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Your Hair Made Simple creates space for the Black community to shift their perspective and embrace their hair with courage, confidence, & clarity.
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What If Wash Day Is Mental Health Care?| Psychohairapy w/ Dr. Afiya (opens the original)
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Have you been doing your hair less the more stressed life has gotten? This episode brings you into a conversation with Dr. Afiya Mbilishaka, a licensed clinical psychologist, professor, and the creator of Psychohairapy, a framework that treats hair as an entry point to mental health care. Shannon and Dr. Afiya talk through what it really means to see your hair as part of your health, why so many of us walk into the salon already qualifying our hair before anyone touches it, and how the chair so
What Going Bald Taught Her About Identity w/ Iria Creamer (opens the original)
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Have you ever stood in the mirror and wanted to cut your hair off, not for a style, but to start completely over?Iria has done that twice. She shaved her head in college on a day she needed a clean start, wore it bald for about ten years while modeling and building a career, and then, at 29, took the clippers to her head again to begin growing it back. In this conversation she walks through both decisions and the long middle where she worked out who she was underneath the hair. We talk about lov
Why Your Hair Sheds After Pregnancy: Postpartum Shedding, Explained w/ Akira Frierson Wood | Your Hair Made Simple Ep 35 (opens the original)
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Have you ever started finding more hair than usual on your pillow after having a baby, and felt your stomach drop? In this episode, Shannon sits down with Akira Frierson Wood, a labor and delivery nurse of more than fifteen years and the founder of Take Care of You. Akira explains what your body is actually doing during pregnancy, why estrogen makes hair flourish for a while, and what complications like anemia, low iron, or dehydration can change. Then she walks through postpartum shedding, why
Is Your Braiding Hair Making You Sick? (opens the original)
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Have you ever taken your braids out early because something just felt off? Maybe your scalp was itchy in a way it had never been before. Maybe you woke up that first night with a tight throat. Maybe you found little bumps at the base of your neck and could not figure out where they came from. In this episode, your friend Shannon unpacks two Consumer Reports studies that may help explain what some of us have been feeling for years. The first, released in 2025, tested ten popular synthetic braidin
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