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In Today’s Edition:

🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: Monday Healing Moment: Stepping Into Self-Trust
💖Longevity & Wellness: A Warning From A Past Orthorexic
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

Always remember that the world is better because you are in it.
Thank you for being you.

Happy Monday 💛. Let’s begin this week by reconnecting with something powerful within you: self-trust.

Take a slow breath in. And a grounding breath out. Feel yourself arrive here.

Now imagine standing at the edge of a new week, not needing to have every answer, but trusting yourself to meet what comes.

Self-trust is not perfection. It’s not always certainty either.

It’s the quiet knowing that you can listen to yourself. Support yourself. Adapt when needed. Care for yourself through uncertainty.

Take a moment to remember something difficult you’ve already made it through. Without stepping into the details, but inviting in the realization that you made it out the other side.

There were moments you didn’t know what to do. Moments you doubted yourself. Moments that stretched you.

And still… you found your way forward. Let that truth settle gently into your body. Take a nice big deep breath. 

Let your body and mind remember: self-trust isn’t about having the perfect path. It’s often the willingness to keep trying, even in the presence of doubt, even in the difficult moments.

You are more capable than fear sometimes allows you to see. 

As this week begins, imagine yourself taking your own supportive voice a little more seriously. Listen inward more often. Let the voice that knows you’ve done hard things before support you now. Trusting your intuition a little more deeply.

You do not need to control every outcome to trust yourself.

You only need the willingness to stay connected to you as life unfolds.

Take one more slow breath. Feel self-trust strengthening quietly within you.

You are learning how to trust the person you are becoming.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

I used to be an orthorexic. Orthorexia is the obsession with eating healthy food, and it sold me a simple promise: eat perfectly, and your health will be perfect too. But I actually ended up feeling worse.

I would obsess about what I was eating, and if I felt slightly off, I would quickly spiral, mentally, emotionally and physically. It made me feel like I wasn’t resilient. I’m not the only one who has fallen into this trap; Bryan Johnson believed it with a $2-million-a-year budget.

If you haven’t heard of him, Bryan Johnson is the most measured man alive. Every meal he ate was perfectly engineered, over 100 biomarkers tracked, aging monitored organ by organ, perfect sleep scores and more. But he just announced he has autoimmune gastritis, an incurable condition.

Clean eating didn't cause his disease but couldn't prevent it either, and that's the warning. Food shifts your odds; it doesn't buy certainty. Trying to eat perfectly clean can make you (like it did me) more stressed and fearful of the world around you, and if that is the care you’re probably not getting healthier. You're getting scared and stressed just with better ingredients.

Aiming for a better balance has been so much better for me and my clients. The new target: try to eat whole foods around 80% of the time; this gives you leeway and takes away a lot of stress around nutrition.

✅ Action Step: Take a moment for self-reflection: what is your nutrition like right now? How can you improve it? Does that mean more whole foods, less rigidity or something else?

^{By: Joshua Graham}

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

Find one thing that feels aesthetically pleasing today: a shadow, a colour, a plant, a cozy corner. Let beauty nourish you.

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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