Welcome to the feel good podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your

most authentic highest self, and this is the place from which your energy, confidence,

creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode. Every week we

provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder Saluna, New York Times best-selling author and holistic wellness,

nutrition and meditation teacher.

Let's get started.

Namaste love's and welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show.

I am so excited to talk about a very special topic this week,

especially given that it is Valentine's Day, which is week, which is about flow,

which is about abundance, it's about love.

It's about letting go of control because love is something that can't be controlled, it can't be put into a box.

So it got me thinking about this idea of how we try to insert control into our lives,

whether it's around our diet, it's around our relationships, it's around our work,

it's around over-planning, it's trying to control our bodies, and control ultimately is lack energy, it squeezes and creates constriction.

So today our topic is six ways to let go of control and to create more flow in your life. And this is something that I'm really

passionate about talking about because I know what it's like to try to exert control coming from a background of disordered eating, trying to manage my weight,

being very obsessive about weighing myself, trying to obsessively plan all the steps of my future-based

career.

I know what it's like to feel that squeeze and that rigidity.

And it isn't conducive to health,

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