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.

Hi, loves and welcome back to our interview show on Monday. I am so

excited and thrilled to have Dr. Uma Naidu on our show today. She's the author of this new wonderful book.

Calm your mind with food, a revolutionary guide to controlling your anxiety.

Dr Uma is a board certified Harvard nutritionist nutritional

psychiatrist I love this combination she serves as the director of

nutritional psychiatry at MGH Academy.

She's on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Department of Nutrition, and

she's an instructor at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.

Dr Uma, thank you so much for coming on our show today.

Thanks for having me, Kimberly.

I'm so excited to talk to you.

What I love about your philosophy so much, Dr Uma, and diving into your book is that you are expanding our approach to food, which is very close to my heart. It's not just about the way it looks, not just

making it look pretty, not just the taste, although we want things to be delicious, but

that food is a real tool in elevating the quality of our life, our

happiness, our peace, as you talk about here so eloquently, our anxiety levels,

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