Locing Into a New Reality

How locing my hair is unlocking new timelines.

I’m locing my hair so that I can quantum leap. I’ve come to recognize that quantum leaps don’t only happen when we break bad patterns in an attempt to align more closely with our higher selves. They happen when we break the patterns that define us. When we step out of rhythm, move in a new direction, or try something unfamiliar.

Consistency is powerful, but so is knowing when it’s time to invite change. Every August for the past three years, I’ve felt a strong nudge to clean out my closet, letting go of old things and creating order. This year, I realized it wasn’t random. In hindsight, I can see that by releasing my attachment to what has been, I’ve created space for what can be. Each time I’ve listened to this intuitive guidance, a major blessing has followed. The first year it was a new modeling contract. The second year it was love.

Now, as I transition into loc’d hair, I recognize it as another invitation to leap into a new reality. By releasing how I’ve seen myself and how the world has seen me, I create space for new possibilities. Breaking habits is powerful, but breaking the habit of being who you are signals to the universe that you’re ready for sweeping change.

This shift feels especially potent because hair is so deeply symbolic. It’s the connective antenna between our nervous system and the vibrational world around us. Hair catches frequencies, shapes perception, and ultimately influences reality. By reshaping my hair, I’m declaring to the universe that I’m ready to reshape the way I experience life.

I’ve seen the power of this before. In 2016, I felt a similar pull to wear my natural hair. I was living in New York and working as a full-time fashion model, and the industry was still very much homogenous. The standard for Black models was straightened hair or weave. When I arrived at my agency exhibiting my new look, they told me my “rolled-out-of-bed hair” wouldn’t work, that I’d lose clients and fail to book new ones. But just three weeks after choosing my Afro, I booked the biggest campaign of my career up to that point: Calvin Klein, and landed on a huge billboard in SoHo.

That decision showed me how transformative it can be to shift when you’re called. Every blessing is tied to a particular expression of who we are. The internal is paramount, but the external matters too, because the subconscious speaks in symbols. Locs are a symbol. By wearing them, I align with the frequency of everything connected to that symbol. Just as my Afro aligned me with the spirit of revolution and helped me step into activism, catapulting me to the TED Talk stage and numerous campaigns, this new expression will open doors meant for this version of me.

Locing my hair isn’t the only reason I expect a quantum leap. So much foundational work has been done to prepare me to sustain this rebirth, but I know it’s part of it. It’s a declaration, an embodiment of a deeper integration of self.

I’m stepping into this new expression with excitement, anticipation, and faith. Ready to see what God has prepared for me here.