Happy New Year, Life Stagers! 🎉
As you continue your journey in 2025, now it’s the perfect time to reflect and strengthen your plans of actions for the year ahead. The new year often brings excitement, big goals, and opportunities for growth—but it can also feel overwhelming as we navigate resolutions alongside life challenges.
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In this newsletter, we’re helping you beat this statistic by diving into meaningful, achievable ways to build sustainable habits that prioritize your health and happiness. Create a foundation for balance and resilience throughout the year with:
🌟 Keeping Your New Year Resolutions Alive: 4 Psychology-based Tips for Lasting Change
🌱 Wellness Made Simple: Must-Have Tools for Building Healthy Habits!
🧘♀️ Top Self-Help Books to Start the Year Strong!: Learn from some of the brightest minds and tested models of wellness to help inform your own personal development and wellness journey!
👀 Life Stages Update: As always, find Life Stages highlights and udates at the end of the newsletter. Including a special note from our founder 📝
Here’s to a year filled with growth, connection, and well-being. Let’s make 2025 your healthiest, happiest year yet! 💚
In health and community,
Your Life Stages Wellness Team
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| 4 Psychology-based Tips for Lasting Change |
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| Keeping Your New Year Resolutions Alive ✨ |
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Creating lasting habits or making meaningful lifestyle changes can feel overwhelming, especially when life throws its inevitable curveballs. While it can be hard, it’s not impossible!
Here are 4 psychology-backed tips to keep you motivated and turn your resolutions into lasting habits this year:
🔑 Compassion and patience are your best companions on this year-long journey 🔑
There will be moments when the path feels tough, uncertain, or even daunting. But remember: every small step you take brings you closer to the person you’re striving to become. Each effort builds resilience and paves the way for meaningful, lasting change.
✨ Know Your Why ✨
Motivation runs deeper when it comes from within. Take a moment to ask yourself: Why does this resolution matter to me? How does it align with who you are or who you want to become? Knowing your “why” not only keeps you motivated but also strengthens your self-concept and reinforces your values. 🌟
🌱 Surround Yourself with a Supportive Ecosystem 🌱
Just as rivers shape the land, we’re shaped by our habits, beliefs, and the communities around us. Surround yourself with people who share your values and can validate and support your journey. Together, you can create a ripple effect of happiness, socio-emotional well-being, and belonging. 💞
🛣️ Enjoy the Journey 🛣️
The destination matters, but so does the road you take to get there. Celebrate the little wins and cherish the lessons along the way. There’s magic in your consistent effort, intentionality, and presence—don’t forget to enjoy it! ✨
🌟 Happy 2025! Here’s to a year of growth, resilience, and holistic abundance 💫
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| Must-Have Tools for Building Healthy Habits |
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| Wellness Made Simple 💫 |
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Take the guesswork out of wellness with these three must-have products designed to make healthy living easier and more enjoyable.
💧 Larq Bottle – Stay hydrated regardless of where you are! Larq offers a UV-C light that sterilizes your water and the bottle, ensuring freshness and safety wherever you go. Choose from their classic design, updated filtered model, or their at-home pitcher! Their app helps you track your water intake and filter life for convenient simplicity.
🔔 Loftie Alarm Clock – Start and end your day peacefully with a screen-free experience that supports our natural circadian rhythm. Loftie offers a two-phase alarm that parallels your body’s natural waking process, soothing wake-up sounds, customizable nightlight, and membership access to an array of guided meditations and sleep sounds—perfect for restorative mornings and evenings.
💍 Oura Ring – Track your sleep, activity, and overall health with this sleek, data-driven wellness tracker, giving you personalized insights to optimize your well-being.
These thoughtfully crafted tools make wellness effortless—keeping you hydrated, improving your sleep, and providing you with health insights so you can feel your best everyday! |
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| Kickstart Your Year with Insights from Leading Wellness Experts! |
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| 6 Must-Read Self-Help Books for Boosting Wellness |
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Start 2025 with powerful tools to elevate your mental and physical well-being. These 6 must-read books will help you gain new perspectives, build resilience, and discover meaningful practices for long-term wellness:
- The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris 🚨
Stress and trauma significantly impact our health and well-being—and it begins in childhood, setting up a baseline for the rest of our lives. Explore how childhood adversity affects our health and the groundbreaking science behind trauma and resilience. - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor 😮💨
Unlock the transformative power and health benefits of breathing with practical advice rooted in ancient techniques and modern science. - Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams & Danny Penman 🧘🏻♀️
Curious to begin or strengthen the fundamentals of mediation as well as your scientific knowledge of mindfulness? Learn how mindfulness can help reduce stress, improve focus, and bring peace to even the busiest lives with this read. - Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey 🛌
Challenge the hustle culture and explore how rest and reclaiming our time are acts of resistance and self-care. - The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha 📈
Build a lifesyle and growth mindset that adapts to the fast-changing world by applying startup principles to personal development. - The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk 👤
No list is complete without this timeless classic on trauma and mind-body health. Explore the profound connection between trauma and physical health, and discover therapeutic techniques to restore and reclaim your body’s well-being.
These books will provide the insights and tools you need to prioritize wellness in 2025. Let the journey toward a healthier, more balanced life begin! |
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Align gets a major update!
Our mind-body wellness app, Align, got some major updates this holiday season— our gift to you! 😉🎁
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🌟 End of Year Reflection: Take a deeper dive into 2024 with a reflective activity that sparks self-awareness and gratitude. And guess what? It’ll inspire a personalized future Align activity just for YOU! 😏
💖 Love Catch: Boost your optimism, self-confidence, and self-love with our new interactive game. It’s fun, easy, and designed to leave you feeling empowered! 💞
Get ready to elevate your wellness journey—download or update now!
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A New Year, A New Chapter—
Thank You for Being Part of Our Journey and Letting Us Be A Part of Yours!
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As we welcome 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect and share my heartfelt gratitude with you. Thank you for trusting Life Stages to be part of your wellness journey and for inspiring us with your own.
I started Life Stages on the belief that evidence-based mental health and personal development isn’t an unattainable ideal or lofty goal—it’s a lifelong journey filled with discovery, resilience, growth, and self-commitment.
While the path to personal growth and well-being can sometimes feel overwhelming or ineffective, it doesn’t have to. Wellness can be approachable, simple, and deeply fulfilling when rooted in small, intentional steps and with the right mix of tools, knowledge and support.
As you work towards the goals and life you’re building for yourself this year, I want to offer a powerful reminder to help nourish your growth, enhance your mental health, and foster happiness:
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“The smallest action taken in alignment
with your goals creates a ripple effect that
can transform your life and wellbeing.”
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Living a life out of alignment significantly and negatively impacts your mind-body health—from increasing mental health concerns, life dissatisfaction, risk for cardiovascular disease, and more. To live in alignment is a major step towards living a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life.
To help you build that life, I encourage you to embrace the mindset of progress over perfection this year. Whether you’re setting new intentions or continuing your wellness journey, your health is not a race; it’s a relationship—one nurtured by care, patience, and consistent love for yourself. Cultivating a healthy relationship with yourself is a fundamental part of living in alignment.
In 2025, Life Stages will remain steadfast in our mission to support you—and as many people as possible—by providing tools, insights, and resources for a healthy, fulfilling, and aligned life. From personalized digital mental health solutions to nature-inspired wellness and self-development practices, we are here to guide you on your journey to mind-body health and aligned personal development. I hope you’ll join us! Like you, Life Stages has and will continue to undergo an evolution—and I deeply appreciate your support, curiosity, and patience during this growth phase. We’re entering an exciting year with even bigger possibilities!
Thank you for being a part of Life Stages’s journey, and for allowing us to be a part of yours. I’m honored to share paths with you and can’t wait to see all that we will accomplish in 2025!
In health and holistic abundance,
Zulma Y. Terrones
Founder & CEO
Life Stages
P.S.: To support your wellness journey, here’s my personal code for 3-months of free access to Align– we have a lot of new updates going live now through February! ✨ Use code: ZYT25FRIEND
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| A mix of events hosted by Life Stages, Partners, and/or In-Partnership |
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| ✨ Life Stages Community✨ |
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Special Invitation for
Female Founders, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders…. |
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Life Stages‘ founder, Zulma Y. Terrones, and Whirl Experiences‘ founder, Tallulah Le Merle, are hosting a transformative monthly coffee meetup series designed to connect and empower female founders and entrepreneurs.
Each session will feature a dynamic speaker and theme, delivering actionable strategies and fostering meaningful connections!
Why attend?
🚀 Network with trailblazers: Meet like-minded female founders, entrepreneurs, and supporters from influential networks (Cambridge, Oxford, FAANG, and more!). Build your community and open doors to new opportunities.
🧠 Gain valuable insights: Learn from startup and human potential experts who share proven strategies for scaling your business, overcoming challenges, and unlocking growth potential.
🔐 Unlock personalized advice: Get tailored tips and actionable tools to enhance your leadership, build a sustainable business, and navigate the unique challenges of being a female founder.
😎 Boost confidence and resilience: Engage in meaningful discussions around overcoming setbacks, prioritizing well-being, and staying motivated on your entrepreneurial journey.
👯 Collaborate with a supportive community: Collaborate with other ambitious women who understand the trials and triumphs of scaling a business, offering you a space to learn, share, and grow together.
🌟 Access future opportunities: As part of the Life Stages ecosystem, you’ll be the first to hear about exciting new offerings, tools, and resources to enhance your personal and business growth.
Who should attend?
This event is perfect for current and aspiring female founders, entrepreneurs, investors, advocates, and their supporters eager to learn, grow, and thrive together!
Join us to connect, learn, and take your founder journey to the next level 📈✨ |
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Mentors Fund Healthtech Panel
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Our good friend, Ruma Samdani, is hosting a free healthtech panel discussion on Healthcare Trends, AI in Health and Mentors Fund Portfolio Showcase in San Francisco. Come join investors, VCs, healthtech gurus, life sciences experts, and biotech professionals. Our founder, Zulma Y. Terrones, will be in attendance!
Light bites will be served and networking will follow the panel. |
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| Thank You for Following Along! |
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We’re grateful for your continued support and involvement. Stay connected for more updates, wellness tips, and events to help you thrive.
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