Laura Mathias | Alopecia, Self-Acceptance and Not Caring What Other People Think.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
My guest is Laura Mathias, the communications manager, campaigner and alopecia awareness advocate. Laura started losing her hair in her early teens and she admits that, as a result, she stopped leaving the house. As she describes it, ‘I completely withdrew and just gave up.’
On Instagram where she’s @relightalopecia, Laura has shared her journey with alopecia because that diagnosis in her early teens led to issues with self-esteem and self-expression. A wig-wearer for years, lockdown changed that when we were all working from home and had the option to turn our cameras off and this was a huge learning experience for her and it’s these learnings she shares in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I started searching for the hashtag alabisha after, you know, so this was in the pandemic 17 |
| 0:17.0 | years after I'd lost my hair and never really dealt with it, spoken about it, just been |
| 0:20.8 | a wig wearer. And there's nothing wrong with wig wearing, which I'm happy to get onto. |
| 0:25.5 | But for me, it was a weight I was carrying with me and it was a phobia to be seen without |
| 0:32.8 | my wig or talk about it. It was mortifying to me that I was a bald 13, 14-year-old. |
| 0:40.8 | We all have something worth saying. We all have a story worth sharing. Not everyone's |
| 0:44.2 | going to have the time or capacity or want to do that. |
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