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:

Your past doesn’t define who you are.
You get to choose who you are today.
Move forward intentionally.
You’ve got this!
We are proud of you!

Happy Monday 💛 Let’s begin this week by reconnecting with ourselves and creating steadiness. Let’s take a healing moment to strengthen self-belief, because you’re worth it.

Take a slow breath in. And a long breath out. 

Feel your breath call you to the present moment. Meeting yourself here and now, allowing yourself to smile softly, as you connect with you as you are. You are enough.

Bring a hand to softly rest on your chest and imagine it connecting with a small flame, the flame of self-belief. Hold this flame knowingly, whether it’s a quiet glow barely recognizable, or roaring bright. The flame lives.

With each breath, it grows steadier. With your attention, its glow strengthens as lightly pulses reassuring energy through you, body, mind, and spirit. Reconnected, self-belief whispers “we can do this, we are worthy, we won’t give up on us.” 

Acknowledge that there have been moments when you handled something hard. When you adapted. When you figured it out. When you kept going. Those moments are evidence. You can do this. This week is yours.

Self-belief is not pretending you’ll never struggle. It’s knowing you can meet what comes. 

Take one more slow breath, letting self-belief hold you knowingly. Carry that quiet knowing into the week ahead.

You are capable. You are worthy. You are healing your connection with you.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

As you age, you can experience cognitive decline, but you can fight it by engaging in mentally stimulating activities, being physically active, sleeping well, eating a nutritious diet and hanging with grandkids?

Recent research has shown that grandparents who spend time participating in caregiving activities with their grandchildren, such as leisure activities, helping with homework, and cooking for them, etc. end up with lower levels of cognitive decline compared to older individuals who don’t.

The researchers found that simply being a caregiving grandparent mattered more than how often they provided care or what exactly they did for their grandchildren. Therefore, what really matters to help preserve their cognitive function is being involved in grandchildren’s lives and caring for them.

More research is needed to examine this, but it sure is interesting!

If you have kids and want your parents to be more involved with caregiving, here is an extra selling point.

✅Action Step: If you are a grandparent, then make sure you spend some time helping out each week. If you are a parent and not a grandparent, then send this to your parent.

^{By: Joshua Graham
Source: PMID 41587188}

^{A gentle prompt to help you create small feel-good moments of beauty, appreciation, and delight.}

Catch a moment of lightness today: a laugh, a silly thought, a playful feeling. Let it stay a little longer. Let it land with an uplifting touch.

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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