From my earliest memories I have always wanted to be a hairstylist and after twenty-six years in the salon, I can’t imagine doing anything else. I have had the opportunity to work with and be inspired by some of the best hairstylists in the world and continue to find beauty in people, creation and art.
My approach to hairstyling is to blend our ideas together in order to create a modern style that compliments you and your lifestyle. In addition, my goal is to provide you with the tools and techniques necessary to recreate your style at home.
Twenty-six years of hairstyling experience
Redken Certified Haircolorist
Former artist/educator for Mercantile Salons and Redken 5th Ave
Former owner of Broad Street Hair Company and Michael Allen Salon
a lump, a mammogram, an ultrasound, a painful biopsy only to result in hearing the words…”I read your pathology and it is cancer.”
On January 27th I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and given my treatment options. I had surgery to remove the cancer and some lymph nodes on February 18th. The pathology showed that the cancer had not spread to my lymph nodes and that I have the “good kind” of breast cancer, whatever that means?
My husband and I met with the oncologist to hear the statistics and what additional treatments she recommended. I took four rounds of chemotherapy over a span of twelve weeks, four bone marrow injections and took another medication for an additional six months.
God has been steadily preparing me for this journey for years. I accepted him as my Savior about seventeen years ago and have learned to trust him, love him, pray to him, worship him and love others through him. I know that God loves me enough to have given his life for me and I am humbled to attempt to do the same for him. Cancer was written in as part of my story before I was even formed.
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.” Psalm 39:13-16
I know that my purpose is to bring glory to God in life, love and in death. I trust that God is going to heal me either on this side of eternity (earth), or the other (heaven) and either way it’s a win! “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose”. Romans 8:28
Some days I am not brave enough, strong enough or faith-filled enough…but I know the One who is and will always be. Some days are filled with choking back tears, anger and just not wanting to be in this story, but I know the Author, and he is collecting all of my tears and fears in his loving hands, this story will not be wasted.
“God is most glorified in us when we are the most satisfied in Him”. John Piper
…satisfied? content? surrendered? I believe that having cancer is an opportunity to figure out what following Christ is about. What about your story? It is never too late for a rewrite.