Midnight Reset: 75 Soft Challenge

What an odd thing to do in the middle of the night—start a blog with no audience but myself.

Here I am, a 34-year-old woman with a broken heart and not much else to hold onto. This isn’t meant to be a sob story, but I do want to take a moment to explain why I’m trying to reset my life.

The last few years have tested me in ways I never imagined. Darkness has nearly swallowed me whole—there’s no question about that. In the past five years, I’ve faced more loss than I thought I could handle: my mother’s cancer diagnosis, the deaths of my last two grandparents, my nephew’s near-suicide, two relationships that nearly broke me, my best friend abandoning me because I was “too much,” uprooting my entire life to move to a new state, and, most recently, losing my job and being unemployed for the past year.

I’ve lost so much. And yet, somehow, I’m still standing—well, at least I’m trying to.

That’s why I’m committing to 75 Soft.

It’s a simple challenge with four rules:

• Eat well and only drink on social occasions.
• Train for 45 minutes every day, with one day for active recovery.
• Drink 3 liters of water a day.
• Read 10 pages of a non-fiction book.

On paper, these rules don’t seem difficult, but when you’ve spent so long neglecting yourself—physically, mentally, emotionally—doing even the smallest things can feel impossible. And that’s how I ended up here in the first place.

For most of my life, no matter how hard things got, I found the strength to keep pushing forward. But at some point, the weight became unbearable, and I finally buckled under it. I let myself go in every way.

But now, I need to push myself one more time—this time, for me.

So here I am, talking to myself in the middle of the night, trying to find a way to stay accountable. Maybe writing about this journey will help. Maybe tracking my goals, my thoughts, and my progress will keep me going. And maybe, if someone out there stumbles across this, they’ll realize they’re not alone either.

If you’re reading this, and you’re struggling too—I hope you find the strength to take things one day at a time.

Because I’m right there with you.

Start Date: March 30
End Date: June 13