My Journey to Clear Skin (Part 1)

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This is the first part of the My Journey to Clear Skin series. You can view the second part here and the third part here.

This blog post has been a long time coming and is something you all have been requesting for a while. While I was in NY visiting my family for Thanksgiving, I came across a photo I sent to my doctor on July 16th, 2015. It was a photo of my acne at my worst. I dealt with acne for a little while I was in high school. Ya know, the normal time to suffer from acne. But my sophomore year in college, it started flaring up again and didn’t end for 6 years. So we’re talking 2010-2016. 6 years of adult acne. 

Before the day that photo was taken, I had acne on my forehead, chin, and cheeks but my right cheek had the most. I would have a straight line across my cheek of breakouts. Once those were very close to healing, it would I would break out again. Acne over acne. You can only imagine the scarring that had caused. 

Well on July 16th, 2015, I was traveling for the Summer doing some volunteer work, so I’m sure the traveling took a toll on my skin, but my acne moved from the right side of my face to the left. I knew I was dealing with scarring on the right side, but I always felt better about my left side. It was my “good side”. I know this is the part where I’m supposed to promote body positivity and say I didn’t care what others thought, but it was my face. The first thing people saw. It was so bad, make-up couldn’t even cover it. I hated my skin. I even remember where I took this photo. I was in the food court in a mall. A place I knew the WiFi was working. I snapped a shot and sent it to my naturopathic/holistic doctor at the time. I was at my lowest and had zero clue how to fix this. 

By this time, I tried acne medications, allergy tests, basically every cream known to mankind, several estheticians, vitamins and so much more than others had recommended. 

I’m working on the blog post about what cured my acne right now but I did want to get this post out for everyone suffering from acne. Know you’re not alone and there’s a way out with lots of trial and error and time & patience.

The photo below is the photo I sent to my doctor only 3 years ago.

 

Photos by Diana Rose Sciacca

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The Power of SHE

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Thank you Athleta for sponsoring this post!

Let’s take a moment for all the girl bosses out there who have empowered and motivated us to push past our limits. Here’s to overcoming and exceeding every challenge we may encounter and to everyone who has helped us along the way.

#PowerofShe

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Hi everyone! Meet Lauren, friend & boss babe. Lauren and I recently took a mid day break to take a boxing class at The Boxing Club in Downtown San Diego. Lauren recently had a few surgeries and was finally fully recovered and ready to workout again. I was coming off of a shoulder injury from a past boxing class. So the class was definitely going to be challenging for both of us.

We arrived at the studio ready to fight with our Athleta Contender tights on. They’re the perfect tights for a high impact workout, like boxing. They keep you cool throughout your workout and also have a bunch of pockets for your phone, keys, whatever! They also come in the perfect colors for Spring. Obsessed with the yellow & purple!

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The class started with some technique practice. Jason, who instructed our class, did such a great job teaching us some basic techniques, we felt ready to take it to the rink and really start the class. The rink had a chandelier right above it, which made us feel super glam during such a tough workout, haha.

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Lauren and I took turns throwing punches and then we got really into it. If you’ve ever taken boxing, you know, it’s very invigorating to throw a punch. You feel a huge sense of relief. It was one of the most stress relieving workouts ever. At the exact same time, it’s also one of the toughest workouts ever. It takes a lot out of you. Both of our energy really enhanced the class and helped us get through the class together. Having Lauren there, taking the class with me, made me so much more motivated to finish the class strong. She played a huge roll in motivating me to accomplish my fitness goals. So thank you, Lauren.

We all should surround ourselves with people who empower us. Whether it’s for our fitness goals, or just life goals in general. There are others, like Lauren, who have the power to motivate us to our surpass our goals and get through basically, anything. We become stronger by pushing ourselves and each other. Sometimes we all just need a little help from a friend.

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Photos by Diana Rose Sciacca