Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up tips to help you live a healthier, happier life.
In today’s edition:
😊Mental / Emotional Well-Being: Leading with Your Heart: Authentic Alignment
💖Longevity & Wellness: Powerful Panthotenic Acid
🌱Trauma Healing: Releasing Shame: Loosening Trauma’s Grip (Day 1/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
🧠 Inner Reps: Mental Health Interval Workout
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
You are spectacular and worthy of an amazing life! Every single day.
And we are grateful for you. Thank you for being here, truly.
Leading with Your Heart: Authentic Alignment
Babe, what’s your heart been saying? When we’re pulled by outside expectations or worries, it’s easy to lose touch with what feels true to us. When we lose touch with our authenticity, our heart led life, it’s easy for anxiety to mount, for exhaustion and burnout to show up, and life can feel uninspired. Learning to tune into your heart can help you reconnect with authenticity, guiding choices that feel aligned instead of forced. Heart-led moments don’t have to be big, they can be small pauses where you check in with what matters most.
✨ Why it matters: Brings clarity, strengthens authenticity & self trust, and reduces stress by connecting us to our truth.
🌟 How to tune in to your heart
🫀 Pause and place a hand on your heart; notice your breath.
📝 Ask: “If my heart could speak, what would it want right now?”
🎶 Listen to music that helps you connect emotionally.
🌳 Try a brief meditation focused on warmth or gratitude in your chest.
😘 If you can’t find your heart’s voice (yet), try to tune into a feeling, a push or pull, or even a single word. Imagine each time you return as slowly tuning an old radio for better and better reception
✅ Action Step: Take 2 minutes today to pause, hand over heart, and ask yourself: “What feels most true for me right now?”
Powerful Panthotenic Acid
Pantothenic acid is also known as vitamin B5 and is one of the eight essential B vitamins. It helps your body convert carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into usable energy.
Vitamin B5 also supports many vital processes, including producing hormones, especially cortisol, which helps your body respond to stress. Adequate levels of B5 can support a more balanced stress response and greater resilience under pressure. It also helps form red blood cells, supports the nervous system, and contributes to healthy skin, hair, and digestion.
While deficiencies are relatively rare, low levels can cause fatigue, irritability, headaches, digestive upset, and tingling sensations in the hands and feet.
Good sources of B5:
Organ meats (liver and kidney), chicken, beef, eggs, yogurt, lentils, mushrooms, sunflower seeds, sweet potatoes, avocados, whole grains and broccoli.
✅ Action Step: Eat some foods high in B5!
Releasing Shame: Loosening Trauma’s Grip
Shame convinces us that we are the problem, when in truth the harm never belonged to us. This week, we’ll gently challenge shame’s grip and begin to reclaim your worth and truth.
Day 1: Understanding Shame and Trauma
Shame thrives in silence and secrecy. Unlike guilt (about what you did), shame is about who you believe you are. Trauma often plants seeds of shame because of powerlessness, isolation, or harmful messages absorbed afterward.
🫣 Trauma can distort your self-perception, convincing you “something is wrong with me.”
📉 Shame shrinks your sense of worth and belonging.
💔 Unlike guilt, which can lead to repair, shame freezes healing.
🌱 Naming shame is the first step in loosening its grip.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
Perfect doesn’t exist. Don’t chase a standard no one can reach. Don’t erase your uniqueness in the name of perfection. That illusion keeps us stuck, stops us from starting, and hides the wonder already in our lives.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
What are some of the ways you love to express yourself and why do they help you feel like yourself? (ex. style, humour, art, etc.)
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Watch the evening sky… whether it’s simple and calm or a sunset that paints the clouds.
Today’s Mental and Emotional Workout:
This workout will increase your ability to:
Feel pride in yourself
Notice the good in your life and appreciate it
Be mindful so you can step out of unhelpful patterns when they arise
In under 8 minutes, you’ll strengthen positive neural pathways for long-term well-being and end the workout feeling better than you started! (Click on the photo below to access the workout)benefit-driven line
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With love and care,
Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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