Girls who have gone through hair loss

Girls who have gone through hair loss are a different kind of breed.

Resilient. Forced to surrender. Forced to see where else she is beautiful. Expected not too care too much out loud yet tears with every clump in her hand.

And unexpectedly, but very real, she’s often face to face with the question…. But what matters most in my life?

Because when you’re losing hair it takes the number one spot in that moment. Tunnel vision as you feel more and more of your scalp.
But then you recalibrate. It’s traumatic. You’re losing hair. And, it can’t be the biggest thing in your life.
Losing hair is big but it cannot be THEE biggest thing.

So what IS? Where do we need to focus in order to regain joy, calmness, peace?

I’ve gone through two bouts of hairloss before my current one.

My first was from a pituitary tumor.
My second was because of Hashimotos.
This time it’s because of a traumatic birth and postpartum itself. With a side of the first two.

I should tell you I never lost so much hair that I felt I truly had the right to complain around my peers.

At most I lost about 30% of my hair.

I have fine hair, but a lot of it.

While my husband sees the constant balls of hair and shedding all over the house, the real world sees a girl with some normal azz hair.

So I see the girls like me who are prone to hair loss but it’s not as evident.
And I majorly see the girls who have lost a lot, a lot of hair.

They are the strongest of us all.

Hair is not the most important thing in the world. How many of us have seen women with no hair be so beautiful it’s almost blinding.

But hairloss hurts. It is a loss afterall. It’s a series of moments lived everyday that we cannot control.

So girls going through hair loss. Take care of yourself. Hug yourself today. Be your cheerleader. Look in the mirror and see who YOU are. Strong. Worthy. Unique. Important.

That’s you. With or without the hair you want.