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Linda

In my view health is a major part of what makes us a person...a whole person. So, I feel really strongly about it, always looking to improve it and share my thoughts on the matter.

My main concern however is knowing that people, particularly women of colour, still insist on using hazardous chemicals in the name of beauty. Hey, I+m no saint -but once I learnt the effects of these chemicals to our bodies, I knew better than to carry on... infact I decided that going natural was the best thing for me to do... and with time I learnt that health is not only a body thing. Its part of a whole body-mind-spiritual thing...they all connect and make us think, feel and look the way we are. If one aspect is suffering, they all suffer. Putting chemicals into our bodies, especially when it is not needed, makes ALL these aspects suffer.

What particularly shocked me when I started my natural stage and process, was learning how hard it was to fight the concepts of black hair. Was I no longer beautiful? Where was the support needed for a woman of colour like me to feel happy with themself? Just because my hair was natural, was I now considered +ugly+? This was new. I realized how little your average person of colour knows about their own natural beauty...how to even +deal+ with it to begin with! That can+t be healthy either (mainly the +mind+ aspect suffers).

The decision to loc with no help from a salon was a definite decision for me. I wanted to learn to live in harmony with myself and my body, learn to feel more enlightened, therefore more healthy inside, about who I was to the world too. For me, hair-locing or going natural is part of learning to rediscover that health concept of body-mind-spirit. And it worked...I feel healthier and happier now after 2 year and half of being in locs and 10 years of being natural...

The locing process was my final confirmation to myself that I wanted to live the life I chose, with my own expectations. I am now a natural health therapist working in London, a writer and poet, leading a Holistic lifestyle that suits me. Being comfortable with our inner Self is the first step to making dreams come true.

No more hiding. no more worrying about +showing up+ from inside when my hair roots appear. Its OK, Its just me.

Isn't it time to start to get to know yourselves and feel good about what you see? Isn+t it time to start a healthier way of life and be an example to the younger generation who is being lead astray? Isn+t it time to be supportive of a healthier choice for others and yourself?

And why kill yourself in the name of beauty?!? Madness.
Its not worth it.

We are already beautiful.


My locing website:
http://dreadconnection.faithweb.com

My natural health website:
http://www.london-therapist.8k.com