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** About Keena Hall & the Start of her Journey Keena Hall is a New York City-based creator. She began her natural hair journey in 2019. “It is the best decision I’ve ever made,” Hall says. You can often find Keena wearing colorful outfits on Instagram, where she lets her natural hair afro and protective styles shine through.“I grew up getting perms and relaxers, being told that my hair was too hard or it looked better straight,” Hall says when speaking on her earliest experiences with her hair....

** 1. Wash and Dry at Night To avoid getting a cold, never air-dry your hair in the morning. Chances are your hair will take longer to completely dry than the amount of time you’ll have in the morning. If you happen to step out in a polar vortex with damp hair, your hair can literally frost (true story!). Avoid that issue altogether by air-drying at night in the warm comfort of your home....

Then one day her dance instructor asked her why she always showed up late for class and left right at the end of class. This was an “aha” moment for Elise. She realized that she was actually making herself unavailable to meet new people—She was going through the motions of “being available,” but really she was closing herself off from any chance for connection. As we talked about why she might be doing that, she realized that she carried a lot of anxiety in her body whenever we talked about meeting people....

It turns out that the narrator and my two high school friends aren’t the only ones who feel this way. A recent study looking at the effect of random acts of kindness on both the giver and receiver found that many are suspicious of kind gestures. When met with kindness people often wonder, “What do they want from me? What’s his or her agenda?” If you’re one of the countless people in this world who don’t think that being kind is that big of a deal and just like acting that way, the good news is that it doesn’t matter much if the receiver is welcoming or suspicious of your kind gestures....