Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

Kimberly Snyder speaks with New York Times best selling author Matthew Hussey about his new best selling book 'Love Life'. They discuss Matthew's journey as a dating coach, the importance of being happy and whole in oneself before finding a partner, and the patterns and behaviors that can hinder or enhance relationships. They also touch on the topics of self-esteem, fixing others, and the need for self-reflection and awareness in order to break unhealthy patterns. In this conversation, Matthew Hussey and Kimberly Snyder discuss the importance of values and compatibility in relationships. They emphasize the need to look beyond surface-level interests and focus on deeper connections. They also explore the concept of raising standards and making intentional choices in dating. The conversation delves into the topic of having children and the pressure that can come with it, offering practical advice on how to navigate this aspect of life. Overall, the conversation provides valuable insights and guidance for finding love and creating fulfilling relationships.

In this episode, Kimberly discusses the topic of fertility and provides safe ways to detoxify the body to enhance fertility potential. She emphasizes the importance of protecting ourselves from environmental toxins and offers tips on how to clean our spaces and make healthier choices. Kimberly highlights the impact of diet on fertility and recommends a plant-based, nutrient-dense approach. She also discusses the benefits of antioxidants, detoxification strategies, and hydration for fertility. Additionally, she emphasizes the importance of managing stress and regulating emotions for optimal reproductive health.

Kimberly interviews Julia Kim, the founder of Sanu, on of the first postpartum care stay facilities in the United States. They discuss the importance of postpartum care and the challenges faced by new mothers. Julia shares her personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety and how it motivated her to start her wellness center. They highlight the lack of information and support for postpartum care in the United States compared to other countries like South Korea. The conversation emphasizes the need for comprehensive physical and emotional support for mothers during the postpartum period. In this conversation, Julia Kim, highlights the focus on partner inclusion and nutrition, including bone broth and seaweed soup, to promote healing and breastfeeding success.

In this episode, Kimberly discusses the importance of morning rituals and how they can set a positive mindset and boost mood. She shares her own morning routine and emphasizes the impact of activities such as physical exercise, meditation, gratitude practice, visualization, and positive social interactions. Kimberly also highlights the significance of aligning with nature and body types, and the benefits of consistency in building energy. Listen as Kimberly teaches them how to create a morning routine that supports their well-being and helps them thrive.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, Dr. Rollin McCraty, who is director of research for the HeartMath Institute, and a co-author of the book, Heart Intelligence; Connecting with the Heart's Intuitive Guidance for Effective Choices and Solutions. Rollin shares what heart coherence is and why it's so important, how incoherence disrupts sleep, the benefits of coherence, and so much more. Listen in as we cover the topics of what heart coherence is and why it's so important; Incoherence that can disrupt sleep; Benefits of coherence; Emotional regulation and its relation to coherence; Coherent and not peaceful versus being peaceful and coherent and How to be more productive without the rushed energy.

In this episode, Kimberly discusses the art of intuitive eating and how to listen to your body for nutritional guidance. She emphasizes the importance of intuition for overall health and wellbeing, including physical and emotional aspects. Kimberly shares research on intuitive eating and its positive effects on psychological wellbeing and metabolic outcomes. She also highlights the connection between intuition and meditation, as well as the role of intuition in overcoming eating disorders. Packed with practical tips and takeaways for practicing intuitive eating, such as taking sacred pauses, tuning into the body's messages, and being patient and compassionate with oneself, Kimberly encourages listeners to trust their intuition and embrace a more intuitive way of living.

In this Episode Dr. Neal Bernard discusses his new book, The Power Foods Diet, which offers a breakthrough plan for easy and permanent weight loss. He explains the need for a new approach to weight loss that focuses on certain foods that tame appetite and increase calorie burning. He highlights the weight loss effects of anthocyanins found in berries and the magic of apples and pears. The conversation concludes with a discussion on transitioning to the power foods diet and the simplicity and natural balance of nutrition. Dr. Neal Barnard discusses the benefits of a plant-based diet, including weight regulation, improved athletic performance, and better overall health. He emphasizes the importance of visualizing and enjoying the foods and explains the role of fat in a healthy diet. He compares the Mediterranean diet to a plant-based diet, highlighting the superior weight loss results and health benefits of the latter.

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of creating a home environment that nurtures inner peace and creativity. Kimberly explores how our home environment directly influences our energy and well-being. Kimberly provides practical tips for creating a nurturing home environment, including decluttering, incorporating plants, creating personal altars, and personalizing the space for goals and functionality. She also highlights the impact of colors, textures, and sensory experiences on our mood and well-being. Kimberly explains how paying attention to our home environment and making intentional choices, we can create a space that supports our well-being and creativity.

In this episode Dr. Sue Morter discusses the connection between energy and the physical body, emphasizing the importance of balancing emotional well-being, nutrition, and spiritual development. She also explains the concept of moving from the protective personality to the true essential self and offers insights on understanding and overcoming trauma. Additionally, Kimberly and Dr. Morter discuss how to address aches, pains, and stagnant energy in the body and explains the energetic projection of reality. Also highlighted is how addressing the causal level of health issues can lead to healing and fertility and why energy codes can be applied for abundance and prosperity.

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of managing shifts during pregnancy and postpartum. She explores the importance and significance of the postpartum period and the need for support and self-care during this time. Kimberly highlights the impact of nutrition on pregnancy and postpartum, debunking the myth that a plant-based diet is not suitable for pregnant women. She also highlights the importance of exercise, stress management, emotional well-being, and sleep quality during pregnancy. Kimberly also shares practical tips for self-regulation and heart coherence, as well as the importance of bonding with the baby and seeking support from a healthcare team and community.

In this episode Kimberly explores Dr. Michael Greger new book 'How Not to Age' which provides a comprehensive guide to healthy aging. The conversation covers topics such as the benefits of green smoothies, the impact of cooking oils on fertility, debunking myths about high protein diets, the importance of protein quality, the role of carbohydrates in longevity, addressing concerns about anti-nutrients, the dangers of high fat diets, and promoting healthy eating in schools. Dr. Michael Greger also speaks to the benefits of a plant-based diet for children and throughout all stages of life and debunking the myth of bone broth and collagen.

Kimberly discusses the importance of taking a holistic approach to sexual well-being. She explores the connection between sexuality, sensuality, and creativity, and the need to nurture and respect our sexual energy. She highlights the balance between the inner and outer worlds, the importance of fluidity and spontaneity, and the role of communication and boundaries in sexual well-being. She also dives into the significance of presence, intuition, and self-awareness in cultivating a fulfilling sexual life. She also explores how to nourish sexual energy through mindful practices, healthy communication, and a balanced diet.

I am thrilled to share my conversation with you here today with the amazing Angela Santomero, who is the author of the new book, Life Clues, unlocking the lessons to an exceptional life. Angela is an amazing creator. I am so excited to chat with her specifically about her creative power and creating these incredibleEmmy award winning shows such as Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. What I love about her new book is that it gives so many useful tips about…..

Listen in as Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of healthy skin and its connection to overall well-being. Kimberly speaks to the role of food, stress, sleep, and other factors in maintaining vibrant skin. The conversation covers various skin conditions and their relationship to diet, including the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, and low glycemic diets. Kimberly also highlights the negative effects of dairy, alcohol, and spicy foods on the skin. She provides tips for hydration, skincare, sleep, and stress management to promote healthy skin.

Join me as I dive into the podcast with my very special guest, John R. Miles who is a Speaker, Podcast Host, Founder, CEO, Navy Veteran and celebrated transformative leader in intentional behavior change. He is also the bestselling author of Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life.. Listen in as John R. Miles shares his powerful and life changing knowledge and insights on …..

Looking for tips on how to grow vibrant, healthy hair while preventing hair loss. Listen in as Kimberly explores the connection between hair and overall health and how your emotional wellbeing and stress management are connected to the health of your hair. Kimberly also shares the benefits of specific herbs and foods for hair health, such as amalaki and cruciferous vegetables. She also explores energetic practices, including scalp massage and visualization, and the use of Ayurvedic herbs and oils for hair growth.

Don’t know where to begin when it comes to your spiritual wellness, Beauty? Today’s podcast is here to get you started! Spirituality, as we define it here in our community, has to do with greater self-awareness and self-realization. Experiencing the formless part of you as the true self, which is this unlimited creative, stable, loving, courageous part that is within you. It's within each and every single one of us.  It is such an intrinsic part of, of really feeling peaceful in your life and really feeling joyful in your life, which is why I love to talk about it so much as always. I love to share with you the things that have really helped me, the things that I think are really important in supporting each other on this journey.  We go into all these topics with this holistic lifestyle we call the four cornerstones of true beauty and wellness, which are food body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. We like to look at whatever the topic is through this holistic perspective, because when we look at things in a holistic way, it means it's integrated into one effort. Into one complete wholeness instead of looking at things in a fragmented way.  When we're talking about spiritual wellness today on our show, we are talking about tapping into the practices and the tools to experience more of this expansive part of you. And this is something that's available to each and every single one of us.

What Is True Beauty in a World of Comparison? Be sure to tune in as Megan O'Neill, with goop, shares how new mamas can feel good in their body’s, tips on staying grounded in a world of comparison, letting go and forgiving others, and so much more!

Looking for ways to improve your stay-at-home work life? This is something that's an important part of life and we want to feel really good about our work life and our balance with our home life. Tune in for tips on how to make this as easeful as possible!

What does acceptance mean to you Beauty? Acceptance is a big word, right? I think it's something that we all aspire to because with acceptance comes peace. It comes with feeling mellow and not that frantic energy of not enoughness and struggling and self worth issues. All the things that really take us down and make us feel the opposite of peace. It makes us feel a low vibration and it makes us feel that struggle in daily life. While we may want the acceptance there's this acceptance surrender. It sounds really nice. It sounds so peaceful. We need practicality when it comes to implementing these concepts in our life. I think it's really important to recognize and to have real tools and strategies in place. I can say for me in my own life, as I go deeper and deeper into this work and it starts to become more and more practical as well. In the beginning, when I was writing about food, it would be very practical to combine this and eat that in the morning. And now I'm really getting to that place when I talk about spirituality and the mental and emotional concepts of acceptance. I really like the practical tools because I know that they have helped me so much. And I love to share what has helped me, with you. You are my sister, my brother and I do believe we're all connected. Be sure to tune in for practical tools to implement in your daily life and to start living from a place of acceptance that's right for you!

Have you ever wondered where this "not feeling good enough" stems from? I think we can all relate to this. I know I personally can have this sort of underlying feeling that nothing we do is good enough where we keep looking around and seeing what other people are doing. And we start to have that feeling inside of us. You know, some feelings we can't really describe with words, but it's this energy that is demoralizing and depleting. It can be frustrating because it feels like as much as we try to do. And as much as we hustle and as much as we run around, we just still don't feel good enough. And we're going to be talking about that in today's show. This is something that I think is a really big issue for a lot of us and something that I'm really passionate about sharing about in a really concrete way. And I will say this now, as the excitement starts to build, this is a huge part of my next book where it is a very practical guide and I can go far deeper into tools and strategies. And that's on the horizon. It's called You Are More Than You Think You Are. The pre-sales are starting in about a month, and I want to talk about these topics that I think we all need to share about because this is what will help us the most. Even if our diet is really great, even if we're doing our walks every day or exercise, but we aren't healing that disconnect inside of us, then this is going to have a huge, detrimental effect on our lives. I'm really, really excited to get into our topic today.

How can you use your anxiety for good? Be sure to stay tuned, as Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki, a world-renowned neuroscientist, shares… * Flight or flight and what is really happening with your brain during stress... * High levels of anxiety and its effects on the reproductive system… * Everyday anxiety and learning from your anxiety… * Using your anxieties for productivity… * Tools for mental health and a happier life… * Pairing exercise with affirmations and its positive effects… * Wendy’s core message regarding anxiety... It’s time to start living your best and happier life!

I don't know who amongst us hasn't felt some self-doubt and question our ability to belong or our ability to achieve what we want. And what we really want to talk about on the show today is distinguishing between false confidence and true confidence. We can really work on building that true confidence, which is sustainable, even if things don't happen to go our way that day. We can really build this through our lifestyle with our Four Cornerstones of food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. Just like any other topic, whether it's digestion or beauty or today we're talking about confidence, it really is the most effective way to approach it from this holistic cornerstone perspective. I'm really excited to start talking about this because confidence is a big area that I cover in my new upcoming book and why all these topics feel very top of mind to me. It’s called, You Are More Than You Think You Are - Practical Enlightenment For Everyday Life. Confidence is something that I've been writing about and really delving into. And today I want to give you a little snapshot of what the philosophy behind that is.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, Vaidya Jay, who is a world-renowned speaker, professor of Ayurvedic medicine and a NAMA registered practitioner. Listen in as Vaidya Jay shares how change can strengthen you, how to transition with the climate, healthy detoxing and practical tips to support your overall health and wellness. [BULLETS] Energetic shifts and transitioning with the climate... How change can strengthen you… Practical steps to support the body and mind… How routines help us stay stable, healthy, and resilient  … Keeping digestion healthy and your energy up… What causes aging… Detoxing and what you should know... Be sure to tune in, Beauty!

What are your go-to natural remedies for your mind and body, Beauty? Here on our podcast, we take a holistic approach to self care and lifestyle. And our Four Cornerstones are food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. We really want to look at practices, remedies, foods, all of it, through the lens of supporting our holistic lifestyle, because we're not just physical bodies. And we're also not just a mind. We have our physical layer to our being, our emotional and mental and spiritual layers as well. In order to really feel good and reach our highest potential, we want to make sure that we're choosing all these remedies and practices that are supportive across the different layers of ourselves. This is what we’ll be talking about on our show today. Taking this really beautiful holistic approach, which is the most powerful way to feel your very best and to feel connected to yourself. Have you been wondering about this very topic? If you want to know the answer to this question and 3 more sent in by Beauties just like you, listen now to find out! Remember you can submit your questions at https://mysolluna.com/askkimberly/

Listen in as AdaPia shares her suggested tips on how to integrate work, business life, emotional wellbeing and spirituality, and start living from a place of truth instead of human doing.

What Does A Spiritual Practice Looks Like? Spiritual growth is one of our four cornerstones here at Solluna, our others, our food body and emotional wellbeing and food body and emotional wellbeing are obviously a little bit easier to define and broad. When it comes to spiritual growth, we get a lot of questions about what is and what it means? How is it different from religion? What are you talking about with spiritual growth? I'm so excited about this topic today because it gives us the opportunity to have a conversation about this and to really get into spiritual growth. To me the most basic definition has to do with awareness and self-connection. It's not about religion and these belief systems where we're separate and have different dogma philosophies. It's a lot more broad to me. Spiritual growth has to do with how awake, connected, and aware we are of who we really are. Who we really are in yoga language is referred to as the true self. I always share with you guys what works the most for me and I feel spirituality is so important to talk about and is not something we want to push to the side. It all starts with the interstate, our connection to the true self. And that is the core of what we talk about with spiritual practice. Have you been wondering about this very topic? If you want to know the answer to this question and 3 more sent in by Beauties just like you, listen now to find out! Remember you can submit your questions at https://mysolluna.com/askkimberly/

This is a very powerful concept that if you start to really experience it, wrap your mind around it and make it part of your life, it will free you and your energy in so many ways. This has been my experience for over 10 years, when I wrote the Beauty Detox Solution, and discovered a different way of eating that was beyond calorie counting and numbers. That was the beginning of the journey for me in tapping into more expansive energy. But that was not the end. Then you can start to realize that numbers actually make me feel small or feel lack in other areas of my life. What I mean about being free of numbers is not giving them all of our power. It means that we don't put our self-worth and our identity in a number. Whether it be your weight that shows up on the scale or the number of people that you manage at your company, or social media followers, number of friends, salary, whatever it is, numbers are finite. They are one way, one of looking at something, but they are not everything. We need to go beyond food to really feel our best, which is why I’ll be discussing this with our Four Cornerstones in mind, which are food, body, emotional wellbeing and mental health and spiritual growth. Be sure to tune in to find tips to free yourself of numbers for good.

We are about halfway through the year and sometimes we make goals or new year's resolutions, and then we don't think about them at all. And really we are constantly evolving and growing and things are unfolding. Things that seemed really important may shift and change. And then new things may come into the mix. It's essential to continue reviewing your overall goals, to make sure that they are in alignment with where you are today at this very moment. This is when we really start to manifest and co-create our best, most amazing lives ever. Be sure to tune in for tips and tools on how to get started today!

Do you sometimes feel like your hormones are all wacky and out of balance? Be sure to tune in to today’s podcast where Candace Burch from, @yourhormonebalance, shares tips for improving your overall health! Check out some of the topics discussed during this interview: *The impact of stress on our hormones… *Working out and the effects on your hormones… *Signs of not ovulating... *Can we rebalance our hormones from lifestyle alone or do we need pharmaceutical aids?... *Your lifestyle and how your hormones could be affected… *Men, steroids and rebalancing your hormones… *Candace shares her take on melatonin for sleep… Lots of love! Xo

How does your lifestyle affect your overall wellbeing? Today we're going to be talking about how we live our lives holistically from a four cornerstone approach. This means the way that we eat, the way we take in physical nourishment, the way that we take care of our body, the way that we take care of our emotions and our mental health and the way that we take care of our spiritual growth, which has to do with awareness and awakening into who we really are. All of these different aspects of our lifestyle can work synergistically to elevate our vitality, to elevate our wellbeing. I like to reinforce that our strength and our power lies in our wholeness. When we live a lifestyle that really reflects this wholeness and it reflects our intention to support ourselves in all levels and all different parts of our lives, we really do get the best results. We feel the best. We have the most energy. We look the best as well. That's important to us too. Outer beauty is a reflection of inner health and inner vitality, and we experience more peace and more grounding and our lives feel more fulfilling and more meaningful. In contrast, if we hyper focus on one area of our lives like food, or we get into that spiral of obsessing over a body, or norming our mental health and pushing ourselves too much or whatever it is, we start to feel lost. We start to struggle more. We start to feel more anxiety. We don't feel as grounded, and then it becomes more and more difficult to create what we want, including healthy relationships, including a peaceful life. We just start to feel more and more off. I'm so excited about this topic today because it really highlights our ability to work on a holistic level and just how powerful it is.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, BJ Fogg, who is an author and behavior scientist at Stanford, where he directs research and innovation at the Behavior Design Lab. Listen in as BJ shares how to rewire your brain to change your life, what the speed of habit formation is, and the process of change that leads to successful change and so much more!

How can we celebrate any good that happens in life when we have difficult shifts happening at the same time? I hear you Beauty and acknowledge the conflict that arises. We all go through these shifts in life, which feel constricted, smaller and tight, as opposed to the expansive times, which feel really happy, joyful, and cheerful. As we go through these natural shifts as humans, we want to have tools and strategies for navigating life when it does feel difficult and how we can process difficulty. It's not about pushing down feelings or pushing them away because then they often come back or they come out in different ways, such as anxiety, food cravings or difficult digestion and many other ways. We really want to process and then move forward. I know it's a particularly trying time for a lot of us with the pandemic and with a lot of shifts, there may be shifts in your job and your work. This is such a beautiful, deep topic. And I can't wait to get into it today and provide you with some practical tips and tools to help get you through it. Be sure to tune in!

This is something I didn't really understand or focus on for a really long time. I didn't really even understand what grounding really was. Grounding, essentially, is about being here now, being in your full power, being in your full strength and living your values, living your intentions. It's the opposite of being spacey, flighty, and confused, or running around. It's easy to feel spacey quite honestly, in today's world with a lot of fast-paced information coming our way. We're doing a lot of different things. We're running around. We're in our heads a lot. We're on our phones a lot. You can tell when someone isn't grounded because they're not really there. You don't feel that full strength and power in them. Grounding is when we close the gap between who we want to be, what we say we believe in, in the world and really living it and being a walking embodiment of that truth. There are very specific tools and practices to help you be grounded, to ground your energy. And it's enormously powerful. When we ground, we have the ability to create more of what we want. Whether that is beautiful relationships, a fulfilling career, the body that we want, the energy that we want and so much more. I look forward to diving into this topic with you today my Beauty!

We all get in ruts. Let's be honest. We all have ups and downs, and sometimes we think that things are going really well and we're cruising along and then snap! Something happens or we just get off track, and then we start to feel like we're in not such a great place. This is a natural pattern that we see in nature as well, there's expansion, and then there's times of contraction and pulling inward. What we want to do is recognize that ups and downs are part of life and part of the natural cycle, and at the same time, we don't want to stay stuck and feel stagnant in a rut. We want to have the tools and practices to move through the rut most effectively, most efficiently and not feel this stuck vibe. So we're going to get into the holistic approach, which is what the Four Cornerstones are all about: food, body, emotions, and spirit. It means that we are going to get past that issue in the best possible way, because we are working on the level of wholeness. Have you been wondering about this very topic? If you want to know the answer to this question and 3 more sent in by Beauties just like you, listen now to find out! Remember you can submit your questions at https://mysolluna.com/askkimberly/

This topic has been top of mind for me. And I wanted to really give you some practical ways to build that confidence. To build that connection to self, connection to our voice, really feeling good enough, and feeling and knowing that we are enough as we move through. This, of course, influences our overall vitality, our energy, accomplishing our goals, feeling fulfilled in our jobs and in our relationships. To me, confidence is a really important quality. It's one of those qualities that runs through everything that we do and every interaction and the way that our days go. I'm really excited to get into it today, and to leave you with tips that are not just useful, but again, very practical.

Our topic today is creating a routine that is right for you. I'm a huge fan of routines and rhythms, because I think it's a really important and very powerful way to boost your wellness, your health, your energy, and to make sure that all the systems in your body are functioning at their optimal levels, including your digestion, your circulatory system, your immune system. Our bodies really thrive on routine. And when we set routines up in our life in a way that feels really good, which we're going to get into in our show today, it just helps everything run like a well-oiled machine. Tune in today to listen to some key questions our community asked around creating routines!

If you've ever wondered...How Can You Build Healthy Relationships and the latest on Effective Online Dating, then this is the show for you! I am so excited to have my very special guest, Damona Hoffman, who is a Certified Dating Coach and Host of the Dates & Mates Podcast. Listen in as Damona shares myths and expectations around dating, how to attract a healthy relationship, and how to navigate your life within dating apps, and so much more! Check out some of the talking points down below???? The most important decision that you will make… Principles regarding waiting to be intimate… Expectations around dating someone with a similar lifestyle… Attracting a healthy relationship… Quick tips to make the process of online dating more effective... How to pick the best dating app... Settling versus holding out for your dream partner… Be sure to tune in. You won't want to miss this!

As we define spirituality, it has to do with a greater awareness and connection. Awareness of who we really are, of the beauty in each moment and of how to connect deeply with yourself and with others. The yogis call who we really are the true self. And the false self is all the surface, the ego, the thoughts, the personality, the hair, the skin, all the things that we identify with on a surface level. When we work to connect on a deeper level with that true self, along with having a great surface appearance, it's a doorway into greater self-connection, self-love, and confidence and connection to our gifts that we can use out in the world to help other people to our life's calling. We feel so light, peaceful ,and joyful as we move about our day. And we don't take things as seriously. We're going to care about what we look like. We're going to care about things like our weight, however, we have access to this inner world. We are also so focused on our inner state, we start to connect within ourselves so that all of the tendencies to control things on the outside, or be over anxious about things on the outside, starts to fade away. Spirituality is, in my opinion, the most important thing in our lives to work on cultivating, to work on in general. It's one of our cornerstones, the others are food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. Spiritual growth influences all the other ones. It is something that I would love to support you with because I know that it is the greatest gift. It is the most impactful thing that we can do.

My very special guest, Eve Lewis Prieto, from Headspace shares how to connect to your own truth, her go-to guide for healthy sleep and practices to wind down before bed.

This is something that I think we can all relate to. There are times when we struggle to feed ourselves healthily and maybe exercise and get to bed at a decent hour. How are we supposed to tune into our passion, into our heart? This is something I am very honored and excited to talk to you about today because I have been there. There were periods of my life specifically after getting back from backpacking where I was hustling and I was doing many different jobs to make ends meet. I was going back to nutrition school. I was teaching yoga, doing yoga privates and working at this raw food cafe in the East Village. Today's show is dedicated to you, my dear listener who may be struggling a little bit, or wondering how you're going to figure it out, don't worry. We have some tips and ideas for you that I hope will be encouraging and also practical, so that you can start to apply it into your own life. Have you been wondering about this very topic? If you want to know the answer to this question and 3 more sent in by Beauties just like you, listen now to find out!

How can we thrive in life with anxiety? I am so excited to have my very special guest, Sarah Wilson , who is a New York Times bestselling and #1 Amazon bestselling author and founder of IQuitSugar.com and host of the Wild with Sarah Wilson podcast. Listen in as Sarah shares her personal journey traveling the world, tips for self-connection, and how to thrive with anxiety.

How can we honor the different cycles of life that come our way? I love that we can go beyond all these evaluations of good, bad. This part of life is better than this part. Whether we're talking about seasonally or we're talking about different periods of life, instead, we can really honor and see the beauty in each part of the cycle of life as it unfolds. There is so much beauty and joy in each moment. And we can support ourselves in feeling our best, in finding the space to really enjoy each cycle of life. We are not just physical beings, and can't just live and thrive off food alone. We need to nourish our spirit. We need to nourish the emotional and mental part of ourselves as well. Using our holistic approach of the Four Cornerstones to ensure that we are nourishing ourselves on all levels. Be sure to tune in for tips and tools to live your best life today!

Is it possible to fully heal after the death of a loved one? I am so excited to have my very special guest, Theresa Caputo, a Long Island Medium- whose been seeing, feeling, and sensing Spirit since she was four years old, but it wasn’t until she was in her 20s that she learned to communicate with souls in Heaven. Listen in as Theresa shares how she communicates with the dead, creating energy self-care practices and ancestral healing, and so much more!

Finding your life's true calling is something I'm really passionate about sharing. I have been on quite a journey myself, as many of you know, and it's unfolded in a really beautiful way. There's been a lot of ups and downs of course, just like everyone else's life, but I can say that I have been very fortunate. I'm very grateful to have created a life that feels really meaningful to me and really fulfilling. I'm really excited to share some tools, techniques and strategies, and to absorb so much information from the great masters, especially Paramahansa Yogananda, and other yogis and amazing guests that we've had on this podcast. Watching so many of our readers and my clients blossom into their passion is really inspiring to me.

This week’s topic is: How Traveling Can Lead You Towards True Wellness with Annie Daly I am so excited to have my very special guest, Annie Daly, a NYC-based freelance journalist and author who specializes in travel and wellness. Listen in as Annie shares how other cultures find happiness, healing and self-exploration through travel, and basic steps towards true wellness.

One of the things that has always consistently come up in questions is energy. And who amongst us doesn't want more energy, more vitality as we move through life? A little bit more pep in our step. A little bit more sparkle in our eyes. We all want more energy. We want to feel energized and to feel really alive. I love this topic and I love that today we're going to be talking about taking a wider approach when we look at energy and the different topics throughout our entire lives that affect all different parts of our lifestyle. It's really important that we incorporate this holistic approach, which really honors and supports us as humans and our wholeness. Our cornerstones, again, are food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth. I'm in love with our philosophy, because I find that it really is so effective. I've been able to coach a lot of people with their food and their diet. However, to really get sustained levels of energy, vitality and all around well-being, which is really about our peace, joy, and our connection to the true self, we must go beyond food.

How does one go about incorporating spirituality in their lives? I am so excited to have my very special guest, Gary Jansen, an award-winning author and a Director at Loyola Press in Chicago. He is also Deepak Chopra’s long-time editor at Penguin Random House and worked with Deepak and Kimberly on their New York Times bestseller Radical Beauty. Listen in as Gary discusses going beyond religion in seeking God and how to incorporate spirituality into your daily lives.

This week’s topic is: Tips To Transition Into The Solluna Lifestyle What's really important about today's show is the emphasis on lifestyle. What we teach here is not a fad. It's not a diet that you hop into and hop out of and try for 21 days. We're really working towards a sustainable, long-term lifestyle that will enhance and nourish all aspects of your being, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. And that's really how you get the best results. And you feel your best, you feel your most energetic, you feel your highest vitality, and yes, you will also look your best because everything is so intimately connected. When we play on the surface with just makeup or the calorie counting game, we may get some results, of course.However, to get the deep, lasting, life-changing quantum leap sort of results, then we want to take this wider, holistic approach, and we want to transition in. If we go all in sometimes, then we pop all out, that all in mentality. On, off, that yo-yoing, that really doesn't help us in the long-term. Today I want to go through some real tips and strategies that will help you stick to this for the long-term. Even if you take five steps forward, two steps back, three steps forward, one step back. Sometimes two steps forward, one step back, we're continuously growing and building and building on a foundation that's solid. And so, even when we feel like we're off, even when we go on vacation and totally throw everything out the window, or we have those off weekends or whatever it is, we are not going back to ground zero. We are continuously building and building, sometimes at different rates of growth, but we're still continuing to grow. And really, that's what this lifestyle is all about.

What Steps Are You Taking In Creating Your Vision? Be sure to tune in because today I have my very special guest, Sean Dollinger, an entrepreneur and Founder of PlantX , who'll be sharing his insight on how to juggle a family and stay present while still creating your vision.

Attachments are really this futile way that we project out our fears and we try to cling or control things in the outside world, as a way to try to feel soothed and to feel safer. In reality, we already know on some level, that controlling doesn't work and attachment doesn't work. It actually pushes people and opportunities away. Connection is where we want to be, where we feel connected to ourselves. We want to feel connected to others, but attachment crosses the line and it's really different functions, different ways the ego tries to play out, and the ego is not the true self. When the ego doesn't feel good because the ego is limited, the ego tries to utilize these different tools, which in the end are ineffective and they don't work. We’ll be discussing why we cling to attachments and how this plays out in our life. How do attachments look to you in your life? Keep introspecting as we go through the questions and keep reflecting back and keep relating this to your own life. There is a very potent antidote and different tools that we're going to work into our discussion today. Instead of clinging to attachments, I’ll be sharing the tools that will work instead of trying to control the outside world.

From a Four Cornerstone perspective, I’ll be sharing with you the most powerful approach for focus. When we take this holistic approach, we are able to really embody the benefits of whatever that topic is. Think about a baby. If we just give the baby healthy food, healthy breast milk, the baby will do well to an extent, but the baby also needs healthy, loving touch. The baby needs to be held, bathed, and has other needs besides just food. When we give the baby all of those holistic benefits, then the baby starts to grow and thrive and really giggle and be happy. And so it is with us. We want to really honor our wholeness. When we do that, we get the best results, period. Very simple. Our cornerstones are our food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. I'm going to go through them now in that order so you can start using my top tips for focus in your life.

When we see what's going on with our relationship to food and our relationship to diet in general, it can be indicative of other deeper imbalances in our life. For years I've been talking about how skin gives us a deeper indication of our inner health and our inner state of well-being. For example, what we see physically in our skin, whether it's acne, accelerated aging, rosacea, or eczema, these physical manifestations on the surface give us clues about how to heal and correct on a deeper level. What I love about this particular topic is that food is physical in the same way that our skin is physical. It's more of a dense energy. Everything's energy, everything's moving, but it appears more dense. And therefore, it can be physically seen by our eyes. However, when we look at some of the imbalances that continue to manifest in our lives around food, diet, and cravings and we can't get rid of them, I truly and deeply empathize from my heart. I've lived through a lot of those issues and understand what it's like to be in it. I also understand the bridge that's needed to be crossed into healthiness. And I'm so excited to be sharing those principles and ideas in a practical way with you here today.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, Lauren Roxburgh, who is a best-selling author, wellness expert on all things fascia and body alignment, and founder of the one-stop workout and lifestyle platform The Aligned Life Studio. Listen in as Lauren dives deeper into the connection between our emotional health and fascial blockages and how to start healing holistically.

Our emotional and mental awareness has so much to do with the physical world. It has to do with what comes up for us foodwise with food cravings, how we deal with, take care of, and treat our bodies. A lot of the issues in our bodies often start with our emotional and mental energies. There's a lot of impact that can come from being more aware and learning to process our emotions. This all comes from our Four Cornerstone Philosophy, which is food, body, emotional, well-being and spiritual growth. Today, we're going to be diving into our third cornerstone, and how it applies all through our life. It really makes such a big difference. For me, when I started understanding this, it became a game changer. It's 10 years now, since the Beauty Detox Solution was published. I remember back then I really thought I had it figured out, food combining, simplifying. It’s huge and impactful, however, it isn't everything. And so when I started getting into this emotional awareness and emotional digestion and processing, it's when I went from base camp to the summit, and it has manifested in daily life. I have a lot more clarity, a lot more energy, and so much more ease. I want nothing more than for you to have amazing results as well.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, John Pisani, who is my business  partner at Solluna and best friend for over 10 years. Listen in as John and I discuss our individual journeys with our relationship with food and why implementing the Four Cornerstones is the anchor to attaining overall health and wellness. [BULLETS] John and I share our relationship journeys with food… Consciousness and the way we view food… The Four Cornerstones and your mindset surrounding food… How to soothe through breath work rather than mindless eating… Food in relationship to your emotions…

Summer is this beautiful welcome time where we can start to feel more extroverted, open, and energized. And, we really hope to take advantage of more time in nature. Along with that, we tend to wear less clothing while we’re at the beach and pool parties, and many of us start to feel self-conscious about our bodies. Over the years, I certainly have experienced my own battles with body shame, beating myself up, and extreme self-criticism. I've been able to balance a lot of that just from working with our Four Cornerstones and connecting to the deeper parts of myself, which helped me from hyper-fixating so much on every little part of my body and body shape. This topic lends itself really well to really bringing out this idea of the four cornerstones; food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth. It is an essential practice to treat ourselves as whole beings, and to nurture and honor that. When we do, we really start to embody this wholeness and stop fixating so much on the surface, and it starts to soften that rigidity. It becomes easier to maintain your weight and to have a healthier relationship with food. There's nothing wrong with looking great in the summer and wanting to look great, as long as we don't put our full worth and our identity into our bodies. It becomes an extension of our connection with ourselves and feeling really good. And then when we feel really good, it emanates out and we like to share. And then we feel good on the inside and outside.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, who is a New York best-selling author, an international speaker and clinical psychologist. Listen in as Dr. Shefali shares how to bring consciousness into all areas of life, Radical Awakening in the day of the modern woman, and how to really take care of yourself in a new and profound way.

The Four Cornerstones and Self-Care is such an important topic. We talk about it from many different angles, but I cannot emphasize enough how this lifestyle is really about promoting our own wholeness. And when we feel our wholeness and tap into the truth of who we really are, it eliminates the need to get more attention or to be seen as special. When we talk about the cornerstones, it’s about wholeness and is the way to feel your best and to live your best life. And yes, to look your best too is to go wider and to become holistic and to focus your energy into all of the cornerstones instead of taking a deep dive into just one of them, such as food. The cornerstones are food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. A lot of us tend to go into food and body because it's so physical and so dense, we see it every day versus the emotional spiritual sides, which are actually as impactful. And as we go along the journey, we will see more impactful on all the things that we want to balance, whether it's our weight, our skin, hormones or our fertility, it's all really related. And it is an essential part of self care to really, first of all, embody this and to understand that self care is really about that self love, it's really about treating ourselves as the whole amazing, complete beings that we already are.

I'm really excited about this week’s topic: The Importance of Mothers Having a Support System with Abigail Tucker My very special guest, Abigail Tucker, is New York Times bestselling author and a longtime writer for Smithsonian Magazine. Listen in as Abigail shares the different styles of mothering, nature versus nurture, and practical research all moms should know.

We don't usually use that term, killer, but it is pretty dramatic in our lives. How much our joy just gets sucked out of the moment of a situation of the day when we put the heavy cloth of expectations on top of it. This plays out in many different ways from the way that we perceive our body or the way that we show up in the world in relationships, in our work and our career. This is a big one to tackle so we can start to bring that shining light of awareness and healing and move forward more expectation free. Let's start to explore the subtle and not so subtle ways that we put this heaviness on ourselves, and as time goes on we start to realize that we do have free will and we do have a choice. It's amazing when we start to step back and realize that some of the behaviors, beliefs and some of the things that we thought had to be a certain way, actually don't have to be that way at all. It moves us one step forward towards enlightenment, full liberation and freedom, which is really the goal of life.

With all that is happening in our world today in regards to the way that women are portrayed in the media, how can we rise up to the patriarchy? My very special guest, Lindsay Tucker, who is a yoga journal editor, podcast host, and author, shares how to set healthy boundaries while working on emotional projects, how to rise up to the patriarchy and ways to bring more awareness to the female voice. Keep a lookout for a forthcoming book about patriarchal microaggressions and how they affect women and girls globally throughout a lifetime. It's sure to be a great read!

This week’s topic is: How To Achieve Optimal Health Using The Four Cornerstones And here are the questions I'll be answering from the community: Is there anything I need to be aware of in each of the Four Cornerstones that could improve my overall hair health? I’ve read that protein makes a difference when it comes to hair health. I’m starting to go bald a little in the front and need to do something about it asap! When it comes to your four cornerstones, where does the body fit in? What I mean is, what comes first, the chicken or the egg? Should our body come first or mental health, etc? If there’s a history of mental illness in my family, including personality disorder, is it possible to avoid this eventuality? I don’t want to “think my way into a disorder” but I do want to take precautions. When I think of spiritual growth I think of the scriptural quote where “that by God’s power we have everything we need”. I’m not very religious. Is it possible to grow spiritually without the systems of religion? Have you been wondering about this very topic? If you want to know the answer to this question and 3 more sent in by Beauties just like you, listen now to find out! Remember you can submit your questions at https://mysolluna.com/askkimberly/

What is true beauty and how do we get past comparison? Tune in as my very special guests, Tammin Sursok and Roxy Manning, discuss how to deal with the thought of not being enough, perfectionism and struggles with achievements, and how to raise our kids in a world of beauty.

With it being Earth Day, I thought it would be fitting to talk about Ayurvedic Practices For Spring! I've been an Ayurvedic student now for several years. I've studied formally under my teacher, Vaidya Jay. I'm always asking him questions, and reading, and incorporating that deep wisdom into my own lifestyle, and I love to share it with you all. I take the parts of Ayurveda that really resonate with me, and really love the self-care part of Ayurveda. I like the synergy with nature and really considering the greater collective and the energies around us, including seasonal shifts that I think is so intelligent and really can add a lot of value into our everyday practices. That's the part of Ayurveda that I love the most is that real self-care, that individualization, which is reflected through the different body types and the different energies that Ayurveda really delves into. So I can only incorporate all of it. There is tremendous wisdom in there. Be sure to tune in for a discussion that integrates science with tips and tools on how to incorporate spring practices with Ayurveda! Find the answers to questions from you, my community. So grateful for you! Please be kind to you and to the earth!

Layering traditional kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener. Tune in as Krishna Das shares presence and spaciousness through chanting, how there's not 'one way' when it comes to practice, and how to be of service to others.

This week’s topic is: Healthy Digestion and Elimination Tips and Tools Hear answers to the following questions from our community: Tips on how to improve digestion without necessarily taking supplements. If eating prunes can help with constipation? What is considered healthy elimination? How do I know if this is from the foods I eat or if I am just prone to poor digestion from birth? Tune in for the answers!

The topic of immunity has been on everyone’s minds for the last few months, so in this solo episode I discuss how detoxification can support our immunity and overall health. I dive into how daily detox practices - physical, mental and emotional - can actually boost our immune systems and make us feel good on so many levels. I also share some of my favorite methods for ongoing cleansing and detoxification. As we’re in the middle of spring and even preparing for summer, now is the perfect time to focus on detoxing so keep listening to learn more! Topics Covered In The Benefit of Detoxing for Immunity and Overall Health #1. How immunity is closely tied to the gut #2. Why toxins influence our immune systems #3. How cleansing and detoxification can boost the immune system #4. Daily detox practices that can benefit wellness and immunity #5. How emotional detox and stress reduction can protect immunity

Living free of comparison is easier said than done in our world, which is so focused on imagery and social media and it is easy to compare. As we know, this can lead to suffering and to feeling that we're not enough. Comparison leads to feeling that we're scrambling to be better or get better results. We can't really enjoy where we are. Let's face it, comparison never ever feels good, even if we feel better than someone. We have this air of superiority, which doesn't last, and then makes us feel separated. And if we feel less than, of course, there's all sorts of self-worth and self-esteem issues that are also tied with that. This is something I’ve struggled with myself and have really focused on overcoming. I’ve made progress in this area and am excited to share what's worked for me.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, John Pisani, who is my business partner at Solluna and best friend for over 10 years. Listen in as John and I discuss the different relationships in our lives and how if we aren't really intentional in creating healthy boundaries, we can actually become depleted, and it can affect our overall wellness and vitality. We have tips, tools, and strategies that have really worked in our lives and that we want to share with you.

Our mindset, our attitude, our mental energy that we bring to anything and everything in our lives has a profound impact on the results that we get and the way that we feel every day. Our perspective shapes everything. It's the energy of intention that flows through what we're doing. Whether it's our work, our day-to-day experience with our families or friends or quiet moments with ourselves, we focus as a society so much on outer form, on the outside. I’ve personally experienced this. When we focus on our inner world, the outside really starts to match up instead of going about it the other way. It’s a very powerful thing to focus on improving our mindset. This is what we're going to get into today with our Q&A. I love the show because all of it comes right from you guys, right from your hearts. And together, as we walk along this path, we can support each other and talk about all these different topics, so we keep moving forward.

I am so excited to have my very special guest, KamGi, who is the founder of Be Love, an apparel that raises funds and awareness for empowering projects that uplift their community. Listen in as KamGi shares her journey towards creating a company that gives back to the community, how to work through fear and what success looks like. Check out what we'll be discussing on today's show: *Be Love Apparel's latest awareness campaign… *Working with your partner in your business… *The vision of Be Love and its journey... *How to make a living while giving back… *KamGi shares how she works through fear and where her trust comes from… *Overcoming old wounds and stepping into your power… *Building a business on minimal funds… *We discuss what success looks like... Be sure to tune in and share with those you love! ;)

What we're really talking about here is how to create a career, a job, your work in the world that feels deeply aligned to your values and to the messages that you want to put out into the world, how you want to contribute to the world. The way we talk about spirituality in our community isn't about a formal religion or anything of that nature. It's really about connecting to the deepest essence inside of you, to your unique core, to your true self, to the light that is inside of you, and really living from that place. Work takes up an enormous part of our lives. For many of us, we spend more time with our work colleagues and on our work than with our friends and family members. This topic is about feeling aligned in your life and aligned to such a powerful world. It feels really good when everything matches up and nothing feels like it's contradicting itself. Versus, living a life where you may believe in different things and then you go to work, and you're at odds with where you're working and what you're doing. Today, we're going to talk about navigating through all of this, and how to live a truly fulfilled, meaningful, joyful, and happy life.

What is intuitive fasting? Be sure to tune in, as @drwillcole shares the difference between intuitive fasting and intermittent fasting, how he personally fasts, the benefits of intuitive fasting and how to look and feel your best.

Often our lives can be seen as truly meaningful in the context of the collective and in serving others and being empathetic is a way of serving others. It's about tuning in and holding space for another person and making them feel heard and seen. And that's a beautiful gift to give to somebody else. We talk about connection a lot here in our community, and it really starts with self connection. This is what our Four Cornerstones are about. We start to connect and then we also start to understand what our body needs beyond food, how to move, how to elevate our sleep, our rest and self-care. The purpose of the Four Cornerstones is really about establishing this deeper connection with yourself. This, in turn, creates optimal wellness, optimal health, energy, beauty in the true sense of beauty and true radiance that pours out of you from the inside out. Once we work on connecting with ourselves the next step is to explore how we connect more deeply with other people and relationships around us. When we start to put some focus on creating stronger connections and holding space for other people, we find that it goes both ways. We start to connect more with ourselves and with others and we feel what I would define as true success, which is being connected to your true self and your heart and living from that place.

This topic was directly inspired by our Solluna Circle Zoom that we had last week, which our theme this month is developing intuition. And if you're not familiar with our Solluna Circle, it's our tribal community program. You are welcome and invited to join us. It's over on our Solluna app. We had a question from someone in the group, talk about intuition and how she has ideas about things she wants to do in her life and ways to move forward, however, it's fear that stops her. And I thought about this idea of fear and about fear in my own life. I thought about how it plays out in the world, around us and what I've seen in clients. It's something that I really want to talk about today from a really personal place, because fear is something that can pretty much destroy our lives if we give into it. Fear is something that stops us from going for what we really want to create. Fear creates stagnation. Fear keeps us from tuning into our deepest wisdom, our deepest intuition, our deepest desires and loves. And it's such a destructive force when it just clouds our lives and we don't have tools and practices to get past the fear. I’m really excited to get into this topic and share ways to move past this fear and start listening to your intuition.

Today's show is all about "Day" and "Night" Routines - Even if You Never Leave the House! I'm a huge believer in regular and consistent practices. Even though they may seem very small, these simple steps are the way to great change. They are the way to keep building and shifting our energy. I truly believe it is better to do smaller steps and to carry them long-term rather than to bounce around, trying different things, and inevitably not really doing anything with regularity. I think that it's especially important when we've been quarantined and want to create a sense of stability in our bodies because rhythm is something that will set that up for us. We see this in nature, the rhythms of the day, light, into daytime, into dusk, into nighttime, and there's this steadiness that comes when we establish rhythms. Ayurveda teaches that Dinacharya daily practices, daily rhythms really do help to establish a healthy digestive system, a healthy sleep schedule for yourself, a healthy nervous system, healthy endocrine system, and so much in between. I'm looking forward to hearing your questions from the community and sharing tips on routines you can start today.

Welcome back to our Monday interview podcast. I am super excited for our guest today who is John Pisani. He is my business partner at Solluna, and my friend. We've been working together for over a decade. Our topic today is How to Be in the Flow of Life. John and I have been through so much together. We have been growing our brand, our business, just being out in the world. We have a lot to share with you. John has a lot of wisdom. I'm really excited for this candid conversation just to talk about being in the flow, the ups and downs of life, creating entrepreneurship, all sorts of things.

Food is one of our Solluna cornerstones. It’s a big topic for all of us because day to day, we're eating, we're putting substances and matter into our body. We can hold it, we can pick it up, we can smell it, it's tangible. It's always going to be a big part of our lives.  My wellness journey certainly did start with food, as I think it does for a lot of us for those very reasons. Because we have to eat, and because we see it, smell it, and taste it. What we're going to talk about today is getting down to more fundamentals with our overall relationship to food.  We can talk about vitamins and omega fats, and all of that is key and important. However, we also want to take a step back and really start to evaluate our relationship with food. If it's unhealthy, if it's controlling you, if it's taking up too much of your life, then it is time to make a shift.  What we need to remember is that it shouldn't be a source of excess stress and struggle, which is unfortunately what I see a lot today. And it's something that I experienced personally. We're going to get into all of those different topics today and I’ll be sharing some tips and tools that have helped me personally.

This week’s topic is: How to Get Past Self-Doubt with Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik I am so excited to have my very special guests, Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik, who are the hosts of the Almost 30 Podcast, virtual best friends, impactful female founders and seasoned event speakers, to name a few. Listen in as Krista and Lindsey share how to start your own business while staying true to your goals and  personal tips for food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. [BULLETS] How COVID has affected their business and personal lives… As entrepreneurs, how did Krista and Lindsey pivot their business and model… The ladies share their background story and tips on how to start your own business... What Saturn return is and how this impacted their goals in line with their business… Getting past attachment to numbers and time and how this leads to… We discuss using the word ‘god’ and any push back with this topic… Getting past doubt in starting your own business… Krista and Lindsey share their practices with the Four Cornerstones in mind...

There isn't one of us listening to this that hasn't felt shame. It's a very heavy energy, and we want to lighten it and release it because it's such a damper on our light, on the love and the truth that we really are. We do not have to carry shame. We've been getting a lot of questions around this, which I think means that we're all starting to really take a deep dive and introspect and go deeper, which is amazing. And I have been doing the same thing. I’ve been actually processing shame that's coming up for me, and I didn't even know I was carrying it over the past year or so. On the positive side, there's a lot of healing that's coming out of this quarantine. There’s a lot of introspection, a lot of a deep dive that some of us are taking, that's been prompted by just being home, having more closeness with loved ones, and yet more quiet in some ways. It’s been a tremendous opportunity to go deeper. The word shame can bring up a lot of feelings for a lot of us, but it's such a wonderful thing to take a deep breath and go and explore, because on the other side of shame is tremendous lightness, growth, and freedom.

Beauty, now is the time of year to get warm and cozy, and break out your favorite sweaters and scarves. But it’s also the time when you’re probably more cautious about getting sick, as cold and flu season hits (not to mention the global pandemic we’re experiencing, too)! Today’s podcast is all about staying your very healthiest this winter. I firmly believe that our internal state of health is the reason some of us get sick and some of us don’t. For instance, eating a proper diet for the season, consistently getting enough sleep, and nurturing our mental health are all ways we can help to fortify our internal immunity and combat sickness. We can’t control the outside environment, but we can, to a large extent, control our inner ecosystem and balance. I have a lot of good tips for you in this episode, Beauty, so you won’t want to miss out!

How to start your kids on a healthy wellness routine is an interesting topic. It’s a potentially tricky topic for many of us, because we may be into wellness, nourishment, picking the best ingredients, but our little ones are in a completely different mind space. They're so present with what's in front of them from the colors, the characters and the flavors, that trying to convince them that kale is what they should fill their belly with instead of a cookie, may be a little bit tricky for them to understand. My oldest son, Bubby now is four and a half, and we're definitely starting to go through some of this. He tantrums a bit now and he stamps his feet, and he's had a taste of vegan cookies and he likes them, and he's starting to try to be independent. I definitely have some tips to share with you that have worked for our family, and some things that I have utilized with clients in the past that also have kids and are looking to transition as they have transitioned their lifestyle as well. Be sure to tune!

How are you centering yourself Beauties? This week’s topic is: How To be Centered with Tracee Stanley Tracee Stanley is an author and radiance advocate on a mission to help people explore their birthright to deep rest and awakened clarity that comes from the spiritual practice of Yoga Nidra. Listen in as Tracee shares a very deep form of restorative yoga called yoga nidra, about coming back to our balance and how to come back to our center.

The Cornerstones have been such a great framework for us to really create a system for evaluating our energy, our self-care, how well we're connecting with ourselves, food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. And, the emotional wellbeing category, the cornerstone here is where I put relationships. Everything is interrelated and the spiritual growth part of us is also part of relationships, because the more we connect in with our essence, the more we connect out with others. However, I think when we're talking about communication and really creating healthy boundaries, healthy relationships and some of the tricky parts of human relations, it has to do with the emotions that we haven't processed. Our wounds, our triggers and stress. A lot of it, I would say falls into that category. And this is the cornerstone I think that a lot of us often could use some more work in diving in. So I'm very, very excited to hear this.

What does your self-care routine look like to help support your purpose? Be sure to tune in with Vaidya Jay and yours truly, for tips to get you started on supporting your purpose, using our Four Cornerstones!

We've been getting so many different questions about relationships, which makes total sense, because this is such an interesting time where we have been forced to introspect, to go deep and to look at our lives. This includes looking at our relationships and this starts with our relationship with ourselves. Today we're going to talk about that as well, because it affects all of our other relationships. We are also going to talk about other relationships as well because relationships shape our lives. And right now, because of the global situation, we may be in close proximity with our loved ones. Maybe we don't have the quality time, maybe we’re not really connecting, or maybe there's been a distance between us and loved ones that are far away. How do we best communicate in those instances? All around relationships are super important and can have an enormous impact on our lives and I look forward to sharing tips that I use personally.

Did you know you can balance your energy through essential oils? I am so excited to have my very special guest, Charlynn Avery, who is an aromatherapist and national educator and expert in the field of Essential Oils.  Listen in as Charlynn talks about the essence of true self-care, really getting to the heart of balancing our energy and how these plants aren't just about smelling good but really about helping our energy come back into our center.

Stress is the precursor to inflammation, illness, sickness, to accelerated aging, squashing our energy and depleting our vitality. It's something that we want to reduce in our lives. The next part is that we love many of our relationships. Of course, we don't want to live without our loved ones, our family, friends, and beyond that, we have to interact with many other people, our colleagues, acquaintances, all sorts of people. And relationships, the ones that we choose, and maybe some of the ones that we don't choose, like our in-laws are still part of our lives and can be an enormous source of stress. Or we can shift the way that we deal with these relationships and ground ourselves, ground our health and these relationships can be primarily a source of enjoyment in our lives. The thing about relationships is that we all come with triggers and wounds and reactions and experiences from the past and sensitivities. Relationships can again be a little bit tricky, and today we're going to go through some tips and strategies for really fortifying your own energy and health, so that you can navigate this whole galaxy of relationships and maintain your highest health and wellbeing and enjoy yourself and enjoy life.

With the new year in sight, we tend to shift our focus on resolutions that will improve our physical health or our habits. If you’re focused on growing and improving your life, I also encourage you to think about your spiritual growth. The start of the new year is the perfect opportunity to begin or boost your spiritual practice! Unlike goals related to our other Cornerstones of True Beauty, like Food or Body, the goal of building a spiritual practice is a little different, as it’s harder to outline in concrete steps. For many, spirituality might seem harder to access or out of reach. That’s why I’m dedicating this podcast episode to creating a spiritual practice for the new year, and giving you specific tools and tips for getting started. Cultivating your spiritual practice will allow you to increase your intuition and self-awareness, experience more unity and oneness, and feel more expansive love. What better way to step into 2021? Let’s dive in!

Our cornerstones here at Solluna are food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. And it's very easy, very obvious for a lot of us to focus on food, because of course we're putting it into our bodies. We can see it, we smell it, it's physical in one sense, as everything really is vibrating and moving in another sense. It's easy to focus on food, but if we don't take this balanced approach and really work on all of the cornerstones, then we never get the best results. Something that I've seen time and time again over the years is how when we shift our mental health, when we start to have a different perspective and we expand and we open up and we are able to deal with stress better. We let go of rigidity and become more open and forgiving. We become more grateful and we embrace community. All these different aspects of mental health, we tend to have an easier time maintaining our weight. We have a much easier time getting rid of food cravings and being motivated to exercise, go in the sunlight, smile more and to be happier. In turn, this has a real effect on our hormones, our nervous system, our endocrine system and so many different parts of our body, and our being in general. We want to set time aside for mental health and emotional wellbeing, and this could take on many different forms as we'll get into our questions today.

How can we help our kids to thrive? On today's podcast show, Emily Fletcher, shares why Our thoughts are not the enemy... How to heal the body through life's transitions and... Ways to start your kiddos on the path of healing with their very own meditation practice!

A lot of us wonder about happiness. I think it's something that's become a big discussion point for the past few years. There have been different documentaries, research studies and books about happiness. It shows that as time goes on, we start to go deeper and deeper into ourselves. We start to really question what life is about and realize that it's about our day to day experience and how we feel. It's not just about our side measurements, like how much money we have or how big our retirement account is or how many followers we have or just material things. It really has to do with our inner state. I've realized how precious the peace and the joy that comes from within is, and really, how few people actually have it. It's something that we can all tap into and we can create. For me, it's been the journey of taking a holistic approach with our Four Cornerstone approach with food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. If we just try to approach it from one aspect, then we don't really get the best results. Happiness is something that I think is our birthright. I think our natural state is to be alive, to be joyful and to feel free. This is an important topic and this is something that we can all work towards.

What is the pelvic bowl and how are you caring for it? Tami Lynn Kent is the author of Wild Feminine, Wild Creative & Mothering from Your Center and the Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care and training program. Today Tami is going to talk about the pelvic bowl, about this part of our body and our energetic center and how it affects your ability to be creative and empowered in your life. This is a show you're not going to want to miss! Be sure to share it with your friends and loved ones. It's a life changer!

This is such an amazing topic to go into the New Year with. As we all know, 2020 was, in many ways, a year of introspection and evaluation. We were forced into quarantine and isolation. We were forced to really look at our lives and re-evaluate. Now that we've created that space to think about what we want to fill back in, what we want our lives to be, what we want to create and what we want to feel like in this upcoming year, we have so much choice. We have so much power. If any benefit came from 2020, it showed us how things don't necessarily have to be the way that we think that they have to be. Things can radically change, and we have the power to radically change our lives and to create something that feels amazing to each and every single one of us.

As we launch into the new year, many of us are focused on specific resolutions or goals for 2021. Sometimes, in setting these resolutions, we lose sight of who we are. We forget our true self, even causing us to feel like we’re not enough. That’s why today’s solocast episode is dedicated to Awakening Your True Self Into 2021. This episode is all about loving yourself for who you are! Yes, changing your thoughts, your old beliefs and the stories you tell yourself can be hard to do. But once you break through and overcome the feeling of not being good enough, you can own your true self and radiate light! Today I’m sharing tips for awakening and owning your true self, as you radiate light and love into the world. Nothing is more beautiful than authenticity and approaching wellness in our holistic way, especially with our Four Cornerstones. When we are whole, we are healthy, we are energetic, we are our most truly beautiful because we shine with the light and the radiance from within and from our energy, and we are also our most powerful.

Happy early New Year. I am so excited for our upcoming year together as a community and to be able to keep growing and sharing with one another. We have so many amazing announcements upcoming for you guys from Solluna. I hope that you’ve had a restful period between Christmas and New Years. Hopefully this year is a little bit of an inward time where we start to reflect and think about what we want to cultivate and create in the upcoming year and what we want to let go of. For many of us, 2020 was a year of deep introspection, shifting, confusion sometimes about what's going on in the world. Unfortunately, I say with compassion, for some of us deep pain and suffering on different levels, including physically and mentally. I think this year is going to be a wonderful shift for all of us. And today I’ll be sharing tips on how we can step with our best foot forward in this new year.

Want to know the latest Wellness Trends? Kate Spies, the editor-in-chief of Well+Good, has recently launched its 11th Annual Wellness Trends report. And today, we'll be examining the massive shifts that have shaken up every aspect of the wellness industry, especially this year. How we work, what we eat, the products we put on our faces, the way we rest and how the reverberations of those changes will be felt into 2021 and beyond. I have to say that there is so many interesting things that came up in this trends report, so be sure to stay tuned.

When we think of centering ourselves to me, it's about finding our authenticity, our connection to ourselves, our voice, our grounding and our own energy centers. It means that we stop overvaluing the outside world and over-seeking validation. We stop getting so thrown off by other people's opinions and their ideas. The next part of our topic is stress and there's so many events, constant, tumultuous changes and the ups and downs of life. Everything can feel stressful if we let it. Stress is really about our perspective of things, and it's not about the actual events. We just stay very rooted and very connected, and it's a very powerful and very peaceful way to live life.This is a topic that's close to my heart, and I'm really excited to share more what's worked for me and how I'm able to become more centered in my life with you.