Corinne Baptiste
Corinne Baptiste writes about the reasons behind wellness rather than the routines. Every piece starts with a motive, then does the honest accounting of what that motive cost, and the weeks the accounting came out against her are published too.
How I Learned to Spot a Goal That Was Never Mine
For a long time my to-do list was full of things I never actually chose. Here is the short list of clues I use now to catch a borrowed goal before it eats another month.
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Why I Quit Forcing Eight Glasses of Water a Day
I carried a giant water bottle everywhere and refilled it on a schedule for months because I believed a specific number of…
The Habit I Only Kept Because I Was Afraid of Who I Would Be Without It
I finally admitted that fear, not desire, was the engine behind one of my longest habits, and separating the two changed how…
The Sunday Ten Minutes I Use to Check In With Myself
A short weekly check-in I built around three questions and a notebook, and why keeping it small is what made it stick.
What Actually Counts as Rest for Me
I spent a long time calling things rest that were not actually resting me. Here is how I figured out the difference.
Three Signs Something Isn’t Worth It Anymore
Things that used to be worth my time don't always announce when they've stopped being worth it. Here's what I look for…
What My Data Never Told Me
After a year of tracking sleep, steps, and mood, I made a list of the things that actually mattered that year, and…
The Difference Between Cutting and Quitting
Trimming a routine down to a few essentials looks like quitting from the outside, but the two are built on different logic.…
The Family Expectation I Mistook for My Own Goal
I spent two years chasing a version of healthy that my family had been describing since I was a teenager. Here is…
Why I Quit the Gratitude Journal I Kept for Eight Months
I wrote three things I was grateful for every night for eight months because I thought it would fix a mood problem…