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    Let's Talk About Hair: The Truth Beyond the Looking Glass
    Let's Talk About Hair: The Truth Beyond the Looking Glass
    Let's Talk About Hair: The Truth Beyond the Looking Glass
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    Let's Talk About Hair: The Truth Beyond the Looking Glass

    By Lynn Gauthier

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    Through the lens of her hair struggles, Lynn Gauthier takes us on her lifes journey: hair salons, hairstylists (some she'd rather forget), and unforgettable hair stories. Gauthiers experiences not only shaped her hair but also brought her astounding insight into the nature of her personal struggle with vanity and the search for perfection. She begins her story with excerpts from her daily journal that led to her epiphany that she had self-image issues, marking the beginning of her recovery from the vanity that had strangled her for years. She recalls seasons of hair changes and relates them to the pathways of an evolving spiritual life, from her early school days through two marriages and finally motherhood. Most every woman alive has a hair story and will relate to Gauthiers stories about hair and our emotional attachment to it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 17, 2013
    ISBN9781475990157
    Let's Talk About Hair: The Truth Beyond the Looking Glass
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    Lynn Gauthier

    Lynn Gauthier is a watercolor artist/ calligrapher and is the author of One Book, One Bird, One Verse (2011), which compiles drawings and watercolor paintings of sixty-six birds matched to one verse from each book of the Bible. Gauthier lives in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts with her husband and three daughters.

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      Let's Talk About Hair - Lynn Gauthier

      Copyright © 2013 by Lynn Gauthier.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-9014-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-9015-7 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013908263

      iUniverse rev. date: 05/03/2013

      Contents

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1: Journaling

      Chapter 2: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

      Chapter 3: Short Hair Nightmare in Middle School

      Chapter 4: Tennille

      Chapter 5: Elaine

      Chapter 6: Three Weeks at Hairdressing School

      Chapter 7: Meeting John

      Chapter 8: On the Last Day of Vacation

      Chapter 9: Going Blonde

      Chapter 10: Bad Hair Day

      Chapter 11: Free Haircut in Montgomery

      Chapter 12: My Miracle

      In memory of my father

      Preface

      God’s grace isn’t found in a mirror, at least not in any mirror that I’ve ever looked into. Perfection isn’t found in a mirror either, but that’s where I continued to seek it.

      In late March 2009, at age fifty-three, I recognized patterns of behavior in myself that paralleled my father’s behavior. In 1975, at age fifty-four, my dad divorced his family and married the bathroom mirror. We didn’t notice his preoccupation with his appearance right away, but it slowly robbed him and our family of the close relationship we could have had with him otherwise. He became the center stage of our disdain.

      In March 2009, after weeks of morning journal entries, I was appalled by the monotony of my writing, which reflected my behaviors, namely my struggle with getting my bangs perfect and the frequent trips to the mirror that wasted countless hours. Typically, my journal since 1987 has been and remains my devotion time—a time to talk to God while I listen for answers, my pen scribbling away, page after page. I have stacks of journals that I don’t know what to do with, as if I’ve been waiting for a book revelation to shake me and scream, Write about this!

      So one day, after writing a lengthy prayer to God with specific reference to my hair struggles, I experienced an overwhelming release. The joy of the Lord overcame me in the form of laughter that not only affected me but brought delight to my husband and our three daughters. Something spoken at lunch that afternoon ignited an outburst of laughter that I could not control. My children were excited to watch me double over with laughter. They had no idea what was happening to me, but I knew that the Holy Spirit was doing a mighty healing in me and through me. The days that followed my breakthrough were not totally carefree, but new levels of self-acceptance crept in. After that, when I looked into the mirror, I approved. I always knew that I had God’s approval, but the striving for perfection slowly dropped off. For the first time in years I was content with my appearance.

      One year later, the idea for a book

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