Good Aura Aesthetics LLC

I’ve noticed lately that I’m starting to look in mirrors more. I think I’m finally starting to embrace coming back to life after a very real “what the flip was that?” situation. 😅 Cancer has a way of stopping everything and stripping away pieces of who you were, whether you’re ready or not. Some things needed to go, some things were really sad to lose, but eventually I realized I wasn’t going back to any of those old versions of me. I’ve looked in the mirror at MANY versions of myself through this journey and I’ve never felt hate or anger toward my body. I actually feel sadness for what some of those old versions of me went through, even before cancer. And I feel incredibly grateful for the body that carried every single one of them and then endured everything it had to in order to heal me. At some point I stopped thinking about “fighting” cancer and started thinking about healing from it. Now it feels like my turn to return the care. To support this body after everything it did to keep me here.

I don’t want to look like the old me. I’m not trying to get her back. I’m getting to know the woman in the mirror now…and I really like her. 💛

43. ALIVE. HERE.

I want October to mean a little more this year, so I decided to do something that feels good and very ME. 💛

I turned 43 this week and I’m ridiculously grateful to be here, so I’m celebrating by doing 43 little acts of care throughout the month. Nothing big or complicated. Just little things for people I love, my clients, strangers, people affected by cancer and probably a bunch that nobody will ever know about.

43 little opportunities to put some good back into the world simply because I’m lucky enough to still be here to do it. ☺️

THE 43 PROJECT starts now. 1/43 💛✨

43. ALIVE. HERE. 🙌🏼✨

Today I turn 43!! 🥳 And October 1st also happens to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which obviously hits a whole lot different for me now.

Last year I was still in the thick of cancer treatment, completely bald, not working and wondering what life on the other side of all of this was going to look like. This year I’m healthy, back behind my treatment table full-time, rebuilding Good Aura and getting to do what I love again. 💛

Cancer changed a lot of things for me, but one of the biggest is how I look at getting older. Aging is a privilege. Birthdays are a privilege. I am VERY freaking happy to be 43. 🥳

So I want October at Good Aura to mean a little more this year. Throughout the month you’ll see TAKE CARE OF HER - a reminder to stop putting yourself at the bottom of your own list - along with THE 43 PROJECT, 43 little acts of care to celebrate the fact that I get another year to put some good back into the world.

43. Alive. Here. And so damn grateful. 💛

NEW AT GOOD AURA ✨

Sometimes you want to take care of your skin without making it a whole thing.

Meet the GOOD AURA 30.

30 minutes. $60. Pick your skin fix.

MINI FACIAL
Cleanse + enzyme + mask + moisturizer + SPF

MINI PEEL
Cleanse + professional peel customized to your skin + finishing products + SPF

Want a little extra? Choose ONE:

Dermaplaning +$35
LED Light Therapy +$20
Happy Peel +$10*

*Happy Peel available with the Mini Facial only.

I also added standalone LED Light Therapy for $35. ✨

My full treatments aren’t going anywhere. The GOOD AURA 30 is simply another option for the days when time, budget or life says KEEP IT QUICK.

Good skin. 30 minutes. $60. 💛

Now available to book online.
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I love being back to work full-time!!!! 🙌🏼

This year hit different!! ☺️🎗️

The Dempsey Challenge has always been important to me because the Dempsey Center provided much-needed services and resources to my family at no cost during the most difficult time in my life. The Challenge is how so much of that funding is raised.

This year, I was well enough to volunteer the entire day in multiple places and give back to the donors, volunteers and Dempsey employees who make it possible for cancer patients, survivors and families like mine to receive the incredible support the Center provides.

Most people don’t realize how much goes into this event. The employees who work so hard planning the Challenge will start planning next year’s event almost immediately after this one ends. They deserve so much recognition for what they make possible.

I was pumped with energy all day long. Sore body parts? Yeah. 😂 But I had an energy that can only come from being grateful to be ALIVE.

Last year, I was still in the thick of chemotherapy during the Challenge. I didn’t know if I was going to make it. I didn’t know if the chemo was working. I couldn’t even walk the Honor Walk. I had to sit in a chair at the front during the closing ceremonies. Actually, I sat in a chair most of the day.

I wept listening to the stories of people who had lost loved ones who had cancer just like mine. People who had recurrences years later and died.

I was SO scared.

I couldn’t control my sobbing. I had complete strangers come over and ask if they could pray over me.

Every single day for about 14 months, I thought about dying. There were no days off from thinking about it.

So this year, when just three weeks ago my doctor told me, “NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE. I’ll see you in three months,” something changed.

For the first time in 16 months, I was filled with an energy that came from gratitude, pure love and genuine happiness. I felt this overwhelming need to give back and make people feel good.

I’m here. I’m alive.

I’ve been given a second chance, and I want to use it to show the people who need it that there is a way to live differently after something like this. To love harder. Give more. Appreciate the little s**t. Make people feel good. Stop wasting time on things that don’t matter. Live a more meaningful life.

Last year, I sat in that chair wondering if I would survive.

This year, I spent the entire day on my feet giving back.

This year hit different. 🎗️💛