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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:

🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: Savouring: Helping the Good Stuff Sink In
💖Longevity & Wellness: UPFs & Mental Health
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

Take a few moments today to disconnect from screens and do something that brings you joy.

We spend a lot of time learning how to cope with difficult moments. But there’s another well-being skill worth practicing: getting better at receiving the good ones.

This is sometimes called savouring: intentionally paying attention to, appreciating, and extending positive experiences.

Because good moments can be surprisingly easy to rush past. Someone gives us a compliment and we immediately deflect it. We eat something delicious while looking at our phone. We reach something we've been working toward and, five minutes later, we're thinking about the next thing.

Savouring isn't about forcing positivity or pretending everything is wonderful. It's about letting the goodness that is present actually reach us.

Ways to practice savouring:

•⏳ Stay for a few extra seconds: Resist immediately moving onto the next thing
•👀 Notice the details: What can you see, hear, taste, smell, or feel?
•💛 Let yourself have your reaction: Smile. Get excited. Be proud. Tear up.
•🗣️ Share good things: Telling someone about a positive experience can help you enjoy it again
•📸 Collect memories intentionally: Photos, notes, keepsakes, or little rituals can help good moments live longer

We can't make every moment good. But we can become more available to the goodness that finds us.

Sometimes well-being isn't about adding something new to our lives. It's about experiencing more fully what was already there.

✅ Action step: When something feels good today, pause for 10 seconds before moving on. Notice it. Let yourself enjoy it. Let it land.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

A small preliminary study from UC San Francisco suggests that eating fewer ultra-processed foods (UPFs) may help improve depression symptoms.

Researchers followed 20 adults and compared their usual diets with a period when they reduced ultra-processed food intake by more than 85%. During the low UPFs phase, participants showed moderate to large improvements across three measures of depression, while anxiety scores improved modestly.

Researchers believe one possible explanation may involve the gut-brain connection, since highly processed diets may contribute to inflammation and changes in gut health.

Plus, UPFs tend to be lower in micronutrients than whole foods, which can influence mood and energy levels.

The study was very small, though, so larger trials are still needed. However, you can test this with yourself and see if cutting back on your consumption of UPFs helps you feel better.

✅ Action Step: Replace one ultra-processed food you eat regularly with a minimally processed option this week.

^{By: Joshua Graham | Source: doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.2320}

^{A reflective journaling prompt to explore learning, self-awareness, and becoming.}

Reflect on a moment where your intuition was right. What did it teach you about listening inward?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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