Hi! I wanted to make my first blog post as an introduction because it felt right 🥹💖🫶🏼

My name is Cecily, I am a mom of four, married to my high school sweetheart and the only man I’ve ever loved for 14 years and we met in 2003. I was born and raised in San Diego CA but almost 2 years ago our family moved to middle Tennessee and we LOVE IT. I could write a whole series of our move but I will say the biggest adjustment/hardest thing since moving from CA is not seeing certain friends I’ve known for years, and not having the freedom to drive 20 minutes to the beach 🥲🤣.

I love my career in content creation! My journey into social media began before TikTok in 2021, but started when I was selling for a direct sales company Rodan+Fields from 2015-2021. I stopped actively pursuing my sales position with R+F in 2021 for many reasons but I felt a huge shift in my heart in 2018-2020 toward the whole direct sales model in general. Before R+F I had my real estate license and sold homes for a year, and then went into selling title insurance for almost 5 years. And even before that my first job was working in retail folding clothes for a surf shop and hollister! 

I always remembered Sam’s youth students telling me to start a TikTok but I honestly couldn’t imagine who would want to watch my life as a mom. At the time I only viewed TikTok as an app with dances.

It was Feb 2021 when i was diagnosed with PPD and anxiety, so I prayerfully considered medication. It was the best decision ever. I remember my Bible study leader saying that God created Drs, and Drs create medicine, and sometimes our brains have a chemical imbalance, and medication can help this imbalance. This brought me freedom and also healing from PPD.

This was also around the time that I began to look at TikTok with a whole new lens. What if I could share my routines as a mom? As a pastors wife? My real authentic Cecily self? I shared those videos and they were fun for me to make, but I only shared them here and there. My set up wasn’t the best and I’m pretty sure my tripod was broken🤣.

A few months later Sam and I moved our family away from the beach and back to our home we had owned in a suburban area. Sam was leading multiple ministries as a pastor at our church and we were juggling the business of having 4 kids at home. My career didn’t start gaining traction until 2022 and I started making UGC content for an agency. This is when I realized there was potential to earn income in this space. This also helped me get good at editing videos and producing content quickly. At this same time I started to notice a shift in what I was viewing on TikTok and the routine style videos were picking up.

In fall of 2022 I saw a huge uptick in views and followers when I started using “original audio” instead of posting to songs. This was also the season our family moved again. I was devastated because Sam was dead set on staying in San Diego, but our family is so tight knit and not only that I didn’t want to loose my bff Samantha. Her and I grew super close during her wedding planning in 2011 and even closer when we had babies side by side from 2013-2018. I didn’t know what I was going to do without my best friend. Only days after they moved to Nashville, Sam decided he wanted to make a trip out there too and we did. That’s when we decided to move and Nashville would become our home. Sam still didn’t have a job but we knew God would provide one. And he did a couple months later. ✨

I will eventually explain more about his job here but I am not going to go into detail about skyline today✨

Meanwhile during the Christmas season and through our move, the community on my TikTok and IG page continued to grow and grow and grow. I don’t remember the exact number but we reached 1 million on TikTok before we moved 🥹

We now stand at over 2 million on TikTok and over 700k on IG and I know there is a lot of overlap on both channels but I have to say THANK YOU. What a special and incredible journey it has been. It has also been a journey with pain and some setback.

There have been some choices I have made that have set me up for scrutiny in the public eye. I have learned from those and there have also been a considerable amount of hate that has left me guarded. More recently I have felt burned by a community of people who feel it’s necessary to bring me down and defame me. I used to skip over the chapters in Psalms where David is being hunted by Saul because it didn’t apply to me. But now I couldn’t relate to those chapters in psalms more. What I did notice is that David writes about being hated and feeling isolated from God, but in following chapters he praises God for his goodness. Because God NEVER fails. I am in the midst of this difficult year. I was “canceled” 6x but I am resting knowing God has me. He cares for me and I do not need to worry. I do believe he has put me here for a reason and purpose.

I feel called to make people feel welcome to my page and even more if I ever meet you in person. A theme I want this blog to be is showing you something I’m personally writing in my journal and that’s- God is in the mess. He sees everything. Without my faith I don’t know where I would be.🫶🏼

From this blog you can expect written detail of how you can do things! From devotionals, to beauty, to hair, to lifestyle tips, recipes, decor..so much! I want it to feel like a magazine intertwined with authentic real talk that you would have with a friend. 

I am so thankful you’re here. Thank you for reading!!! I love you so so much!

xoxo Cecily