Experience. The ultimate teacher. If you can reflect, process & progress - you’ve earned the gifts of insight & wisdom.
And those, young or old, are tools in helping & hearing, the person sitting before you. Someone you care deeply for will go through a heavy period one day, or you will. Likely both. Be it in your relational life, or in your professional life, there will come a time you appreciate the gifts of presence, listening, support and advice of another.
I’m proud of being insightful for my age, because I went through some pretty hellacious experiences & layers of work to get here. Healing is partially untangling your own BS (ever had a mental health crisis? It’s rad🤘)
It’s peace, relief & a wonderful lesson that patience and effort do win out. It’s when to rework the wheel, and when to step back. Thankfully, for me, stepping back was essentially coming home to myself. Do the work, you can return to what you lost.
Personally, it’s my brain & body connecting. My ability to pause & reflect, instead of simply act. The impulse & urge of swift action is a trauma response I was handed and let me tell you: it sucked. I botched a lot, personally. I didn’t intend too, but I did. I just wanted things to be better. My brain/body knows it’s home, because my pause is back. Everywhere. I will happily send a client home if I need time & space with my brain and knowledge to come up with a plan that addresses their needs and issues, healthily.
For this beauty, rebounding has come in the form of motherhood. Postpartum hair loss is a hell of journey for anyone whose been through it, and any stylist aiding thru it.
✨The best thing one can give themselves: Grace✨
It will come back in time, I do promise you this. Be patient, ask questions, but above all: give yourself, your new body and it’s journey lots of time and love. Your system is processing & going through an immense amount.
One day you’ll look in the mirror and smile again. You won’t be where you were, you’ve likely gained experience and insight, which merits celebrating yourself!
You’re not who you once were, but so much more. You’re a vessel of rebirth and growth. A gift 🫶
