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: A Present Moment Anchor: Reset When Triggered
💖Longevity & Wellness: Improve Your Posture & Health with Pendiculation
🧠 Guided Meditation: Grounding
☀️Self-Care & Connection
🌱Trauma Healing: “I’m Not Enough:” Challenging Worthiness Wounds (Day3/5)
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
Feeling down is a part of life; not every moment will be awesome, but you will always be awesome. Because you are awesome!
A Present Moment Anchor: Reset When Triggered
This is one of my favourite simple mindfulness tools that can be used in almost any situation. When stress, worries, triggers etc. pull you toward difficult memories, emotions, or sensations, a present moment anchor gives you a simple focus point to ground you in the present moment. It’s like grabbing hold of something steady in stormy waters. The more you practice with your anchor, the stronger its calming force becomes. Choosing an anchor before you need it helps you be prepared for whatever life brings and gives you space to practice before you need it.
✨ Why it matters
🛟 Anchors stop spirals before they take over.
🧘 Build a quick pathway back to calm.
🧠 Train attention away from triggers and into safety.
🌱 Creates confidence in your ability to regulate.
💫Examples of anchors (pick 1+):
🪨 Hold a grounding object (like a rock, jewelry, or pen) and notice every detail.
👣 Focus on a neutral body sensation, like feet on the ground or fingertips touching.
🫁 Use your breath as your anchor: slow, steady, intentional.
How to use an anchor:
⚓Pick your anchor (an object, body part, or breath, etc.).
⌛Spend 2 minutes practicing grounding by bringing all your attention to that anchor (ex. notice how it feels, narrate your attention). Practice daily!
😜Any time a difficult emotion arises, return to your anchor to ground yourself.
❤️After anchoring, check in with what you need next.
✅ Action Step: Pick your anchor today: an object, body part, or breath. Practice focusing on it for 2 minutes to build your reset skill.
Improve Your Posture & Health with Pendiculation
There is an instinctive stretch-and-yawn movement that my dog does throughout the day, and I say “bigggg stretch” or I go to jail (those are the rules).
She does this to reset muscle tension and gently wake up her nervous system. She often does this upon waking from a nap or after being stationary for a while.
This is called pendiculation, and it is natural for all animals (including humans) to do. In our screen-focused lives, frequent phone and computer use keeps us static, suppressing the urge to pendiculate; over time, this can lead to stiffness, poor posture, and reduced body awareness. Meanwhile, animals (like my dog) instinctively pendulate many times a day, modelling the importance of this overlooked movement reset.
Pendiculation allows the body to oscillate between contraction and expansion, which helps realign posture, rehydrate connective tissues, and send signals to the brain that restore optimal movement and nervous system balance. Pendiculation naturally releases built-up muscle tension and supports circulation without force.
Pendiculation also fosters self-awareness and acts as a vital “refresh” for both body and mind.
✅ Action Step: Take inspiration from my dog and regularly pause to stretch, yawn, and gently contract and release your muscles after long periods of sitting or screen time to rejuvenate your body’s natural rhythms
Today’s Guided Meditation:
Today’s meditation will help you tap into nature’s wisdom to feel grounded and nourished.
Self-criticism rarely creates change that lasts. Try love, it sticks, it compounds with time, it nourishes. You deserve the love.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Deep down sometimes we know exactly what step we need to be taking but life seems to give us excuses to put it off. What’s that step for you and is it worth taking?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Let your shoulders drop… finally relaxing, softening, releasing as your body slides into the comfort of a restful moment.
🦋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 3: Collect Evidence of Enoughness
Let’s embrace some nuance here. First, you are always enough. You don’t need to earn that enoughness, it’s a part of the fabric of your being. This is true AND it is also helpful to acknowledge evidence of your enoughness to give your brain concrete ways to counter this limited thought pattern.
🌟Acknowledge that you were born enough and you still are
✍️Write down times you’ve shown up, tried, or been there for someone to “collect evidence” of just how wonderful you are.
🤩Give yourself permission to start seeing the evidence you’ve been denying, big or small, it all counts.
🥳Start celebrating yourself as an act of resistance and rebellion, this can help crack through hesitation.
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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