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.

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Hi, loves and welcome back to our December power hour,

where our theme this month is a season of inner light, regulating the nervous system and nourishing the soul. I believe that this period between Thanksgiving all the way up to Christmas is a very

sacred period for us to really reflect and clarify our intentions for the new year. This is the

period where winter solstice is, which is around December 21st, which is known as the darkest day,

but it's also when the outer light starts to grow and grow and grow. So this is such an

amazing period to go within and to connect to this inner light. This is where we plant the seeds

for the new year. You know, Western society put so much emphasis on this man-made

holiday of January 1st and the new year, which is great. But when we really tune into nature,

our great mother nature and what's happening on a planetary level, there is the solstice. This is the

natural time. Maybe you've been feeling it naturally.

I know I have, we were just in Hawaii. We rebuilt our tree nursery, our greenhouse where we house

all our baby cacao. That's how we say in our family, cacao, cacao plants, trees, which come into

the field when they get a little bit more mature.

But it had gotten really run down. There was scrub trees growing up and the wood had started

to become really dilapidated. So over the holiday, we took everything out. We threw out the

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