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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: Easing Morning Anxiety
💖Longevity & Wellness: A Better Way to Walk? 🚶➡️🚶♀️➡️
🌱Trauma Healing: Grieving What Was Lost: Making Space for Healing (Day 1/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
👇 And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
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Easing Morning Anxiety
For many people, the morning can feel like the hardest part of the day. Our cortisol (stress hormone) naturally peaks shortly after waking to help us feel alert. But if your nervous system is already running high (maybe that’s due to stress, poor sleep, burnout, or emotional overwhelm, etc.) that natural spike can feel like dread, buzzing thoughts, tightness in the chest, or a heavy sense of “I can’t do today.” We all have days like this once and a while, but when it starts to become a pattern, it’s a call to show up for ourselves with extra care. The goal isn’t to force yourself to feel calm. It’s to give your nervous system signals of safety before the day takes over. Tiny, gentle cues add up and they can shift the tone of your entire morning (especially when those gentle cues become daily rituals of care).
🌟 Ways to ease morning anxiety
🌤️ Avoid grabbing your phone immediately: start with breath, not overstimulation.
🫁 Take 5-10 slow, deep breaths before getting out of bed.
🚶 Move your body lightly to release overnight tension.
🍵 Eat or drink something grounding like protein, warm tea, or breakfast before caffeine.
🌿 Get light exposure (sunlight or lamp) to reset your circadian rhythm.
😘Share a moment of compassionate self-talk with yourself in the mirror.
💖Turn your favourite regulation tool into a morning ritual to help you get off on the right foot.
✅ Action Step: Tomorrow morning, give yourself one minute of stillness before your phone, caffeine, or to-do list. Begin your day with intention to set a tone of care.
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A Better Way to Walk? 🚶➡️🚶♀️➡️
A recent study out of the University of Sydney found that longer uninterrupted bouts of walking, 10-15 minutes, can drastically lower cardiovascular disease risk by up to two-thirds than those who take walks of 5 minutes or less.
Even if these two groups covered the same total number of steps, the uninterrupted longer walks appear to have more heart benefits than more frequent shorter walks.
The study was focused on adults who walked less than 8,000 steps per day. So if you are someone who doesn’t hit a good number of steps per day, then it would be especially important to start taking more uninterrupted walks in your life.
There were over 33,500 participants in this study, and they followed their health outcomes for about 8 years. They found big differences between the short walks vs longer walks group. The longer walk group had only a 4% chance of experiencing a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke, while the shorter walk group had a 13% risk.
The biggest benefits of longer walks were shown for sedentary people, which goes to reinforce that activity is so important for healthy aging.
Grieving What Was Lost: Making Space for Healing
Trauma often brings invisible losses of innocence, trust, safety, time, relationships, or opportunities. Grief honors those losses and creates space for healing. This week is about validating grief and learning gentle ways to move with it.
Day 1: Naming Trauma’s Losses
After trauma, grief is often silenced or delayed, either because no one acknowledged what was lost, or because survival mode didn’t leave room to feel it. Naming these losses is not about dwelling on the past; it’s about honoring your reality and letting your pain be seen. When we name what was taken, interrupted, or altered, we begin to reclaim our story with dignity and clarity.
🕊️ Trauma can take away your sense of safety or trust.
💔 It can interrupt life paths, relationships, or time you can’t get back.
🫣 Many survivors are faced with the idea that they just need to move on but doing so without proper grieving can lead to feeling stuck.
🌱 Naming the range of losses you experience gives your pain legitimacy and dignity.
⌚Understand there’s no timeline for grief, you can give yourself space to express it whenever needed.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
What is something you are carrying that feels heavy right now?
Imagine yourself putting down even a fraction of it and describe that feeling of letting go.
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Let yourself move in a way that feels good… a stretch, a sway, a little shoulder shimmy, finding joy that lives in motion.
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