Pieces of Pietz

  It’s been several weeks since my last health journey update and y’all, I am pretty sure I was on the verge of a breakdown. After my aunt passed away, a host of family emergencies and personal obligations all fell into my lap at the same exact moment, making my brain swell and overload. I had to stop everything, took a day to process it, got my big girl panties on and sucked it up. I’m grateful to say everything is more even keel (at least for now) but I must admit, there is a pattern that even I can’t deny; When things feel out of my control, I let my emotions consume every other part of my life and that is my biggest downfall. That old saying, 'You are your own worst enemy' is inherently accurate. The 75 Hard Challenge proved to be more than I was ready for and after restarting three times in two weeks, it was obvious I wasn’t ready to commit. Scratch the challenge, for now, I need to work on breaking some habits that were less than stellar for helping me achieve my goal...

  Hey y'all, welcome to Pieces of Pietz! I want to give a brief introduction of what you can expect here and also share a little bit about myself. To start, I'm what you'd refer to as an elder millennial. Born in that magical window of the early eighties, just shy of generation X. I also fall into some of the lesser than pleasant statistics ; broken home, teen pregnancy, high school drop out, divorcee. When I reached my thirties, I had an epiphany; I was going to stop trying to make up for my past and start living in the present. It was after I made that decision that I met the man of my dreams (or as he would say, he found me), we got hitched, blended our two families into one to become a family of seven and embarked onward to new, happier adventures. Then life happened, as it always does, throwing a monkey wrench in our plans to live in a blissful state of euphoria. My husband, a wounded combat veteran, started to rapidly see a decline in his overall health. Mentally, he ...