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: How to Receive Support When You’re Used to Giving
💖Longevity & Wellness: Sneaky Veggies! 🥕🍆🍅
🌱Healing & Self-Care: Soothing the Inner Critic (Day 1/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
👇 And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
As you go through this week, please remember that…
You are a magnetic & magical being who leaves a wake of timeless magnificence everywhere you go.
How to Receive Support When You’re Used to Giving
For many people, giving comes naturally: it’s how you show love, stay connected, or feel useful. But receiving? That can feel foreign or even unsafe. If you grew up being the strong one, the responsible one, or the emotional caretaker, letting others show up for you can trigger discomfort: Do I deserve this? Am I burdening them? What if they let me down?
Receiving support is not weakness, it’s relational oxygen. It gives other people the chance to care for you, strengthens your nervous system through co-regulation, and gently rewires the belief that you have to handle everything alone.
🌟 How to practice receiving support
🤝 When someone offers help, pause before saying “I’m okay.” Try: “Actually, yes, that would really help.”
💬 Share one small need with someone you trust.
🫶 Let compliments or kindness land and avoid deflecting.
🧘 Practice the micro-allowing of being cared for: a hug, someone holding the door, someone checking in.
✅ Action Step: Today, allow yourself to say “yes” to one small offer of support.
Sneaky Veggies! 🥕🍆🍅
Getting enough vegetables doesn’t have to mean only eating massive salads or complicated recipes; instead, you can do small, creative additions to sneak in more veggies.
Veggies are packed with fibre, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that support digestion, stabilize blood sugar, lower inflammation and boost your overall health. Plus, the more plants you eat, the more diverse and resilient your gut microbiome becomes, which is linked to better energy, improved mood, and long-term metabolic health!
Some ways to sneak veggies in:
Add a handful of spinach and a chopped zucchini to smoothies.
Toss veggies into pasta sauces (like onions, peppers, mushrooms, carrots, zucchini)
Mix shredded carrots or cabbage into rice dishes or stir-fries.
Use greens or lettuce as wraps.
Add roasted veggies to sandwiches or omelets.
Small additions can be a great way to get more veggies into your diet.
✅ Action step: Choose one meal today and add one extra serving of vegetables in a low-effort way. Your gut and energy will benefit!
Soothing the Inner Critic
The inner critic often develops as a survival strategy, trying to keep you safe, accepted, or protected from future harm. This week is about softening that harsh voice, understanding where it came from, and cultivating a kinder inner relationship.
Day 1: Understanding the Inner Critic
Harsh self-talk doesn’t appear out of nowhere, it forms in response to environments where you had to be hyper-aware of mistakes, danger, or expectations. When we understand that this voice is learned, not inherent, we can meet it with compassion instead of shame.
• 🧠 The inner critic often imitates old voices or past environments.
• 🛡️ It tries to “protect” you by anticipating rejection or failure.
• 😔 It can feel like truth because it has been repeated for so long.
• 🌱 Naming it as a learned pattern creates space for change.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
End with this simple sentence and fill it with truth: “Today, I am choosing to believe that I am allowed to ______.” What does this mean to you?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Honor your pace today… the world can hurry, you don’t have to join.
Thank you for being here!
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Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team
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