Musings from a healthy, rested and whole human.
I can feel it in my cells that this space to muse has been steeping for a while, just like a delicious cup of sticky masala chai simmering on the stove. Sweetened with just the right amount of local honey. Sitting here watching the wind dance in the trees, allowing my world to expand and for my perception to shift.
At first, I didn't know how to begin here again, then it dawned on me how we as humans try and perfect everything that can simply be an artform. It's where we completely miss the point of creating, writing, contemplating, staring at clouds in a crystal blue sky, feeling the earth beneath our feet, human touch, the breeze in our hair.
These musings are simply a space to liberate the voice and heart of my innovative and intellectual mind. A way to articulate and freely express words, stories, images, narratives, and feelings so they are unshackled from the physical body.
I've been in the hair industry for 16 years, and if it's one thing I know to be true, it is this. Your art, your creativity, and your muse needs spaces to be fully lived in. To find the extraordinary in the everyday and the magic in the mundane moments. The stories I've been witness to over the years builds a type of intimacy that very few get the privilege of experiencing.
And by lived in, I mean there are no hands around your throat restricting your fullest aliveness of life, telling you to be a good girl. No whispers of judgement, no chains of comparison, and no blankets of blame. Simply simple truth and freedom from the inside out.
Encompassing the fullness of my wholeness as a human was born from my business as a hairstylist behind the chair. A compass of inner reflections, internal navigation and unorthodox directions and visions that guide me (and hopefully you) home to self with a whole lot of humanness, a sprinkle of depth and a dash of humour.
It is, therefore, a suite of seductively allowing HER to have its way with me. Life that is. For life to tap me in, tune me in and turn me on to the magic she wants me to open to, receive, and let in. Nature is my guide and mentor, I turn to her always, in all ways.
What will emerge here will be the ways in which I continually innovate life, business, and cultivate relationships in a society and world that complicates what is seemingly action packed, yet actually very simple. The true art of living. Natural beauty, sustainable business, holistic hairdressing, wellbeing habits, nature, adventure and hiking.
The all encompassing aspects of my lifestyle that make it WHOLE, put my finger on the pulse of aliveness and feel luxuriously rich.
Aliveness is an artform to cultivate intentionally.
A stockpile journey of reverence and over the back fence chinwags that seduce you with simplicity and invite deep belly laughs along the way. Sounds like a real treat to me.
Kinda like fresh crepes at Mum's house on a rainy day when I was a kid. A friendly rivalry with my younger brother, on who could eat the most lemon and sugar crepes.
Always left feeling both satisfied and fulfilled from the inside out.
Obviously, I lost but I gave him a good run for his money.
Welcome to my musings, I will also be writing over on Substack. The Avante Garde will be a longer writing form, both FREE and a Paid Subscription.
A wholesome yet innovative space to land. Grab your beverage of choice and become tantalized with delight as you get lost in your own inner contemplation, seasonal cycles and intuitive nudges.
Where you'll be reminded that the whole point of living is to BE fully IN your life.
We are simply walking one another home, journey with me a while.
My LIFE and business in squares is over on Insta at @_jessicacarey.
Happy Sunday loverssss
Jessica x