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, wherever you happen to be in our community. And today we're going to be

talking about letting go of negative self-talk, which is something

that is so common for, let's face it, most all of us, even though we have this wholeness

and this abundance, we get disconnected from it quite easily in modern life, maybe from the way

we were raised.

Our caretakers didn't have that deep connection

to themselves, even though they did their best. So we grow up in this sort of fragmented way,

and we can be really mean to ourselves. I know I've been very, very harsh on myself growing up,

and, you know, it affected my body image. It led to very unhealthy

habits and eating disorders. So there's the body cornerstone. Of course, emotionally, when we are

very negative with ourselves, we can harden up. And it creates this shell.

I was recently at a conference and I met some other people at the conference who weren't necessarily very warm and friendly.

And I think years ago I might have been a little bit judgmental and said, wow, that

person isn't very kind or very nice, you know, right now.

But from where I see it from my heart's perspective, you realize that the people that can be very closed are often very harsh with

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