Day 2 Done! The mask I've been wearing most: The invisible mask to avoid RSD How exhausting it's been: No relationships, unable to accept compliments or show vulnerable emotions What I loved as a kid (before the masks): Playing football in the garden Friction Audit complete, this are the exact steps i have to take: Organise clothes 1. Pick up clothes off the ground 2. Sort clothes into piles 3. Put piles into locations

Hi everyone, as promised, this time we also did a pre-challenge engagement challenge, and here are the winners. 🥇 Place 1-3: $150 community credit @Renee Kers @Deb Brouwer @Tracy Weiss 🥈 Place 4-6: $100 community credit @Suliet Rivera @Cathy A Castagna @Lynn Berry 🥉 Place 7-10: $50 community credit @Kat Mul @Leonie Osborne @Judy Hamilton @Tuuli Gress Thank you all so much. I will contact you soon 💛

This is actually the first community that I have connected with, meaning Im not having to work too hard at it! Its great! Im usually on the outskirts watching everybody else be involved with eachother. I hope i continue to relate with and am open to any ?'s anyone may have of me.

My name is Fernando. I live in Honolulu and recently retired after spending over 30 years working in public health across NYC, Miami Beach, and Washington, D.C. I have expertise in sexual health, STD prevention, risk reduction therapy, counseling, and life coaching. Feel free to ask me about any of these topics or about my hometown in Hawai'i. Now that I have more free time, I began working on myself with a psychologist and psychiatrist, and I found out I have ADHD at age 60. My goals here are: 1. To understand how the ADHD brain functions and how I can leverage it to become the best version of myself. 2. To connect with others who share similar experiences so we can learn and support each other on our ADHD journeys. 3. To fight isolation. 🫥 For fun, I enjoy hiking, singing in my community choir, and having sunset picnics. Love living in Waikiki! I also want to share pictures of my beautiful cat, Agatha (Aggie). She's currently my main companion, emotional support, and hiking buddy. 😻

For a long time, I thought tinnitus relief was just about finding the right thing. The right supplement. The right sound therapy. The right video. The “one method” that would finally make it stop. So I kept trying everything… sometimes all at once. Sound therapy in long sessions, new routines, different tools every week then wondering why nothing felt consistent or clear. Instead of relief, I just felt more confused and frustrated. One thing I didn’t realize back then was this: I wasn’t failing… I was just overwhelming my system. I’d try sound therapy for a few days, not feel a big change, and move on. Or I’d stack too many approaches at the same time and have no idea what was actually helping. I also made the mistake of trying to “protect” my ears all the time. Even in normal environments. But instead of feeling safer, my sensitivity actually increased over time. What started to shift things for me wasn’t adding more—it was simplifying. Short, consistent sound therapy instead of long random sessions. Using tools gradually instead of everything at once. Giving my brain time to adapt instead of constantly chasing results. And probably the biggest shift… I stopped expecting one thing to fix everything. Tinnitus isn’t usually a single-problem solution. It’s more like retraining how your brain responds over time. Slowly. Repeatedly. Consistently. Some days were still frustrating, but I stopped measuring progress by “is it gone yet?” and started noticing smaller things… less panic, quicker recovery, moments where I wasn’t even focused on it. Looking back, that was the real turning point. Not a cure. Not a breakthrough. Just a different approach. And I think a lot of people get stuck in the same place I did—trying harder, instead of stepping back and adjusting the system. If you’re in that phase right now, you’re not alone in it. 🙏