The only thing that is constant… CHANGE!
October 8, 2011
considering an occupation change.
Yes , those of you who are my longtime 20+ year clients and friends read this correctly. It should not come as a surprise however I have been changing right before your eyes …for years! Let’s review…. I began styling hair at the prompting of my father when I was 17 yrs old. 30 yrs ago.
30.years.ago.
I have been many things along the way, stylist, business partner, Executive VP , Entrepreneur/ Salon Owner, Resale shop owner, Makeover Maven, Radio Personality, Volunteer trainer for American Cancer Society, Mom, partner, divorcee, crazy… better… married…. you get the picture.
It has been in the past few years that I wanted to challenge myself to learn something new. I have ask myself the question, ” what else would I be good at”? This does not always get a supportive response, usually when I am styling someone’s hair. The eyebrow goes up in fear!
Rest assured, I will do my best to keep you informed of my progress in this mission. My mission.
Afterall, it has been MY path all along, that has brought me to this place and I like it. Don’t get me wrong, I have had so much help and encouragement along the way I am awed when I think of it all… and it is the one thing that gets me through the unknown-s when I feel a bit “disconnected”. As I prepare this morning for my yoga Instrutors Training session, I am reminded that I have come a long way from living in my car in San Francisco, California. ( the car was a 1973 Toyota Carolla, which I SHARED with my then-partner and a dog.) Back then(1983) I never imagined that would be my life. I grew up in a middle class family, went to a great public school, had a fairly average childhood and BAM through decisions I was COMPELLED to make, I found myself parked in the marina , looking at the Golden Gate Bridge from a not-so- romatic point of view.
Fast forward to 2011, I have an assignment to read the Bhagavad Gita and write a short essay about how it’s themes resonate with me…. well, this has opened a PANDORA’S BOX of old thoughts and memories. The decisons and actions(karma) of my young adulthood have had lasting impact on my life. In the Gita, Krishna says,”true yoga comes when we do not attatch any meaning to actions , ours or others’… they are just actions paying a cosmic karmic debt”.
I left my family of origin when I was 18 yrs old. Determined to be who I was (am) and afraid of losing the most important relationships of my life. For 29 yrs, these decisons have impacted my thinking whether consciuosly or not. As humans, we cannot help this cycle of “samsara”… but we can work to be liberated from it’s pain. I believe my next incarnation(in this lifetime) will be to ”create change” through the yogic experience… to help others to detach from the cycle of karmic debts, and find their Dharma, PURPOSE.
Through my work as a stylist I have helped women to see their outside potential, I now feel drawn to show what they are truly made of… light and love and endless transformations.
namaste
ocean front property!
October 8, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Sherry, I feel honored to have met you, the deep thoughts and knowledge you bring to me, my yoga and just life in general is amazing. Thank you so very much.