Alignment is happening.

Alignment is happening.

Since my last blog post, I have received calls, texts, emails, and all sorts of communication of support. My heart has swelled with the loving energy I’ve received and absolutely didn’t expect from that particular post. When I wrote my last blog, it was so cathartic that I almost forgot about it after I hit publish. The experience of writing my deepest thoughts and emotions is my greatest form of therapeutic self-care so I do it for the feeling it gives me rather than focusing on potential reader reaction. So it means a lot to me when you all see and hear me for exactly who I am after sharing something so vulnerable like the fear of the unknown. 

Saying thank you doesn’t even begin to express my gratitude but since you’re reading this, I want you to know how deeply I appreciate you. Even if you’re on my site by accident, I am grateful that you’re here and willing to give me a few minutes of your time by reading my words.

Many of you may not realize this (though some do) but we’ve been looking to move for a while. I have even visited other places, within and outside of LA, to potentially relocate my life and business to over the past 2 years. As someone who has moved from another country along with multiple states in the past 3 decades, I don’t take the idea of relocating lightly. Feeling secure in my home is connected to a lot of the work I’ve been doing for myself the past few years. Knowing that my root chakra is nurtured helps me feel safe so I can be open to exchanging energy with anyone. 

This is a completely random fact about me but the apartment I’m in now where I have been doing my work and living in for the past 4 years, is the second place I’ve spent the most amount of time in. The one before that is just shy of 8 years in the house I was in from 5th grade to senior year in Wisconsin. Our home in Wisconsin wasn’t a very secure place for me as my parents brought up potential relocation every year of my high school career. I always envied people who had a family home to go back to, that they had all of their childhood memories in, and that symbolizes the very “home” feeling I’ve been searching for my whole life. Our current place has been the best thing I’ve found but it still ain’t it. 

After the last blog went out, something amazing happened. Two different people reached out with a work opportunity for me. I was recruited to bring Therapeutic Skin Coach to an office in Roseburg, Oregon, and an office in Nashville, Tennessee. Before this happened, we had only explored opportunities to relocate through the lens of how my husband’s work can get us there. We didn’t even think about how TSC has the capability of being moved. 

***What’s also very interesting is that a week or so before these opportunities popped up in my inbox, James and I had written a list of cities/areas we’d be interested in moving to if the opportunity showed up. Areas in Oregon were in our top 3 and Nashville was in my top 8.*** 

We decided to visit the opportunity in Oregon because of proximity and curiosity. We took so many safety precautions and only had purposeful interactions following all safe social distancing protocols. If traveling during this time feels really dumb or stupid to you, trust me, I felt it too. However, please understand why I felt I had to take this opportunity. I’m trying to save my family from massive debt and losing everything we’ve worked hard for that has been stripped away from so many of us during this pandemic. We took the best precautions we knew how. We’ve been quarantined for over 8 weeks with only needed interactions for obtaining food and walking Josie. I’m certain I’ll get some backlash for publicly admitting travel during this time. Just please understand that I can’t press my point enough on how much this decision to travel weighed on me. Whatever potential negative thing someone has to say to me about, I’ve already said to myself. 

Once we arrived in the town of Roseburg, Oregon, which reminds me of Ojai and Portland mixed in one beautiful, magical place, we knew this was our future home. You know that feeling when an alignment is happening. I’ve only really felt it when James and I fell in love, when we adopted Josie, and when Therapeutic Skin Coach was becoming something. I trusted the intuitive download of “this is it” but we still asked a million hard questions. I believe in testing your intuition if possible. We did a lot of research and had candid conversations on what to expect and what’s not appealing. We got great feedback from locals which confirmed our confidence in moving forward. 

And now...We’re moving to Oregon in June. 

I am going to be in a beautiful office renting a space alongside my fellow Laurel esthetician, Shannon. After Shannon reached out asking if I would be interested in coming in to help support her clientele and community as we enter the workforce again, I finally started to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The alignment for her was also serendipitous. Within a week of initiating the idea, it all started to come to fruition. This opportunity not only answered a lot of my previous prayers of finding a home and expansion of space for TSC, but it also presented me with options for how this could benefit my IVF journey. 

The truth is that I’ve been trying to get pregnant for 3 1/2 years and now with this pandemic, the loss of my husband’s work, and the sudden drop of income due to COVID-19 city closure mandates (my business dropped 50% compared to last year so far) - I was faced with kissing the possibility of IVF or any infertility treatment goodbye. This opportunity in Oregon has opened me up to a better quality of life where all signs have pointed to yes. My heart knows this is right. 

I’m anticipating many questions - so let me answer with this:

I’ve relocated before and am comfortable doing it again. LA has been a place where I’ve come into my own as an esthetician, but I’ve successfully worked in two other states. I am more than capable of handling the transition. I also have lived the first 18 years of my life in towns much smaller than Roseburg and to be honest, I crave it. I need to heal my endometriosis and this is where I feel called to do it. 

I realized over the span of this quarantine that the feeling I’m looking for of home with stability, security, and longevity is not some house or apartment but rather a place I can come back to within myself. 

Through all the potential fears and doubt, I have certainty in my heart that this is the right move for my family and I. To be completely transparent, James and I have never been on the equally on the same page as we are with this move. It feels like a dream and I know I’m deserving of this. As I’ve slowly started telling people in my life, the confirmation keeps growing. And the reality is that many people are moving. Many people lost what we lost and have to reroute. I feel like the sense of sorrow I was deeply in a few weeks ago all makes sense now. It led me to this path which is the realignment I’ve been searching for over the past few years. All of the hardships, mistakes, that feeling of being stuck, not understanding why things weren’t adding up or working out, all of it now makes sense. It led us here.

So all of this being said, please know that TSC is simply relocating. I plan on keeping my esthetician license in California so I can come down periodically for facials and events. LA is where I have spent the last 8 years of my life. It’s where James and I got married. It’s where we had Josie. It’s where we have spent the majority of our relationship together. It’s where TSC was born. It’s been more than half my career as an esthetician. It’s made me into who I am by testing my resilience and pushing me to be the best version of myself. As much as I love what it has given me, I can’t ignore the realignment. I know Oregon will provide exactly what I need for this next phase of my life. LA will once again become one of my favorite places to visit, which I’m excited for. 

Thank you for reading my announcement. I hope you can support it and that it can maybe inspire you to expand your mind to the possibilities of what can happen post quarantine and COVID-19. I’m ready for the next chapter and can’t wait to share the ride with all of you each step of the way. 

Sending all of you love and light.

Warmly, Hayley

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