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Your Soul Food for Friday January 16, 2026: Being Nicer, Pleasure for Self-Improvement, Silence YOUR Inner Critic and Art Could Save your Life!

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Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

  • 8 Ways to Become a Nicer Person
  • Why Pleasure is the key to self-improvement
  • How to finally Silence your inner critic, according to psychologists
  • Art could Save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier, and more hopeful

8 Ways to Become a Nicer Person:
Experts agree on a few easy tips for our modern times.

8 Ways to Become a Nicer Person | TIME

Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement:
Forget puritanical self-discipline – the way to really make a new habit stick is to lace it with instant gratification

Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement | Psychology | The Guardian

How to finally silence your inner critic, according to psychologists:
The criticism coming from your inner voice isn’t always the most constructive. But psychologists are working on ways to help your negative self-talk. January 10, 2026 I am lazy. I’m a slob. I’m [something that can’t be printed]. These are the thoughts that pop into my head when I’m scrolling senselessly on the sofa, or after finding another bag of withered salad in my fridge, forgotten thanks to the takeaways I chose to have instead of preparing my own healthier options.

How to finally silence your inner critic, according to psychologists | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier, and more hopeful:
Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun

Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier and more hopeful | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Please pay it forward with purpose!

Love,

Neville

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“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

-Thomas Aquinas

Your Soul Food for the First Full Week of 2025: Closing Out 2024 and Soaring into a Meaningful and Healthy 2025 Without Resolutions

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Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

  • 11 Questions to Close Out 2024
  • 77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024
  • 7 Pieces of Advice to Spark Some Inspiration for the New Year
  • To succeed in 2025, a therapist says do 5 things: It works ‘any time of year’
  • 44 health-boosting habits to feel better in 2025
  • + What Happens To Their Brain Waves When Humans And Dogs Connect?

Closing Out 2024:

77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024:
Chewing gum, space capsules, and minivans are just a few of the things we see differently after a year of reporting. December 28, 2024 Onions were used to treat wounds during the French and Indian War. The energy required to show a new Instagram post from Cristiano Ronaldo to each of his followers could power a house for several years. A group of butterflies flew across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. It took them only about eight days and more…

77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024 – The Atlantic

7 Pieces of Advice to Spark Some Inspiration for the New Year:

  1. Be so great, you can’t be ignored.
  2. Take care of the work and the work will take care of you.
  3. Growth is on the other side of discomfort.
  4. Failure teaches you everything you need to know to be successful.
  5. Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
  6. There’s only one person you spend all your time with and that’s you, so do yourself a favor and be as fascinating as possible.
  7. I’d rather regret the things I did than the things I never tried. 

To succeed in 2025, a therapist says do 5 things: It works ‘any time of year’
To shift from ineffective resolutions to meaningful manifesting any time of year, says psychotherapist Chamin Ajjan, follow these practical tips.

To be successful in 2025, a therapist says do these 5 things

44 health-boosting habits to feel better in 2025:
A full night without waking is not the norm, and that’s OK. “Waking at night need not mean the end of sleep,” says Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at Oxford University. “Some find it useful to leave the bed, keep the lights low and engage in a relaxing activity before returning when sleepy again.” It’s the biggest cliché in self-help, but how many of us do it? “Dare to be vulnerable enough to be all of yourself for most of the time,” the psychotherapist Philippa Perry says.

44 health-boosting habits to feel better in 2025

Feel Good Bonus-

What Happens To Their Brain Waves When Humans And Dogs Connect?
It turns out there’s a scientific explanation for our strong bond to our dogs. Here’s how your pup influences your brain’s activity.

What Happens To Their Brain Waves When Humans And Dogs Connect?

Thanks this week go to Sanya D for the 11 questions, Angelica G/W for the 7 Pieces of Advice and Ellie our yellow lab for her unconditional love.

Please pay it forward and make this a year to remember!

Love,

Neville

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Success is not about winning a competition. It’s about making a contribution.
Takers aim to be better than others. Givers strive to bring out the best in others.
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.

– Adam Grant

Your First Soul Food for 2024: Health and Mental Health Resolutions, Micro Habits, Medical Breakthroughs and Mind-Bending Brain Science Revelations

by Soul Food Friday, posted in Branding, Marketing & Communications, Community Outreach, Education, Leadership Development, Wellness/Energy Work

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

  • 4 Health Resolutions
  • 6 Micro Habits
  • 7 Medical Breakthroughs
  • 9 Mental Health Resolutions
  • + 2023 Mind Bending Revelations in the Brain Sciences

4 simple daily health resolutions that require minimal time:
Here are four simple health resolutions that require limited daily effort while delivering far-reaching health benefits — and some immediate gratification.

4 simple daily health resolutions that require minimal time | CNN

6 micro-habits to try in the new year for a happier 2024:
Forget the massive resolutions and try these easier options instead.

6 micro-habits to try in the new year for a happier 2024 (stylist.co.uk)

7 medical breakthroughs in 2023 to be excited about:
There were major breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s and sickle cell treatment.

The biggest medical breakthroughs in 2023 – ABC News (go.com)

9 Mental-Health Resolutions for 2024, According to Therapists:
Whether you feel reborn—or even just a little bit reset—at the start of a new year, consider making your mental health a priority in 2024. Why? “Because that’s the gateway to everything else,” says Guy Winch, a clinical psychologist, author of Emotional First Aid, and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast. “It’s the linchpin that allows you to succeed or to fail.”

Mental-Health Resolutions for 2024, According to Therapists | TIME

2023’s Mind-Bending Revelations in the Brain Sciences:
This year was full of roiling debate and speculation about the prospect of machines with superhuman capabilities that might, sooner than expected, leave the human brain in the dust. A growing public awareness of ChatGPT and other so-called large language models (LLMs) dramatically expanded public awareness of artificial intelligence. In tandem, it raised the question of whether the human brain can keep up with the relentless pace of AI advances.

2023’s Mind-Bending Revelations in the Brain Sciences | Scientific American

What will YOU do differently in 2024?

Love,

Neville

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