{"id":4597,"date":"2010-08-03T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2010-08-03T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:13:10","slug":"where-did-pinkhairedgirl-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=4597","title":{"rendered":"Where Did “PinkHairedGirl” Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My single greatest takeaway from Echo Conference was Rhett Smith’s<\/a> breakout on “Not Losing Yourself in Social Media.”<\/p>\n

About six months ago I left my old blog (PinkHairedGirl.net) behind to focus solely on Dirty Girls Ministries. But I kept “pinkhairedgirl” on Twitter because it is a name that people knew and I didn’t want to lose that draw. Even at the conference people seemed to know me first as “PinkHairedGirl” before they really knew my name.<\/p>\n

The problem with that is I am not PinkHairedGirl. But I had become lost in her. My identity was being found in how others perceived me. I would even purposefully make sure my hair was pink if I was going to meet someone from online. Would I be cool enough or edgy enough or relevant enough with brown hair?<\/p>\n

As if that really even mattered.<\/p>\n

For 8 years in sexual addiction I pretended to be somebody I wasn’t. And then I immediately became “PinkHairedGirl” after that. And even as I’ve grown up and tried to just be myself (the reality is I haven’t had pink hair in about 2 years), I so desperately wanted to remain “known” that I kept the familiar moniker.<\/p>\n

But I am not a moniker.<\/p>\n

I am Crystal Renaud.
\nI am director of Dirty Girls Ministries.
\nI am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a friend. I am a mess.<\/p>\n

And most importantly I am a child of God. I don’t have to be someone else in order to be known… because God knows my name.<\/p>\n

The Creator of the Universe knows my name.<\/p>\n

And you can’t get more famous than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we see but a poor re\ufb02ection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.\u201d I Corinthians 13:12<\/h3>\n

– –<\/p>\n

I’ve been asked why “@pinkhairedgirl” is now “<\/em>@crystalrenaud<\/a><\/em>” on Twitter. I hope this post serves as that explanation<\/em>. We’re also closing “@dirtygirlsmin” to help consolidate our online presence. The truth is it is easier to move 500 people than it is to move 1500. So for all DGM updates please follow “<\/em>@crystalrenaud<\/a><\/em>” on Twitter and we’ll keep you up to date. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My single greatest takeaway from Echo Conference was Rhett Smith’s breakout on “Not Losing Yourself in Social Media.” About six months ago I left my old blog (PinkHairedGirl.net) behind to focus solely on Dirty Girls Ministries. But I kept “pinkhairedgirl” on Twitter because it is a name that people knew and I didn’t want to… Continue reading Where Did “PinkHairedGirl” Go?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,178,183,27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfcc","category-communications","category-confession","category-crystal-renaud","category-dirty-girls","category-ouch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}