Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.

When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible

results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.

I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,

creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. I am passionate

about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. Let's get started.

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to our Monday solo cast episode. We haven't been doing many

solo cast lately, but I am very passionate about sharing today's particular topic, which is

six key practices to do right here right now, which is in this

winter solstice period as we come towards the darkest day of the year, for those of us in the

northern hemisphere, for supporting rebirth and renewal. So for some reason, I'm feeling this

maybe more than any other year of my life.

I'm coming out in a very interesting period right now from back-to-back book launches.

I think maybe because my heart feels so wide open right now. I'm particularly tuned into nature and this

period and it just feels very reflective. And I want to talk about this period because I think

it's a really powerful time for most all of us. As we're moving towards the new year,

sometimes we don't think about the new year ahead, what we want to drop, what we want to

let go of, what we want to create, what we want to manifest until we're in the new year. And in many

ways, New Year's is a man-made time period, right? We just sort of decided this idea of January 1st.

But from a natural perspective, the more we tune into our hearts,

the more we come back into our natural state, our natural potential, the true self,

we tune in more to nature's rhythms. And actually, it is winter solstice, right? There's summer

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