Friday Five: Let Them, a summer plunge, and a question about looking inside your body
Happy Friday. Five quick things from my week.
1. Reading this week
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. I read widely, the body, the mind, self-development, because growth means working on yourself too, not just understanding and applying the science. The core idea of this one stuck with me: stop spending your energy on what other people do and think, and let them have their opninions. As someone who studies the stress response, I find it lands close to where my own research points. So much of our load is the energy we pour into things we cannot control. A simple idea, but a good one. I haven’t finished reading the book yet, but I already love this take on personal growth. Have you read it? Or another good book you would recommend the community?
2. Using and loving
The beach was crowded and not not cool enough. I used my cold plunge, all summer. It sold out, but we just got four bundles back in, and I am offering them at a very low price only for you, my newsletter readers.
When the 4 are gone, I will remove the links. We ship within Europe only, not the UK or Norway.
Only 4 left at 1.199,00 USD. LINK
If you want sauna too…you can get the full at-home contrast therapy experience:
Cold plunge, Chiller + steam sauna at 1399 USD. LINK
With this package you get the exclusive access to the Thermalist Method® at Home online course which shows you how to practice contrast therapy at home.
3. Eating lately
Kiwi, of all things, yes. Two of them an hour before bed has a small but real sleep study behind it, and it has quietly become my evening habit. I built a whole wind-down bowl around it on the Plate, kiwi, tart cherry, yogurt, seeds. The calm last bite of the day.
4. Testing on myself
It’s summer here and mornings are bright and warm. This month I am testing a proper morning light habit, getting outside into daylight within half an hour of waking, before coffee, before my phone, before the morning drill in our family even starts. The circadian science behind morning light is some of the strongest in the whole sleep field, and I want to feel it in my own routine rather than only cite it. Two weeks in, and my mornings are noticeably clearer.
5. Sitting with a question
I keep thinking about the full-body MR scans you can now pay for privately, the ones that promise to look inside your body and catch problems early. Part of me finds it genuinely exciting that we can see so much. But my knowledge on the impact of feeling sick pulls the other way, because in healthcare and medicine we are taught to respect the risks of screening. Not the scan itself, but what it sets in motion: the benign finding that was never going to harm you, the lead-time where you simply know for longer without changing the outcome, and the anxiety that can quietly lower your quality of life for years over something that was never dangerous. More information is not always more health. Or is it…
One question for you: what do you think about paying to look inside your body? Would you want to know, or is there peace in scanning or not scanning for trouble? Comment below.
Have a good weekend.
Susanna
