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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: Believing Your Needs Are a Burden: Loosening Limiting Mindsets
💖Longevity & Wellness: Fitness Friday - Losing Strength Happens Earlier Than You Think
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"

You’ve got this; we believe in you.

We all have needs. For connection, rest, reassurance, support, understanding, and care. Yet sometimes we learn to treat those needs as inconveniences rather than natural parts of being human.

Believing your needs are a burden can lead to chronic self-silencing, over-independence, and difficulty receiving support. You might become so accustomed to being the person who gives that allowing yourself to receive feels uncomfortable or even selfish.

But healthy relationships aren't built on never needing anything. They're built on care, communication, reciprocity, and respect for everyone's capacity.

Common ways this limiting mindset shows up:

Ways to gently recognize and honour your needs:

Your needs don't make you a burden. They make you human. And you deserve relationships where care has room to flow in both directions.

✅ Action step: Identify one need you've been minimizing lately. Practice acknowledging it without judgment, and consider one small way you could honour or communicate it.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

The Swedish Physical Activity and Fitness study followed 427 randomly selected men and women born in 1958. Participants underwent physical assessments over 47 years, beginning at age 16 and continuing through age 63.

Researchers found that aerobic fitness and muscular endurance peaked between ages 26 and 36, with physical performance beginning to decline around the mid-30s. By age 63, average performance had dropped roughly 30-48% from peak levels.

The big finding was that exercise is enormously important for your well-being.

People who became more active during adulthood improved their physical capacity by about 5-10%, and those who stayed active maintained much higher levels of strength, endurance, and power as they aged.

So no, it is not “too late” if you are in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or beyond.

The best approach is to combine:

✅ Action Step: Get in at least 2 strength sessions each week, along with regular aerobic activity, and sprinkle in some explosiveness training like medicine ball throws or low-level jumps if appropriate.

^{By: Joshua Graham | Source PMID: 41243424}

^{A gentle invitation to integrate lived experience with kindness, perspective, and care.}

What’s one thing your current self deserves more credit for navigating?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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