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. I'm so grateful to be here with you today.

My first show since the fires started. And in real time, I want to talk about our topic today,

which is nine self-care practices for times of intense stress and trauma. So as I speak to you here today, I am still an evacuation with my family from the fires that hit Los Angeles

on January 8th. And I couldn't have done this podcast a few days ago, to be honest. I was intense and still

am an intense prayer, taking care of my kids, really not able to do much else. We are very

grateful and blessed by the grace of God. We did not lose our home, although many in our direct

community of friends and school members did, unfortunately,

and heartbreakingly lose their home. My children lost our beloved school. There was a call

from the school and the emails came in that there was a fire nearby. I ran into my husband's

office and he ran down to grab the kids in the smoke and shortly after their school burned.

So there's just been a lot to process. There's a collective trauma happening at the moment.

And it has been such an insanely intense week that I wanted to share

this show with you while I'm in it, while my body and my nervous system are quite heightened right now,

but coming down and how I've been able to really take care of myself. Because the truth is,

life is fragile, life is beautiful, but we cannot take it

for granted. And these are the moments we realize that we need to appreciate our loved ones,

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