Personal Update - Honoring Your Needs & Shedding Layers
You may have seen this on my socials, but it felt right to document this personal shift here…and I added a little more ‘about me’ here. May it inspire You to continue choosing You, to be your most authentic self—no matter what others think or say. I Love You.
Learning to Listen to & Honor Your Needs = Freedom
I have been pondering on this for a While—deciding to release my hair. I know Many people will ask me “why” or what drove me to choose this, so I thought it would be great to offer you MY WHY here :)
1st - This is The BEST decision I've made recently. I feel Free and at Ease.
Reason 1: I've been experiencing some severe health challenges this past year - well longer than that but it’s been harder this past year—that + perimenopause has left me feeling depleted of energy.
Reason 2: More & more I realized I was experiencing frustration of having to waste some of the little bit of energy I’ve had on washing, blow drying, styling my hair to be presentable at work. I felt annoyed first thing each day which isn't how I like to live.
Reason 3: I also had all these little short, spikey, obnoxious white hairs coming in - while I can accept the color change, I just couldn't accept their chaos and lack of cohesiveness…Little f*ckers!—I prefer to find the hidden humor in all these experiences…it helps me remember this human life is Not as serious as our Ego thinks it is.
SIDE NOTE—
The average human loses about 100 body hairs a day.
I had the first conscious awareness that I disliked body hair around age 8—even begged my mom to start shaving that young. It’s not obsessive, but it’s there.
I get annoyed having to continuously sweep/vacuum hair that ends up all over the floor, cleaning it out of the shower drain or having to pick it off my pillow and clothes.
(This is another reason why I don’t have pets.)
So…there were many layers to this decision!
SO MY SOLUTION?
Get it gone. Shave it off.
(The Year of the Snake is no joke!)
BUT ALSO
DO it with INTENTION!
So, my lovely friend and hairstylist Ashleigh at Saige here in Springvale, ME (Services Here) held space for me & my intentions.
We shaved my head with the intention of ALSO RELEASING
*Whatever beliefs, energies and/or anything contributing to the energy challenges
*Challenges I've been having with my throat
*Challenges with breathing - may my air passageways open up free of restriction
TRUE STORY—I shared what I was going to do w/someone close to me beforehand, and they said "oh, people are going to judge you."
My Response? I don't give a shit—LET THEM. Lucky for me I don't live for Them.
It’s important to innerstand that another person’s judgments stem from their own insecurities and their programmed fear of needing to be accepted by and please others.
Was I SCARED to do it?
My Ego had concerns about whether it would look ‘okay’ but mainly because I didn’t want to scare people away from my classes / work (the ego is an amazing challenge sometimes!).
I also wondered if I will ever be able to grow it back out without those wild, spikey hairs making it look ‘off’, but eventually the NEED for this outweighed the Ego’s concerns.
The RESULT:
Honestly...I feel GREAT! I feel RELIEVED.
Mornings are a Breeze now. I have more time for Me and the life I'm creating.
Will I keep it this short? Maybe. Maybe not. But I'm going to enjoy Every Single Moment of this.
FINAL NOTE JUST FOR YOU—
May You choose to make choices for Your own life based on Your own needs, your own well-being, your own dreams. Choose to Be You. Everyone else is taken.
I Love You.
~Me
