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In Today’s Edition:
🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: Monday Healing Moment: Remembering You’re Not Alone
💖Longevity & Wellness: 4 Things That Research Links to a Sharper Memory
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt
Today’s Edition
You are powerful.
You are strong.
You are capable.
Have an amazing week :)
Monday Healing Moment: Remembering You’re Not Alone
Happy Monday 💛 Let’s begin this week by gently remembering something many of us forget when life feels heavy: you are not alone.
Take a slow breath in. And a long breath out.
Feel the air moving through you. Feel yourself here.
Now imagine all the people across the world taking a breath too.
People hoping. People hurting. People healing. People trying again.
People in so many different situations, all needing to take their next breath too.
So many hearts are carrying things quietly. When you’re feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, emotional, tired, or whatever it may be lately, you are not alone. When you’re feeling joy, purpose, awe, and beauty, you are not alone.
Everywhere along the spectrum of emotion, we share that space with others.
There is something deeply healing about remembering we were never meant to carry everything alone.
Even when isolation wraps around us. Even when our minds tell us no one understands. Even when life feels lonely.
Connection still exists.
Sometimes it’s found in a conversation. Sometimes in a shared glance. Sometimes in community. Sometimes simply in the reminder that others have felt this too and made it through.
As this week begins, let yourself soften away from the idea that you must hold everything by yourself.
You are allowed to need support. You are allowed to lean on others. You are allowed to belong.
Take one more slow breath.
Let yourself feel connected, even gently, to the shared humanity around you.
You are not alone in this life.
Love, Lola Graham
4 Things That Research Links to a Sharper Memory
Your memory can be improved, and several lifestyle factors have a meaningful impact on how well it works. Here are four that are consistently backed by evidence.
Exercise: A landmark randomized controlled trial published in PNAS by Erickson et al. found that aerobic exercise training actually increased the size of the hippocampus — the brain's primary memory centre by 2% in older adults, effectively reversing one to two years of age-related volume loss. It also improved spatial memory performance. This study used walking fyi.
Sleep: Is imperative for memory consolidation, particularly during deep slow-wave sleep and REM. Consistently cutting sleep does not just make you tired; it interferes with your ability to retain what you learned that day.
Stress management: Chronic elevated cortisol physically impairs the hippocampus over time, reducing its volume and degrading memory function. Practices that lower cortisol, whether exercise, nature exposure, breathing, or social connection, can help protect your memory.
Omega-3 fatty acids: DHA, the omega-3 found primarily in fatty fish, is a structural component of brain cell membranes and plays a key role in synaptic function. Research, including a 2025 systematic review, found that omega-3 supplementation improved everyday memory performance compared to a placebo. The evidence is strongest for food sources like salmon, sardines, mackerel, and anchovies, but supplements can help when dietary intake is low.
✅ Action Step: Pick the one on this list you are weakest on right now: sleep, movement, stress, or omega-3s, and make one small change this week. That is where you’ll probably get the biggest return for yourself.
By: Joshua Graham | Sources: PMID: 21282661, PMID: 40836005
Glimmers of Joy:
A gentle prompt to help you create small feel good moments of beauty, appreciation, and delight.
Notice one thing today that feels unexpectedly comforting. Let yourself fully receive the comfort instead of rushing past it.
Thank you for being here!
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