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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Brennan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My acne is only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because&#8230; I know that I am beautiful, with or without pimples on my face. I know that real, genuine people get to know me for me, they see past my exterior and love me for who I am as a person on the inside. Those little red bumps on my face give me strength. I&#8217;ve cried in the mirror more times than I can count, but I&#8217;ve always made it through; they didn&#8217;t kill me, they made me stronger. I know that people who judge based on appearance are missing something in their lives, and need to fill this void by bringing other people down. I found that I feel most confident when I am educated, prepared, and driven to make something of myself. At this stage of my life, I do not care what negative people to say about me and my skin. The good stuff is on the inside. Skin is just skin, we all have it, we&#8217;re all different, and that&#8217;s what gives us character. &#160; Here&#8217;s my story&#8230; Growing up, I had acne all the time. Luckily, I didn&#8217;t have the Cystic Acne, but there sure were a lot of pimples on my face. I found it very sad and frustrating when my very clear-complected friends didn&#8217;t wear makeup, and I did. Things like pool parties and going to the beach were embarrassing for me because I&#8217;d think&#8230;Should I wear makeup? What if I get soaked? I&#8217;ll look stupid&#8230; I didn&#8217;t put makeup on because it made me feel better (which, I believe is why women should use it in the first place), but I put it on to hide. Even in high school and college&#8230;even on my wedding day&#8230;I always had a breakout somewhere. To be honest, I still deal with it, but you will rarely see me without ANY makeup on because I don&#8217;t scar very well. This combined with the fact that I am a &#8220;picker&#8221;, does not go over very well for my face. I have a lot of little purple scars from my acne and feel very self conscious if I don&#8217;t have any makeup on. It&#8217;s funny, sometimes I&#8217;ll even give people a disclaimer if they&#8217;re going to stop by and I am not wearing makeup&#8230;somehow this makes me feel like I prepared them for the worst? I am working on this and, at this point in my life, my son is my inspiration. I want him to grow up knowing that women are beautiful because they are smart, real, funny, kind, and caring; not because makeup and clothes made them look &#8220;sexy&#8221;. Since WIRL Project is a place to be honest and genuine with life and what it&#8217;s really like, I wanted to let you into my own struggle. Many people may read this and say, Wow, I had no idea this was even an issue for you, because I always tried to cover it up (and still do sometimes). My mom and husband can attest to the number of times I&#8217;ve cried about it, but I am here to tell you that I am working on this. If anyone else is out there feeling sad, insecure, or self conscious about your skin, I want you to know that I can relate to you and that it will be alright. When people, love you, they love you for who you are, and they really don&#8217;t even look at your skin. When people judge you, they have much bigger problems than the acne they see on your face. The way that we sometimes wear makeup to coverup our flaws, these weak people lash out on others (and bully) because they&#8217;re trying to coverup something much deeper than they&#8217;d ever be willing to admit. They&#8217;re weak, you&#8217;re not&#8230;don&#8217;t ever let your acne, psoriasis, skin color, or anything for that matter, stop you from being you. &#160; &#160; Please support our cause, Psoriasis, by sharing your story and encouraging other&#8217;s to do the same. Also purchasing the &#8220;Eben&#8221; bracelet from our partner, Cayisa, will help raise awareness and fund research.]]></description>
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		<title>Real is the New Sexy</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/real-is-the-new-sexy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WIRL Project]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often are people true to who they really are? Social media glamorizes life in a way that seeks perfection and doesn&#8217;t allow for those not-so-magical moments of life to shine through. At WIRL Project, we&#8217;re ready for a change and we agree with Jamie Catto, who wrote an incredible post called &#8220;Real Is the New Sexy&#8221; on his blog. We, at WIRL Project, think what he has to say speaks directly to the WIRL mentality&#8230;check out a summary of his original post below. Being authentic is so far from the &#8220;norm&#8221; that it&#8217;s sometimes perceived as weird or different&#8230;sharing your insecurities and vulnerabilities with others can make some people so uncomfortable that they accidentally reveal where they&#8217;re struggling, just by the way they react to such openness. Listen to them &#8211; take what they have to say and learn from it in a positive way. The way you react to such people will help you grow as a person and learn more about yourself. Being generous in the way you run your life and/or business is unique, but also progressive. Choosing to be inclusive and put others first, while offering a helping hand, creates relationships built on trust and not superficial, empty emotions. But as you do this, notice that others will question you &#8211; they will second guess your intentions and find your generosity hard to accept. Many will even warn you to be less giving and to only look out for yourself, take note of these people in your life. Showing your true feelings, being inappropriate, angry, happy, sad, goofy, serious or candid can take courage, especially as you try to build your own &#8220;personal brand&#8221; and teach other people who you are and what you stand for. Letting there be transparency between your professional, personal, and any other &#8220;self&#8221; can be powerful, in that people see that you have nothing to hide. So, why do we choose to wear masks, hats and capes or try to be someone we&#8217;re not? Author, Jamie Catto, recommends we take off the masks we wear and see who sticks around. Those who do are the ones who have genuinely loved you all along, they appreciate your personal brand, and have been and will always be &#8220;fans&#8221;. These people, who see beauty in your authentic, genuine, real self, are the people you should surround yourself with; not the people who see beauty in that mask you wear. &#8220;Real&#8221; people are sexy because they aren&#8217;t afraid to show who they really are. Others are attracted to this &#8220;x-factor&#8221; because it&#8217;s lacking in so many of us &#8230;confidence, authenticity, self-esteem and honesty. It&#8217;s comfortable to hide, cover up and stay quiet, but what&#8217;s the point in that? Don&#8217;t conform, don&#8217;t cover up and certainly don&#8217;t hide&#8230;be brave enough to be fascinating&#8230;to be real. So, are you ready to be more genuine, real, honest, and maybe even&#8230;.sexy? What have you been hiding? What mask can you take off? Since the very early stages of building WIRL Project, this post, Real is the New Sexy by Jamie Catto, has been so empowering and inspiring to us. Many of the things he states speak directly to why WIRL Project was created in the first place, so we just had to share this with our readers. We encourage you to view the original post in the link below and hope you find his words as inspiring as we do!]]></description>
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