by SjP | Mar 19, 2026 | Personal Insights, Tips & Tricks
Every day I write two lists of things I’m grateful for — five in the morning, and five at night. I write that I am grateful for people I love, for friends who show up, for a warm and comfortable bed, for a safe home, for my cats, and for the parts of my personality...
by SjP | Mar 12, 2026 | Personal Insights
One of the most common things we hear inside Health Warriors is some version of, “I know what I should be doing, I just can’t make myself do it.” That sentence usually comes loaded with frustration and self-blame, as if the issue must be laziness, lack of discipline,...
by SjP | Mar 5, 2026 | Food Strategies, Personal Insights
Once in my life, I made a very clear decision about how I ate. I decided that I didn’t eat sugary snacks or desserts, and I didn’t eat in between meals. If it was meal time, I ate. If it was not, I did not. I wasn’t avoiding sugar entirely. If it was...
by SjP | Feb 26, 2026 | Mental Health, Personal Insights
There was a time when I believed that wanting something automatically meant I should act on it. If I wanted the food, I ate it. If I wanted to avoid something uncomfortable, I avoided it. If I wanted relief, distraction, or comfort in the moment, I followed that urge...
by SjP | Feb 12, 2026 | Mental Health, Motivation, Personal Insights
Over the holidays, I had a medical situation that landed me in the emergency room. Twice. To be clear, physically, I’m okay now. But getting back into the rhythm of life after something like that is harder than people talk about. I didn’t just lose a two weeks. I lost...
by SjP | Feb 5, 2026 | Personal Insights
Back in the day, my mother would send my father’s shirts to the dry cleaner, and they would come back folded around a stiff piece of cardboard. She loved those pieces of cardboard. Every week, she would take a fresh one and make lists on it. Shopping lists, to-do...
