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 of Saluna,

New York Times best-selling author,

and holistic wellness, nutrition, and meditation teacher.

Let's get started.

Namaste day loves and welcome back to our Monday interview podcast.

I am very excited for our topic today

which is an important one that we talk about

on toxic positivity. So there's a big difference

between being positive in this forced way as we'll get into today versus really feeling the range of emotions as humans and natural optimism.

And so in today's show we're going to really define what toxic positivity is so we can be aware of it in our own life.

There are many detrimental aspects of pushing down our feelings, including in our physical body, experiencing more inflammation, imbalance of hormones.

There's very real physical things that happen when we don't really allow ourselves to feel and to express as humans.

And at the same time we don't want to wallow in negativity either.

So today we're going to talk about the distinction of feeling and tips and tools to really

get to this place of natural optimism without the fakeness, without the forceness.

So my guest today is John Pissani, who is my partner at Saluna. He's been my long-term partner, best friend.

We've talked about so many of these topics together. We've grown together so much and individually.

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