“I’m so excited I want to scream… but I don’t want to scare my kids!” – Linsey D.
I am so excited to announce the “A New You Makeover” winner – Linsey D. My team spent a great deal of time trying to decide between the many applicants and the two well deserving finalists. As we spent time with Linsey we found that her hair loss was caused by a combination of Graves Disease, Hashimoto’s Disease and the medications associated with them. We realized that there is a need to bring awareness to women, all over, experiencing thyroid and autoimmune type diseases – that there is a solution for thinning hair and hair loss.
Linsey was so excited to find out that she has been selected as our winner that not only did she want to scream, but said this contest is the only thing she has ever won – besides a coloring contest when she was younger! Her husband was so elated he began yelling and jumping for joy at his office. His co-workers rushed in to see if everything was okay! And our favorite was that when Linsey told her mom, over text, that she had won, Linsey said, “my mom is screaming for joy – over text!”
The start of a New Year brings a tradition many of us make but may not be good at keeping, New Year’s resolutions. Don’t let these statistics from Living Magazine fool you into not making your yearly resolution.
40-45% Americans set resolutions annually.
After 1 month, only 64% are still participating in their resolution.
After 6 months, only 46% are still participating in their resolution.
After 1 year, only 12% are truly living out their resolution.
These statistics can make you turn the other way when someone asks, “What’s your resolution?” But I don’t want you to let them. I am here to help you make a resolution, and keep it! Let’s do this together; I will be providing coaches throughout the year to help mentor you. Through live workshops and my blog I will bring you resources to help make you better and live your resolution.
So please, share with me in your comments below what your resolution is this year, and I’ll help you stick to it. I look forward to your responses.
Over the past month I ‘ve asked and you’ve answered! So many of you have sent us your stories to enter the Jeffrey Paul Salon and Beachwood Plastic Surgery and Medial Spa’s makeover contest, “A New You,“ and now, we are excited to change one woman’s life who is living with hair loss. We have chosen our two finalists and would like to share their stories with you.
Linsey:
Linsey was diagnosed with Grave’s Disease, an autoimmune disorder leading to hyperthyroidism, back in 1996.
“When I first started losing my hair, I kept telling myself it would come back. ‘It has to’, I’d say. That was 16 years ago. It has been a lonely and depressing journey.”
“If I won this makeover it would truly change my life. I have been desperately seeking the confidence that so many women in our society take for granted. I long to feel what it might be like to get my fingers caught in my hair. Or to have to pull my hair back because it’s being unruly. To feel what it’s like to have to put a hat on because I’m actually having a bad hair day.“
Kylie:
Kylie began losing her hair when she was 12 and by the time she was 15 she was completely bald from alopecia. She continued to struggle with different wigs that just did not work for her.
“Winning this contest would mean that women like me across the states can also make a change in their life for the better. It stands as a symbol for anyone going through hair loss for any reason that they too- are special enough to change their lives.”
“Whether it be by makeover or lifestyle change- beauty comes from within. A makeover emphasizes that beauty and gives me a reason to share my story with others, hopefully enabling other women to make the positive change as well.”
After a hair loss consultation at the Jeffrey Paul Salon, my team will be able to evaluate each of the finalist’s hair loss and then choose one winner. Comment below, on who you would choose to be our Hair Loss Makeover winner?
If you would like to learn more about the right solution for your individual hair loss please emailor call me to set up a private and personal consultation with one of my consultation specialists. Or to get your free copy of my Personal Hair Loss Evaluation eBook Guide, which helps determine your loss and best-personalized solution, all you need to do is sign up for my blog!
What happens to your hair when it gets hard? It looks bad and breaks. The same thing happens to your heart. We have all been hurt by someone and have become bitter, the only way to soften your heart is to moisturize it with love and compassion.
Watch my video above as I give you the exercise to help you soften your heart:
On a piece of paper write down everything you may be angry about.
Then, safely light it on fire and let those words become ashes.
And remember, just as Proverbs 4 says, “guard your heart, it’s the wellspring of good life.” Today, guard your heart by letting go of that which makes it hard.
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Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Did you know that about 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime?
For a woman losing a breast can be devastating, but the effects of chemotherapy associated with trying to overcome breast cancer can lead to hair loss, which for a woman can be even more devastating. Just ask one of my guest’s at Jeffrey Paul Salon, Kristin, who is a Breast Cancer survivor. Kristin put the experience of losing her hair’ from breast cancer, this way,
“Losing my breast was not really the issue. My hair was – as a woman it’s a big part of how people view you… Jeffrey Paul, and his team, gave me back the feeling of beauty both on the inside and with my hair!”
To watch Kristin’s makeover story on the solution she found for her hair loss, due to breast cancer, please click here.
Cancer, in one form or another, touches each of our lives. This month, to show support, help make someone you know aware of the solutions for their hair loss associated with cancer by sharing Kristin’s story and having them email me for a free consultation. By doing so you can give back the feeling of beauty both on the inside and out!
Do you ever get into a negative thinking funk? Nothing seems to be going right and you just can’t find anything positive around you?
It is very easy to get into a negative thinking mindset when negative things happen we continue to think upon the negative which sets us up for a vicious cycle of negative outcomes.
Philippians 4:8 gives us the best principle to bring a positive change to your life, “think upon good things.” I have a 3-step approach based off of Philippians 4:8 to help you get out of that slump of negative thinking and get back to seeing the positive in all things. Here is what you need to do:
Write a list of “30 Things to be thankful for”
Each day, for 30 days, read your list
Each day take something beautiful, capture the good feeling and think upon it
Remember Beauty comes from within and so does change. So today start to make a change from within to see the positive in your life!
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Inner beauty is a concept used to describe the positive aspects of something that is not physically observable. When you look in the mirror you only see one part of you. When you look into your inner spirit what do you see? Do you see yourself as beautiful, precious and loved? If not, then it’s time to change.
Listen to the voice within you. As you think about yourself, what do you hear? You’re fat? Ugly? Old? Your hair is too thin? Or is your inner voice saying:
We all know people so filled with confidence, optimism, and joy of living that they radiate warmth as if lit by an inner sun. It glows from their eyes. It leaps from their smiles. In their presence, we find ourselves straightening our shoulders and smiling back, heartened. This is the gift that they share with us – their inner beauty revealed.
Above all else, guard you heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Your heart is where your beliefs and doubts, your joys and fears are produced which gives you a wellspring of life or misery. It all depends on what you are producing. In the book of Deuteronomy God speaks to us saying; “today I place before life and death, Choose Life.”
What God has given to all of us is the power to believe – that is what our hearts manufacture, beliefs that produce thoughts that are then made real in our lives. That is a great power but what type of beliefs and thoughts is your heart producing?