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: Reclaiming Wonder: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes
💖Longevity & Wellness: 🌿A Calming Path to Greater Well-being
🌱Trauma Healing: Anger as Ally: Reclaiming Emotional Expression (Day 2/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
🧠 Inner Reps: Mental & Emotional Well-Being Interval Workout
👇And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
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Reclaiming Wonder: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes
Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we forget how to be amazed. We start labeling everything as ordinary, and the world loses a touch of its color. Reclaiming wonder isn’t childish; it’s healing. When you learn to see again with curiosity, awe, joy, and gratitude, you invite your nervous system to soften and your spirit to expand. You invite in a fresh and rejuvenating energy to counter the mundane, reminding yourself of the beauty and joy that can be found in the everyday.
🌟 Ways to rekindle wonder
🌅 Change your pace: walk slower, look closer, and actually see what’s around you.
🌿 Learn one new thing a day, even something tiny, it reignites curiosity.
🎨 Try experiencing something as if it’s your first time (a meal, a song, the sky).
💬 Share your moments of awe with someone to amplify the joy.
📷 Create a “wonder album” of photos that remind you the world is still beautiful.
😻Ask your inner child to chime in: how does your inner child see the moment and how would your inner child like to embrace more play?
✅ Action Step: Today, pause for 60 seconds and notice something you usually overlook. Let yourself feel the quiet magic of noticing.
🌿A Calming Path to Greater Well-being
Gentle movement practices like yoga, tai chi, qigong, or slow mindful walking nurture both body and mind. Unlike high-intensity workouts, these movements emphasize breath, balance, and awareness, helping regulate the nervous system and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is your body’s “rest and digest” state.
Not all exercise and movement needs to be intense for there to be benefits. Research shows gentle movement can lower blood pressure, reduce inflammation, and improve heart-rate variability, a key marker of stress resilience.
Gentle movement can also support joint mobility, balance, and muscle tone, reducing injury risk and promoting independence as we age. Mentally, these practices quiet the stress response, enhance mood, and foster presence
Even 10–20 minutes daily can make a positive difference.
✅ Action step: Choose a gentle practice like 10 minutes of morning yoga, an evening walk, or a few mindful stretches and use it as an intentional way to relax.
Anger as Ally: Reclaiming Emotional Expression
Trauma often teaches us to fear or suppress anger. But anger isn’t dangerous in itself, it’s sacred, protective energy that says, “Something unjust happened. I deserve better.” This week is about reclaiming anger as an ally, learning safe ways to express it, and recognizing its healing power.
Day 2: Listening to Anger’s Message
Instead of suppressing or exploding, you can pause and ask what anger is telling you and then make a choice of how you want to respond.
🪞 Ask: “What is this anger communicating and how is this anger trying to protect me?”
🧭 Anger points to where boundaries were violated.
🗣️ Anger can highlight when your voice isn’t being heard.
🔥Anger can be a reminder of a past harm and in response be giving you an alert to check the current environment for threats.
❤️🔥It can alert you to a desire to stand up for yourself and/or for social change.
✨ By listening, you transform anger into insight.
🤔Before acting, pause to question how you can move forward with care and in line with your values (this pause helps separate anger the emotion from actions like aggression by giving space for choice).
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
Let your pace match your season; wintering is also work. Resting deeply prepares you for the next bloom.
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
What’s one part of your relationship with yourself that you love? Why? (If nothing comes to mind, that’s okay, look to your past for a clue or imagine a future relationship with yourself. Find one small step to take.)
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Listen to the sounds of the breeze… like leaves fluttering on trees, your coat rustling, or, if there’s no breeze, the calm stillness of the day.
Today’s Mental and Emotional Workout:
This interval workout will increase your ability to:
Root yourself in self-love to transform self-doubt into strength and trust
Feel gratitude to bring calm and contentment into your life with more ease
Ground yourself in your heart and build mindful awareness to feel more present and aligned
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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