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 Thursday Q&A show.

I hope you're having a lovely week so far as we start to head into this new year upon us. And what a beautiful time to be talking about our topic today, which is how to

build personal resilience and lean on yourself to get through anything. I didn't used to think

so much about personal strength as a really important component of wellness. I used to think a lot

about, you know, the surface.

And I still want, of course, great skin and hair. But I would think about energy because we

feel that day to day. But as time has gone on, I realize how impactful personal resilience is.

Because when we are resilient within ourselves, it also means we are resilient against stress and all the many, many things that we don't control in the

outside world, all the things that don't go our way, all these ways in which we can expect life to be and it doesn't show

up. If we don't have inner resilience, you know, I use this analogy in the hidden power of the

five hearts. It feels like we're being tossed in the waves of the ocean. It's very up. It's very down.

We're in fighter flight. Our nervous system is, you know, all over the place.

And this has a very real physiological effect. Our hormones don't work so well. There's a lot of

cortisol in our system. We start to notice symptoms. We start to get sick more often. We feel

more tired. We notice our hair is thinning. Maybe there's more wrinkles

coming. We start to feel a, just a lack of groundedness in our bodies. Our digestion can feel

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