Hi, I'm Ha!

I started my career as a hairstylist, eventually owning a salon and teaching for Aveda. But behind the salon chair, women rarely talked only about their hair. They talked about marriage, motherhood, heartbreak, faith, family, and starting over.

​

I listened to their stories while living a story of my own—one filled with unexpected turns, disappointments, new beginnings, and more than a few plans that didn’t turn out the way I imagined.

​

Eventually, I left the salon and began working in a psychiatrist’s office. I became a therapist, but in many ways, the heart of my work never changed. I was still sitting with people in the messy places of life, helping them make sense of what hurt and discover what might come next.

​

Looking back, I can see something I couldn’t always see while I was living it:

God was present in the detours.

​

Some of the chapters I thought had gone terribly wrong became the very ones He used to lead me somewhere new.

​

That is why grace and second chances run through so much of what I write, teach, and speak about today. I believe our hardest seasons don’t have to be wasted—and sometimes what looks like the end of one story is simply the beginning of another.