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We are grateful for you!

Sometimes the body is rested, but the heart is tired. Emotional rest is the kind of rest that comes from not holding so much, not taking in more than you can hold, not carrying the emotional weight of everything around you. It’s the quiet exhale of letting yourself simply be: without fixing, managing, performing, or caring for others. It’s important to understand that we’re not talking about suppression or numbing, but instead talking about the importance of creating space where you don’t have to achieve, get better, perform for yourself, or perform for others. If you’re a sensitive soul, this kind of rest can be exactly what your heat needs to keep going. 

A helpful comparison to understand emotional rest: consider the concept of sensory overload (even if it isn’t something you personally experience). I have ADHD and am very prone to sensory overload and sensitivity. When I am in a space with a lot of sound inputs at volumes I can’t control, it can often lead to sensory overload where my body, mind, and emotions are on edge and I feel more reactive. Taking a moment to lower stimulation, for example, a moment alone where I can simply “be” can give me the chance to reset. Now, let’s translate this to a need for emotional rest. When we are consistently faced with emotional inputs (ex. From our phone, from the news, from our life, from the people in it), we can find ourselves on edge and reactive. Giving ourselves low input or neutral breaks where we don’t have to emotionally perform, can help us come back to ourselves.

Your emotions deserve space, not pressure.

🌟 Ways to practice emotional rest

✅ Action Step: Schedule a 5-minute + “no input” block today. No scrolling, no giving, just being with yourself.

So far this month for Fitness Friday, we have talked about how your core can brace, flex and extend. It is also designed to rotate.

Core rotation is primarily the job of your obliques, which are on the sides of your core. Training rotation is imperative for spinal health, supports better posture, enhances athletic performance, and reduces the risk of back injuries.

Without realizing it, most daily movements like reaching for a seatbelt, turning to look behind you, require rotational control. When your core can’t rotate well, your back and hips will overcompensate, which can lead to issues over time. So make sure you train core rotation.

Here are some good exercises to train core rotations:

These strengthen your ability to rotate and resist rotation, both of which are crucial for a strong, healthy core.

✅ Action step: Add in 2 or more sets of core rotation work each week into your exercise programming. 

Healing isn’t only about reducing pain, it’s also about honoring your survival, your resilience, and the strength it takes to keep going. This week shifts focus from wounds to worthiness, reminding you that you are so much more than what you went through.

You are not defined solely by your wounds or your resilience: you are a whole person, with complexity, tenderness, strength, softness, hope, and becoming. Honoring yourself means honoring all of it: the pain, the process, the growth, the rest, the parts still healing. You do not need to feel proud of survival to be worthy. You already are.

• 🫂 Honor what you’ve endured, without forcing a narrative.
• 🧘 Honor the ways you’ve cared for yourself.
• ❤️ Honor who you are becoming.
• 🌞 You are more than what happened to you: you are a whole, worthy human being.

^{Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love} 💕

What emotion has been visiting you most often lately? What is its purpose? What is it trying to protect or reveal?

Put your hand on your heart… feel its steady rhythm, always working for you without being asked.

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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