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: Restoring Your Sense of Wonder
💖Longevity & Wellness: Childhood Nutrition And Brain Impact
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

Today, pick someone, it could be a stranger, an acquaintance or a loved one and wish nothing but the best for that individual just because.

Notice how it makes you feel; giving even silent encouragement and care can help uplift yourself, too. 

When life becomes stressful, overwhelming, or overly routine, we can slip into survival mode without even realizing it. We focus on responsibilities, deadlines, coping, and getting through the day.

And slowly, without meaning to, we stop noticing the small things that once made us feel alive.

Wonder is the feeling of being emotionally present with life. It’s the pause when sunlight hits the trees a certain way. The feeling music gives you. A moment of awe, curiosity, beauty, connection, or deep appreciation.

Wonder doesn’t erase pain or difficulty. But it can gently widen our experience beyond stress alone.

Research suggests that moments of awe and wonder can support emotional well-being, perspective-taking, nervous system regulation, and feelings of connection. Even tiny moments count.

You do not need a perfect life to reconnect with wonder. Sometimes it begins with simply slowing down enough to notice what’s already here.

Ways to reconnect with wonder:

•🌅 Pause for beauty: A sky, a plant, a song, a laugh, a small detail
•🎧 Fully experience something you enjoy instead of multitasking through it
•🌱 Follow curiosity: Learn, explore, ask questions, wander
•📸 Capture little moments that make you feel something
•💛 Let yourself be moved by things without needing to justify it

Wonder reminds us that life is more than pressure and productivity.

There is still beauty here. There are still moments worth feeling.

✅ Action step: Today, intentionally pause for one moment that sparks curiosity, awe, beauty, or appreciation.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

A recent study found that childhood exposure to high-fat, high-sugar diets can change how the brain regulates hunger, and those changes stuck around even after the diet improved and body weight went back to normal.

The encouraging part is that the gut microbiome appears to play a protective role. Prebiotic fibres found in everyday foods like onions, garlic, bananas, and asparagus, along with specific probiotic strains, both showed promise in reducing those long-term effects.

But don’t take these findings as gospel because this was a mouse study, so it is not the final word, but the implications are interesting.

What we feed our kids can shape their relationship with food in ways that go deeper than habit or willpower. If possible, try to make whole foods the everyday default at home, not a strict rule, but just the norm.

✅ Action Step: If you have kids, look for ways to integrate more whole foods into their diet

^{By: Joshua Graham}

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

What perspective brings you freedom rather than pressure?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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