The Tranquil Training Gardens of Themyscira

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Thank you everyone!!!

Anxiety gone. "I don't know why" lmao, I'd sort of reached out to a recent abusive ex to apologize for something I think I got wrong, and he immediately went like 'so this means you want to try again?' and I was like lol no you were the one who fucked shit, I can't fix what you got wrong. But more respectfully. Better now, lots better now. I kinda knew he was expecting me to come back and ask for another try (I know his style inside out and backwards, he doesn't leave women he's abandoned unblocked for no reason), and it was a huge relief to close that door forever.

This is a fresh start for so many reasons. New year, new streak, new freedom. I changed my username. I've been debating doing that for like over a year now, but couldn't settle on what it would be. My real name means rose rose so I just added that to what was already there. Maybe not super original, but I like it well enough.

December Fit day #3
Power walk #2

And streak day #3 of fitness, and streak day #1 for meditation.

You know what? I'm not going to aim for a hundred days or fifteen days. I'm gonna see if I can just get to day #5. Small steps forward, one small step at a time.
 
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December Fit, day #5
Christmas Secret Santa [Part #1: five minute walk]

Hint for those still guessing: my given gift had burpees

Fitness Streak, Day #5; Meditation streak, day #3

I'm really late on the secret santa, but better late than never? It's just been... life's been a little much of late.

I decided on a new Darebee habit. Every time I start a new streak, I get to pick a new class. This run, I'll be a Valkyrie. Maybe that'll keep me motivated to keep the streak running, but it'll also motivate me to get started on a new streak ASAP once I break it so I can pick something different to be.
 
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Congratulations!
Thanks!!!

And a new avatar, to complete the makeover!

I took a pair of cozy socks from my prize bin, to celebrate my five day streak!

December Fit, day #6

Fitness streak day #6, meditation streak day #4

And that's it. That's alright, it's okay to have easier days now and again.
 
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mon, jan 19, 2026
december fit day #9

tues, jan 20, 2026
december fit day #10
power walk, day 6

Streak day #2 & #3

New streak class: fae
 
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wed, jan 21st, 2026
december fit, day #11
Streak day #4

thurs, jan 22nd, 2026
december fit day #12
10,000 punches, day #14
streak day #5

prize for day #5 of a streak: fancy avenger's chapstick (captain america)
 
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Fri, jan 23rd, 2026
december fit, day #13
knee push ups, day #14
power walk, day #6

sat, jan 24th, 2026
burnout recovery, day #7

decided to give myself one active recovery day per week. rest days can be banked. current count: 0

For the light!!!

Fight on!
 
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Missing one day doesn't reset your progress. Missing one day doesn't reset your progress. Missing one day doesn't reset your progress.

I'll say that as many times as I need until I permanently remember it.

Streak reset to day #1, meditation and fitness.

Today is January 29th, 2026. I did December Fit day #17. I also did Power Walk day #8.

It was fun. I enjoyed all the half jacks, it felt like dancing and the music is good. I feel... happy. Feeling happy feels good. Why happy? My book is progressing very well. I got a bunch of chores done, nearly clearing all the dirty dishes from the sink. I had off work, so I got to chill at home and chat with family a bit. And my book. I've been writing nearly every day for two months. It's different. I don't know how to explain exactly. I'm not keeping a streak of how many days in a row I wrote. I'm not using any habit tracker (except to track the exact day I started writing). I'm just coming back to it every single day because working on my book makes me feel so happy inside. Every single person who's in touch with me like at all knows I'm writing a book and how I light up when I talk about it. I'm getting help, collecting material from other people, asking everyone I know to vote on titles. When I'm writing this particular book, I feel like I'm in my own skin, like I'm most myself, not like any other book I've ever tried and failed to finish writing. I keep telling people maybe I'm not really built for fiction writing. I write best when the entire story is mapped out in my head like memories or real world ideas I'm trying to put in other people's heads. And that's okay too. I just didn't realize that real life could make stories just as compelling as made up ones. But then, why not? Fiction aims to mimic real life, doesn't it? The book I'm writing feels the other way around...

Maybe this would better be a bardic circle post, but it is what it is and I wrote it where I wrote it.
 
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Yesterday was January 30th, 2026. I did December Fit day #18. This is the second day of my fitness and meditation streak.

Today is January 31st, 2026. I did December Fit day #19. This is the third day of my fitness and meditation streak.

Big big big milestone, everyone. I settled on a title for my book that makes me VERY happy. It's never taken me two months to write a title before, usually they show up fully formed in my head right away, but this is my one and possibly only autobiography and the title needed to be next level perfect. The title had to be something really special. I kept thinking of good titles then throwing them out, a top contender being "The Legend of the Lesbian Mantis Shrimp." It was pretty damn good and unique as far as titles go, but the lack of any "full" lesbians in the book moved me to keep looking. (Eh, I'm fluid, so sometimes I say I'm lesbian and sometimes I say I'm bisexual, which works in real life when you can explain it to people in depth - there's a range of sexualities between this word and that one - but I don't wanna deal with the readers who'll claim you can't be a little of both at once.) I won't write what the actual title is, because I googled it in quotes, got no results, and want it to stay that way til I have a publishing deal on the table.

But let me tell you, the title is adorably sweet and word perfect and describes the story with unerring accuracy not one reader will try to argue with.

Countdown to entering The Labyrinth: 3 days to go
 
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Today is February 1st, 2026. I did 3 minute HIIT day #1, because I will be joining Darebee doing this challenge in February, maximizing the potential of the twenty eight day structure. I also did Walking to Running, restarting at day number one. I now love winter running for some reason, and I can't wait to be in good shape to make it all the way through Darebee's 5 km program come spring. And of course a stretch so my legs don't hurt tomorrow.

Today is the fourth day of my fitness and ... I haven't meditated yet, but I will. Guaranteed. Just making pasta first. Because my aunt gave me fake shrimp, already fried.

Everyone LOVES my title. Like the reactions I got absolutely melted me. I cannot wait to share it with y'all. (It's a DAMN good one, ngl.)

Got a bunch of writing supplies, index cards and stuff, to organize all the pieces of my book, I forget who suggested it, but thank you. It's perfect, my book is made up of letters to four different former friends, and text conversations with current family and friends, so there're five colours, one for each friend, plus one for the text conversations. So I can more easily keep track of which letter is to who and make sure two in a row don't go to the same person.

Countdown to entering the Labyrinth: um, let's see, still three days of December Fit because today I did a run instead, and I plan on at least one more run, so maybe four or five? Sorry I don't even know anymore
 
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I wanna check in even if I don't do meditation or exercise, cuz well, to keep the habit, and to check in on other aspects of maintaining a health good enough FOR meditation and exercise.

Today I went to a doctor's appointment, all good, I just needed to talk to her about maintaining the psychiatric meds I'm on now that no psychiatrist is following me. Which is fine really, like my medications have been fine tuned over a decade, I don't really need them adjusted regularly or at all, just someone to keep prescribing them and following up on the blood work.

I feel like I'm on the very first day of mania, which is again honestly fine and normal healthy mood cycling for me, it's just that I've gotten VERY good at noticing where I'm at in the mood cycle before it escalates into dysfunction. Early not-yet-a-problem mania means like, I'm a little more lost in thought than usual, harder to concentrate, I forget what I'm doing as I'm doing it, appetite down, it feels basically like extra severe ADHD, so for the rest of today I'm going to focus on getting something to eat, I'll have myself a soda as a treat for eating when I'm not in the mood, then I'll do a meditation, maybe some light yoga if I feel up to it, and then getting ready for bed.
 
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One day I focused on eating. I didn't get anything else done, but that's chill.

The next I had two jobs, I did really well at both, my mind was clear, and I also did a meditation when I got home.

All good stuff.
 
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Today is Friday, February 6th, 2026. I did day #20 of December Fit, and day #2 of 3 minutes of HIIT.

Back into fitness! Streak day number one. Very proud of myself for starting again.

Days to enter the Labyrinth: 3 days
 
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Yesterday was February 17th, 2026. I did day #21 of December Fit, and a meditation. Day #1 of a streak.

Today is February 18th, 2026. I did day #22 of December Fit (first hall pass used up), and the third portion of my Christmas present. Day #2 of a streak.

The Secret Santa workout story was sooo adorable, I loved it so much. Thank you to my secret santa, wherever you are (I hope you read this)

Tomorrow I will enter the Labyrinth, after much unexpected delay.

It will be challenging, but I will have faith (in myself) and much steadfast courage.

Writing goes... slow. Honestly it's been pretty slow. But I haven't completely stopped. As long as I keep going, right?
 
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Today is February 18th, 2026. Today, I enter the Labyrinth. I did day #23 of December Fit, using up a second hall pass. I also did day #10 of power walk. It's day #3 of a fitness streak.

The stone entrance is tall and deceiving. I check my map once more. I look around. This is the place. It must be. The mythical Labyrinth. There are rumours, but no knowledge of what lies inside.

Soon, I will know.

The Labyrinth trembles as I enter. Rocks fall, blocking the only path back and out to safety and freedom.

I stand steady and firm. This place will not break me yet. I have only just begun.
 
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Today is February 19th, 2026. I moved into the second room of the Labyrinth. I did day #24 of December Fit, using up a third hall pass. I also did day #11 of power walk. It's day #4 of a fitness streak, and day #1 of a meditation streak.

Mirrors. Unfaithful mirrors, that show you not who you are, not who you can become, but all your fears of who you might already be. They show my cowardice, my weakness, my exhaustion.

I keep my pace. I look ahead. I see myself as I am, not as the mirrors view me. I am strong. I am breakable, but I will not break, still not yet.

I make it to the exit, as if hearing nothing. The voices of the mirrors are quiet now. All is quiet, before the next storm. I have vanquished the voices of doubt, yet there are many rooms that might yet prove them true.
 
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Today is February 20th, 2025. I did December Fit day #25, using up a fourth hall pass. I did power walk, day #12. I also did the third node of the Labyrinth.

Ran into a ... problem of sorts in writing my book. I might put it in the bardic circle though. Or not. I don't know.

The sky fell to a floor that had crumbled away. To make it across was to run, between the rocks that fell, between the rocks that turned to lava, between the rocks that simply stood just where they shouldn’t. To make it across was to run, not blindly, but with full awareness and all speed. To make it was to run. All there was, was to run.

I ran.

I made it.
 
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Yesterday was February 21st, 2025. I did December Fit day #26, using up a fifth hall pass. I did power walk, day #13. I also did the fourth node of the Labyrinth (day #4). I think we're on day #6 of a fitness streak.

You're a worse tease than I am!
It's a weirdly, weirdly specific problem and I am very shy :bigsad:

I hate water. I really hate water. I never learned to swim, and even if I could, that wouldn’t much help right now.

I quickly flip switches and raise and lower levers. Symbols light the walls, flickering in and out.

This room flies by easier than the others, and soon all the symbols are bright. The exit wall lifts, and the water rushes away, as if as eager to escape this room as I am.

Squeezing excess water out of my clothes, I proceed.
 
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Today is February 22nd, 2026. I did the fifth node of the Labyrinth, and that's it. I've also started doing a ten minute cool down stretch after every day's workout. I think that's been doing miracles for keeping my body fresh. I'm not feeling the soreness and strain from working out multiple days in a row like I used to.

Life update: My friends are working overtime to keep me maintaining No Contact with my abusive ten-day ex, who I uh, got back in contact with and accidentally ended up in a conversation with for stupid reasons (WE'D BEEN SOMEWHAT DECENT FRIENDS UNTIL HE ASKED ME OUT AND WENT PSYCHO). I’ve been incorporating Darebee into it. “I’m stuck in a maze with no wifi or cell phone service, I can’t contact him anyways until I get out.” I guess it’s a bit of a gamified ‘one day at a time’ mentality. Anyway, thank you, Darebee, for helping save and repair my heart. Me entering and staying in the Labyrinth is stalwart courage in more ways than one.

We’re on day ten, and this is gonna be a permanent count up until the day I completely forget about it.

We're on fitness streak day #7. We win something, I believe. Oh yes, I deserve a prize. I picked a prize, but it turned out to be broken. I'm giving myself the grace of being allowed to pick another. And the prize is... a pink pop-it fidget toy.

It feels like the rooms are repeating themselves. Run, escape, run. You start to slip into the habit of it, to slip into the habit of knowing you can, because you did it before and before then too. It almost starts to feel easy.

Surviving almost begins to feel easy. You survive just one room at a time. You survive just one step at a time, one puzzle piece at a time.

But you survive.
 

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It's a weirdly, weirdly specific problem and I am very shy :bigsad:
You know there's never any pressure here. Sounds like you've got enough going on. But if you need to tell, we're here for you. Or rather, over there in like a kind of witchy circle, wearing black robes and cackling around a boiling caldron while cats leap wildly around us and 'normal' folk hurry past...
 

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"Motivation is temporary. Discipline is forever."
My friends are working overtime to keep me maintaining No Contact with my abusive ten-day ex,
One word, right there, should be enough to tell you, nope. Stop. Stay away. And that's the word 'abusive'. Having myself escaped from an abusive situation, I can tell you from bitter experience that it's no way to live. Don't do it.
 
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Today is February 23rd, 2026. I did node ten of the labyrinth, and that's all. I think we're on day #8 of a fitness streak, which is amazing.
You so need to do it!!
I did!!!
One word, right there, should be enough to tell you, nope. Stop. Stay away. And that's the word 'abusive'. Having myself escaped from an abusive situation, I can tell you from bitter experience that it's no way to live. Don't do it.
That’s one of the worst parts of abuse: the hope that you can be the one to end it somehow without losing him. What if I look at him with tears in my puppy eyes and tell him I really didn’t mean whatever delusional thing he thinks I said? He called me pet names and told me I was his favourite, when he was in a benevolent mood. There’s that overwhelming temptation to go back just one more time, to try just once more to lure his “nice side” back, win back his favouritism again… just ONE more try, just one last attempt to negotiate peace, to rationalize him out of his delusions. I swear every conversation will be the last, before I go and get hurt in what will be the next last one too. Trauma bonds are dark as hell.

But yeah, I finally just up and told as many people as I could what was really going on between him and I, and they all made me swear I'd give them his social media handles if he bothered me again, and I have one friend who's been talking me through it, keeping me from giving in to the worst of the urges. It'll take time, but one day I'll heal. I always do.

The eye is looking. I can feel what it sees. I am what it sees. It shows me the history of the Labyrinth, its construction, the choices upon which its choices were built; and as payment, it takes my history, my choices, makes them vivid, makes them bright.

My choices were not always the right ones. Some were unerasably wrong. The Labyrinth allows you to turn back and choose again; real life has no such forgiveness.

It can be hard to move forward when there’s no way out from the past.

I close my eyes and hold myself steady. In the vision of the eye I see a cloaked figure fumble a movement. There’s a sealed gate. A fission. A mistake.

I open my eyes, damp from tears.

I will learn; I will atone; I see everything the eye has to show me and still I choose to move forward, to the future, imperfect, maybe broken, but I am all I am.

Perhaps I cannot ever truly go back; but I can choose with greater wisdom and love the next path forward.
 
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That’s one of the worst parts of abuse: the hope that you can be the one to end it somehow without losing him.
You cannot.
You end it by walking away and not looking back. Period.

"Losing" an abusive person from your life is no loss.
Gaining freedom from abuse is a HUGE win.

You've got this!
 

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"Motivation is temporary. Discipline is forever."
I saw a sign that said "Girls, unless he's wearing a nappy, you can't change him". (Works for boys too.) Remember that.
I spent years with someone who constantly gaslit me, who twisted my words into strange forms I could never even have imagined, and you really don't want to go down that path.
Yeah, maybe too much sharing here....
 
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You cannot.
You end it by walking away and not looking back. Period.

"Losing" an abusive person from your life is no loss.
Gaining freedom from abuse is a HUGE win.

You've got this!
Thank you! It's hard to remember that sometimes, I appreciate the encouragement a lot 🥺
Yeah, maybe too much sharing here....
No such thing as over sharing here. I appreciate hearing from someone who's been there too. The solidarity and advice really mean a lot to me right now. I'm sorry you had to go through that, it's hell.
 
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Today is February 24th, 2026. I went for my second run of the year, doing day #2 of Walking to Running. I got two in one, because on the run I went to drop off some brand new art supplies I will never use for some kids I work with. I asked the mom if her boys would like them, and she said they would, so I'm happy that the kids will enjoy what would otherwise spend years hidden away in a dresser.

I'm feeling a lot more cheerful than I did the past few days. I dove into my book and it cheered me up big time. I started writing it a week after I broke up with my ex, mainly to try to keep myself from the temptation to get back in touch with him (it worked for two months! and now it's just fun!), retelling the story from when I met him til when I finally broke free and all the drama that went down with our friend group (don't get me started) and all the friends and family that were by my side and helped me through it all, and even though it's a true story, it reads like fiction, with foreshadowing, complex motivations, backstory, plot all over the place, all the elements of a REALLY good story. I talked to one of my friends, and we solved the problem I've been having: I'm going to fictionalize it, that's all. All the main plot points will remain the exact same, but all the details will be changed. If we were having a conversation about koalas, well, it's a conversation about kangaroos now. If we were talking about donuts, it'll be croissants instead. Anyone trying to track down the original conversations online using keywords from my book will be completely lost. "Lightly based on true events" is allowed, and I have a very legitimate reason to choose to write a half-fictional, half-true story. I'll keep a full true version for myself, then go through it, rewriting it for potential publication. But I'll have that real version for myself, even some my family and friends maybe, and a version that I'll be more comfortable publishing, best of both worlds really.

I'm going through other people's logs, but I'm kind of slow at it, and read maybe five or ten a day. So I don't get to all of them, even though I wish I could.
 
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Yesterday was February 25th, 2026. I did day #7 and node 15 of The Labyrinth. Think that's it. Was an easy day, which was good, I needed one of those.

I got a new piercing (right rook) and a haircut. I love the new piercing and can't wait to get a bunch more. (I have seven so far, and I want as many as I can fit on both ears.) I wanted to cut out more of the bleach, but didn't wanna cut it too short, so ... I'll let it grow out some more, go back in half a year or a little more, get more of the dye cut out. Can't wait for it to be gone. I'm never bleaching my hair again.

“Some paths exist only to teach what fire costs.”

Some paths lead to a dead end for good reason. Not all quests lead to an epic conclusion. Not all journeys are meant to be continued. Some stories need to end in the middle of the plot. Sometimes it is better to know your limits, to recognize danger, and to turn back to safety and home. Better to live more stories, than to have one good story you’re too burnt out to tell.
 
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February 26th 2026: Labyrinth, node #9; December Fit, day #27; Powerwalk day #14

February 27th 2026: walking to running, day #3

Day #10 of a fitness streak: Class chosen, rogue (I feel very much like I've gone rogue, it just fits my current mood)

Caught: pidgey + wurmple

Collected: Chipped pot

I'm struggling with continuing the 10,000 punches challenge. I'm on day #20, every few days I do a couple hundred punches or so, then don't finish it. It's A LOT of punches every day now. I'm gonna try to make a goal of finishing just one or two days of the challenge over Girl Power Week. I can do this. I can do this.

Other stories do end before their time. The darkness feels a little too dark, the light at the end too far to reach. A heroine turns back just before the most interesting plot twist, just before the turn for the better. This particular story won’t end just yet, though. I’m surrounded by white threads, darkness hovering above me. As I cut my way free, it feels that the threads only get thicker and tighter, just before they release me, revealing a way forward. I run to the next exit, eager to find out what fresh challenge awaits me in the room over.
 
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I am very tired. If I make it through Girl Power Week intact I win so many prizes.

February 28th, 2026: walking to running, day #4; Labyrinth, node #8

caught: wimpod

March 1st, 2026: Labyrinth, node #13

caught: chewtle

I'm too tired to write something up for node 13, but that's alright because the Labyrinth is on pause for Girl Power Week, so I can just do it tomorrow.

Reverence. I’ve known people who seemed to lack the ability to feel it. I’ve known people who took everything as a joke, including what didn’t belong to them to take. Who talked down everything and everyone, as if that made them higher somehow.

“The silence feels sacred;” sometimes the only way to hold something sacred is in silence.
 

AgileGrrl

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"The risk of failure is far sweeter than the regret of never trying at all. ~C Sanders"
I'm struggling with continuing the 10,000 punches challenge. I'm on day #20, every few days I do a couple hundred punches or so, then don't finish it. It's A LOT of punches every day now. I'm gonna try to make a goal of finishing just one or two days of the challenge over Girl Power Week. I can do this. I can do this.

I hear you. I was about to give up on 1000 squats challenge but bullied my way through it in the end. Hate, hate, hate squats with a passion/ Sounds like you have a great plan on how to deal with the punches during Girl Power Week. You can do it!!
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March 2nd, 2026: I started playing a new Switch game that I think I'll absolutely fall in love with, "Zero to Dance Hero." It teaches you hip hop from the ground up, and I'm obsessed with dance but never really had formal lessons. Today I learned bounce down, and I absolutely aced it. It's an easy move, and rhythm's always come easy to me. For Girl Power Week, I did Greet The Day, six times.

I reached day 15 of a fitness streak, earning back the streak badge. I can't believe I made it this far. It doesn't seem a lot, but the days I had to push through unbearable fatigue to get a workout done, or made it through a meditation when my mood wasn't in it...

I hear you. I was about to give up on 1000 squats challenge but bullied my way through it in the end. Hate, hate, hate squats with a passion/ Sounds like you have a great plan on how to deal with the punches during Girl Power Week. You can do it!!
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Thanks for the encouragement!!! I know I can get there, it's just... hard :persevering:

A reflection of myself emerges from a silver screen. It moves with the thoughtlessness of my own habits. To break free of this room, I have to break free of myself a little. Do as I normally wouldn’t; hold back from doing as I normally would. Move with a little more purpose and passion; breathe with a little more depth and devotion.

The opened doors of this maze don’t mark the end of a challenge. Each room emerges into a miniscule change that will follow me out and beyond the maze altogether. The reflection melts back into the mirror. If I ever return to the Labyrinth, the reflection will be unrecognizable…
 

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:pet: You are doing great! Congratulations on your hard won 15-day streak!! :support:

PS, the 10,000 Punch Challenge is a lot. Try to break it up and tie it to other things you are doing. Steal a few punches when you drink some water or before each meal or set a timer and do some punches every hour! Spreading it out will help alleviate the load. You've got this!! :staystrong:
 
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:pet: You are doing great! Congratulations on your hard won 15-day streak!! :support:

PS, the 10,000 Punch Challenge is a lot. Try to break it up and tie it to other things you are doing. Steal a few punches when you drink some water or before each meal or set a timer and do some punches every hour! Spreading it out will help alleviate the load. You've got this!! :staystrong:
I've been trying this and still failing :cry: some days I'll even get really really close, but inevitably I'll still fall a few hundred short. Once I start getting tired, that's pretty much it for any fitness activities that day, even if there are only a hundred or fifty reps left...

@Laura Rainbow Dragon @TopNotch @aku-chan @CODawn thank you!!!

March 3rd 2026 - December fit, day #28; powerwalk, day #15; Girl Power Week: star power

March 4th, 2026 - inner fire

minimal update today because I have the beginnings of a migraine starting up...
 
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:vibes::love: for your migraine and your struggles.
Thank you! The important thing is that I have NOT yet given up.

March 5th, 2026 - all I did was walking to running, day #5. I doubled it, and then did about the same time as a walking cool down, so it was a full workout instead of just five minutes. I wanted to do a workout for Girl Power Week, but then the migraine kicked in and I wasn't forcing myself through a second workout after I'd already done one. I still intend to complete all the yoga workouts for GPW, I just might double up one day, or complete the last one a day late, or something. I'll figure it out. My favourite part of Darebee is the flexibility.

Three weeks of No Contact. I didn't think I could make it this far, but I did. It helps that I put the day count on my Discord profile - I like seeing numbers go UP.
 
Mother of Dragons from Avenger's Tower
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CONGRATS on 15 days!!! :perfect:

And good for you on making 3 weeks of no contact. You are fierce! Don't ever forget that.
Thank you! That means a lot to me :gots: :cute:

This will be brief, because I'm trying to reduce screentime at night, and I need to catch up a bit before bed.

March 6th, 2026 - december fit, day #29; girl power week (yoga)

March 7th, 2026 - december fit, day #30; girl power week (yoga)

March 8th, 2026 - girl power week (yoga; last day, badge earned)

Great, that brings me up to restarting the labyrinth, so tomorrow I'll continue journaling my adventures.
 
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