How to Communicate More Clearly and Effectively in Relationships [Ep. #950]

Topic: How to Communicate More Clearly and Effectively in Relationships.

Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. Our topic this week is how to communicate more clearly and effectively in relationships. This is such a huge part of wellness for all of us because when we are able to communicate, it means that we actually get our needs met. It means that there’s less drama, less friction, less chaos in our lives, less projecting out of unprocessed, undigested emotions. When we are clearly communicating, it means that our hearts are rising up into our throats and out in this really vulnerable, clear, effective communication versus the games of the mind that can create lots of stress and dragging us down. I know for myself and my journey, communication has been a huge thing. And for many years, I have felt the best communicating through the written word. think that’s why I’ve written so many books. Sometimes if there’s something to work out or an issue I tend to text a lot or I did in the past or write down things versus now where I’m at, especially with all my Work around increasing my own heart coherence I’ve noticed that I’m able to be calmly and clearly communicate better and it’s made my life function so much more….

 

Episode Summary:

In this episode, Kimberly explores the vital role of clear communication in relationships, emphasizing its impact on emotional well-being and overall wellness. She discusses practical strategies for improving communication, including emotional balance, self-reflection, active listening, and creating a safe environment for vulnerability. The conversation highlights the importance of heart-centered communication and presence in fostering deeper connections and understanding in relationships.

 

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Episode Chapters

00:00 The Importance of Clear Communication in Relationships
06:05 The Role of Self-Reflection in Effective Communication
12:12 Creating a Safe Environment for Vulnerability
18:04 Navigating Difficult Conversations
24:09 Final Thoughts on Effective Communication

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

A 2011 Study on Emotional Awareness in the journal Clinical Psychology found that individuals who engage in self-reflection and identify their emotions and own needs have better emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships which is a crucial first step in effective communication.

A 2014 Study in the International Journal of Listening found that active listening significantly enhances interpersonal relationships and helps both parties feel heard and understood which in turn leads to improved communication and higher satisfaction in personal relationships.

A 1998 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that when individuals express vulnerability, it tends to elicit trust and connection from others. This mutual vulnerability creates a safe environment for open dialogue.

A 2019 study in the Journal of Vulnerability found that fear of rejection and shame often prevents individuals from expressing their needs. The study indicated that embracing vulnerability leads to stronger connections and healthier communication patterns.

A 2010 study published in the journal of Family Psychology showed that effective communication is a significant predictor of relationship satisfaction. Couples who openly discuss their needs and feelings report higher levels of happiness and stability in their relationships.

 

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Transcript

Kimberly Snyder (00:00.888)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. Our topic this week is how to communicate more clearly and effectively in relationships. This is such a huge part of wellness for all of us because when we are able to communicate, it means that we actually get our needs met. It means that there’s less drama, less friction, less chaos in our lives, less projecting out of unprocessed, undigested emotions. When we are clearly communicating, it means that our hearts are rising up into our throats and out in this really vulnerable, clear, effective communication versus the games of the mind that can create lots of stress and dragging us down. I know for myself and my journey, communication has been a huge thing. And for many years, I have felt the best.

Communicating through the written word. think that’s why I’ve written so many books Sometimes if there’s something to work out or an issue I tend to text a lot or I did in the past or write down things versus now where I’m at, especially with all my Work around increasing my own heart coherence I’ve noticed that I’m able to be calmly and clearly communicate better and it’s made my life function so much

I feel more closeness in my relationships. There isn’t, there just isn’t all this wasted energy. So I’m really excited to get into some research and tangible tips to share with you today. As we’re moving towards winter solstice, these really increasingly darker days, this is a time to go inward and to think about how we rebirth already into the new year. And with proper, excellent

clear communication, we can start to move our goals and dreams forward in a really wonderful way in 2025. Speaking of which, I have a brand new two or three day, there’s going to be a zoom and then a two day program. So we’ll call it the three day at home reset program that we are going to be launching in January. So please head over to mysaloon.com to check it out and sign up.

Kimberly Snyder (02:21.454)
You don’t have to fly anywhere for this retreat. You will do it at home. I will have a very complete schedule for you, including recipes. And we’re gonna do a Zoom together. There’s a stretch video to help your body expand and release old tension, trauma, reactions, and tension. There’s going to be a very special heart aligned meditation and journaling prompts for the new year. So check everything out at my website, again, mysalooner.com. It’s gonna be a very exciting program.

and I very much hope that you join us. Okay, all that being said, let’s get right into our show today. I love this topic. Vaishuddha Chakra is our throat chakra. And as we start to line up our energy, we start to realize that there is a more, a different way that we can express ourselves in the world. And this helps us to flow through, to understand our needs, to communicate our needs, to get our needs met.

to really build our vitality and again, to move our goals forward. So our question today comes from Deborah who lives in Minneapolis. Hi Deborah, thank you so much for writing in. And you write, love the podcast and the new book. I wanted to ask you about communication as I often struggle with it and find it hard to be open and vulnerable. What can I do to be a better communicator? Deborah, I love that you’re bringing this up.

because we’re not in the world isolated and on our own. We are meant to be in communion, literally with other humans, other people. We’re meant to express and listen and be in the world in this way. And as I mentioned earlier, bettering my communication has bettered my life so much. When we start on this wellness path, it’s really…

for many of us, including myself, a start to the food and the exercise and all these tangible things. But then we realize how much our emotional well-being plays a part and it extends into communication. How do we get along with others on a day-to-day basis? How are we able to communicate with clearness and coming from our hearts?

Kimberly Snyder (04:39.266)
Right? Because this really makes such a big difference. It makes a difference in our stress levels. It makes a difference even in our digestion and all these other parts. Because when we don’t communicate well, conflicts come and then we start to ruminate about things. We overthink things. We replace situations. I know I speak from personal experience. This is something that I’ve looked at myself for many years. Is that person mad at me? Did I say the wrong thing? How did why did they say this to me? Right? There’s just so

much that the mind can lead us down this path. And this creates incoherence in our system. It wastes a ton of energy. It drains our vitality. It certainly makes us age faster. So communication is huge. A 2010 study published in the Journal of Family Psychology also showed that effective communication is a significant predictor of relationship satisfaction. Now this was studying couples specifically.

who openly discuss their needs and feelings report higher levels of happiness and stability in their relationships. I think sometimes we overlook these really important qualities like stability. Sometimes we have this idea that, know, especially with romantic relationships, it’s this, you know, incredibly big love that sweeps us off our feet and it’s so exciting. But really when it comes to day-to-day health, and again, as the study points out, relationship satisfaction.

The steadiness, the stability of a relationship is like a rock that can allow you to flourish in your individual life, in your work, in your creativity, in your feelings of bliss and happiness. If our relationships are rocky, if there’s a lot of drama and mismanaged communication, it’s such a big distractor from a peaceful, joyful life.

Excellent communication also fosters more intimacy, more closeness, more trust, so that we can feel comfortable really being ourselves in our relationships with our friends, with our loved ones, with our colleagues. Again, we reduce conflict. It strengthens bonds. There is that research study in the clear heart, if you’ve read The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, showing how much we affect each other.

Kimberly Snyder (06:59.876)
when we are in each other’s heart field, especially since the heart field is felt eight to 10 feet from the body, when we can really open up and feel that harmony within ourselves and with others, there’s a really health-giving, hormone-balancing, immunity-boosting effect. It’s very healthy to feel stable within ourselves and in our relationships and to prevent all these different misunderstandings.

So how do we better our communication? Right? So there’s some practical things I want to talk about here as well as research. And the first thing is that we want to create emotional balance and clarity before we try to communicate with someone else. And this includes in all forms, verbally, on text, on email, leaving someone a voice note. We want to create real

harmony within ourselves first. Otherwise, we can project out in harmony and that person will feel it. Our energy is very much felt. Tone is felt. We may not come from a word choice, the ways in which we’re writing things. People can feel when something is off. This doesn’t mean that we don’t communicate our needs clearly, but what it means is that we want to be like a

a calmer lake versus a turbulent ocean before we reach out. Now, of course, we’re all works in progress, myself included. Sometimes we slip, sometimes we say things harshly or something really triggers us in the moment. But this is why we want to build up more tools from our heart coherence toolbox, because the more we speak from our heart, not only do we preserve our peace and our health, but our communication is more.

effective. Just, you know, hear my words here. You know, I’m coming from my heart and I really want to, you know, I just really feel this and I want to say this to you from my heart versus from my mind, you know, mental place. You know, I noticed this and, you know, it just feels sharper and more surface and that we’re not really

Kimberly Snyder (09:22.436)
in communion with someone else. more like we’re trying to prove our points or push something on someone else. The heart is sharing and back and forth and it feels really warm, feels tender and it is an effective way to communicate. So what we want to do is continue to foster higher heart coherence through the heart align meditation. Our eight minute meditation which really has been proven to increase coherence in as little as four weeks, over about 29 % on average.

So I encourage you to check out the tracks at mysalona.com. There’s more information in the new book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts. And also a very important practice in that book is the heart align steady in life. This is based on research, how we digest emotions in the middle of the day. So this is not a meditation. This is when you’re sitting at your desk and an email comes in that really throws you off.

how you digest this through the body. So it’s not stagnant, it’s not stuck, it doesn’t continue to create chaos in your system, and you don’t project any resentment, anger, overwhelm, whatever these big emotions are out into your communication with others, which will reduce your health, it will push people away, it will create more conflict and misunderstandings. So self-awareness is really important when it comes to emotional balance.

We need to understand when we’re triggered. We need to understand what it feels like in our body. We need to slow things down and get ourselves calm before we communicate out. A 2011 study in emotional awareness in the journal Clinical Psychology found that individuals who engage in self-reflection and identify their emotions and needs have better emotional regulation in interpersonal relationships, which is crucial.

first step in effective communication. So self-reflection, coming back, reflecting self-awareness. What’s going on right now? As I write about in the book and what the research shows, sometimes these reactions which are coming from the amygdala, which stores emotional response, can be so fast that we’re not really consciously aware. Someone says something, it may trigger stored memory from our childhoods, from our past.

Kimberly Snyder (11:44.654)
Suddenly we’re feeling really angry. Suddenly we’re feeling really resentful of that person. And it has nothing to do with the present moment. So what we want to do, and this work has really helped me, is we start to notice our breath, even our heart rate. We start to notice when there’s change. For me sometimes my stomach tightens. These are signals that somehow the mind has interpreted something which is a form of reactivity.

Reactivity is not the place we want to communicate from. This will destroy effective communication. When reactivity comes, the first and only thing to do on the to-do list is to come back to your heart, take some deep breaths, take care of yourself. This is real self-care, before you even think about communicating out. When you do communicate, your needs will be more clearly enunciated and explained.

and therefore met. If you’re coming from that place of anger, again, people will feel that and they’ll shut down or they’ll not listen as much or they’ll push you away or they’ll feel like they’re being attacked. And people will do things when it comes from a heartfelt place much more than when we force or when we push. So to create that awareness, start to notice what’s happening in your body. This is not a time where we can really trust our thoughts. Things can starting to be swirling around in your head.

backing up narratives, stories, old patterns. You may be telling yourself, no, this isn’t fair. This person is doing this, blah, blah, blah, versus settling in, noticing what’s happening inside of you from a somatic physical standpoint, and then taking the time to take some deep breaths, do your heart coherence tools, your heart align tools. And then when you’re calm, then you can start to actually express more clearly.

Now, if this is a long-going issue, something that’s been bothering you for a while, and in the moment you do these tools, but you need a little bit more space to get clear, I highly recommend journaling about the issue, which can allow you, when you put pen to paper, to see what is it that I’m really trying to say, start to pick apart, this is the part I own, this is the part I would like to request of this other person, these are my boundaries.

Kimberly Snyder (14:09.592)
This is actually something I own. This is something I could take care of by myself. This is something that I need this person to step up and do, right? Sometimes it can get a little bit muddled when it’s up in our head for all of us, because there’s a lot of thousands and thousands of thoughts going on up there. And I know for myself, journaling is really powerful. And I actually look back and I reflect on my notebook almost every day. And sometimes I write things down and I go back and I say, hmm.

I was a bit triggered when I wrote this down and now there’s a bit more clarity. Now I’m looking at it the next morning and I could see this is actually the way, the most effective way to communicate this, right? So it takes time sometimes. Part of effective communication is not rushing, right? Rushing is very much a mind-based linear quality. I need to do this right now, this urgency, and then we can spill things out on people that again can repel them very much.

or that just doesn’t feel good, it’s not really coming from our heart. So just like deep, slow breaths are slower than faster, more stressed out breaths, we wanna slow down. We don’t always have to rush to get back to that person. Text comes in and it really bothers us. We don’t have to respond within that hour or even within that day, right? Just allow some space, take care of yourself. And the more we start to

build our coherence baseline by doing the heart align meditation. We see the power of dropping from the head. We can do it right now here together into placing attention on your heart, out of the thoughts, out of the chaos. And it feels really grounding to come literally into your heart. You can place your hands on your heart as I’m doing right now. If you’re watching this on YouTube, you can do it with me. Don’t do it while you’re driving.

But you can also place your attention on your heart, whether you’re driving or taking a shower, or whatever you happen to be cooking dinner, whatever you happen to be doing, and just let this start to soothe your nervous system. When our nervous system is regulated, which is what heart coherence does, then we become calmer and then communication will definitely be more effective. Now another aspect of effective communication is active listening. A 2014 study in the International Journal of Listening

Kimberly Snyder (16:35.118)
found that active listening significantly enhances interpersonal relationships and helps both parties feel heard and understood, which in turn leads to improved communication and higher satisfaction in personal relationships. What is active listening? Active listening is we’re actively bringing ourselves into this moment of presence. We are listening with our full bodies and our fullness, the fullness of our being.

We are emptying our minds of our own ideas, thoughts, planning what we’re going to say next. So that when we do, when it is our turn to speak, it’s coming from the wellspring of our heart’s wisdom instead of the mental planning of the mind, which can build resistance with the other person. They will sense and feel on a deep conscious or subconscious level that they haven’t really been listened to, which then creates a resistance to them listening to you.

Right? So active listening is this real conscious effort to give our fullness to that person. This is not our time to speak. This is not our time to be heard. This is not our time to prove a point. This is not our time to try to be right. Right? Mind is always trying to create right or wrong. I’ve noticed in my marriage how much our communication has improved because I really listen.

to my husband now. When we first were married, sometimes he would say something and his tone or the wording he used would make me feel really defensive. And right away I’d be thinking about, well, no, no, that’s not actually right. I didn’t do it like that. no, actually, you just you did this first or whatever it was, right? It’s always about the points. And it was so literal. And of course, this ended up in a lot more conflict and not getting to the piece of the effective communication that we wanted.

I would say it’s really true, or at least in my experience, that the first year of marriage is the hardest. Now we’re going on six years of marriage. One thing I’ve learned is that you really need to listen to your partner. And when you listen, you can really feel intuitively what they’re saying in between the words, right? It’s not really the words, but what is the need? What are they really wanting here? So,

Kimberly Snyder (19:03.916)
You know, my husband sometimes I can feel he really needs more time and attention from me, especially in the evenings, because I do pay a lot of attention to our kids. And so it’s this conscious effort of turning my attention to my husband, planning ways and times for us to be together, because that is a need he has. And sometimes it’ll come out before, you know, picking on little things, unrelated things, or, you know, just things that.

didn’t seem to add up, but then I could feel, again, the more coherent we become, our intuition grows, he really just needs this loving attention from me as his wife and his partner. So when we are actively listening, we can really discern and that person will really feel heard and it feels so good. It is such an act of love for one another.

in relationship and community to deeply listen to one another. And so we don’t want to respond right away because then they’ll feel like they haven’t been heard. You want to take that pause to take in what they’ve said into your heart. And then from this place of presence, feeling what comes from this loving, compassionate, calm, kind place inside of you. And sometimes you’re not going to agree.

Sometimes you still need to put up a boundary or say something or express a difference, but it can be done from this effective place of the heart, which will ensure that your needs get met far more easily.

Kimberly Snyder (20:40.932)
Now we’re going to talk about environment, right? So the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that when individuals express vulnerability, it tends to elicit more open dialogue, trust, and communication, connection. So what really fosters vulnerability?

Vulnerability is when we, so think about the opposite of being vulnerable. When we’re not vulnerable, we’re protected, we’re guarded. It almost feels like this encasing to me when I visualize the feeling of guardedness, it feels like there’s this armor around our hearts protecting us. And at the root of that is fear. So first of all, it’s important to contemplate what are we fearful of, right? And these are

really powerful journaling questions. These are some of the things that we’ll be getting into during our Heart New Year’s Reset course. We have to really understand the fear that’s motivating not just our actions, but our inactions, our inability to show ourselves in communication to express ourselves. I know sometimes I’m scared that I’ll be judged.

Sometimes when I think about what keeps me from being really vulnerable is that I won’t be loved or I’ll be picked apart.

And these are things that, you know, from the deepest part inside of me, I can start to feel like, wow, you know, there really is that fear in there. And that may be why sometimes I, you know, in certain situations or conversations, I’ll keep things more surface. But as I’ve started to awaken my heart more and more, really is this lifelong process. all bumbling along as humans and more keeps.

Kimberly Snyder (22:44.42)
More realizations do come and more stuckness keeps getting revealed, right? Little spots of darkness in our hearts, dark heart moments that come up seemingly out of nowhere. We just keep looking with patience and love. We keep introspecting. So the more we do that, the more we start to crack open this shell. And this is where we can really go beyond the picking, what others may perceive as nagging.

or attacking others into this soft sort of underbelly of vulnerability. What is it that I really need? Right? So it may come across as nagging if you keep saying to your partner like, hey, you you got to do more around the house. Don’t go out so much, blah, blah, And then they’re like, like, you know, get off my back. Leave me alone.

But if you keep going down to the vulnerable need underneath, could be, I really just wanna spend more time with you. I’m feeling this need to spend time and feel closer to you. I’m just feeling like we’ve just did apart a little bit, or I felt like we’re so busy right now, or I felt like there’s so much going on in the world and I wanna be more cozy at home, or whatever it is.

There’s a really great book I recommend around communication as well. It’s called Nonviolent Communication and it’s by Dr. Marshall Rosenthal. And he has this process for expressing your feelings and your needs. I read it a long time ago. The forward is written by Deepak Chopra. Deepak actually gave me the book Dr. Marshall has passed some years ago.

But he sort of, Deepak gave me this book in passing once I was in his office and I didn’t really hear, I hadn’t heard of the book. I kind of put it aside for a while. And then we sit on the floor in our living room and there’s this really long section of bookshelves. You may have seen it on my Instagram, certain videos. Sometimes books just call to me and I remember playing Monopoly with my kids or something and I saw the book and I picked it off the shelf. And it really was helpful in some regards in pinpointing.

Kimberly Snyder (25:05.25)
this aspect of communication, which is not attacking, not covering over, but vulnerably getting down to our feelings and needs. Right? So this can require some unpicking, again, back to journaling, back to more time and reflection for self-awareness. Spending time out of the mind, I find really invaluable, which means in the meditation, in this expansiveness, where we can just start to listen more to ourselves, talk about active listening. First, we have to be able to hear.

ourselves and our hearts speaking. Sometimes something’s not right in a relationship. It’s just really toxic or unnatural or there’s something we don’t want to address. Sometimes in a business situation, we have moved past the skill set of someone and it’s time to make space for someone else to come on. Sometimes we need to let go of someone and that can be really hard to face.

or sometimes we don’t feel drawn to being in a friendship that much anymore, spending a lot of time there. I’ve gone down that path and you can feel guilt, sometimes it feels awkward. Yeah, a couple times in the last few years, I’ve sort of had to have some more direct conversations. There’s an incidence I’m thinking of now where it just sort of faded away without

confrontation, right? I think it’s situation to situation, but in one case, it just really felt unhealthy to me to be around this person, this friend. Sometimes this happens, you know, with relationships and romantic relationships. And it’s so important for our own self care that we listen to ourselves. So we’re able to make these very organic and much needed adjustments.

This is as important, again, back to our Four Cornerstones. We focus a lot on food. We focus a lot on our bodies. We see our bodies. We see our skin. We see our hair in the mirror. But wow, our emotions, our relationships, our spiritual growth is, in my opinion, having such a huge, perhaps even more, or at least as much, if not more, effect on our organs, tissues, vitality and energy, on our circulation.

Kimberly Snyder (27:24.034)
Right? As Dr. Roland McCready says, and we did the research study with for HeartAlign, emotions run the show. Emotions run the show. The emotions are putting into effect thousands of biochemical processes which will age you, which will drain your vitality, which will drain your immunity and your hormonal balance and so many other things. So this is not a time for suppression. This is also not effective communication. It doesn’t come from

projecting out strong emotions. It comes from centering ourselves in our heart, getting really clear when we are calm, calming ourselves with self-care first using our Heart Align study in life technique, using these heart coherence techniques, building our coherence through the Heart Align meditation, and having a very clear understanding and self-reflection, am I really calm right now? And when I’m really calm,

then I will effectively communicate my feelings, my needs, and also what I’m requesting, what I’m wanting from this other person. Sometimes we don’t want them to do anything so we can say, hey, I’m just wanting to express this right now. I’m not looking for solution, right? Typical male, female, sometimes in the past I would get frustrated, I’d be telling a story to my husband. He’s like, well, why don’t you do this, this and this? And now I just say to him, hey, I just want to share this with you.

and I’m processing it myself but I’m not looking for solution, you know, I just want to share. So I could actually say that. Or sometimes we’re requesting of someone, would you be mindful of not phrasing it this way? It just makes me feel like this or, know, I’m just, I’m requesting that you not text me so much or you not text me after 10 o’clock. I’m just wanting some quiet time.

to wind down the day. And so I just prefer if we communicate earlier in the day, but whatever it is, it gets really clear when we’re calm, out of the jumbling, overthinking mind, we drop into the heart. And it’s amazing how much simplicity and power emanates from this heart, from your heart, up into the throat, right? And then out into this clear, loving, firm, effective communication. It’s not wishy washy.

Kimberly Snyder (29:49.806)
But it’s not unkind, it’s not sharp. You can say what you need to say, but keep the love in your voice. And wow, the power of this type of communication to be heard, to be acted upon, to be respected, will blow you away. It’s blown me away. Sometimes when I think back on some of the mismanaged communication strategies that I’ve unknowingly employed over the years, everything from passive aggressive,

to getting sharp, to armoring myself up with lots of facts to back up my story instead of just confidently speaking right from my heart or expressing my needs. Sometimes I get angry just to talk, talk, talk, and that you can see the person doesn’t really understand what they want you to do. And if you don’t get really clear what you want them to do, maybe it’s something as simple as, you know, just listen to me, hear what I’m saying.

you know, see me in this situation, whatever it is, right? If you have to get clear within yourself and then you can really effectively communicate to that other person. But I am convinced that really effective communication doesn’t have to be over complicated. It’s not this mental thing. We don’t have to, you know, have PhDs in communication style, but it does take calmness, composure, emotional regulation.

calming ourselves first and then speaking from the heart. Feelings, needs, requests. What do I feel like? What am I needing right now? And what would I like to request from the other person? And then sometimes, right, we’re not needing or requesting anything. It’s just really beautiful communication. In any case, always requires active listening so that we can really hear what that person is wanting to share or what they want to say.

or just presence. And I also want to wrap this up by saying that really wonderful communication doesn’t have to involve a lot of words. It can just be getting coherent together, meditating together, or just sitting together, holding each other, looking in each other’s eyes, right? Being together, not being on our phones, not being on screens, not being distracted. I know my kids can really appreciate true presence.

Kimberly Snyder (32:11.984)
And the times if I do have to send a work text or something like, get off your phone. It happens very rarely and they notice when I am on my phone because it doesn’t feel good to them. You know, there’s times for work and there’s times to be on screens, but there’s times to be really with our loved ones to give someone that really respectful, loving care comes in presence, And presence as in, not something you can wrap up physically, but something that

happens with this harmonious, beautiful energy. It’s awake and alive and here, right now, what a beautiful gift. So I hope this inspires you to think and to reflect on effective communication, how you can heighten it and nurture it more in your life because this is a wonderful way to promote self-care.

Once again, I’ll remind you that the show notes are at mysalooner.com as well as the information on our at-home reset program, which will be launching in just a few weeks in January. So I hope you join us. It will be something that, there’ll be a Zoom and then you’ll focus on for two days. I think it’s gonna be a wonderful way to allow your heart to really guide you and lead you forward in the new year in a way that

Perhaps you’ve never done before, you’re really used to these heady linear ways that the mind can lead us forward and what a blessing to allow our hearts to do that. And the effectiveness, the power. Also please check out The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts if you haven’t yet. And if you have, I would love to hear a review from you which is a wonderful way to support and to help other hearts find the book. So thank you so much in advance.

You can also find me on social media at underscore Kimberly Snyder. We will be back here Monday as always for our next show. Till then, sending you so much love and see you back here soon.