Hi, I‘m Renée
and I believe life isn’t meant to be perfected — it’s meant to be lived, messy and full.
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and I believe life isn’t meant to be perfected — it’s meant to be lived, messy and full.
What happens when you stop postponing life for "someday"? I'm spending my 33rd year running 12 experiments to answer one question: How do you build a state of joy that coexists with the uncertainty of life? This is autoethnographic research—documenting real-time experiments in creative expression, intentional living, and deprogramming from hustle culture. No guru shit, just messy truth from the wilderness.
January is loud. Everyone seems to have a plan, a vision, a glow-up timeline. Meanwhile, I’m sitting with a cup of tea, watching the trees rest, wondering why we expect ourselves to bloom on command.
This is a reflection from the space between endings and beginnings — about pressure, self-trust, and what it means to build a life without forcing clarity before it arrives.
The validation you're chasing? It's never going to come from outside. Not from the title, not from the salary, not from anyone pointing at your life going look at everything she's doing. I know because I spent years outsourcing my self-worth to all of those things. Here's what I learned when I finally stopped.