Tracey Bridge
About
My name is Tracey, and I LOVE all things “Hair.” I also deeply love healing and transformation. I don’t know anything that lights up my heart more than being in, and bearing witness to, healing transformation, especially because it Flowers such Beauty - True Beauty of the Heart that emanates the flavour and scent of its pure essence, that we all become blessed to touch upon.
I don’t know anything more beautiful or powerful than that.
I am also a devotee of health and well-being. For the last 12 years, this, alongside self-realization, which I was unexpectedly thrown into through a spontaneous kundalini awakening, has been my life, my focus, and my passion.
It has really come as no surprise 'now', that “Soulful Holistic Hair” was born. Bringing together and embodying all of these loves and passions that were and are a natural part of my soul and my journey in this life. I didn’t know this was possible until it began to emerge through the integration of the awakening, and my ongoing journey of healing within it. The health, vitality, and well-being that has bloomed over the years. That is a continual, unfolding journey that I feel blessed to be on, and share the fruit of, with those who feel called to join me..
My Background
I have been passionate about hair - you could even say “obsessed”- since the first time I held a pair of scissors at around seven years old to cut my doll’s hair. I knew, with every cell in my body, that I was going to work with hair. At first, it showed itself as working behind the scenes in film, not in front of the camera, as I hated all of that, even then!
I was also fanatical about sport, being part of both an athletics team and a swim club, where I qualified at a national level. Later in life, I became something of a gym fanatic, until that too fell away. What I loved most was the vitality and fitness I felt that over the years I had lost, and over the last 12 years, I’ve been reclaiming that same vitality in a deeper, more integrated way.
I didn’t pursue hair professionally until my late twenties. I went a bit off track for a while and left it all behind. Then I moved to London and worked as a wig maker at one of the most prestigious companies in the country. That experience brought me back into contact with hair, reigniting both my passion and a deep sense of remembering.
I completed my Level 1 hairdressing training in London, and my Level 2 in Bristol.
My healing journey also began in London. Wig making brought up a lot of old pain, and at the time, I didn’t fully understand the creative process or what was unfolding within me. This led me to Reiki, EFT, Emotrance, meditation, and shamanic studies. All of which changed my life and the direction of my life.
I tried working in a few hairdressing salons, but I just couldn’t make it work. It didn’t feel aligned, and I found it deeply painful in my heart. At that point, I honestly believed I might not be able to do the work I truly loved.
Until…
My Awakening
In January 2014, I experienced a spontaneous happening within my system. I knew something was going to happen, as prior to this experience I was “knowing” a spontaneous awakening that was showing through the head. I didn’t know when, or what this was going to look like, only that it was going to happen. Fear took hold and started imagining a car crash, as fear does in its way of trying to understand or comprehend what is being shown.
One day, it just happened. I can’t fully tell you what happened, as it happened so quickly, only that immediately before it happened something in me said: “I don’t need to be in all of this pain.” Then it was like an explosion. Energy moved so fast up through me and burst out through my crown. My crown spun, and there was a waking up.
My whole life changed in an instant. The way the everything manifested in my system meant I could no longer ignore anything. How the energy manifested, especially around my head, appeared to magnify by a million percent everything I was experiencing. I lost the identity of how I had known myself in an instant. My whole life fell apart, or simply crashed and burned. I was left with an enormity of pain in my system and knew I needed to start again.
I could no longer be in the world in the same way I had been, and my whole way of Being and Sensing the world was no longer available to me. This triggered a fear and terror in me like I had never felt before. The reality of how unsafe I felt within my Self and the World became truly evident.
The trauma and deep survival mechanisms were screaming loud and clear, only there was no way to avoid them anymore or try to create life in a way that would give a false sense of security. I could only just BE within everything as it was. Deep in my heart, I knew this was the journey my Soul had been calling for.
My stomach closed and I couldn't eat due to the amount of fear and terror. I knew here, that I had to start again from scratch with this too. To start to really listen to what my body really needed so it could open and allow nourishment.
Prior to this happening, I had a constant vision in my Heart when I was dancing 5 Rhythms, that I was running free on the Earth. I had no survival patterning. I was in Joy and Innocence and one with the Earth. Everything in me was saying, “I’m going there.”
Then the awakening happened, and the deep healing journey truly began.
I spent almost three years bedridden, in terms of not being able to do anything other than meet what was happening in my system. Every movement of energy. Every scream from my Inner Child. From the slightest movement to the biggest movement, everything needed to be met immediately. It meant stopping everything I had been doing and being with her, sitting with her until it released and pure intelligence and wisdom imparted through that space.
As this was continual, like having a screaming toddler for three years, I didn’t, or couldn’t, do much else, as this was the priority.
This is where the Keys of Soulful Holistic Hair came into Being, as keys to support me on my journey of healing and restoration. It was clear I was being given Health, and all I had to do was follow everything I was guided to do.
In essence, that sounds really easy, but in reality it meant having to meet survival patterning with an intensity I could never have imagined, so that I could learn how to come into Deep Relaxation, heal and transform within my Image and Identity, and come Home to my Self and the Divine Mystery. Through this, I began to understand the True Nourishment of LOVE and the reality of consciousness as something entirely different from conditioned reality.
Creativity began to bloom from this place within of Sacred Union, and Life began to bloom in the way it was destined to as I came into right Relationship with the Masculine and Feminine within. My Soul began to emerge through me. The gifts I held within, and what I had been given as my unique expression in the world, began to Birth. This healed my relationship with Beauty and brought me home to the unique expression of my heart.
Welcome to Soulful Holistic Hair.
A space that is still growing and still blooming, as I continue to.
Nutrition has been a key part of this journey. I have needed to change my whole relationship with nourishment and was called to work with other people until I eventually set myself on the Nutritional Healing Foundation Diploma Training to become a Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist that I am currently in training with.
It has been, or has seemed, a long journey integrating these keys so deeply into my life and my system that they become a natural way of life and Being for me — something I now look forward to sharing with you.
These Keys are the very Foundation of all the work here at Soulful Holistic Hair, and provide an endless doorway into greater Health, Vitality, Beauty, Vibrancy, and Soul Potential.
I am eternally grateful for this journey, despite it being incredibly challenging. I would never want to go back to how things were. I am so grateful for where I am now.
As Part of my journey through integrating the Awakening and embodying deeply the 'Keys' I was called into the Embodiment of the Sacred Feminine through 'Creativity' through Inner Sacred Union, to really get to experience the deep healing and transformation available through working intimately with these core principles. This came in through Art and Hair Dressing.
'Sacred Feminine Artistry'
These journeys are not about creating the “perfect” Art. It is the journey of them. The emergence of them. The healing and transformation that takes place through them, alongside discovering how we paint through our own unique expression, and coming into LOVE with that.
These journeys are the most beautiful Soul Journeys, Soul Communions, and Transmissions — a true life support, teacher, and guide. Through the creative process, they have flowered such beautiful wisdom, bringing profound healing, restoration, and embodiment of the Sacred Feminine and the Divine Intelligence within.
'Sacred Feminine Hair'
These journeys have deconstruct the Self Image and Identity. Dismantling the “Ideals” held within the psyche, allowing the True Heart of Beauty to bloom beyond the conditioning of the mind’s “Images.”
They have demanded a release of the “fashion coding", allowing for honest, authentic creativity that is unique to the expression of the Heart.
These journeys are deeply intimate and open the capacity to “See” our Self in a New Light, where our Heart becomes more “Visible.” This is both vulnerable and deeply healing, with wisdom imparting itself as “She” the 'Sacred Feminine' occupies more space and embodies more fully within.
A little bit about my Work and Education
I am a qualified Hairdresser and have worked as a Wig Maker for 26 years across Film, TV, Theatre, Opera, and in creating Personal Wigs for Medical Health, Religious reasons, and simply for enjoyment. I have been working with Soulful Holistic Hair for the last 12 years, bringing this into Being and working with Clients.
I have been an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and EmoTrance Practitioner since 2008, and an initiated Reiki Master through the Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Tradition since 2010.
I am also a Practitioner of The Form Reality Practice since 2014.
I am currently studying with the Nutritional Healing Foundation to become a Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist.
I also have training in Shamanic Studies, which informs my work through a deeper connection with all of Life and the Sacred Rituals that honour Life, and the Sacred nature of this Work.
I have worked in some deeply challenging environments, including supporting Women in Recovery from Addiction, and in support roles within Children’s Homes, working with deep trauma and challenging behaviours. These experiences have given me great compassion and a deeper understanding of working with Trauma, and with the natural “Elements” of our Being - Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Physical, and Soul, and the interplay of these elements in overall Health and Well-Being, alongside attachment style, theory and practice.
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