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, everyone, and welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show. I hope you're having a wonderful week so far. And today we're to be talking about a topic

that affects multiple cornerstones, especially our bodies and emotional well-being, and it has to do with trauma, and specifically how to release trauma from your body and open your fart.

So when I read this book a few years ago called Your Body Keeps the Score by Vessel Landerk, I was surprised to learn that by his estimation.

About 75% or more of Americans have experienced some form of trauma in their childhood.

And I imagine there are similar statistics depending on which country you happen to be from,

but the point is that most of us, the vast majority of us, experience some form of trauma,

something that makes us close up. It makes us create certain patterns for survival or

protecting ourselves into our adulthood, into the present

moment where we are today. And one of the things that I've learned, especially in studying all

this work around the heart and heart coherence, is even as we start to learn mentally that we are

safe, that these patterns don't need to keep continuing

in the now moment, there can be patterning in our, stored in our bodies, in our joints, in our

nervous system, in our different tissues of our body. And it's very important that we release

trauma from our bodies,

which allows us to live in more freedom and love and fullness and vitality through our

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