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In today’s edition:
😊Mental / Emotional Well-Being: RAIN: A Practice for Emotional Regulation & Mindful Compassion
💖Longevity & Wellness: The Unsung Hero of Energy and Longevity
🌱Trauma Healing: Cultivating Safety: Creating Anchors in Your World (Day 3/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
👇 And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
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That is how we would describe you, and yet that still wouldn’t come close to encapsulating your magnificence!
RAIN: A Practice for Emotional Regulation & Mindful Compassion
When emotions hit hard, we often react, suppress, or judge ourselves. Tara Brach’s RAIN practice offers a gentler path, one of awareness and compassion. RAIN stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It’s a mindful way to process emotions without getting lost in them, helping you soften resistance and build self-trust.
🌟 How to practice RAIN
🌧️ Recognize what’s happening: name the emotion honestly. Bring awareness to your situation without adding criticism.
🌊 Allow it to exist, without rushing to fix, feed, or resist it. This is about fighting the urge to suppress or stop so we can move onto the next step and receive the message that the moment holds.
🔍 Investigate with curiosity: What am I feeling in my body? What story am I telling myself?
💖 Nurture with self-compassion: Start by offering kindness, and support. Enquire what care is needed next like supportive touch, somatic expression, speaking with a friend etc. Nurture can take many forms.
✅ Action Step: Try RAIN next time you feel overwhelmed. Even two minutes of recognizing and allowing can shift you from self-judgment to calm presence.
⚡The Unsung Hero of Energy and Longevity 💧
Minerals like sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium are electrolytes and help your body maintain fluid balance, nerve function, muscle contraction, and heart rhythm.
Proper electrolyte balance supports cellular energy production, blood pressure regulation, and stress resilience. Over time, chronic imbalances can strain your cardiovascular system, affect cognition, and impair recovery from exercise or illness.
Diets high in processed foods or take-out can often miss key electrolytes like magnesium and potassium, while excess caffeine or sweating can deplete them further.
When these minerals are out of balance, you may feel fatigued, dizzy, crampy, or mentally foggy, even if you’re well-hydrated. Recently, my mother was complaining about some of these issues this summer, so I recommended she add in some more electrolytes and voila! It helped her immensely. 🥳
Depending on where you are at, you can restore balance naturally by eating whole, mineral-rich foods like leafy greens, avocado, nuts, seeds, citrus, and sea salt and hydrating with water plus electrolytes during heavy sweating, like during exercise or on very hot days.
I add a ½ tsp - 1 tsp of salt to my water during my workouts as I typically sweat quite a bit.
✅Action Step: Everyone is different! Some people might benefit from adding a pinch of sea salt if they are low in sodium, while others might need to consume more mineral-rich foods like greens, beans, and avocado daily to keep energy, focus, and hydration in sync.
Note: Just like too few electrolytes can cause problems, too many electrolytes ⚡ (electrolyte imbalance in the other direction) can also be harmful, so more isn’t always better. Too much typically arises from excessive supplementation.
Cultivating Safety: Creating Anchors in Your World
This week explores how to intentionally create “anchors” that help you feel grounded, secure, and supported in daily life.
Day 3: Emotional Safety Anchors
Emotional safety isn’t about always feeling “positive” emotions, instead it’s about meeting your emotions without shame or criticism, knowing it’s valid to feel what you feel.
🗒️ Practice naming emotions without judgment: “I feel anxious,” “I feel sad.” And, follow up by treating yourself like a friend: “How can I best support myself here?”
💌 Write yourself compassionate notes or affirmations to use as anchors and reminders when you need emotional grounding.
🎨 Create expressive outlets are a healthy form of emotional processing and expression: drawing, writing, moving your body, music, etc.
🕊️ Emotional safety grows when you treat feelings as messengers, not enemies.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
When you get curious, fear loses its grip. When you get curious, a whole new world of insight opens up.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Do you have a gratitude practice you love? If yes, how does it light you up? If no, how can you start one?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Stretch lovingly… feel stiffness melt away, your body elongate, the tension release as you stretch in whatever way feels right.
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