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Personal Longevity & Health Report

SaraJeppsson.

Sthlm ladies and gents · May 2026

What the group told us

You completed this survey alongside 91 other professionals from the BHBD network. Before your personal results, here is what the picture looks like across the group.

84%

have disrupted sleep.

Eight out of ten people in this profession are not sleeping in a way that fully restores them.

100%reported at least one physical symptom. Physical load is universal in this work.✦
73%feel the emotional cost of a difficult client later that day or into the evening.✦
7%have a wind-down routine that actually works.✦
71%want to live and perform to 100 or beyond.✦
62%wake at least once during the night and struggle to fall back asleep.✦
58%rely on caffeine to push through the second half of the working day.✦
44%say their creative thinking only surfaces after working hours.✦
31%have considered cutting their career short because of physical load.✦
59%carry two or more physical symptoms at the same time.✦
38%are too tired after work to do anything meaningful.✦
36%eat their meals standing up between clients.✦
100%reported at least one physical symptom. Physical load is universal in this work.✦
73%feel the emotional cost of a difficult client later that day or into the evening.✦
7%have a wind-down routine that actually works.✦
71%want to live and perform to 100 or beyond.✦
62%wake at least once during the night and struggle to fall back asleep.✦
58%rely on caffeine to push through the second half of the working day.✦
44%say their creative thinking only surfaces after working hours.✦
31%have considered cutting their career short because of physical load.✦
59%carry two or more physical symptoms at the same time.✦
38%are too tired after work to do anything meaningful.✦
36%eat their meals standing up between clients.✦
100%reported at least one physical symptom. Physical load is universal in this work.✦
73%feel the emotional cost of a difficult client later that day or into the evening.✦
7%have a wind-down routine that actually works.✦
71%want to live and perform to 100 or beyond.✦
62%wake at least once during the night and struggle to fall back asleep.✦
58%rely on caffeine to push through the second half of the working day.✦
44%say their creative thinking only surfaces after working hours.✦
31%have considered cutting their career short because of physical load.✦
59%carry two or more physical symptoms at the same time.✦
38%are too tired after work to do anything meaningful.✦
36%eat their meals standing up between clients.✦
100%reported at least one physical symptom. Physical load is universal in this work.✦
73%feel the emotional cost of a difficult client later that day or into the evening.✦
7%have a wind-down routine that actually works.✦
71%want to live and perform to 100 or beyond.✦
62%wake at least once during the night and struggle to fall back asleep.✦
58%rely on caffeine to push through the second half of the working day.✦
44%say their creative thinking only surfaces after working hours.✦
31%have considered cutting their career short because of physical load.✦
59%carry two or more physical symptoms at the same time.✦
38%are too tired after work to do anything meaningful.✦
36%eat their meals standing up between clients.✦

Your personal results

Your picture, in detail.

Physical load

Physical load.

You reported: feet burning, neck and shoulders locked, ongoing hand pain you manage around weekly.

  • →Feet and neck are the most common physical patterns in this profession. Yours are consistent and worth understanding more precisely.
  • →Your hands are carrying pain you are working around. For someone planning a long career, building a hand protocol now pays off significantly over time.
Recovery

Recovery.

You get massage occasionally and you have a structured routine you protect. Both are real assets.

  • →Hand protection: currently nothing specific. That is the gap worth closing first.
  • →Your recovery foundation is in place. What would make it fully serve you is more precision and consistency, not more effort.
Mental load and creative capacity

Mental load and creative capacity.

Mental load follows you onto the floor. You are always thinking two conversations ahead. Your sharpest thinking happens late in the evenings or the middle of the night.

  • →That last point is worth paying attention to. When creative thinking only surfaces after the working day is done and everything else has gone quiet, it tells us the mental demand during the day is leaving little room for it. Getting that creative window back into your working hours is one of the most practical outcomes of getting the nervous system properly regulated.
Sleep

Sleep.

You lie awake before sleep with your mind still running. You are among the 84%.

  • →This pattern responds quickly to the right approach. It is a state, not a fixed condition. The mind keeps running in the evening because the day has not had a clear close. That close can be designed.
Calm, regulated presence

The throughline

Stress-cortisol regulation.

Every thread above connects here. The mental load that travels to the floor. The energy cost after difficult clients. The mind that keeps running at night. The creative thinking that only arrives late. These are all expressions of the same underlying pattern. When stress-cortisol regulation improves, the rest follows.

Ten protocols · in-salon

Recovery you can do between clients.

Ten small protocols designed for the salon day. Each one is short, repeatable, and built to interrupt the load before it accumulates. Choose two. Run them daily for a week. Notice what shifts.

  1. 01

    Wrist circles between clients

    60 sec

    Ten slow circles each direction. Resets the joint after every blow-dry, every section.

  2. 02

    Thumb web release

    90 sec

    Press into the muscle between thumb and index finger. The single most overworked tissue in your hand.

  3. 03

    Forearm roll

    2 min

    Roll a tennis ball or shears handle along the inside of your forearm. Down-regulates grip fatigue fast.

  4. 04

    Doorway pec stretch

    60 sec

    Forearm on the frame, step through. Counteracts the closed posture of cutting and colouring.

  5. 05

    Box breathing reset

    2 min

    Inhale 4, hold 4, exhale 4, hold 4. Drops cortisol before the next client walks in.

  6. 06

    Calf and arch release

    90 sec

    Roll one foot at a time over a ball. Your feet carry the day — give them ninety seconds back.

  7. 07

    Shoulder blade squeeze

    30 sec

    Ten slow reps. Pulls the shoulders out of the chronic forward-rounded position.

  8. 08

    Hydration anchor

    10 sec

    One full glass of water with each new client booking. Removes the decision entirely.

  9. 09

    Two-minute eye close

    2 min

    Between clients, close your eyes. Even short visual rest measurably lowers nervous-system load.

  10. 10

    End-of-day hand soak

    5 min

    Warm water, Epsom salt, open and close the fists. The cleanest close to a long day on the floor.

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Not a marketplace. Every specialist is selected, trained, and managed by us. This is recovery engineered into the salon day — between clients, after a long shift, on a rhythm that protects a long career.

Hand Reset

300 SEK · 15 min

Palm, thumb, wrist, and forearm release. Fits between clients.

Upper Body Reset

495 SEK · 25 min

Hands, forearms, neck, shoulders, and upper back. A complete reset.

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Next steps

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