Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up tips to help you live a healthier, happier life.
In today’s edition:
😊Mental / Emotional Well-Being: Three Types of Savouring: Anchoring the Good
💖Longevity & Wellness: Fitness Trackers: Good or Bad?
🌱Trauma Healing: Reclaiming Your Body: Safety in Your Skin Again (Day 3/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
🧠 Guided Meditation: Somatic Release
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
If you doubt yourself today. You can either choose to continue listening to that doubt or pause, take a deep breath and shift that mental track towards self-support. You deserve support because you’re great!
Three Types of Savouring: Anchoring the Good
Gorgeous, make sure you’re taking deliberate time to anchor in the good. The “self-development” field can sometimes get us so focused on discovering what is wrong that we forget we can’t just pull weeds to create a beautiful garden, we need to create the conditions for the flowers to grow too. Savouring is the practice of soaking in life’s goodness, and it comes in different forms. We’re going to look at 3 types of savouring so if one is feeling too hard today, you can try another. Adding in flexibility can give you multiple pathways to anchor into joy and carry it forward.
✨ Why it matters: amplifies positive emotions, builds resilience by combating negativity bias, expands joy.
🌟 Types of Savouring:
🌞 Present-focused savouring: Pause and soak in what’s happening right now. A great example is slowing down to really notice the flavour of your food or the details of nature on a walk.
🎁 Anticipatory savouring: Look forward with excitement to something coming up. You can use “big things” but also try to anticipate the little things too (like the sound of your friend saying hello when you call).
📸 Reminiscent savouring: Relive a positive memory through photos, journaling, or storytelling. Let the details welcome joy into your heart and carry that forward as a spark for your day.
🌍 Each can be self-focused (your experience) or world-focused (appreciating beauty or kindness around you).
✅ Action Step: Choose one savouring style today (anticipate, present noticing, or reminisce) and give it your full attention for two minutes.
Fitness Trackers: Good or Bad?
Fitness trackers and smartwatches have become popular tools for tracking steps, heart rate, sleep, and more. When used intentionally, they can support longevity by encouraging movement, implementing better sleep habits, and offering warnings of irregularities like abnormal heart rhythms.
For many, wearables provide accountability, motivation, and insight into patterns they wouldn’t otherwise notice. But they aren’t for everyone. Constant tracking can lead to data obsession or “health anxiety,” where every poor night’s sleep feels catastrophic. Accuracy can also vary, especially when it comes to heart rate, meaning results shouldn’t be taken as gospel.
I personally enjoy using my Fitbit throughout the day to help me hit my daily step goals so I can keep up my activity level throughout the day. I know it’s sleep measurements, readiness scores add more stress than good, so I check them very infrequently.
✅Action step: If you have a wearable, assess if it is helping you or if it is adding more stress than good. If you don’t have a wearable, ask yourself if one would benefit you and go from there!
Reclaiming Your Body: Safety in Your Skin Again
Trauma often makes the body feel unsafe. This week is about gently rebuilding connection and safety, so your body can start to feel like home.
Day 3: Grounding Through Movement and Senses
Safe, simple movement can bring you back into your body in the present. Movement gives the body a way to process and come to the moment.
🧘 Stretch or move slowly and gently: no need for intensity. Alternatively, if slow movement feels impossible, you might try strength or cardio based movement to give your nervous system an outlet for release.
🕺 Sway or dance to a favorite song or tap your feet rhythmically.
🪵 Press your feet into the floor, noticing the ground holding you.
👃 Engage the senses: smell something soothing, touch a textured object, look at something calming.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
When you live for the next big win or moment of joy, you miss so much of what life quietly offers. Pause and notice. It’s the small beauties, the little joys, the everyday details that add up to a meaningful, happy life.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Are there any decisions you’re waiting on now and why? What’s really in your heart?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Touch a plant… rejoice in the texture, like when its leaves are smoother than you expected.
Today’s Guided Meditation:
Today’s guided meditation helps you create a relationship with your body as you release what no longer belongs. Simple yet effective, you’ll leave feeling lighter.
Click here or on the image to do today’s meditation.
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Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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