Kerrageousliving
I am just like you! You are just like me! We are ALL the same, it is a concept that hit me over a year ago! Yet we have a hard time sharing. We are afraid that we are alone in our pain, our ideas, our beliefs. We need to be courageous. If we can see that we truly are the same:
– Human
– Broken
– Feeling not enough
We can be courageous and embrace the truth that we are all connected. I am not alone and neither are you.
When I was 16 I got a really bad perm I mean a REALLY bad perm. For those of you my age you understand that having a perm was a MUST in the 80’s It was like having a cell phone today ~ EVERY fashionable Girl had one… Now at 16, I had a Pomeranian (a.k.a. My best friend) a crappy car & my parents had just gotten divorced. I had just moved back home from a harrowing experience living w/my mother in Texas and just wanted to feel better! A PERM!
Yes, a perm Will make me feel better! So off I go! But, I’m 16. I have a 16yr old’s budget. Hmmm 🤔 what to do? Look for a sale!! (No Groupon back then) But this salon has a perm “special” so I jump at the chance!!! Omg yes!! THIS! This is going to be GREAT! This will solve all my problems, or at least make me feel better inside. Hair can do that? Did you know? Having good hair is like having a superpower. For Real.
Well, I’m getting a little ahead of myself… My superpowers had not yet showed up.
I went to the budget salon and got a budget perm. The budget perm burnt 2 1/2 inches of my hair off. Off! Off, onto the floor. As the young, unexperienced hairdresser is packing my Afro with conditioner and oil and anything he can use to keep it on my head, I see hair falling off onto the floor… Me being a young also unexperienced 16-year-old client, I was not courageous, pay him and go home. When I get home, I have a good cry. A long, good cry. Now mind you, as the universe always does (Always has our back) my father was dating a hairdresser. He saw my distress, and quickly went into “fix-it” mode.
He called Heidi, she came over and assessed the situation. Prognosis doctor: Unrepairable. Burnt, curly, Brillo pad hair. She was trying to soothe me and said “I will take care of this.” Now mind you there was no such thing as a flat iron. (Remember, these were the dark ages!) However, she was able to every 3 days shampoo, heavily condition my hair, and blow it out with a big round brush. My hair went from looking like a Brillo pad to Pomeranian. But Pomeranian was an improvement! Now I’m telling you all of this because I want you to know that what I learned in that experience was this:
Hair isn’t just hair, and people aren’t just people.
God uses EVERY avenue to help you grow and be courageous & my Avenue was an Afro, Brillo pad, broken head of hair. Meant to steer me onto my path. I decided at the very moment she blew out my hair the first time that I wanted to be a hairdresser. Not because of the money, not because of the fame lol. But because I knew how that change had made me FEEL. I knew at that moment that I wanted to make other people feel that way too. I wanted to repair a broken hair and broken hearts and broken self-esteem. So I embarked on my career, yes, with Pomeranian hair & all.
I asked my father if I could quit high school and become a hairdresser. What do you think he said? Well, you may be wrong. Or you may be right. He said, Absolutely! I finished 10th grade at Boone high school, and went straight into hair school! Got my GED first of course. There’s a lot of twists & turns and other really great stories I could tell you and maybe that will come later in time. But the bottom line is for 38 years I have been helping people feel better and be courageous. That is my goal. That is my purpose. It is the reason that I was placed on this earth. Now as a segue from here to energy healing and hypnotherapy the goal, the purpose is 100% the same. These modalities allow me to do deeper work and have a broader range.
Be courageous
I am still only one person, but that is the beauty of life. We are all connected. Like the sheer, invisible, but intricate spiderweb, we are all connected. As I write this, I am fully aware that people are being drawn to me and I to them. Their purpose is mine and mine is theirs; and in this journey of healing, living, and thriving is where I reside. Be courageous, the best is yet to come!
