Enduring Lessons from Fleeting Baldness – What I’ve Learned from Shaving My Head

It was 2017 and I had been thinking about shaving my head for a while and every time the thought crossed my mind, I was gripped with fear. How would I look? Although I recognized that this was completely irrational, I also thought, “What if, for whatever reason, my hair doesn’t grow back?” Despite how it caused my heart to skip a beat, the idea of shaving my head popped up every so often. It also seemed like the universe was encouraging me to pursue this endeavor. By the end of 2017, I had crossed paths with four women who had shaved their heads and felt inspired to follow in their footsteps. As such, on the cold, blistery morning of January 1, 2018, I walked into my hair salon and decided that as a symbolic gesture, I would ring in the New Year doing something that scares me. 

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