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 Loves and welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show.

Where a topic this week is how to acknowledge and manage

loneliness during the holiday season.

So we hear a lot about the joy of the season, there's lights, there is celebrations, there's get-togethers,

but the reality is that for many of us it's natural to experience times periods

moments of feeling alone and lonely even in the midst of these joyful activities.

And this may be true if you are surrounded with social activities

and lots of people, or you may be in a more isolated situation.

Loneliness has to do with our emotional well-being.

It comes from the inside.

And we'll get into the research and factors today that contribute to it.

So it's again different and separate from the environment that we happen to be in.

We can be lonely even if we are in a lot of noisy situations.

Or we can feel lonely if we are physically by ourselves. And we want to address this we want to

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