Molly Tuttle

New album So Long Little Miss Sunshine out now! 💛 Get tickets to The Highway Knows Tour! www.mollytuttlemusic.com

September is Alopecia awareness month!! 💙👩🏻‍🦲 Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune disease where your immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair loss. Basically your body decides that your hair is an intruder and wages war on it for no reason 🙅🏻‍♀️ I lost all my hair when I was three years old- even though I was perfectly healthy I often had people assuming I was sick as a child and even now have people make assumptions based on my appearance when I go without a wig. Thankfully after years I’ve developed a pretty thick skin and can laugh about being a bald lady and have fun with a million different hairstyles- but I used to be terrified to leave the house without a wig. I’m so grateful to everyone who encouraged me along the way and that’s why I’m so passionate about raising awareness! I dream of a world where kids aren’t being bullied for how they look and we all treat each other with a little more kindness and less judgement.
Losing your hair to Alopecia is shown to have a big impact on mental health and people with Alopecia experience higher rates of depression, anxiety and OCD. Through raised awareness slowly the stigma and attitudes around hair loss are changing and health professionals as well as researches are taking the impacts of hair loss more seriously! I’ve worked with @naaf_org for years now to raise money for research and community building so if you or someone you know has been diagnosed I highly recommend you check them out!

There will always be another song to be written. Someone will write it. Why not you? www.garyeandrews.com