Do You Understand your Hair's Growth Cycle?
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Your hair isn’t random. It has a rhythm.
Most of us don’t think about it. We notice when it feels dry, or when too many strands show up in the shower drain. We panic. We buy products. We chase miracles.
But the truth is, your hair is simply following a cycle as old as life itself.
Scientists call it anagen, catagen, and telogen. I call it growth, pause, and renewal.
In growth, the follicle is busy, alive, pushing your strands longer and stronger. Some people stay in this phase for years. Their hair falls down their backs. Others move through it quickly and find their hair rarely grows past their shoulders. Neither is right or wrong. It just is.
Then comes the pause. A few quiet weeks where the follicle rests. Nothing dramatic. A breath between movements.
And then, renewal. The strand is released. It sheds. On average, fifty to a hundred hairs a day. People panic at this part — I see it in my chair all the time. But shedding is not loss. It’s your body making space for the new.
And so the cycle continues. Growth. Pause. Renewal. Like breathing in and out.
When you understand this, something shifts. You stop fighting your hair and start listening to it. You stop seeing it as broken and start seeing it as alive.
Every strand is telling a story. Of stress carried. Of nourishment given or denied. Of seasons lived. Of the climate you move through.
To care for your hair isn’t vanity. It’s connection. It’s noticing. It’s taking part in the rhythm. It’s caring for it in whichever phase you find it today.
And isn’t that what life itself is?
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