Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up tips to help you live a healthier, happier life.
In today’s edition:
😊Mental / Emotional Well-Being: Self-Worth Through the Body
💖Longevity & Wellness: Fitness Friday: Healthier Knees
🧠 Inner Reps: Gratitude and Grounding
☀️Self-Care & Connection
🌱Trauma Healing: “I’m Not Enough:” Challenging Worthiness Wounds (Day5/5)
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
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Self-Worth Through the Body
Sometimes, affirmations feel hollow when self-worth feels far away. Words are so darn powerful but sometimes they don’t translate to an embodied deep feeling. When you’re finding affirmative words just aren’t hitting, your body can help lead the way. Try mixing the positive language with intentional body movements. The way you sit, stand, or move can teach your mind and emotions what worthiness feels like. Connecting body and mind is a great way to break through mental health barriers. It’s also a lovely way to work on making embodiment feel safe too!
✨ Why it matters
🧠 Your body and mind are deeply connected: change one, influence the other.
💃 Embodying worth can shift inner dialogue faster than words alone.
🪞 Builds confidence by creating a physical “memory” of self-worth.
🌈 Makes worth a lived experience, not just an idea.
🌟 How to practice worth in the body
🪑 Sit tall, breathe deeply, and notice how worth feels in your posture.
🚶 Walk intentionally, as if each step is communicating “I matter” to the Earth.
🙆 Stretch to create openness: arms wide, chest lifted, heart available.
🧘 Pair body posture with a mantra like: “I belong. I have worth.”
✅ Action Step: Today, take two minutes to stand tall with your shoulders back and heart open. Feel into what worthiness feels like in your body.
Fitness Friday: Healthier Knees
Knees are often-injured joints and can cause you a lot of pain if you don’t take care of them properly.
In order to keep your knees healthy, you want to do 2 major things.
Drive blood flow to the area. A great way to do this is walking backwards up a hill or on a treadmill. This places stress on the quadriceps and causes a good amount of blood to go to the area, which brings nutrients to the knees and flushes out metabolic waste. I do 5 minutes 2x a week.
Work the muscle around your knees. This means your quads, hamstrings, calves and shins. All of these play a big role in how your knees feel and function. If these are strong and can work through large ranges of motion, it will help to keep your knees feeling great!
If you are already experiencing knee pain, it is important to still move and see what you can do in pain-free ranges, working to slowly increase those pain-free ranges over time.
✅ Action Step: Assess your exercise routine. Are you doing something to drive blood flow to your knees at least 1x/week, and are you working all the muscles around your knees to keep them healthy? If not, make some shifts (you got this!!!).
Today’s Mental and Emotional Workout:
This workout will increase your ability to:
Tap into gratitude so you can lower stress, anxiety and boost well-being
Ground yourself to enhance mood, improve sleep and more!
Develop more positive self-talk to boost self-kindness
In under 8 minutes, you’ll strengthen positive neural pathways for long-term well-being and end the workout feeling better than you started! (Click on the photo below to access the workout)
You’re allowed to change your mind with new information. Flexibility is a strength, not a flaw.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Take a moment to day dream, imagine opening a door to a space of inner calm. Describe the place. What does it look like, feel like? Keep going, sound, smell, touch. What are you like when you are there? Bring it to life with words.
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Walk a little slower… let your feel kiss the ground, like you’re savoring a place you love.
🦋Weekly Connection Challenge:
Kindness Creates Ripples
Share a Helpful Resource
Post an article, video, or tip that could make someone’s day easier. Savor the joy of releasing helpful energy into the world.
“I’m Not Enough:” Challenging Worthiness Wounds
Trauma can plant the belief that you’re somehow inadequate. This couldn’t be further from the truth, you worthy beauty. This week offers gentle ways to challenge that.
Day 5: Practice Embodying Enoughness
Beliefs are carried in our mind and in our body. So, shifting this belief isn’t just about the words we use with ourselves, it’s also about how we hold ourselves and how we allow ourselves to be seen.
🤓Check in with your body and ask: “what does it feel like to breathe enoughness?” then allow for an embodied breath. Try this activity with posture, your steps, etc.
🩵Share something real about yourself without polishing it.
💋Each time you show up authentically, you reinforce your worth.
🛌It’s not just about “doing” enough. It’s also about relaxing into “enough.” Let yourself rest like you’ve got nothing to prove.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
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Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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