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: Redefining Failure: Data, Not Defeat
💖Longevity & Wellness: Fitness Friday - Balance
🌱Trauma Healing: Releasing Shame: Loosening Trauma’s Grip (Day 5/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
🧠 Inner Reps: Mental Health Interval Workout
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
Children often look at the world with awe, and as we get older, we can become a bit hardened to the beauty all around us and within ourselves.
Peel back the layers, let yourself see your own magnificence and the gorgeousness of the world. You deserve to shine and to enjoy the world around you.
PS. Thank you for being here. We appreciate you!
Redefining Failure: Data, Not Defeat
Fear of failure can freeze us in place. But what if failure wasn’t proof of inadequacy, but simply data? Every mistake contains feedback, guiding us closer to what works. Reinterpreting failure as information transforms paralysis into momentum. The interesting thing is that most of us can grasp this intellectually, but may struggle to implement it because the “feeling of failure” can be louder than reason. So, as you take in this concept it’s important to acknowledge that you’ll need to make space for yourself to breathe through the fear and embrace courage as you establish new ways of moving through perceived failure.
✨ Why it matters: reduces fear and perfectionism, normalizes setbacks, encourages resilience in the face of mistakes
🌟 How to shift your view of failure
📖 Reframe: “This didn’t work out…what did it teach me?” (use this as a stepping stone if you’re ready to try again).
📝 Keep a “lessons log” instead of a “failure list.”
🔄 Celebrate attempts, not just outcomes.
💬 Share failures with friends to normalize the process.
✅ Action Step: Revisit one past “failure” and write down 3 things you learned from it. See how it shaped your growth and/or how taking new lessons from old failures can help you avoid repeating cycles.
Fitness Friday: Balance
Balance isn’t just about avoiding an accident; it is a marker of healthy aging. Studies show that people with better balance have a lower risk of falls, fractures, and mobility loss as they age.
Here’s the surprising part: balance is also linked to brain health and overall longevity. That’s because maintaining balance engages multiple systems at once, including muscles, joints, vision, and the inner ear, which are all coordinated by the nervous system. Keeping these systems sharp helps protect independence and quality of life.
Good news! Balance, like other skills, can be trained (at any age).
Here are 3 good ways to do that (if you do these, do them in a safe environment)
Stand on one leg. If this is too easy, close your eyes
Walking heel-to-toe in a straight line forwards and backwards
The foot clock: Stand on your right foot and lift your left foot. Imagine you’re standing in the middle of a clock face, then proceed to tap each number on the clock with your left foot, tapping your right foot after each number. Then switch feet. To increase difficulty, try to tap as far away from you as you can without losing your balance.
✅ Action Step: Do one or a combination of the exercises above 2-3x per week.
Releasing Shame: Loosening Trauma’s Grip
Shame convinces us that we are the problem, when in truth the harm never belonged to us. This week, we’ll gently challenge shame’s grip and begin to reclaim your worth and truth.
Day 5: Embodying Freedom From Shame
Healing shame isn’t just mental, it’s embodied. Each time you show up authentically, you reclaim yourself.
💃 Practice embodying worthiness physically: ex. try posture shifts like standing tall, show your heart by lifting your chest, step with purpose and belonging.
🧘 Breathe deeply and repeat: “I release what never belonged to me.”
🪴 Share one truth or part of yourself with someone safe: each authentic step weakens shame.
🍦Be patient, gentle, and keep going: your nervous system and mind takes time to adjust to new embodied ways of being.
🌞 Celebrate your survival: the very fact you’re here proves your resilience.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
When the path feels dark, remember: the love in your heart is a light that doesn’t go out.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Write about an aspect of your personality that you appreciate in other people as well.
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Doodle on a page or trace shapes with your finder… finding simple pleasure in carefree inconsequential creativity.
Today’s Mental and Emotional Workout:
This workout will increase your ability to:
Be self-compassionate so you can increase your self-worth, lower stress and anxiety
See how awesome you are (making life more enjoyable and fun)
Be present and tune into the present moment
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)
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Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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