<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rare Human Journal</title><description>Notes on beauty pressure, nervous-system states, and the work beneath the role, from Rare Human.</description><link>https://rare-human.com/</link><item><title>A woman is not a renovation project</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/a-woman-is-not-a-renovation-project/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/a-woman-is-not-a-renovation-project/</guid><description>Freedom from the inner critic was never about looking younger. It is about the right to be exactly who you already are, and what changes when the fight stops.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scent is a nervous-system tool, not a mood</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/scent-is-a-nervous-system-tool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/scent-is-a-nervous-system-tool/</guid><description>Smell is the one sense wired straight into the part of the brain that decides whether you are safe. How to use that on purpose, and why pleasure is not a reward.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>State before strategy</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/state-before-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/state-before-strategy/</guid><description>The same advice can be useless on Tuesday and true on Thursday. The difference was never the advice. It was the state of the body receiving it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where your face holds the day</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/where-your-face-holds-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/where-your-face-holds-the-day/</guid><description>Your jaw, your eyes and your forehead each store a different kind of effort. A map of what the face is carrying, and why it doesn&apos;t let go on its own.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why we started Rare Human</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/why-we-started-rare-human/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/why-we-started-rare-human/</guid><description>Three founders, three disciplines and one sentence said out loud in 2023. The story behind Rare Human, from a beauty school in Belarus to a room in New York.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why your face is puffy in the morning, and what actually helps</title><link>https://rare-human.com/blog/why-your-face-is-puffy-in-the-morning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rare-human.com/blog/why-your-face-is-puffy-in-the-morning/</guid><description>Morning puffiness is fluid that didn&apos;t move overnight. What causes it, what genuinely shifts it, and why the answer is rarely another cream.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>