The Women’s Hair Loss Project

Women’s Hair Loss Project
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The Women’s Hair Loss Project

Founded in 2007, The Women’s Hair Loss Project unites women dealing with hair loss and has been providing help, hope and understanding to women dealing with hair loss for over a decade. Join the founder “Y” as she chats with women who share their own hair loss journeys, struggles and triumphs, as well as invites medical and alternative hair professionals to join the discussion to provide greater hair loss education/awareness and understanding, to both women dealing with hair loss and to anyone who is seeking to learn more about this often very misunderstood and isolating disorder.

  1. Women’s Hair Loss: Why The Shame?

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    Women’s Hair Loss: Why The Shame?

    Let’s challenge our thoughts on why we feel shame for something we didn’t do or cause to ourselves. I think shame keeps us from moving forward, it keeps us down, and it’s worth exploring why we feel this way as it pertains to our hair loss.  This was a FB / YouTube Livestream yesterday, to watch the stream visit: https://www.youtube.com/live/UdoHdKPitog Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    23 min

  2. 08/22/2024

    Why I Tell People I Have Hair Loss and Wear Wigs

    I've had hair loss for 25 years, not one type but two. In 2012 I started wearing wigs and had to make a choice for myself on how I would choose the rest of my life, and it was a choice.  In hiding? Or liberate myself and just be open about my situation. While it's not for everyone I found tremendous value and freedom in my openness, in pulling my hair off at will, and not making apologies for something I cannot control. This is me, it's a part of me life. I share this part of my journey to let people know, YOU get to decide how you want to live with this, there is no right, there is no wrong, but there is so much power in taking back your power from hair loss. Podcast also available to watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/PYvKXaE91So?si=jnJAk47tk-1Mu46L Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    20 min

  3. 07/17/2024

    We Get Choices In Hair Loss: Finding Strength and Self Acceptance To Reclaim Your Life

    In this episode I discuss some personal stories and reflect on how I came to accept and learn to live with hair loss, the path that helped to get me to where I am today. Hair loss is ever-evolving, and my own journey has been just that. I have 25 years of hair loss, since the age of 21, and I got a 2nd type of hair loss (inflammatory alopecia ) in 2022. I shaved my head May 2023 and I have worn wigs since 2012.  My hair loss journey has not been easy, and finding out that lightning does strike twice definitely impacted me, but one thing that has never changed over the years, is my desire to never want to live a hostage to hair loss ever again, and staying in front of that, whatever that means and whatever that takes. We get choices in this.  So many women and men are struggling day in and out to just get through the day and process this entire thing, the devastation, and I understand. In this episode I share my thoughts on all this and I hope it helps in some way, to at least know the ability to get through this exists, the ability to reclaim your life exists. That is real, and you can do it.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    19 min

  4. 01/29/2024

    Learning To Live With Hair Loss: Accepting The Unacceptable

    How do we get comfortable in a life with hair loss?  How to we accept the unacceptable ? How do we get comfortable with our hair loss with the choices we make to live with hair loss, including treatment and / or wigs. How do we move forward and let go of what holds us back, which often times is the options of others.  It has taken me a long time to learn to accept this, accept less, accept change, and learn to accept this was my reality. Fighting it only hurt me, denial stole years of my life, it didn’t help me. The ability to be okay, exists, it doesn’t happen overnight, but it does involve being honest with ourselves, it does involve US evolving, and learning all we can to make empowered and educated decisions for ourselves. No one can tell you how to live your hair loss life, the right way is the way that works for you.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    18 min

  5. 09/25/2023

    I Shaved My Head Due to Hair Loss | History, Thoughts & Reflections

    I shaved my head May 7, 2023, due to a second hair loss I got last year, an Inflammatory alopecia. I have had female pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) for 24 years since the age of 21. I began wearing wigs 11 years ago at the age of 34. I never expected to get a second hair loss, I never thought I'd be forced to NEED to make this choice for survival, to be able to continue to live with hair loss without it stealing any more of my life from me.  I don't love this, I don't love seeing myself with a shaved head, but it is better than the alternative, it is better than the creaturish loss that was more obvious before. In the months prior to shaving, I had reached a place I could no longer look at myself in the mirror, at all.  We have to do the things we need, to move forward, whatever those are in our life. Starting to wear wigs 11 years ago was life changing for me, and I thought I had it figured out, and I did, until I got a second hair loss that changed everything again and I was forced to adapt and evolve again. Thank you for listening, thank you for being here.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    21 min

  6. 01/16/2023

    Life Update & A New Hair Loss - Diffuse Alopecia Areata (Incognita)

    This episode focuses on recapping the last year of my life. This is my life and hair loss update, they tie together. I now have a new type of hair loss in addition to the one I’ve had 24 years - female pattern baldness. The events of last year triggered this new hair loss, and so, here we are. I share about discovering I now also have diffuse alopecia areata (Incognita).  I feel like this update is messy and all over the place, but my life is messy and all over the place, so it works perfectly.   I had no idea it was possible to get more than one type of hair loss, but it is.  I vacillated over the last month on how I would treat it, if I would treat it. After a lot of reflection, I have made the decision I can live with, and I’m declining the use oral minoxidil, (and Dupixent, and Olumiant for that matter). I had previously refused oral minoxidil for my androgenetic alopecia, and I stopped systemically treating my female pattern baldness in 2013. I have only utilized PRP hair loss treatments since 2009 (done every 4-5 months).  This is new, and it is different, but the reasons I’m choosing to not treat it with medication are the very same as I made for my androgenetic alopecia, I am however trying a round of steroid injections, and I’ve already done those two times.  This podcast is a lengthy deep dive into how this came to be, and my thought process behind all of it. This is my life and hair loss update.Reference links to the things discussed in this podcast can be found at the bottom of this post: https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/alopecia-areata/life-update-and-a-new-hair-loss-diffuse-alopecia-areata-incognita/ Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    26 min

  7. 04/02/2021

    Living With Hair Loss: The Choices We Make - Taking Back Your Power

    This episode focuses on moving forward through hair loss, and what that looked like for me. I know a lot of women are in a place of feeling they will not be able to accept, they will not be able to live with hair loss - but you can, I know you can. I am living proof of that. I share different parts of my story and journey to let you know it took different things along the way to get me to the place I am today.  Believing YOU CAN emotionally get past hair loss is so important.  Removing the fixed mentality that things have to be a certain way - that fixed mentality kept me stuck in my own prison for over a decade, till the one day things changed. I changed. My mindset changed. I learned I could be okay even though my hair wasn’t going to come back. I accepted my hair loss, I accepted what is, I accepting wearing wigs.  I found a new way to live, and I found it when I was open to it. It was there along, but I wasn’t open to it.  I sat down today to speak to you, to speak to the woman who needs to hear these words from the person who has lived through it, and who knows deeply all the emotions and feelings that hair loss brings with it.  We don’t always feel like we have any choices, but we do. It’s not always the choices we want, but we do get choices. Those choices empower us, and bring us closer to reclaiming ourselves and our power. When I stopped feeling like everything was happening to me, out of my control, without any say of my own whatsoever, and began to make the choices I needed to,  and take action over how I dealt with my hair loss - everything changed.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

    25 min

  8. 11/26/2020

    PRP/ Exosomes Update - Got Results, Lost Results and The Importance In Confronting The Denial Of Our Hair Loss

    Although I have been doing PRP therapy to treat my hair loss for nearly a decade, earlier this year was the first year I had the treatment locally in Beverly Hills by Dr. Baubac Hayatdavoudi, in addition to the PRP, I also had an Exosomes treatment. After 6 months I want to provide my thoughts and where I am at currently. I also discuss the importance or confronting the reality of our hair loss, whether or not we choose to treat it. In my opinion, living in denial can make the journey more difficult and at times also, practically and logistically problematic.  Visit Me Online:Website: womenshairlossproject.com Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossprojectInstagram @whlpnetworkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject

    20 min
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Founded in 2007, The Women’s Hair Loss Project unites women dealing with hair loss and has been providing help, hope and understanding to women dealing with hair loss for over a decade. Join the founder “Y” as she chats with women who share their own hair loss journeys, struggles and triumphs, as well as invites medical and alternative hair professionals to join the discussion to provide greater hair loss education/awareness and understanding, to both women dealing with hair loss and to anyone who is seeking to learn more about this often very misunderstood and isolating disorder.

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  • Creator
    Women’s Hair Loss Project
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
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