The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Education:Self-Improvement
~How to Feed Your Body Well
~Love Food, Love Your Body, episode #8
~How to Treat Your Body Like a Temple
3. Sleep A few weeks ago in TSLL's Weekly Newsletter I shared I was reading Arianna Huffington's book The Sleep Revolution, and specifically chapter 7 which focuses on master our sleep. In 2013, I shared nine benefits of enjoying a good night's sleep regularly, because aside from being absolutely pleasure-filled, it is the cheapest preventative medicine we can take to improve the quality of our lives. 4. Skincare Often our skin, once we've moved through puberty, is a mirror of the quality of our overall health. It reveals if the body needs more hydration, more rest, less alcohol, just to name a few tell-tale signs of how we live our lives. On the flipside, it also demonstrates to the world when these factors are balanced and tended too: a good night's sleep, protection from the sun, effective hydration and a balanced diet. Below are a few posts/episodes that dive deeper into creating a skincare routine that works and enables your best health to shine.~8 Ways to Create Glowing Skin, episode #13
~8 of My Favorite Skincare Products
5. Social Connections Our relationships do not need to be many, but we do need to have them and they need to be healthy. Depending upon your temperament, you may have a multitude of friendships, familial relationships and connections you tend to in your career network that with each one strengthen your overall health. For others, it may be fewer, but each is deep and intimate. Whatever your preference, whatever works for the quality of life you need to be your best self, having a strong and healthy social life is fundamental for an overall good life. In episode #92, the concept of a strong social well-being was discussed. I encourage you to listen/read it as it simplifies our social life into three compartments: the relationship we have with ourselves, the platonic relationships we have with others and our romantic partnership. All three are unique, but each involve similarities seen in the others. 6. Mental Strength & Agility All five of the above pillars are essential, but without an awareness of how our mind works and how to ensure we are exercising it so that it works for us, not against us, we must keep it healthy. In episode #20, how to master your mind is explored in detail as 10 specific ways to do so are shared. From becoming fluent with our emotions, to understanding what you initially believed about what goes through your mind and the reality of what is going on to recognizing that the mind is a muscle and in order for it to function optimally, we must execise it regularly. Most likely, most, if not all of the pillars of good health are known to you, but as I was reminded last week, sometimes when our life is becoming frustrating in one arena, it can affect other arenas unconsciously. Sometimes all it will take to get back on track for our overall health is to take a moment and check each of the six pillars: How are they working? Have each been tended to recently and regularly? Perhaps today's episode will be the reminder to check, readjust if necessary or applaud yourself for how well you are doing and reward yourself. As the French say, à votre santé (to your health). May we embrace what is fully in our control and enable it to elevate the quality of our lives. ~Subscribe to TSLL's Weekly Newsletter ~SIMILAR POSTS/EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVES YOU MIGHT ENJOY:~How to Create an All-Around Healthy Life, episode #208
~Why Not . . . Live a Long, Healthy Life? (3-part series)
~10 Simple Ways to Live Healthier
Petit Plaisir: ~RBG, documentary film https://youtu.be/biIRlcQqmOcImages: TSLL captured of the boys on a recent walk
273: 12 Key Factors to Life-Long Physical and Mental Good Health
272: 8 Ways Tiny Habits Will Welcome the Grand Changes You Seek
263: Timeless Seasonal Style — Autumn in Britain
Top 10 Podcast Episodes of 2019
271: 12 Simple Winter Holiday Decor Ideas
270: 9 Life Lessons to Learn (and Apply) Before It's Too Late
269: 32 Ways to Be Parisian Chic
268: M. L. Longworth Talks Provence during the Holidays, Favorite Cookbooks and Her New Provençal Mystery
266: 10 Activities to Savor Pre-Holidays in November
267: Autumn in Paris - What to Wear for Timeless Seasonal Style
265: Let's Talk Relationships (with Ourselves & Others): Before & During, Embracing Chance and Choice
264: How to Cultivate an Elegant Home in the 21st Century
262: 9 Ways to Let Go of the Myth of a Perfect Life
261: 5 Ideas for Welcoming the Seasons into Your Home
260: 10 Simple, Significant Decor Ideas to Add Luxurious Touches to the Home, Part Une
259: Talking Fall Trends to Invest In & Shopping NYC with Style by Tiffani
Season 6 Schedule of the Podcast
258: 22 French Beauty Secrets Worth the Investment in either time or money
257: An American Being Everyday French - My Interview with author John von Sothen
159: 18 Ways to Define Your Classic Style in Life and Within Your Closet (top episode from Season 4)
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