Method
SELF-CARE BEHIND THE CHAIR
The Self-Care Behind The Chair Method is our unique strategy bridging the gap between
The Burned Out Stylist and The Evolutionized Stylist;
providing tools to prevent and support stylists that suffer from burnout and compassion fatigue allowing them to
protect their energy, reclaim their personal power, and be present in their life by implementing
The Self-Care Behind The Chair Method.
In my 26+ years as a salon service industry provider, I have discovered a gap in our traditional education system where we lack tactical tools and training that, until now, have not been an area of focus. Our mission is to educate you, the salon industry service provider, by bringing awareness to these areas and providing tools and strategies to prevent these symptoms from taking you away from being present in your life.
I've experienced this struggle myself and am still on my journey, actively shaping the life I want to lead using the very tools I'm offering to you.
As a communication specialist, stylist working behind the chair, salon owner, and educator, I have mentored salon service industry professionals to achieve freedom and prevent burnout and overwhelm by gaining tools to combat compassion fatigue through
BOUNDARIES, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, MINDSET SHIFTS, and SELF-CARE STRATEGIES.
If you, like me and many others in our industry, have experienced feelings of being Burned Out, Exhausted, Drained,
and that you have nothing left for yourself and those that matter most, with no tools to create the life you want?
The current salon industry educational system primarily teaches technical and business skills, leaving salon service providers not equipped with the tools to handle the vast array of heavy emotions we experience from our clients each day behind the chair.
As salon service industry providers, one of our unique gifts is the ability to connect with clients in their personal space, opening an
opportunity for them to share their lives with us, which requires skills not taught in traditional cosmetology education formats.
Throughout my 26+ year career in the salon industry, I have served as a stylist, salon owner, educator, mentor, and now advocate.
I have witnessed stylists' strength and resilience, as well as their collapse and breakdown, including my own personal journey,
fighting the emotions of overwhelm, burnout, and compassion fatigue.
Discover your voice, align your life, and REDISCOVER YOU by joining us in the revolution that will reclaim your personal power,
protect your energy, and allow you to be present for your life and those that matter most.
The time is NOW. Let's get started!
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Boundaries
As stylists, we have the unique privilege of being invited into our clients' personal space as they sit in our chairs and open up about their lives.
In this space, trust and comfort develop, but this also comes with a significant responsibility on our part as we listen and conversate. I've realized that this responsibility often lacks the necessary training provided in our current educational standards to prevent us from absorbing their energy, carrying it with us into our personal lives at the end of our days.
Over the years, this privilege for many of us slowly transitions from a professional to a personal relationship. This can blur our boundaries and lead to over extending ourselves. Clients begin to see us as a safe space to share their lives, sometimes unloading their emotional burdens. This can be draining and contribute to burnout and overwhelm, especially when we have our own personal life challenges outside of the salon.
In the Boundaries pillar within the Self-Care Behind The Chair Method, we establish what boundaries are needed, effectively put them into action, learn how to clearly communicate them and practice consistency to protect your energy, reclaim your personal power and become present in your life.
Mindset
Unknowingly as stylists, we inadvertently carry the stories and shared trauma of our clients with us throughout our days, with no training on how to (as the therapy world calls it) compartmentalize what we are encountering each day. Within our traditional education system,
you are not equipped with the tools and practices to protect your energy, reclaim your power and be present in your life.
Each of us possesses an inner voice that significantly impacts our life choices. Over time, we tend to pay more attention to this inner dialogue, letting the words we tell ourselves shape our current situations.
This can prevent us from becoming the best versions of ourselves and
hinder our ability to be fully present. We also often permit the thoughts
and opinions of others to infiltrate this sacred space in our minds.
As a result, we carry their words with us, sometimes believing their perception of us instead of embracing our true selves.
Within the Mindset Pillar in the Self-Care Behind The Chair Method, we take a different approach in how we address those thoughts and recognize what is truth and what is conditioning by
finding our true self.
Self-Care
As active service industry professionals, we are not given the proper training within our educational system to handle what comes our
way each day behind the chair. We are offered technical and
business skills training but lack mental/emotional and
physical wellness training.
This results in feelings of burnout, overwhelm and not being
present in our lives. If you also find yourself feeling this way,
there is a reason;
you are not alone. Our industry's burnout rate has rapidly increased,
especially in the past few years. Many contributing factors lead to salon service providers leaving the industry.
Unfortunately, as professionals in the salon service industry,
we are not adequately equipped to deal with the profound emotions, shared experiences of trauma, and clients' feelings of despair.
Consequently, these challenging days in the salon can have a lasting impact on our personal lives, as we
often carry these emotions home with us, preventing us from living fully present in our lives and for the people who matter most.
In the Self-Care Pillar within the Self-Care Behind The Chair Method we address these emotions and share tools to rediscover YOU!
Communication
I have forever joked about the little piece of paper we as stylists receive upon graduating from cosmetology school was not, in fact, just our licensure but a therapy degree with no training. Not having this awareness or background in our education has perpetuated years of absorbing others' stories, feelings, beliefs, and traumas through communication.
Our education system does not prepare us for all the emotional and mental situations that present themselves while serving others. When we are invited into others' personal space, a comfortability happens, and clients open up about their deepest emotions, secrets, and traumas. Being exposed to these elements inadvertently affects our days subconsciously. Without training on how to release the heavyweight of the conversation or what to do to prevent burnout, we carry it with us into our personal life.
Within the Communication Pillar in the Self-Care Behind The Chair Method, we look at how we have been conditioned to communicate and reframe this into a new way of communicating to protect our energy, reclaim our personal power and be present for our life and for those that matter most.
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