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Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up a daily dose of care designed to support you, cheer you on and remind you, always, just how wonderful you already are.

In Today’s Edition:

🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: Psychological Richness: A Third Ingredient in a Good Life
💖Longevity & Wellness: Blood Pressure Isn’t Just About Salt
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

I hope today knocks your socks off with how spectacular it is.
And if it isn’t,
Then there is always tomorrow :)

What makes a life well lived?

For a long time, conversations about well-being have often focused on two things: happiness and meaning.

Happiness involves experiences of pleasure, satisfaction, and positive emotions. Meaning involves purpose, significance, and feeling that our lives matter.

But researchers have been exploring a fascinating third dimension: psychological richness.

A psychologically rich life is one filled with varied, interesting, and perspective-changing experiences. Experiences that challenge our assumptions, expand our understanding, introduce us to something unfamiliar, or change how we see the world.

And here's what makes this concept so interesting: not every valuable experience needs to make us happy or feel purposeful. Some experiences enrich our lives because they help us grow, discover, question, or see things differently.

Ways to invite more psychological richness into life:

•🌍 Explore unfamiliar perspectives: Read, listen, or learn from people whose experiences differ from yours.
•🎨 Try something outside your usual interests: A new art form, activity, subject, or experience.
•🧠 Stay curious about complexity: Not everything needs a simple answer.
•🚶 Break familiar patterns occasionally: Take a different route, visit somewhere new, or change your routine.
•💛 Reflect on experiences that changed you: Consider what you've learned from unexpected or challenging moments.

A beautiful life doesn't have to be happy every moment, and it doesn't have to revolve around one grand purpose.

It can also be a life of discovery. Of stories, surprises, questions, adventures, new perspectives, and experiences that make us more expansive human beings.

There are so many ways for a life to be rich.

✅ Action step: This week, intentionally seek out one experience that introduces you to something unfamiliar or helps you see the world a little differently.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

People with high blood pressure all get told the same thing: eat less salt, but this is only half the equation and something I have been preaching to clients for a long time that new research confirms.

Eat more potassium.

This is because potassium and sodium have an inverse relationship with one another.

Higher potassium intake helps your kidneys excrete more sodium through urine and also supports the relaxation of blood vessel walls, both of which can help lower blood pressure.

Most people eat plenty of sodium, especially if you eat a lot of processed foods, take out or eat out at restaurants. But most people don’t get near enough potassium.

Good sources of potassium are: leafy greens, potatoes, beans, lentils, yogurt, bananas, avocados, and other fruits and vegetables. 

So if you’re dealing with high blood pressure, instead of only asking, “How do I eat less salt?” also ask, “How can I get more potassium?” 

✅ Action Step: Add 1+ potassium-rich food to each of your meals each day, especially if your diet is currently low in fruits and vegetables.

^{By: Joshua Graham | Source: PMID 42288189}

^{A reflective journaling prompt to explore learning, self-awareness, and becoming.}

What’s a version of success that actually feels meaningful to you?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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