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Welcome back everybody to the Alopecia Angel podcast. I am your host Johanna

Dahlman. Today I wanted to start by acknowledging all the medical professionals, the

doctors and the Dermatologists that have been referring their clients to me. I take huge

honor in this. And I also welcome anyone who is in the healthcare profession to

recommend their clients to me, because many times it's letting go of the ego and also

seeing what's best for the clients.

Many times we can go to a professional, in this case, a doctor or dermatologist and say:

Okay, we have alopecia or we have hair loss, and what can you do for me? Sometimes

their toolkit doesn't allow them to offer more, provide more. They'll say, okay, you have

Rogaine, you have steroid injections or you have, this prescription, but what else is

there? And if you follow me, it's because you want a natural solution, right? And so

those options are not attainable, they're not available and they're non negotiable really. I

didn't want medications to hinder my health, to hinder my fertility, to hinder my future

self just to get my hair back. I knew there was a better way.

I do have many clients who are in the health and wellness profession. They are

personal trainers. They are pharmacists. They are nurses. They are nurse practitioners,

chiropractors, physical therapists. And so just because you are a doctor, just because

you have a higher degree or a different degree, sometimes you could still hit a dead

end. And so for those of you who aren't in the health and wellness industry, understand

that not always do they have the answer, not always do they have the ability or the

support, even from their own communities to provide and say: Hey, there is a natural

way, this is the way, and this is the way to do it.

In my research of healing alopecia, I've come across just endless amounts of doctors

who have this tunnel vision, they're educated one way and they won't veer off of it

because that's how they were educated. It's like how we grow up in the US, thinking that

Christopher Columbus discovered America and then all of a sudden history is at a

standstill because now all of a sudden people who apparently have discovered America

way earlier than Christopher Columbus. And so it's these types of things where not

everything that we've been taught is 100% correct, not everything that we do is 100%

correct. And healthcare actually has a lot of these mishaps, right?

There was a time in the 60s and in the 70s where everyone, including doctors, were

saying that smoking tobacco and cigarettes were healthy for you and theyrecommended it to people. This is where they had enormous amounts of pregnant

women and men and everyone was doing the most like glamorous thing. And the most

modern thing to do at that time was to smoke cigarettes, besides all the other drugs that

were probably going on in the 60s. But at the same time, they were in court, they were

in front of judges, they were in front of the Superior or Supreme Court. And they were

still fighting tooth and nail that tobacco was healthy. Lo and behold, it took, several

years later, decades later, until 1989 ish, that we realized: Okay, tobacco isn't healthy,

you're right, we need to start doing something about this. But it was a slow process.

I was in California in 1989 and you would go into a restaurant and you had the smoking

section and the non smoking section. Even in fast food places, you would have a

smoking section and the non smoking section. On airplanes, they allowed for everybody

to smoke cigarettes on the airplane back in the day. And so these are things that we

thought, quote unquote, that this was healthy for us. And we obviously know that it's not

healthy. These are things that medicine health care the system has had their mistakes,

has had their mishaps.

Healthcare is a business and they see profits over people, and when you come across a

situation when you're in a dire need, like alopecia, and then you hit a wall, you're hitting

a wall at no solutions, no results, no help. And then on top of it, I hear number one

complaint from all my clients is that it takes forever and a day to see a doctor. It takes

forever and a day to get real results, it takes forever and a day to have this vicious cycle

end. Because you're hitting a wall, they're not really listening to you, they're just like

trying to plug in these medications and these medications aren't working. These

medications aren't the answer, these medications will not give you results long term.

My heart goes out to all of those that are suffering currently with hair loss and alopecia,

even if it isn't autoimmune, because either way, it's still detrimental, it's still traumatizing,

it's still causing angst, it's still causing many emotionals, many emotions, many,

concerns, right? Body mind and spirit. And so this is where Alopecia Angel is here to

support you is here to help you and here to tell you that there is healing. There is

reversal, regardless of the types of alopecia that you have. And so today, going off my

tangent now, today we are talking about limiting beliefs and limiting beliefs hold you

back. They hold you back from your, from what you want, they hold you back from going

for the gold, right? In the Olympics terms, it holds you back from doing your best. It

holds you back from really achieving what it is that you want, which is your hair. You

want your hair.

A lot of times, if we believe what other people tell us, if we believe what they're saying to

us, that there's no cure, that there's no this, that there's no possibility, that, no options

for you, or your follicles are dead, and this is it, and that's it, and this is your destiny, and

so accept it and be done with it. That's not the way to go, that's not the way to go

because that's going to hold you back from not being your best self. It's going to hold

you back from so much of what life is trying to give you. I truly believe alopecia was a

huge challenge, it was definitely my Mount Everest, but in the same vein, It also taughtme enormous amounts of lessons of life lessons, and you really have to dig deep to you

have to go through the muck, right?

You have to go through the mud to get to the tunnel, to get through to the rainbow, to

get through to the other side. You really do. It's been a beautiful journey for me and for

all of my clients as well, because once you know better, you do better. Once you have

the information in your hands, that's it. All you have to do is follow it. So anyways, today

we're talking about limiting beliefs. Potentially one of these might trigger you, potentially

one of these is something that you're saying to yourself, potentially, with this limiting

belief, it's really taken away the spark in life, it's taking away what's possible for you.

So let's go ahead and begin. Let's get into this. So number one, that there's no cure for

alopecia. There is healing and not to say that Just because your DNA demonstrates

autoimmunity or demonstrates hair loss or demonstrates alopecia in today, in right now,

doesn't mean that it can't go away and it can't just go back to hibernation for the rest of

your life. Just because you have the gene for alopecia, like I do, doesn't mean you have

to go through it, doesn't mean you have to live with it for the rest of your life, doesn't

mean that it has to be manifested, doesn't mean it does have to be awake. This giant

could be put back to sleep. As you can see, I have tons of hair. I have my eyelashes. I

have my eyebrows and all the rest of the hair on my body and everything's great.

And so no, we can't change our genes. But yes, we can change our future. Yes, we can

change our destiny. Yes, we can get healthier. Yes, we can do something about our

alopecia. Yes, we can create a better life. Yes, we can grow our hair back. Yes, we can

put alopecia to sleep. So many times what you're googling or what you're seeing on

online is In my opinion, fake news. In my opinion, it's not the whole picture. In my

opinion, it's just one side of the coin because you can say: Oh, I have the BRCA gene.

Oh, I have this. Oh, I have that. And that's it, this is my destiny, this is what's going to

happen to me. It doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't. We have so much more

control over our health and wellness, over our well being, over our mental, spiritual,

emotional, physical health than what we give ourselves credit for.

So that's the first part. Understanding that what people say is just a projection of what

they believe. For example, if someone says you're fat, okay, that's someone's opinion,

that's their projection about me. That's their projection of themselves on me and I don't

need to take in their opinion and in many ways there are garbage thoughts. Because

those garbage thoughts clearly haven't led them to be happier or be healthier. So when

someone says something negative to me, I look at it from all angles. It's not just one

thing or the other, when someone posts something saying: Oh, there's no cure for

alopecia it's their projection on me or on my community. It's not that it's a fact, because I

healed it. I post constantly of my clients who are healing it from different types of

alopecia, regardless of how long they've had it. And so I know it's possible for everyone,

we have to want it enough to do it.

Another limiting belief. Okay. Is thinking: Oh, I can't heal it, this option, this route won't

work for me. And the thing is, it's like, how do you know it won't work if you don't try? Ikind of understand people who are, hesitant, right? Sometimes they want to heal, but

they want that quick and easy fix. They want to just pour the shampoo on their heads.

They want to just, put a cream on or make it very simple for them to incorporate this into

their lives.

But that's not it. That's the thing. What got you here won't get you there, right? What got

you here to this place of hair loss is not the same strategy that you're using now for your

current hair loss is not going to help you get and obtain the results you want. That's just

it. It won't. Your education from elementary school is not going to help you pass the bar

exam. Does that make sense? It's two different things. It's really big and ginormous in

scope. And so your elementary degree of K through eighth grade is not going to help

you pass the bar exam. For those of you who don't know, it's the exam, the final exam

to be a common attorney. And it's not going to help you pass that. It just won't because

there's a big gap of information that's missing, a big gap.

That's, what's happening in today that I see it's like before my clients start the program,

they have one train of thought, one idea of what's going on, they begin their program.

And it's just it's like this big bang of information. It's this big amount of a gap that's

closing. The gap is closing from one end to the spectrum to the other. And so thinking

and saying: I can't heal, this isn't going to work for me. That's just holding you back.

Cause if you're not going to try for yourself, then no one else will, it's like, if we have

limited beliefs. Then guess what? You get to keep them. You get to keep these limiting

beliefs. And o the only person who can take you out of your funk, out of this, stuck place

is you. No one else is gonna come save you.

And so if you think: Oh, woe is me, this is it. I'm gonna go bald, this is it, I'm already

bald, I'm gonna be bald for the rest of my life. Then so be it, you've already just

proclaimed the rest of your life. But if you say, nope, I'm bald today. I'm going to get my

hair back. Nope. I'm losing my hair today. I'm going to get my hair back and it'll be better

than before. You can do this. You can do this, you really can. It's just amazing to see the

consistency of testimonials that clients tell me that clients demonstrate when you just

put in a little effort. That's all it takes is just a little effort and a lot of self love, right?

Because you need to put yourself first, you are the priority here. You need to make

yourself a priority. And for example, when I was going through alopecia, all the

distractions went away. All the outings all the everything went away. I was so hyper

focused on this endeavor I was so hyper focused on accomplishing this goal of getting

my hair back a feeling back to normal of wanting to feel and be functioning again.

For those of you who are the parents going or listening to this for your children It's much

more than hair loss. Understand there's like mental disruptions, there's physical

disruptions, there's emotional ramifications, there's a lot of things going on there that

people aren't able to truly vocalize. I only say this from experience, because I went

through this in my thirties and it was absolutely devastating, it really was. I couldn't even

like. Vocalize all the tsunami of feelings and emotions and physical things that were

happening all at the same time of going through alopecia. This is not going to be found

in a textbook, people, this is called your experience. This is called your life. If it's so hardfor someone who was 30 something to vocalize this. You can't expect your child to be

able to vocalize this. That's all I got to say, it really is. And so no doctor is going to be

able to say: Hey, this is what your child's feeling. Hey, this is what's really going on.

Why? Why are they not able to do that? Because they haven't gone through it. Point

blank.

So the next limiting belief that potentially is a trigger for you is: I've had this type of

alopecia or I have this type of alopecia and I'm a special case and it will be harder for

me. So a lot of times this happens to be for those who are frontal fibrosing alopecia or

LLP alopecia or some type of scarring alopecia. I would like to recommend episode 10

where Dolores is a client of mine and I interview her in episode 10 and she is

Caribbean. African American, and we talk about her type of alopecia, what all her

doctors have said to her, they told her follicles were dead, they told her there was no

hope, there was nothing she can do, and that this is it, done you're gonna go bald. She

found me, and guess what, she started growing her hair. And it wasn't just the

beginning, it's continued to grow.

This interview is actually a year later of her doing the program, and a year later, she

continued to see the hair growth. She was told all these things, she decided to not

believe the doctor, she decided and took it upon herself to find something else. And so

what I'm trying to say here is, again, don't believe everything you're told. We're all

human, we all make mistakes. Many times there's a misdiagnosis, many times you can

see 10 doctors and each doctor is going to have their own opinion of what type of

alopecia you are. At the end of the day, it's not about the type of alopecia, it's about

what you are doing for your health. What are you doing to move the needle? What are

you doing to invest in yourself? To take care of yourself? To put in more effort into

yourself?

Because if you have alopecia, if you have hair loss, if you have XYZ type of hair loss,

more than likely, you are living a life, you are doing something that's not agreeing with

your body, right? Or else you wouldn't have the hair loss. That's really what it comes

down to. You are doing something, currently that your body is not agreeing with and

many times you don't know this is why we have blind spots I talked about this in episode

3 so review episode 3 just in case you don't know what blind spots are but many times

the scarring alopecia is misdiagnosed. Many times you could also catch it at a time

where there's so much more you can still do. So instead of just like giving up hope, why

not go for it and do as much as you can.

There's an author, her name is JJ Virgin and she wrote a book. And in her book of

health and wellness, she described how she was a single mom of two and her son had

just had a car accident. He was hit by a car and he had a 2% chance of surviving this

head injury, this car accident, 2% chance. She bet it on herself and she bet on her child.

She did everything possible. I forget where she lived, but they had to helicopter him out

to the nearest, bigger hospital of the region of where she lived. After like many weeks

and months of rehab and surgeries and this and that, her son made it out not just alive,

but so much better than before. And he only had a 2% chance. Many times it's up to usparents, you know this, it's up to the parent or it's up to you, the adult to take the

decision of what chance are you going to give yourself?

What chance are you going to give your son or daughter? What chance are you going

to give yourself to thrive, to heal? What opportunity? If I only had a 1% chance, I would

still take it. Would you take that 1% chance? So JJ Virgin took the 2% chance and ran

with it. Granted, there was a lot of hard work. There's a lot of rehab in her son's case

because of the severity of the injuries, but her son is like 100% normal, 100% back

going to school, graduated, went on to live a normal, healthy life. This series of events is

giving you a choice. It's a fork in the road, it really is. Alopecia is a fork in the road. What

option do you want? Do you want the medication route? That's not going to give you the

results, but may maybe make you feel better about it, or do you want to take the chance

on betting on yourself?

It's not about the type of alopecia, it's about how much are you willing to bet on

yourself? It's about what are you willing to do to put yourself first? What are you willing

to do to make this the best possible choice for you, the best possible opportunity for you

to learn and to take action. Yes. I'm here to guide you and support you, but at the same

time, you're also betting on yourself. The other limiting belief that I wanted to say was

that quote unquote, I've had it for so many years and there's nothing that can be done.

It's not true, you can have had alopecia for 40 years, 50 years, or just 5 days. And you

can still do something about it, there's always something to do. As long as you're

breathing, as long as your heart is beating, you can do something to improve your

health. Every day we have a choice. Do we boost our health? Or do we bring it down?

Do we want to move the needle just a little bit incrementally? Or are we trying to hold

ourselves back and just be in our comfort zone? It's really up to us, it really is.

A lot of times also another limiting belief is: Oh, I've had too many other health

conditions. I have, A, B, C all the way to Z. health conditions plus alopecia. And

regardless of whether you're just dealing with hair loss or you are dealing with a handful

or more of other health conditions, many of these things resolve once, the ball starts

rolling, once the domino effect starts of getting healthy and it's like a flood, right? When

you have a dam, that's what's going on, right? There's a dam, and we're holding the

water against it. And the hair growth is not getting the nutrients it needs. It's not getting

the health, the vitality it needs, right? And it's not thriving. It's dying, right? It's falling. It's

coming out in clumps.

You're going bald, you're losing your eyelashes and every other hair on your body.

There's a dam that's holding up everything against it. Once you open up the dam just a

little bit and you're able to get things through. You're able to get health and wellness

through supporting your body on all levels. Then you start to see the hair growth sprout,

then you're starting to see your health, your vitality, your energy, everything becomes

revitalized. That's how it is, it's a domino effect. It's not just for all of you who go to the

gym or who work out, you can't just say: Oh, I want to lose weight from my neck, only

my neck. I have a really fatty neck and I just want to lose weight from the back of my

neck. That's not going to work, there are no, quote unquote, exercises that will say, orhelp you just to lose fat from one part of the body. Now, can we tone it? Yes, we can

tone our arms, we can tone our forearms, our shoulders, our back, our legs, our calves,

etc.

Yes, we can. But if we're trying to spot and say: Oh, I just want to lose weight here, it's

not going to happen. Because when you start losing weight, you start to lose weight all

over. Off your hips, off your thighs, off your abs, off your arms, off of even your fingers,

right? I've noticed this when I was pregnant, my fingers got a little, chubbier.

And now that I've lost that weight, it's all my rings are loose again. And so this is what

happens, right? You can't just say: Oh, I want to lose the weight off my face. No, it's an

overall situation where once you start the process, everything starts to heal, everything

starts to upgrade, everything starts to up level. So don't let these limiting beliefs hold

you back from what you want in life. A lot of times it's us. It's a hundred percent us

believing in others and what they say, us taking on their mental and, projected garbage,

just like saying someone telling me: Oh you're going to get alopecia back. No, I'm not,

because I have the keys to success, because I know exactly what I need to do to make

sure alopecia doesn't come back. This is what I teach and in the grand scheme of

things, believing these people, taking on their projections and, their negative energy,

doesn't help you at all. More than that, it's just holding you back.

So don't hold yourself back from your true future, from the future self that you really

want. Limiting beliefs will do that, the blind spots will do that. For those of you with

scarring alopecia, especially the frontal fibrosis alopecia, I've had many of you contact

me. It's all about giving yourself that chance. It's all about giving yourself that

opportunity. So what? Who cares what the doctor said? Move the needle, take action for

yourself. No one else is going to do this for you. But if you're the parent doing this for

the child, okay, the parent's doing it for the child. I get that, but you're the adult who's

going through this. You're going through FFA, you're going through androgenetic

alopecia, you're going through any type of alopecia under the sun that you think that

there's no hope for, that you think that you've been told that's it, your follicles are dead

and there's nothing more to do. I'd say put all of what everyone else has told you, put it

aside and bet on yourself. When you bet on yourself, you only have yourself to blame.

I've personally been a person of like individual sports. I love Serena and I love Venus

Williams as well, because it's an individual sport, tennis is an individual sport. When you

do an individual sport, you bet on yourself. You bet on yourself to produce the results

that you want. You bet on yourself for your discipline, you bet on yourself, to make all

those accomplishments. I can think back to the Olympics and think about Michael

Phelps and the amazing job that he did in one year, having eight gold medals, if not

more. It's incredible what you're able to do when you bet on yourself, you do everything

for yourself and the results show.

In team sports, it's not like that. You can do everything possible within your realm, but

you can't control others. You can't control, what they eat, how they live, what they're

doing, what they're thinking, what they're feeling. You can help them. You can tutorthem, you can train them, you can, uplift them. You can be their cheerleader, but in team

sports, you're just as good as the team. But when you bet on yourself, and this is where

alopecia is a individual game. When you bet on yourself, the possibilities are endless.

The possibilities are at your fingertips and your success is inevitable. Your success is

inevitable because you're not counting on anyone but yourself. You're not counting on

anyone to give you feedback or food or anything else, it's all on you and that's the

beauty of an individual sport. I would have to say that alopecia is an individual sport.

No one can help you, no one can help you get that grand slam, no one can help you get

and, make it to the championships or the biggest tournament. Tiger Woods had to do it

all by himself, Serena and Venus had to do it by themselves, michael Phelps by himself.

It's not a team sport, it's you against alopecia. And I'm telling you now you can win, I'm

telling you now it's possible for you, I'm telling you now, you're wasting time. You're

wasting time, not taking action. You're wasting time not taking the help, not taking the

proven, tried and true. And I say this because I've seen so many clients follow me for

years, and then they join and then they see results in less than 4 weeks, 3 weeks, it's all

up to you. You have the power in your hands.

And with that, thank you so much for listening. I can't wait to talk to you on the next

podcast and rate and review. I would love to see your reviews, rate and review, give me

a thumbs up and, I look forward to speaking to you on the next time.

Take care.