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Feb 05, 2026

Welcome to Kaja’s Korner✨: my personal, more informal little catch up series that I send out every month or so! Happy to have you here🌞!

Oh my goodness we’ve reached February already! Going from what feels like the longest month of the year to the literal shortest always feels a little weird (who planned that?)! I first wanted to say that I’ve been loving all your messages of how much my posts have been helping you through such dark times! It always means so much to know that even one little thing I’ve shared can make a positive difference in someone’s day🥹.

my nature post resonated with so many of you! so stoked to hear that you’ve all been trying to get outdoors lately, even in the cold😍 this photo is from one of mine a few weeks ago!

In addition to what I’ve already shared in the seven posts since my last Kaja’s Korner, here are the top three past, present, and future brain health + wellness tips that I’ve been implementing:

🧡Past: This winter has been a whirlwind of highs and lows! If I had to choose only one thing that has helped me the most during those low stretches, it’s been exercising. I do it in the morning so that I don’t have time to talk myself out of it!

💛Present: Every morning before I look at my phone-

(other than to turn off my alarm- I’ve been looking into a gentle alarm clock so that I don’t have to keep my phone by my bed, but haven’t found a style I like yet— if you have any recommendations for one please let me know!)

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I’ve been reading a poem from the Romantic era! I love this new ritual I’ve implemented because poetry not only celebrates The Little Things in life, but it helps me feel at peace leaning into the themes of Romanticism during the present time that parallels many similar themes to what these writers were also struggling with (ex: a return to things such as nature during a period of technological advancement). Also, reading poetry from writers who are long gone feels like they are holding my hand, guiding me with their wisdom, and helping me put my own time on this planet into perspective🔮.

🩷Future: I learned another interesting perspective this week which I’m curious to try to implement in the future. It’s that humans aren’t meant to live a life with zero problems. Problems are key to our human experience, and there’s never going to be a time where we will forever be free from them. This sounds obvious, but how often are we upset that we have problems to begin with? I know that I get annoyed when yet another problem comes up after I just got over something else. But if we’re constantly challenging ourselves, problems are bound to come up. And if you try to avoid any potential problems, you’re avoiding life and not growing as a person. Maybe that’s okay to you, but I think if you’re reading this you’re a bit like me and like to try to improve themself. In fact, it’s better for your brain health and will help you live longer if you do. So in the future, when the next problem comes up, I’m going to try to ask myself things like:

What can I learn from this?
How can this help me?
How can this make me stronger?
How can I be creative about solving this?
In what ways will I be proud of myself when I get through this?
Or perhaps the most radical question of all, that my partner taught me: How can I learn to love this?

Some problems are worse than others. All I can hope for is that my life will keep giving me good problems to solve…or maybe one day I will see them all as good problems😘.