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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to this episode of the Mindful and Minutes podcast.

Now, this is our winter solstice meditation. I love doing these seasonal meditations.

And we are really going to be honoring the sense of hope that can come with this season.

I know often in winter we think about the darkness, resting, hibernating, but the winter solstice is the day where the light begins

to return to our lives. And we can think of this light as sort of being a symbol of hope. So

that's what we're going to be focusing on. This meditation is letting the light return to our

lives if things have been feeling a little bit dark.

Also, one quick reminder before the practice is that I just opened up the at-home New Year's

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