{"id":15696,"date":"2021-08-16T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=15696"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:56:34","slug":"the-view-from-here-new-hair-who-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2021\/08\/the-view-from-here-new-hair-who-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From Here – New Hair, Who Dis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did it!<\/p>\n

I cut my hair.\u00a0 Chopped it.\u00a0 Short.\u00a0 Brought back the bangs.\u00a0 No regrets.\u00a0 Just smiles.\u00a0 And a new attitude.\u00a0 Why should we only make big changes January 1st?\u00a0 \u00a0I believe we should reinvent ourselves and do things to make ourselves better all the time.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I’ve never been this excited about a hair cut, but it’s been “a year”<\/em>.\u00a0 Some people think haircuts and fitness classes aren’t essential.\u00a0 I beg to differ.<\/p>\n

Feeling good about ourselves and taking care of our mental health is important, and I don’t\u00a0\"\"know about you – but getting a haircut is just as valuable to my mental health as any therapy session.\u00a0 Cut a few inches off, take on a new style, or new colour – and you’ve just reinvented yourself and brought back into your life a whole lotta joy.<\/p>\n

As I sat in the chair, chatting with Kelly at Rock N Micks – I realized just how important these people are to us.\u00a0 The ability to transform us with just a haircut.\u00a0 Sitting in the chair, chatting away IS a therapy session.\u00a0 It’s nice to be able to talk about anything.\u00a0 \u00a0And I was told how much WE matter to them.\u00a0 How much they have missed us, and doing what they do.<\/p>\n

As the hair got cut away, I felt a huge weight lifting from my shoulders in other ways.\u00a0 The weight of the past year.\u00a0 Restrictions. Rules.\u00a0 Social distancing.\u00a0 Isolation.\u00a0 Loneliness.\u00a0 Frustration.\u00a0 Anger.\u00a0 And truth be told I was hoping I’d see a drop on the scale (smile).\u00a0 There was a LOT of hair!<\/p>\n

And nope, I still don’t look like Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts (smile) – but I FEEL younger, lighter and happier. And more like ME than I’ve felt in a very long time.<\/p>\n

Nope.\u00a0 Never just a haircut.\u00a0 Never just hair.\u00a0 Powerful.<\/p>\n

Mind you, it’s going to be a few days of awkwardness again as I try to figure out how she did it and adjust to making it my own again.\u00a0 We never can replicate what the stylist does in their magic chair,\u00a0 can we? (smile)<\/p>\n

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What do you do for yourself when you fall into that feeling of overwhelm or blah?\u00a0 Is it a hair cut that brings you back to life so-to-speak?\u00a0 Is it something else?<\/p>\n

So happy.<\/p>\n

Now my husband has me considering getting a tattoo.\u00a0 It was something I thought about when I hit the 40 mark.\u00a0 This year is bigger.\u00a0 50 seems to be a big deal.\u00a0 So maybe I’ll be the girl with the dragonfly tattoo.\u00a0 In remembrance of my family lost too soon, and my strength.<\/p>\n

Any recommendations?\u00a0 Do you have a tattoo?\u00a0 Is it something you got later in life?\u00a0 How do you celebrate birthdays\/ getting older?\u00a0 Let me know!<\/p>\n

Let’s stay connected – email me anytime!<\/p>\n

cbuchanan@blackburnradio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I did it! I cut my hair.\u00a0 Chopped it.\u00a0 Short.\u00a0 Brought back the bangs.\u00a0 No regrets.\u00a0 Just smiles.\u00a0 And a new attitude.\u00a0 Why should we only make big changes January 1st?\u00a0 \u00a0I believe we should reinvent ourselves and do things to make ourselves better all the time. I have to admit, I’ve never been this","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 19:00:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2021\/08\/the-view-from-here-new-hair-who-dis\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15704,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions\/15704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}