Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up tips to help you live a joyful, healthier life.
In today’s edition:
😊Mental Emotional Well-Being: Future-Self Journaling: Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom
💖Longevity & Wellness: A Simple Habit With Powerful Metabolic Benefits 🌾🩺
🌱Trauma Healing: Releasing Hypervigilance: Living Beyond Constant Alert (Day 4/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
👇 And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
We believe in you.
Because you can.
Because you have.
Because you will.
You are worth believing in!
Future-Self Journaling: Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom
When life feels overwhelming, connecting with your future self can give perspective and clarity. Take a moment to imagine the future you, satisfied, having lived a meaningful life. The you that has navigated the challenges and is full of lived expertise. The you that has discovered a deep authentic sense of self. Channel that wisdom, hope, and guidance to give you support today by taking the time to journal from that future self voice. It may feel silly at first but it’s a great way to build hope and motivation, to shift perspective and regulate emotions, all while strengthening your self-trust and inner guidance. When we’re stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, or whatever has us down, we tend to narrow our perspective. Future-self journaling is a great exercise to crack through that perspective and open yourself to your inner wisdom.
🌟 How to try future-self journaling
📝 Write a letter from “future you” to “today you.”
🪞 Ask: “What wisdom would future me share?”
💡 Imagine yourself leaping ahead in your life, looking back with compassion.
🌊 Keep it simple, just 5 minutes of writing can create a shift. You can use stream of consciousness writing to get past a block by setting a timer and challenging yourself to continually write until it goes off. This can let your heart speak instead of your head.
✅ Action Step: Today, write a short note from your future self to your present self. Let it carry kindness and hope.
A Simple Daily Habit With Powerful Metabolic Benefits 🌾🩺
This improves digestion, plays a key role in blood sugar balance, cholesterol regulation, gut health, and inflammation control, all of which directly affect metabolic health and long-term disease risk. This wonderful thing is… Fibre!
Fibre also slows how quickly sugars enter the bloodstream, helping prevent blood sugar spikes and energy crashes. It also feeds your gut microbiome, which influences metabolism, mood, and immune health. Soluble fibre (found in oats, beans, flax, berries) is especially powerful for regulating cholesterol and blood sugar.
Most adults fall far short of ideal intake: the average person only gets about 15g/day, while research suggests that for longevity, people should be aiming for at least 40g a day.
Now, if your intake is low right now, work to increase it gradually, since large jumps in fibre intake can cause GI discomfort, since your body isn’t used to that intake. A better idea is to increase your intake by 5g every 3-5 days until you get closer to the 40g/day intake.
Some good sources of fibre are lentils, beans, apples, berries, oats, chia seeds, carrots, avocados, and leafy green vegetables.
✅ Action step: Add one high-fibre food to a meal today.
Releasing Hypervigilance: Living Beyond Constant Alert
This week is about gently calming the chronic alertness inside you, allowing your body and mind to exhale.
Day 4: Creating External Safety Cues
Practicing internal regulation is an important step (like we discussed yesterday); however, we can also leverage our environment to help dial down hypervigilance. We can use our spaces to give us reminders of safety. Here are some examples to try:
🕯️ Adjust lighting and noise where possible to reduce stress.
🖼️Add safe and/or calming reminders to your space: pictures, plants, friendly notes you write to yourself, etc.
🛌 Create safe rituals for bedtime: soft music, weighted blanket, calming tea.
🐾 Use familiar sensory anchors (favorite scent, object, or photo).
🪴 Reassure yourself with grounding statements: “This is my safe space.”
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
People-pleasing is expensive; pay yourself first with honesty. The cost of pretending is too high.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Reflect on a moment that you felt most like you. What stands out? How can you use this to build more opportunities for authenticity in your life?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Whisper “thank you” to yourself… a thoughtful heartfelt moment of acknowledging that all you do matters.
Thank you for being here!
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