Dear Owner,
If what is happening on your head has been frustrating, maybe even confusing, I understand why.
If you are tired of thinking about it, tired of trying to figure it out, and more than anything, you just want it to stop, I understand.
If you have found yourself wondering why it keeps happening, why nothing seems to make it stop, why you are being told your labs are normal while your head is showing and feeling something different, or why the things you have tried have not given you the answers you were hoping for, then there is something I need you to understand about what you are experiencing.
It is not just a head problem, and it did not happen overnight.
Even if it feels like it did, what is happening here is one of the ways your body is communicating with you.
Your body has been trying to get your attention for a while now.
You did not know your body was speaking.
After all, your body does not speak English. It does not sit you down and verbally say, "Hey, something needs your attention."
It communicates by speaking symptoms.
It sends the message to the areas you can see, feel, notice, and experience first.
Sometimes, that message comes through me.
Your scalp.You see, I am not the only one sending you messages.
You may have been receiving messages for months, maybe even years. There may be a whole conversation happening.
I am just one of the many ways your body can get a message across.
Think about how you communicate.
Think about what you do when you really need someone to know something and acknowledge receipt of the message.
You have different ways of reaching someone to get one message across.
If they do not see the text and respond? You might call.
If they do not answer the phone? You might leave a voicemail.
If there is still time, you might send the message through a mutual.
To be sure the message was delivered and received, you try another way.
Your body operates the same way.
Your body has different ways of communicating the issues inside that need attention, and what you are experiencing here, with me, is simply one of them.
I may not be where the conversation began.
I know I am where you finally noticed the message because you are here.
But remember, I may not be where the conversation began.
You see, your body does not work in separate pieces.
We work as a team, and the goal is to keep you alive.
The thing is, when one team member does not operate fully, all the others must do extra work.
Think back to a time you had a group project with at least one person who slacked off and did not fulfill their assigned duties.
To get the project completed with a good or decent grade, the other members had to do the slacker's task too.
What happens in one area affects what happens in another. When one part of the team is under more pressure, other parts must adjust.
That means I may not be the first one that tried to get your attention.
Let's go down memory lane a bit.
Before you really started paying attention to me, was there anything else happening in your body?
- You were more tired than usual, even after sleeping.
- Your stomach felt bloated after certain meals.
- You had the "itis" after certain meals.
- Your energy started crashing during the day.
- Your periods became more painful, longer, or heavier.
- You noticed changes in your skin, digestion, sleep, mood, or ability to focus.
- There were headaches, body aches, or little things that just did not feel like you.
If you have experienced any of those things, maybe you called it stress, blamed it on getting older, or thought, "This is just what happens."
Maybe you brought it up, had labs or testing done, and were told everything looked normal, or maybe life was simply too busy to stop and question every little thing you felt.
So you kept going.
Most people do.
Why would you have connected any of it to me?
If no one ever taught you that those experiences could be information, why would you have thought there might be a bigger conversation happening?
Why would you have connected any of it to me?
You may have been taught to look at each thing separately.
A stomach problem belongs to the stomach.
A period problem belongs to the uterus and ovaries.
A headache belongs to the head.
And something happening on your scalp must be a scalp problem.
But your body does not experience itself that way.
One team.
One connected conversation. (One band, one sound!)
Maybe this is not where the story began.
So, if you thought a brand-new problem had appeared when you started noticing me, I want you to consider something:
What if I am not the beginning of the story?
What if I am simply the part of the conversation that finally made you stop and listen?
So, what finally made you listen to me?
Something happening here got your attention.
Maybe you can see it.
Maybe you can feel it.
Maybe you are watching something change right in front of you.
Whatever brought you here, I want to talk about your experience for a moment.
What finally made you listen?
If more than one sounds like you, that is okay. You can come back and read another conversation.
When you are finished, I will meet you on the other side.
