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:

Send yourself some kindness and understanding.
You are human, and we humans are imperfect creatures.
So give yourself some grace.
You’re doing your best 💖

^{In this series we explore common thinking patterns (cognitive biases) that can limit well-being and practice loosening its grip, to empower our thoughts, increase resilience, and live to the fullest.}

Our brains like to be right. Confirmation bias is the tendency to notice, remember, and give more weight to information that supports what we already believe, while filtering out what doesn’t.

While this can feel validating, it can also keep us stuck in limiting beliefs about ourselves, others, or the world. It can limit our perception of possibility and keep us from learning new and valuable perspectives. It can keep us stuck in limiting perceptions of ourselves.

Common ways confirmation bias limits us:
• 🪞 Only noticing evidence that supports negative self-beliefs
• 💭 Interpreting neutral situations in a way that confirms your fears
• 🔍 Overlooking positive feedback or contradictory evidence
• 🔁 Repeating the same thought patterns without questioning them
• ⚖️ Giving more weight to one negative moment than many positive ones

Ways to gently expand your perspective:
• 🥠 Ask: “What evidence might I be overlooking?”
• ⚖️ Look for both supporting and contradicting evidence
• 🔄 Consider: “If I believed something different, how would I see this?”
• 🧠 Stay open to updating your beliefs
• 💙 Let positive or neutral experiences count too

Your thoughts aren’t always facts, they’re interpretations shaped by patterns. Awareness helps you choose a more balanced view
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✅ Action step: Notice one belief today and ask: “Is there any evidence that doesn’t fit this story?” or “What else may be true here?”

^{Love, Lola Graham}

The push-up can be a challenging and intimidating exercise, but it doesn’t need to be. In this video, I walk you through the important points of the push-up and how to scale it if you aren’t able to do one yet.

Click here to watch the video explanation

One thing I forgot to mention in the video is to keep your wrists active. This means pressing through your fingers and knuckles into the ground. Imagine there are buttons under each finger and knuckle, and those buttons transfer wealth from billionaires to regular people, so press them down hard!

Also, horizontal pressing exercises like push-ups can help keep your shoulders healthy and can help build strength.

^{By: Joshua Graham}

^{A gentle invitation to integrate lived experience with kindness, perspective, and care.}

What’s one way you showed courage recently, even if it felt small?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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