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In Today’s Edition:
🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: Overthinking vs. Processing
💖Longevity & Wellness: 4 Ways to Eat More Fruit 🍌
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt
Today’s Edition
Time is constantly moving forward, and you move with it.
Don’t get so busy moving forward that you miss the majestic moment right in front of you.
Take a deep breath into your belly, and a long exhale.
Soak in this moment, you deserve to enjoy life as you are living it. 💖
Overthinking vs. Processing: How to Tell the Difference
Not all thinking is the same.
Sometimes we’re processing: making sense of something, reflecting, understanding our emotions, gaining clarity.
Other times, we’re overthinking: looping the same thoughts, replaying situations, searching for certainty that never quite comes.
Processing tends to move us somewhere. Overthinking tends to keep us stuck.
The tricky part is that overthinking can feel productive. It can feel like we’re doing something useful, when really we’re just circling.
Learning to notice the difference can help you shift out of loops and into something more supportive.
Ways to tell the difference and support yourself:
•🔁 Notice repetition: Are you arriving at new insights, or the same thoughts?
•🧠 Check for movement: Processing leads to clarity, overthinking leads to more confusion
•⏳ Set a container: Give yourself 10–15 minutes to reflect, then shift gears
•✍️ Externalize your thoughts: Writing can help move things forward
•💛 Gently interrupt loops: Change activity, move your body, or ground
Thinking through things can be helpful, we just need to shift how we’re engaging with thoughts so that it helps us process instead of loop. Your mental health will thank you.
✅ Action step: If you notice a loop, ask: “Is this helping me understand, or keeping me stuck?”
Love, Lola Graham
4 Tips to Eat More Fruit 🍌
About 90% of adults don’t eat enough fruit, even though it is an affordable, delicious treat! Often, it is because it’s just not top of mind, and so we don’t reach for it consistently.
Here are four easy ways to eat more fruit:
Make fruit popsicles: Blend your favourite fruits, pour into popsicle moulds, and freeze overnight. That is it. They are a genuinely satisfying sweet fix, kids love them, and you are getting real fruit in a form that actually feels like a treat.
Add it to your meals: Chopped apple in oatmeal, berries in a salad, pineapple with salmon and rice. Fruit does not have to be its own separate thing. Adding it to meals can increase nutrient density and make them more delicious.
Keep it visible: If fruit is in a drawer in your fridge or hidden in a bag, you will forget it exists. Put it in a bowl on your counter, at eye level in the fridge, somewhere you will actually see it. What is visible gets eaten.
Buy frozen fruit: Frozen fruit is often more nutritious than fresh, cheaper, and doesn’t go bad before you get to it. It is perfect for smoothies, oatmeal, or just blending into a quick sorbet when you want something cold and sweet.
✅ Action Step: Pick one of these and try it this week to get more fruit into your diet, whichever one feels easiest to start with.
By: Joshua Graham
Growth & Perspective:
A reflective journaling prompt to explore learning, self-awareness, and becoming.
What would change if you believed you’re allowed to rewrite your story at any time?
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