🥳️🎉 It’s been ONE YEAR of Mostly Good!! 🪅🕺💃

(What is this? An occasional newsletter that's 80% good news, 20% weird stuff, 100% interesting.)

What’s Good and New

🥂🍾 Ever wonder why we celebrate things? It seems to be a natural thing, to want to party with our besties when something good happens. Celebrating activates the brain’s reward system 🎁, boosting motivation and life satisfaction, and fosters social support (which is really healthy for strengthening relationships). It also can help solidify lessons learned, and can influence young people’s 🧒 intentional future actions. Cool huh? Who knew parties could shape who we are?!

I know it’s tough but we really need to find ways stay sane during this bleak time of year 🤘😛 (if you live in a place with seasons, you know what I’m talking about). Come up with a routine that includes as much sunlight as possible during the day ☀️, make movement a priority🕺, eat what’s in season, and stay connected to people (don’t be too much of a hermit, although hermit mode is totes acceptable once in a while.) 👯‍♀️🧑‍🤝‍🧑 All of the above is great for staying positive, making time pass, and keeps you from feeling despair in such harsh conditions 🌹

Writing is so hot right now. ✍️📔 Expressive writing is scientifically linked to better mood, improved well-being and reduced stress levels. I TOLD you writing Mostly Good was a feel-good activity and this research backs it up 😉 It boosts immune function, reduces stress-related illness, and helps regulate the nervous system. Benefits appear even after just 15 minutes of writing! Writing is also super powerful for processing emotions (positive and negative), and helping in therapeutic practices. It also serves as an "external hard drive" for your brain! 🧠 (more fun facts about writing below).

📚📖 Read a book if you’re going to go into hermit mode this winter (it’s ok to be a hermit once in a while!) Exercise that brain baby, fire up that dorsomedial prefrontal cortex! Reading fiction can help process social interactions and improves your imagination, creativity, problem solving skills, and supports comprehension and empathy. 💗 All good (and necessary!) stuff we need in today’s world.

Fun Factoids of The Week

• 🎭 Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival is considered the world’s largest celebration in the world. Held annually the week before Lent, it was traditionally a cathartic release before the period of religious observance. Each year Carnival is celebrated by over 2 million people who flock to Brazil just for this event! Music, dancing, arts and food 🎶💃🍲 – sign me up!

• 💃🕺The longest dance party ever recorded lasted 55 hours and took place in Wexford, Ireland. That doesn’t sound fun actually. Like did they do dance shifts for this 55 hour party? 🤔 I need more details.

• 🥂 Toasting is a classic party tradition, and different cultures have their own unique way of expressing goodwill before taking a drink. In Germany, if you clink glasses without making eye contact, then both drinkers get seven years of bad luck! In Japan, the more senior of two drinkers will always touch glasses above the rim of the other’s glass as a display of rank. 🍻 Talk about a power move.

• 📖 ✍️The act of writing accesses your left brain, which is analytical and rational. While your left brain is occupied, your right brain is free to be creative! Well then, my right brain must be as free as an unbridled horse because the shit in there be running WILD! 🐎🐎🐎

• 🤔💭🧠 Studies show that regular journaling promotes neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to form new neural connections. ↔️ Meaning that journaling may actually rewire the brain for better emotional regulation and stress management, and I think everyone on planet earth could benefit from this right now lolol

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