Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Alayne’s Brain
This blog experience is a new one for me. When I set it up, I envisioned everytime I had a thought about business, beauty, life, women, parenting etc. I would immediately run to my computer and jot my thoughts down. Well as you can see from my dates of entry, I am a bad blogger, just one more thing to add to the never ending list of TO DO’S. Blogging, though, I think could be a nice release of all of that mind stuff that never seems to cease. I don’t know if it is because I am a parent, wife, business owner, woman or just its crazy combination, but I do know that writing is therapeutic for me and I hope with this new vehicle of expression, I can remember to use it more often.
It is May and as a business owner of spas, I am already thinking of holiday season. Yikes. I got into this business, not because of a love of outer beauty and fashion, but as a way to take care of women who run around and overdo, overcommit like I do. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those frazzled women with a blackberry in one hand and a briefcase in another, (hopefully if that is your description, you are already on your cell phone making an appointment). I chose this life and I adore it. I love saying yes to too many things, I love volunteering at my son’s school, I love signing up for things when my schedule is already jam packed. I adore having too many people at my house for holidays and get togethers and I am in love with business, my business especially because I get to go to work everyday in a happy and pretty place where people come in stressed and leave joyful. Sometimes I have to remind myself how lucky it is to be in the beauty business, the spa business.
In our Bristol location, we are fortunate enough to be on the bay. Though our space in Bristol is small and intimate (and windowless), when you walk into it, you have the sense of a private hideaway where no one knows you are there. When you leave you are surrounded by the bay and yesterday in what it seems like too many months, I walked down to the water, sat on the docks and looked over at Poppasquash and took an amazing deep breath in of gratitude. Sometimes I forget to breathe, not the kind of breathing that we do mindlessly, but that deep diaphragmatic breath which can cleanse the soul like almost nothing else. The water reminds me to do that. I hope today you can turn your mind off even for just 10 seconds and take a breath in. When you feel that moment of peace realize it is yours for the taking anytime. If it has been awhile since you have done something for yourself, give either one of our spas a call and make an appointment so we can take great care of you for a change. Happy Mother’s Day.