For Renee Davis, writing a book was never a new idea. It was one that had quietly followed her for decades.
“I’ve always wanted to travel the world uplifting others,” she says. But as a young mother, Davis knew that dream would have to wait. Years later, with her children grown and the business she built, Blind Bear, thriving, the thought returned: Write the book.
Her forthcoming memoir, The Bless-Ed Feast: From Manifesting in a Toxic Womb, is expected to debut by the end of the year, with Davis hoping for an e-book launch before Thanksgiving. The deeply personal story traces a life shaped by trauma, addiction, motherhood, entrepreneurship and a conscious decision to break generational cycles.
Davis describes herself as the “epitome of a rainbow baby.” She was conceived just months after her mother lost a child and was born two days before the anniversary of his death. Her mother carried profound grief and trauma, and Davis believes growing within that environment shaped her capacity for compassion.
Her childhood brought challenges of its own. Substance use entered her life at an unusually young age, and by 16, recognizing the direction her life was taking, Davis made the decision to enter a rehabilitation program.
“I knew what I wanted my life to look like,” she says. “And I knew what I was doing was not going to get me there.”
That ability to recognize where she was—and choose something different—became a recurring theme throughout her life and ultimately the foundation of her book.
Its three pillars are awareness, choice and practice.
“When you’re honest about where you’re at, you can navigate yourself through it,” Davis explains. “Then you have to make the daily choices of how you’re going to choose to motivate, and then you have to practice that.”
For Davis, that practice means intentionally looking for the lesson, the gratitude and even the blessing within difficult circumstances.
She remembers receiving a call during a homeowners association dinner in 2011 informing her that her house was on fire. On the drive home, rather than becoming consumed by what was being lost, Davis found herself naming everything that was working in her family’s favor.
“I had practiced looking for those things through hard times for so long,” she says. Gratitude had become her default.
Today, she recognizes that even the fire ultimately helped create the circumstances that allowed her family to move to Phoenix—a reminder of the perspective behind the book’s title.
Davis recently took that message to the stage in New York at Bold Publishing’s Quantum Weekend 2026, sharing three principles she credits with helping her build her business: holding the vision, doing whatever it takes and building on a foundation of customer service and integrity.
Now, she hopes book reaches people doing the difficult work of changing patterns within their own families.
“This is just my story,” Davis says. “It really comes down to knowing that you can filter life through positive or negative.”
For the woman who has spent a lifetime practicing that choice, sharing the story may simply be the beginning of what comes next.