THE CHAIR & THE CYCLE

This is for the woman who....

 

Loves what she does but secretly wonders how much longer she can keep going. 

The one who feels like her body's paying the price.

The one who pushes through the overwhelm, fatigue, overstimulation because time is money.

The one who shows up fully for everyone else - clients, coworkers, your team, family.

 

I see you. Because I was you. 

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In October 2023, after 22 years behind the chair—8 of those as a salon owner—I made one of the hardest and most necessary decisions of my life: I closed my multi-six figure salon and stepped away from the hair industry. At the time, it felt impulsive. But looking back, it was anything but.

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I was burnt out, chronically stressed, inflamed, and disconnected from my body. I had been living in a constant state of go: flight, fight, and fawn. And when I would finally crash, I’d drop into freeze. This cycle left me feeling resentful—toward my business, my clients, even the work I once loved.

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So let me paint the picture for you:

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On my bleed days, I’d show up behind the chair already depleted. I’d push through services while running behind, juggling 2 to 4 clients at once, shoving a tampon in, lining my underwear with toilet paper and hoping I wouldn’t bleed through my clothes. My body was screaming for rest and nourishment, and I kept saying, just a little longer.

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By the time I got home, I’d crash—too tired to cook (lots of door dash), too numb to connect—and slip into a functional freeze.

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And then… like clockwork, near the end of my bleed, I’d feel a spark of myself again. I’d start to enjoy my work. Clients didn’t feel like too much. Coworkers were fine. Squeezing someone in wasn’t a big deal. I’d think this month will be better.

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But soon enough, I’d enter my luteal phase, and everything would begin to shift again. My patience would thin. My sensitivity would rise. I’d feel overstimulated, overstretched, and on edge. The cycle would continue. Over and over.

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I had no idea that I was living out of sync with my body.​ No one ever told me that I could run my business cyclically.​ That as a woman, I wasn’t meant to function like a man on a 24-hour cycle.​ That our energy, creativity, and capacity shifts across a typical 28-day rhythm.​ That there was another way.

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And that’s the thing. We live and work in an industry made up of almost 90% women, but modeled off a 10% male structure. We’re expected to produce, perform, and push as if our biology doesn’t exist.​ It doesn’t make sense.​ And you were never meant to live—or work—like that.

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Sometimes I wonder what would’ve happened if I had known.​ What if I had been taught to sync my business with my cycle?​ Would I have avoided burnout, resentment, chronic stress, and the disconnection from my own body?​ I believe the answer is yes.​ 

 

And that’s what I’m offering you now.​ An invitation to reframe how you do business.

​Whether you’re commission, booth renter, salon owner, or just beginning—this is your moment to choose differently.

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Not to run your business like a man. But to build it around the truth of who you are:

A woman.

A cyclical being.

Capable of creating success, stability, and satisfaction—on your terms.