily promoting, BUTTTT…👀

If y’all start getting in my inbox asking for these, I just MIGHT have to open a few install appointments. 😂🔥

Would y’all book a versatile install if I brought them back to my books? 👀

#NaturalHairStylist #ProtectiveStyles #VersatileInstall #LouisianaStylist #NaturalHair taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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a month ago

I thought I was just struggling through 4.5 miles this morning… whole time God was trying to talk to me. 😭🤎

Today was a 4.5 mile progression run, which meant as the run went on, I was supposed to progressively get faster.

I did pretty good until about miles 3 and 4. 😂 My legs were TIRED.

And instead of continuing to move, even if that meant I had to slow all the way down and WALK, I caught myself completely stopping.

The thing is… when I stop, the app stops tracking. When I start moving again, it starts again.

So in my mind, I could stop when it got hard, catch myself, and then start moving again.

And God checked me RIGHT THERE. 😭

“How does the app know you’re struggling if you’re trying to finesse it?”

WHEWWWWW. 😭😭😭

Because isn’t that how we try to do God sometimes?

We want Him to see the parts where we’re moving. The parts where we’re doing good. The parts where we have it together.

But when we get to the part where we’re tired, struggling, confused, hurting, or just DON’T have it together, we want to stop, clean it up, get ourselves together and THEN come back.

Meanwhile, God already knows.

He doesn’t need the polished version of you. Come to Him as your REAL self. Let Him into the parts where you’re struggling too.

Because maybe the part you’re trying so hard to hide is the exact part He wants to deal with. 🤎

Baby, I thought I was out there training for a faster 5K.

God said, “Nah… today we training something else.” 😭😂🤎

🏃🏽‍♀️ 4.5 MILES WITH NAE

#200lbRunningClub #RunnerGirl #RunningJourney #FaithJourney #RunTok taken in Louisiana by @naturallyna3

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