Its funny isn't it, the twists and turns that life takes us on. I've had a windy road in my lifetime but I have to say that its taken me on some amazing journeys. I've also suffered some serious lows but I wouldn't change any of it.
This past year has been full of major challenges. Our lives are so jammed packed with kids and sports, school activities and work that there's not too much time left in the day to truly find our joy. I like to think that I can find joy in the simplest of things but if I'm being honest with myself that has been a lie for a long while. The pressure of owning a business and having a husband that works a high risk job with shift work to boot was starting to really wear on me. The pressure that I felt to be all the things to all the people was taking a toll on my health and wellbeing. I would listen for hours at work to people talk about how they were making changes to their lives because they were feeling the pressure of the rat race as well and it inspired me.
My husband has always been my biggest champion but at the end of last year he could really see what everyone else but me was seeing. My drive to be all to everyone like my staff and family was really starting to effect my health. I was always at the doctor, going to multiple specialist appointments and trying all sorts of things to make me feel better. All of it inconclusive. The only thing that all of the professionals and my husband could agree on is that it must be stress related. I brushed it off thinking, 'I'm not more stressed than anyone else!' I was wrong, really really wrong. Multiple panic attacks, and thinking I was having a heart attack later I realized that maybe all the smart people in my life were right and that's when we made the decision to think of 'Me' for a change and try and put the business up for sale.
I had lots of ideas of what I might do, but it took sitting down with my husband and talking in length to really put it all into perspective. I love what I do, I love doing hair. If I could just do hair and not all of the other stressful stuff around it like staffing and overhead costs then would that make me happy? Yes! It was those things that really stole away my passion. I was spending so much time on those other things that I was losing the love of the thing that I'm certain I was put on earth to do.
So now its time to simplify. I want a simple life and to make the world beautiful and that's how the name Simplicity Hair Lounge was born. I want to be in charge of just me and the joy I can bring to my guests. I want to do beautiful hair surrounded by nature and my family. I want to make time to just sit with a guest and enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and talk. I want to really just simplify, I can't say it enough.
I'm so excited to show all of my loyal, amazing guests the new salon on our beautiful property. I am over the moon excited to share more simple memories with my family and friends. I am forever grateful to those who have stood beside me through thick and thin to support me. I am truly blessed. So as I continue by lifetime drive along the windy road I hope for a while that I can have a more scenic drive along the coast with fewer twists and turns and loads and loads of laughs.