Alopecia Life

Trigger Warning:  We discuss suicide in relationship to bullying within this episode. This is our back to school episode of Alopecia Life. It's the beginning of the school year here in the US, and for many of us around the world. Every year, I hear from parents whose children are new to alopecia. Starting school is a huge topic of discussion in my coaching. Questions like, "How do we sha...

 Welcome back to Alopecia Life and season 4. It's so great to be back, sharing about topics that are important to those of us living with autoimmune hair loss. I've been on a brief hiatus as I've been working on releasing a course for parents and caregivers of children living with alopecia. If you haven't yet checked out my website https://www.alopecialife.com/ , feel free to h...

Welcome to Alopecia Life. Normally, I would have an episode releasing this week, but I've been so busy with an exciting upcoming project that I decided to take a short break. I want to thank you for listening in as the episodes are released, and look forward to resuming all of this very, very soon. If you are hoping to hear more about a certain topic, a product, or from an amazing person livi...

 Welcome to another episode of Alopecia Life with Integrative Nutrition & Gut Health Coach, Lisa Taylor. Last October, Lisa shared about gut makeovers and autoimmunity. Since then, Lisa and I have been wanting to connect again to share some lifestyle tools to add into our healing journey. The importance of self-care is often overlooked as we are going about our busy lives, and Lisa is here aga...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life. The past few weeks have been ones full of awareness around alopecia areata. It's brought to light more than we ever could have anticipated, especially around the complicated relationship amongst the black community and hair loss. This interview was scheduled months ago to be released today. Our guest deeply connects with the topic with understanding,...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life. Today's guest is Sheridan Ruth. She is both an alopecia coach and yoga therapist, and supports women with alopecia in their journey to feel more self-acceptance, step into their true power, and radiate confidence.  Since losing her hair at 7 years old, Sheridan battled self-doubt, anxiety, insecurity, trauma, body image and mental health challenges. F...

Thanks for listening to Alopecia Life today.  For the past 2 years, the month of March seems to bring an opportunity to share about very cool projects. This year, we have something that is time sensitive, and I wanted to make sure we all had an opportunity to share the project, especially before the end of March. Our guest today is Janessa St. Pierre. Janessa studied Film Studies at Concordia Univ...

Thank you for sharing your time with me and guest, Teresa Younkin today on Alopecia Life . I met Teresa at a conference last year. We were talking about healthcare reform and what she does, and I was super impressed. What started out as personal advocacy for her family has led to something more expansive around healthcare. Teresa is super excited about the health information exchange, and she shar...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life , and for sharing your time with me and our guest, Susan McLemore, today. A couple months ago, I was searching for something on Facebook, and I discovered Susan and a really cool thing she organized. I wanted to find out more, and we were both excited to talk about the community that supported her family after they were diagnosed with alopecia. I hear so of...

Today, our guest is Chel Campbell, who in 2010 after 12 years of being a parent of a son living with alopecia, led her to create the Australia Alopecia Areata Foundation and build on her passion for unconditional acceptance and appearance diversity. In today's episode, we discuss the how and why behind AAAF, what they are looking to accomplish this year, how they've adjusted their outrea...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life . A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about Jada Pinkett Smith and submitted it to a couple different news outlets. Although it didn't get picked up, I thought I'd share it with all of you.  After writing this article and recording for this episode, I can see that there have now been over 2 million interactions and views on her Instagram post that...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life . We have 3 guests here with us today, Frank Lombardo, the National Photography Manager and two of his team, Erin & Steve from Inter-State Studio & Publishing Company. Frank and I connected a few years ago when I was reminded of my own school photo experience after hearing numerous discussions come up about the unpleasantness of school photos. It ma...

Welcome to Week 3 of December giveaways. If you haven't yet entered, and still want a chance to win any of the items I've talked about over the last 3 weeks, please sign up and choose your top 3 at the link found on the Alopecia Life Facebook group or in the BIO on Instagram. Enter to win until December 20th.  https://alopecialife.ck.page/23a8dee253 The month of December has some very in...

It's week two of December giveaways.                                   . We have some more awesome stuff this week, but you can enter and choose your top 3 items (no matter when they're announced). I have multiples of most items, and I want you to get the item of your choice if you are a winner. There's no need to be worried about seeing massive emails from me in your inbox either....

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life . It's the month of December 2021. Traditionally, across much of the globe, December has been a season of family and friend gatherings and gift-giving. For the first 3 weeks of this month, I'll be doing some of my own gift-giving to Alopecia Life listeners, courtesy of some awesome donors. Over the past 3 seasons, I've collected super cool it...

Today's guest is Dr. Britney Hale Koehler (known as Dr. Hale). She is a residency trained optometrist and fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. As the spouse of an Army optometrist, she has practiced in Florida, Texas, Washington state and Hawaii over the past 8 years. Her connection to the alopecia community began 6 years ago when she was diagnosed with alopecia areata, resulting in a...

Today's guest is Jason Berndt, the founder and creator of My Two Brows . If you've lived with alopecia areata that has progressed to totalis or universalis, you have probably experienced the loss of your eyebrows. In past research I've done, it was discovered that the loss of eyebrows and lashes were almost more devastating than the loss of head hair. In today's episode, Jason...

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life . Today's guest is Lisa Taylor. She is an Integrative Nutrition & Gut Health Coach, and the founder of Your Best Life with Lisa. Gut health has been gaining traction over the last few years as a possible trigger for autoimmunity. With a standard North American diet that lacks essential nutrients, and the introduction of toxins in our personal care...

I'm excited to have today's guest with us for this episode. Anthony Gilding has an important role as the first director of science and research communication at the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation His experience in research along with his own alopecia diagnosis has put him in a unique position to help on both a personal and professional level. Today's episode covers a bit about...

Thank you for sharing your time with today's guest Nicolas Roman Srut and me. I can't think of a better way to round out Alopecia Awareness Month than having Nicolas as our guest. Throughout the episode, we talk about how he became an internet personality with over 5 million followers, how building confidence in others has the effect of building our own, and more about his alopecia story...

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 2. September is Alopecia Awareness Month. That means lots of events to raise awareness for alopecia, and one of them is brought to you by Hailey Portonova, a competitive barrel racer and rodeo announcer & organizer. Every year, she has a race that focuses on alopecia & raises funds for the Children's Alopecia Project, bringing over 320 racers and their fan...

Welcome to Season 3 of Alopecia Life and the beginning of Alopecia Areata Awareness Mont h. This is Deeann Graham, your host of Alopecia Life. I've lived with alopecia for the past 43 years, but I didn't come to terms with it until I met other people who could relate and share their mutual experiences with me. After meeting others who understood and realizing there was still so little in...

Thank you for sharing your time with us today on Alopecia Life . The 2020 school year started off highly unusual for most of the world. Our kids were home for extended periods of time. Now that we're ramping up for the 2021 school year, school spirit, ways to express who we are with or without hair within the walls of the building and out on the playground or sports field can come rushing bac...

Today's guests, Lydia Hibbert and Kery Montgomery collaborated to come up with something pretty phenomenal. Lydia is an artist and animator who specializes in learning and teaching in the creative arts, and the founder of Young Animators Club. Kerry is the Psychological Wellbeing Lead at Alopecia UK . Together, they created an award-winning animation and the Alopecia UK Schools Pack alongside...

Today's guest is Melissa Riley. For the last 4 years, Melissa has been the Vice President of the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation. She shares about her experience with CANAAF, how they've adapted their support groups to be effective during the pandemic, and how they've also added something new and exciting that will be a great service to those living with alopecia in Canada.  Tha...