Becoming XENA: Living with a visible chronic illness - Alopecia

£5.00

11.00am

Octavia, founder of XENA, talks us through her journey of learning to love her look and thrive with Alopecia.

Location: Stable 2

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Octavia

Octavia is a pelvic health physiotherapist of 15 years and the founder of XENA LIFE LTD, a unique multidisciplinary women’s health app offering exercise, information, community and much more. Empowering women to make informed choices about their emotional, physical, cyclical, and spiritual wellbeing during pregnancy, postpartum and perimenopause.

Octavia lost her first patch of hair with alopecia at 12. During 30 years of losing and gaining and then losing her hair, she learnt that it was down to her to decide how she felt, showed up, coped and moved forwards. There were tears, sadness, depression and fear. But there was also a determination not to be defined nor held back but this auto-immune disease