Advocacy is not compulsory
When I stopped hiding my baldness with a beanie, at about 17 years old, I started to have people approach me to touch my head.
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Dominique
- 10 min
It's Not Cancer
“What type of cancer do you have?”
This question, recently posed to a friend, might seem innocuous - but she was so frustrated...
Dominique
- 7 min
Dancing with Beauty Standards
For all the dancers who have been told that some part of who they are or what they looked like did not fit the mould.
Dominique
- 7 min
I'm not wearing a bald cap*
(CW: bullying, quotes from video making fun of bald people) I was introduced to the dark side. The dark side of Social Media and its...
Dominique
- 6 min
Circles of Safety
As a child with alopecia, I felt I had to be ready for anything. Reflecting on my childhood and my young adulthood, I can recognize now...
Dominique
- 6 min
Courage on the outside.... not on the inside
People always told me I was brave. I always heard the following a lot when I was a child/teenager with no hair: You’re so courageous I...
Dominique
- 6 min
My take on the messed up Cookie-cutter Beauty ideal.
Cookie-cutter beauty. That we, as womxn are only beautiful if we are a certain color, size, weight, age and shape.
Dominique
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Practicing Pleasure
My pleasure practice this morning felt rusty, stagnant, uninspiring at the start. I seem to put off this practice a lot - continuing to...
Dominique
- 3 min
Permission to Grieve
I miss my sister. I miss her so much right now, and I can’t stop crying. All I want to do when I think of her is cry. I want to be...
Dominique
- 6 min
Times Like These
5th Avenue, NYC - April 2020 - Photo by Paulo Silva on Unsplash I know this is a time of great loss, grief, fear and anxiety in the world...
Dominique
- 3 min
I will always be alone
I joined Helen Jacobs’ Guided Gathering this month and found myself in the midst of some deep work. Through the channeling, we were...
Dominique
- 3 min
Embodied Boundaries
Do you feel like you have strong boundaries? Maybe a self care practice that you won’t let anything else interrupt, or turning off your...
Dominique
- 3 min
Speaking Up
September is Alopecia Areata Awareness Month, so I’ll be posting a few more stories about my life with Alopecia and in a perfectly...
Dominique
- 3 min
Vulnerability and Avoidance
Over one month ago, I announced my website launch on Facebook. I got so many messages of support and congratulations, it was amazing. I...
Dominique
- 2 min
Sleeping all over the place.
Embodiment practices and their randomly far reaching impacts. I'm traveling a lot this year, with 5 mini vacations already this year and...
Dominique
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5 years on
5 years, on I still cry. I still have to be wary of this time and my coping mechanisms that crop up. I need to make sure I'm checking in...
Dominique
- 2 min
DWN - I did a thing!
Today I partnered with two awesome colleagues to do a thing. We kicked off the first meeting of an employee resource group for our...
Dominique
- 4 min
Loving Loss
Grief. Denial. Loss. Bargaining. Sadness. Despair. Depression. Anguish. Anger. Resentment. Acceptance. They say there are fives "stages"...
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