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Plus: 5 hip exercises to strengthen bones
The 10almonds Team
April 15, 2025
Happy Monday 👋
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In today’s email we cover keto flu, hip bone strength, and depression that looks great from the outside.
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Watch and Learn
5 Hip Exercises to Strengthen Bones & Improve Balance (Osteoporosis-Friendly)
Dr. Alyssa Kuhn explains:
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One-Minute Book Review
High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy – by Dr. Judith Joseph
Sometimes, depression doesn’t cause life to come grinding to a halt. Instead, it just results in being dead on the inside while going through the motions of life. The thing is… That’s not great either.
So, this book looks to help the reader break out of that, and back into actually living.
The route that Dr. Joseph outlines involves what she calls “the 5 Vs”, which are:
Validation: acknowledge and accept your emotions about past traumas and present pain
Venting: let out the frustrations and anxious energy bottled up inside
Values: identify the purpose and priorities that matter most
Vitals: slow down to listen to your brain and body and monitor the six vital signs of emotional functioning
Vision: plan for and celebrate successes, milestones, and everyday joy
…however, there’s a little more to it than a 5-point plan, and each of those waymarkers involves learning and putting things into practice. To this end, each of them gets a chapter.
Around this, we also learn about critical things such as realistic self-evaluation, trauma, anhedonia, self-sabotage, and—upon having implemented those 5 Vs—how to then continue forwards in one’s continuing healing journey.
The style is fairly light self-help pop-science, despite covering sometimes heavy topics. There are personal aspects to it (Dr. Joseph telling parts of her own story), and references to hard science too (bibliography at the back).
Bottom line: if you struggle with depressive tendencies, and/but it doesn’t necessarily look like it to others from the outside, then this book is quite likely the one for you.
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The 10almonds Team
