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In Today’s Edition:

🥰Well-Being & Self-Care: 2-Minute Self-Care Ritual: When You Need to Tune Into Yourself 🎧
💖Longevity & Wellness: The Importance of Magnesium
✨Daily Affirmation & Daily Prompt

Hey wonderful! You’re awesome and…
YOU’VE GOT IT!!!

It’s easy to lose connection with yourself when life gets busy, noisy, or overwhelming.

You might be moving through your day on autopilot, responding, producing, getting things done, without checking in on what you actually need or feel.

Tuning in doesn’t require a big pause. Just a moment of attention.

🫁 Step 1: Create a Moment of Stillness (30–45 seconds):
Pause whatever you’re doing.
Take a slow breath in, and a longer breath out.
Let there be a small gap between doing and being.

🔎 Step 2: Ask & Listen (45 seconds):
Gently ask yourself: “What’s going on for me right now?”
Notice thoughts, emotions, or sensations, without trying to change them.
This is about awareness, not fixing.

🧭 Step 3: Respond With Intention (30–45 seconds):
Ask: “What do I need, even in a small way?”
It might be:
• A break
• A stretch
• A glass of water
• A moment of honesty with yourself
Then offer that one small thing.

Tuning into yourself isn’t selfish, it’s how you stay connected, grounded, and aligned.

✅ Action step: Set one reminder today to pause and ask yourself: “What do I need right now?”

^{Love, Lola Graham}

Magnesium is involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body. About half of adults are not getting enough magnesium each day.

This matters because low magnesium intake is associated with a long list of conditions, including type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, osteoporosis, migraine headaches, elevated inflammatory markers, and cardiovascular disease, among others. It is worth noting these are associations, not proof of direct causation, but the pattern across studies is consistent enough that researchers have flagged it as a research priority.

How do you increase your magnesium intake?

Good food sources of magnesium include dark leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, black beans, almonds, avocado, dark chocolate, and whole grains.

It is not hard to get enough through your diet, but it does require you to actually think about it.

✅ Action Step: Look up the magnesium content of what you typically eat this week to get a sense of where you are at and if you need to add more magnesium-rich foods into your diet.

^{By: Joshua Graham | Sources: PMID: 22364157}

^{A mini-care practice for grounding, calming, and nervous system support.}

Pause and remind yourself: Nothing needs to be solved in this moment. I’m allowed moments of simply existing.

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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