The 30th of July marks the day I shaved my head and my healing journey. It has been 2 years of intentional healing and working with myself. You can read more about my Journey with autoimmune disease here.

That day I was scared but relieved, I was letting go of control. I kept the piece of hair they cut. I arrived home, I looked in the mirror, and I learned to love myself a little stronger. I will share some images of the process. These images are raw, and a little triggering (trichophobia warning). But still, I want to share them. Because I’m so proud of all the hard work I have been doing. My body attacks me, and I learned to listen to it, care for it, and nourish it. As with my hair, I let go of anything else that no longer serves me, including fears.

I’m here, I’m alive, and I will continue this healing Journey. I believe in the power we have inside of us to self-heal, to find help (medical and physiological), to manifest…We are powerful beings. I still have flare-ups and alopecia, and I still have days that I can’t stand up from the bed, but also, there are many days where I create art, I go in nature to my Forest Therapy, I do my intentional rituals, I take my Plant Medicine, I dance, I laugh, I dream, I live!!!

This piece of art is called “Remendada”, which is the Spanish word for “patched up”. I felt broken, many many times, mind and body…and finally, in my 40’s, I’m patching up myself, one thread at a time. The piece was made by transferring a self-portrait in an eco-printed fabric I did 2 years ago, a long braid of hair they cut that day, is also present…. This is a tribute to my Journey of 2 years, healing my body, my mind, and my soul.

I am enough!

I’m thankful to my husband, my daughter, and my son. I’m thankful to my family, blood-related and not blood-related, like my beautiful friends. I’m thankful for my mentors and teachers and strangers that I have met on this path. All of them are very important in this healing Journey.

If you are on a similar Journey, it doesn’t necessarily need to be illness related, but in the Journey of patching yourself up, I want to say: You are Not Alone. Please contact me, I can be your Journey Allied. Original post here.