Finding My Power: How Shaving My Head Gave Me Freedom

Perhaps this wasn’t the weight they were encouraging me to lose, but it’s changed my life.

I watched the video of her shaving her head over and over. Watched her cry, her hair falling down her body in long blonde strands, the slashing of a feminine power which, for years, had contributed to her feelings of powerlessness. The paradox of beauty and all its trappings. Rebecca Woolf — All of This

This story begins last fall, on an otherwise-ordina…