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: Listening to Anger: Values Beneath the Fire
💖Longevity & Wellness: How Long Should You Be Sleeping For?
🧠 Inner Reps: Today’s workout grows self-love.
☀️Self-Care & Connection
🌱Trauma Healing: Building Self-Trust After Trauma (Day 4/5)
👇 And more good stuff!
Today’s Edition
You are more glorious than the aurora borealis dancing in the night sky.
More unique and special than a diamond 💎.
And more incredible than you give yourself credit for.
We appreciate you!!
Listening to Anger: Values Beneath the Fire
Anger is often seen as dangerous, but at its core, anger can be a teacher. It points to violated values: fairness, respect, safety, or boundaries. When we pause to listen, anger reveals what matters most and what action is worth taking. This isn’t about exploding or lashing out, but about treating anger as sacred data that can guide you to clarity and constructive choices. It can also help us release unnecessary anger when we come to recognize anger that sits outside our values and runs on emotional habit instead. Let’s look at how treating anger as a sacred communication of values can help.
✨ Why it matters
🔥 Anger highlights values we care deeply about.
🧭 Helps move from reactivity to intentional action.
✍️ Expressing anger thoughtfully (through writing, talking, or movement) can transform it into insight.
💡 Learning from anger builds self-awareness and stronger boundaries.
🌟 Ways to work with anger
🪞 Ask: “What value of mine feels threatened right now?”
✍️ Journal or write a letter (for yourself) to clarify your feelings.
🧘 Move your body to release built-up energy safely.
🤝 Share your feelings calmly, focusing on values rather than blame.
✅ Action Step: Next time anger rises, pause and ask: “What value is this protecting?” Write down your answer, you may be surprised by the wisdom you uncover.
How Long Should You Be Sleeping For?
Research shows that sleep is imperative for your short-term and long-term health.
A 2024 study (Yanwei You, et al.) examined the relationship between sleep duration and biological aging, measured by phenotypic age, which captures aging more accurately than chronological age by considering multiple health biomarkers.
Researchers found that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between sleep and phenotypic aging. Which means those who slept a little and those who slept a lot had higher phenotypic ages. The sweet spot for lower phenotypic aging was around 7 hours of sleep per night.
The study controlled for various lifestyle and health factors, including exercise, smoking, alcohol use, and chronic diseases. This study suggests that both insufficient and excess sleep can impact aging differently, showing that getting the right amount of sleep is vital for healthy aging.
✅ Action step for those getting too little sleep: try to either modify your bedtime or your wake up time to allow for at least 7 hours of sleep.
✅ Action step for those getting too much sleep: get more regular exercise, as it can help to increase your deep sleep, helping you feel more rested and needing a lower sleep duration.
Today’s Mental and Emotional Workout:
This short interval workout create intentional focus which activates the prefrontal cortex, helping regulate emotion and stress. Today we grow self-love.
Keep one promise to tomorrow: lay something out tonight to cue yourself up for little wins. Tiny acts now make life easier later.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
Who makes me feel understood, and why? What lesson can I learn here?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Breathe deeply — like when you step into nature and let the freshness fill your lungs.
🦋Weekly Connection Challenge:
Kindness Creates Ripples
Compliment a Stranger 🌱
Offer a genuine compliment to someone you don’t know once a day this week (in a shop, on a walk, or online). Mini positive connections uplift you and the receiver, making the world a more friendly place.
Rebuilding Self-Trust: Small Actions to Show You’ve Got Your Own Back
Trauma can damage your sense of trust in yourself. This week is about rebuilding it step by step and reclaiming your power.
Day 4: Reconnect with Your Loving Inner Voice
After trauma the voice of fear, anxiety, and hyper-vigilance can get loud. You aren’t alone. You also have a heart-led, intuition-led, authentic, self-supportive inner voice too: it’s time to start turning up the volume on this supportive voice.
🌞Notice what you want or need before asking anyone else.
🚦Pause and check in: “What do I really think/feel here?”
♥️Bring a hand to your heart and imagine a voice coming from there. Slowly nudge up the volume by coming back here day after day.
🙊If you struggle with narrating this inner voice try drawing a picture or journaling.
😶🌫️If it doesn’t feel safe to share your opinion yet, that’s okay. Start internally and as safety builds practice sharing your truth with the right people.
Self-trust grows with listening to yourself. You remind yourself you do have power and you put yourself back in control.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
Thank you for being here!
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With love and care,
Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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