How to Release Trauma from Your Body and Open Your Heart [Episode #942]

 

Topic: Releasing Trauma in the Body 

Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far. And today we’re gonna be talking about a topic that affects multiple cornerstones, especially our bodies and emotional wellbeing. And it has to do with trauma and specifically how to release trauma from your body and open your heart. So when I read this book a few years ago called Your Body Keeps the Score. I was surprised to learn that by his estimation, about 75 % or more of Americans have experienced some form of trauma in their childhood. And I imagine there are similar statistics depending on which country you happen to be from. But the point is that most of us, the vast majority of us, experience some form of trauma, something that makes us create certain patterns for survival or protecting ourselves into our adulthood, into the present moment where we are today.

 

Episode Summary:

In this conversation, Kimberly Snyder explores the profound impact of trauma on emotional and physical well-being. She discusses how trauma is stored in the body and emphasizes the importance of releasing it through various methods such as breathwork, movement, detoxification, and creative expression. Snyder highlights the role of the heart in healing and encourages listeners to embrace heart-led living to overcome past traumas and experience greater freedom and joy in life.

 

 

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

A 2015 Study in the Journal of Psychiatry Research found that regular physical activity can reduce PTSD symptoms and improve mental health. Exercise is shown to decrease anxiety and depressive symptoms in trauma survivors.

 A 2017 study involving Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress evaluated Somatic Experiencing (SE) for PTSD treatment. This study found significant reductions in PTSD symptoms among participants who underwent SE therapy compared to a control group. Specifically, 44% of SE participants no longer met the criteria for PTSD post-treatment.

A 2015 A study published in Frontiers in Psychology discussed SE’s theoretical underpinnings and practical applications. It detailed how SE uses interoception (awareness of internal body sensations) and proprioception (sense of body position) to help clients process and resolve trauma, suggesting a neurophysiological basis for its effectiveness​

A 2014 Study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that a Yoga practice was effective in reducing PTSD symptoms and improving overall mental health in trauma survivors. The study highlighted the importance of body-focused practices in trauma recovery.

 A 2005 Study in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that breathwork techniques significantly improved emotional regulation, reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression, and helped trauma survivors manage stress.

A 2014 Study in the Permanente Journal found that EMDR was found to be highly effective in reducing PTSD symptoms and facilitating trauma processing, leading to long-term improvement in trauma survivors.

A 2014 Study in the Journal Complementary Therapies found that moderate pressure massage therapy significantly reduced anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms in trauma survivors, indicating its effectiveness in trauma recovery.

 

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Kimberly Snyder (00:01.1)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far. And today we’re gonna be talking about a topic that affects multiple cornerstones, especially our bodies and emotional wellbeing. And it has to do with trauma and specifically how to release trauma from your body and open your heart. So when I read this book a few years ago called Your Body Keeps the Score by Vessel van der Kolk, I was…

surprised to learn that by his estimation, about 75 % or more of Americans have experienced some form of trauma in their childhood. And I imagine there are similar statistics depending on which country you happen to be from. But the point is that most of us, the vast majority of us, experience some form of trauma, something that makes us close up.

It makes us create certain patterns for survival or protecting ourselves into our adulthood, into the present moment where we are today. And one of the things that I’ve learned, especially in studying all this work around the heart and heart coherence, is even as we start to learn mentally that we are safe, that these patterns don’t need to keep continuing in the now moment,

there can be patterning stored in our bodies, in our joints, in our nervous system, in our different tissues of our body. And it’s very important that we release trauma from our bodies, which allows us to live in more freedom and love and fullness and vitality through our hearts in the present moment. The power of our hearts is to be here in this full capacity to love.

and to be in compassion and to be in unity. But the trauma from the past can keep our hearts closed and constricted. So it makes us feel that we have to hold back, again, that we have to create this armor, the shell, these protection mechanisms to keep from getting closer, deepening relationships, keeping intimacy from growing. Many different things can happen. So I’m very excited to get into science today, as well as teachings to allow us to all grow.

Kimberly Snyder (02:23.194)
in coming into deepening of our levels of expansion, expansion and freedom in our lives. Before we go deeper into the show, little reminder that over on our website, mysaluna.com, which means the sun and the moon, it means the wholeness. And through wholeness, we can heal and through wholeness, we can experience the power of our hearts. That’s why we named our brand Saluna. But on our website, mysaluna.com will be the show notes.

for today’s show with the links to the research studies, should you want to read further, as well as offerings from our hearts to the community, including courses, including our mailing list, our newsletter, so you can stay up on new happenings, new recipes, new information, our amazing products, including our digestion-focused products, like our SBO probiotics and our

Amazing glowing greens powder to keep your body your vitality and not your entire being Functioning at its best emotionally physically mentally spiritual as well as tracks for the heart aligned meditation and information about the new book the hidden power of the five hearts Okay, so please be sure to take care of take advantage of all the resources Our question for today comes from Tiffany who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina Tiffany thank you so much for writing in

I so appreciate you being part of our community and I send you much love there to Wilmington. You’re right. Kimberly, I love the podcast and appreciate the information that you put so freely out into the world. My question is about emotional trauma. Looking back at my childhood, I can now see that I went through some very traumatic events and experiences. What can I do to let go and release that emotional trauma that I never dealt with?

So again, thank you so much, Tiffany, for highlighting this. I want to talk a little bit about trauma before we get into some of the details here. So with the vast majority of us experiencing some trauma, I want to emphasize that trauma isn’t just about specific events, although it can include events. Let’s say you went through a car accident or some type of something happened, like on a boat or in water or with a caregiver.

Kimberly Snyder (04:47.346)
or something happened in your school or something that was a one-time event that can definitely be a type of trauma. Then there’s repeated traumatic events. And one of the most pervasive types of trauma that Bessie LeVander-Kolk lists in this book is neglect. So all our caregivers, in their own way, we can say we’re doing their best. There is no instruction manual for being a parent or for being a caregiver.

And that person brings with them so much from their past. This is where intergenerational trauma can get past. Maybe they experienced neglect or a lack of affection or a lack of someone saying to them that they loved them or whatever it was. And so that’s how they know how to parent or that’s how they know how to show up. So I just want to emphasize that there can be ways in which we felt that we needed to

create achievements in order to be loved or to be seen. I know for me it was the days that the report card came out and I was so excited to show my achievements to my friends, to my parents, to other people that I felt a deeper sense of worth. And there’s trauma in that, right? Versus just really the reinforcing of knowing that we are worthy for being ourselves. So it’s important to maybe not

pick through necessarily and have to go through. don’t want to blame. We don’t want to think and rehash every part of our childhood. But to realize that most all of us have patterning in our neural networks, in our nervous system, in our bodies that may be less than optimal. So what we can do now, the empowered perspective, is what can we do now?

in this moment, on this day, and going forward to live in our fullest capacity through our hearts, through heart-led living, which means making the best possible choice for harmony, love, fulfillment, health in this moment. This is true freedom. This is true health. This is how we expand our lives. This is how we continue to become more creative. So what do we do now? So one of the most powerful ways that we can release trauma

Kimberly Snyder (07:07.746)
from the body is through movement and through our breath. Now I will say, let’s start with the breath for a moment. I have noticed as I’ve gone down this healing pathway, which is deep into the last few years, it started with food, healing my relationship with food and coming out of eating disorders into making healthier choices to the point where now my food feels very seamless. It used to take up so much time and energy to think about food so much. used to count calories.

and numbers, and there was just so much of my attention focused on food. And now there’s this easefulness. And this is why I went into writing about food in the first place, my first few books and talking about it, because I could see how much easier it could be. And that’s what I really want you and others to know is that once we start to trust the bodies, once we start to trust food and our healing capacity expands, we don’t have to be so hyper fixated on the numbers.

So for me, it started off with that, and then it got deeper into this heart work that I teach in the Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, which is about really building our coherence, our ability to avoid stress through strengthening the heart and the brain, the nervous system. So we feel safe in our bodies. We start to feel that we are unified inside of ourselves. And what this does is it starts to open up the breath naturally.

Now, those of you that have tried the Heart Aligned Meditation will recall, or those of you that are new, please try the tracks on the website. You’ll read more about it in the book. There’s a part of the practice where we breathe in and out of our hearts. And so this is a practice I wanna offer you today. While you’re focused on your heart, one of the things that you can start to do is take these deep breaths as if your heart is a lung. And this is called

Heart-focused breathing. This was studied in research by the Heart Math Institute, for example, which found that this starts to change the input signal to the brain. So this is something that you can start to do and continue to do in the moments where you feel overwhelmed, terror. Old patterns are coming up where you don’t feel safe or you start to feel annoyed or agitated. We want to…

Kimberly Snyder (09:23.964)
use the body to start to breathe through those dense moments and it starts to create new neural networks. It starts to reinforce that you are safe. Now, besides the breath, so these are very effective evidence-based practices for using the breath. Deep breathing is something that’s been taught in the yogic philosophy for so many thousands of years. When we’re breathing deeply, we signal to the nervous system that it is safe.

that we are safe, that we do not have to go into fight or flight. We do not have to go into a trauma response. So I wish I had these tools back then when I used to feel a lot of anxiety, even eating in restaurants. Before I had eating disorders, I had a lot of anxiety about eating in restaurants and I would often feel that I would throw up.

and my body would tighten and clench and I would have to hide in the bathroom. And I remember my family wondering what was wrong with me and I couldn’t explain it. I didn’t know what it was. So for anyone struggling with anxiety, which can manifest in panic attacks in so many different ways, try this practice because we don’t want to disassociate from our bodies. We don’t want to move away from full presence, which is where power is. Right. And this is where trauma heals in the present moment.

We want to stay in our hearts, right in our bodies, and to realize that we are safe and that we have the capacity to deal with these big feelings and emotions, and also to rewire ourselves to let go of things from the past constantly coming in. There’s a lot more information about this in the tools in the book, but this is such a powerful step that I will mention time and time again because it’s transformative. And then another thing that we want to do is we want to actually use our body’s capacity to move.

to release these old patterns, right? We’re not talking about just trying to understand it from a mental place. And I am a big advocate, you know, some type of healing healer therapy, talk therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy to understand mentally is important. But again, what we’re focusing on this podcast is how you release from your body. A 2015 study in the Journal of Psychiatry Research.

Kimberly Snyder (11:39.596)
found that regular activity helped to improve mental health, decreased anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and depressive symptoms in trauma survivors. So the movement of the body is so incredibly powerful. Just moving your body regularly, can equate the, you know, when we’re feeling slothful, we’re feeling down, it’s easy to sink down on the couch, it’s easy to…

You know, whatever the tendency is, smoking lots of weed, watching lots of Netflix, drinking lots of wine, whatever is the go-to pattern, there’s a lack of movement. We start to just sort of wallow in the constriction. It just starts to feel very stagnant. It reminds me when I was, you know, in the Beauty Detox Solution, we talk about a stagnant pond. When you’re drinking a lot of liquids while you’re eating food, there’s a lack of movement. And in lack of movement, old thoughts, old traumas tend to

be able to take hold and permeate the space versus moving things, breathing through, moving in nature, especially getting sunshine, breathing fresh air, moving past energy to move through your body. Another really powerful thing to do besides your normal exercise routines, which call to you, could be dance, could be swimming. It could be going to the gym, lifting weights, doing CrossFit.

doing yoga, asanas, whatever it is, there is this tuning into your body’s intuition, which is something that I started to do and practice even more regularly lately, which is to go onto my yoga mat. And I do this a lot in the evenings after bedtime when I have a little bit more stillness and I light it, I really make it a ritual. I light a candle and I get really still and then I let my body move.

And I even set the intention, know, body show me how to release. And this is where the nonlinear, the non-thinking mind has to settle down in order for the true intelligence inside of us to come up and out. allow that space, we allow that attention to come forward. So for me last night, there was some rocking back and forth. There was some stretching. was, you know, beyond the thinking mind, beyond doing set series where you turn on a, you know,

Kimberly Snyder (14:00.734)
and you’re following a teacher, yoga teacher guiding you through a series, there’s a space for that. But there’s a space, I really believe, for just letting your body move. If you set the intention, help me unwind my trauma, help me release old stuck energy from my body. You can say it as a prayer. You can just name it as an intention. It’s amazing what your body can start to do. It will start to move in different ways. know, naturally may start to scrunch up your shoulders or you start to twist.

or maybe you just need to lay still in a certain position for a while to release. I’m a big believer more and more in the world, world-less intelligence of the body. There’s so much that’s going on beyond words when you think about all these processes of how we even take the deep breaths, how the nervous system starts to relax, all the thousands of processes that happen on a daily basis. It’s the mind that can interfere, the mind that says, well, I’m going to exercise this way, or I’m going to do this.

And this is gonna happen. And we can start to realize how much ego there is in there and how much that can dampen down the actual potential of intelligence to come up and through us. So I encourage you, which may feel a little bit foreign, maybe a little bit awkward at first to really let your body take over, but just play some soft music and just start with really little micro movements. For me, sometimes it’s just touching my chin to my chest.

and then stretching up and back or doing some shoulder rolls. And then just start to let your body sway and move in a nonlinear way. It is in the circular movements, I believe, that in these little pockets where the cells can start to release, where trauma can be stored in the nervous system, in the tissues and the muscles and the joints. There was a book that I read years ago by Deepak Chopra.

And I reference it in the book that Deepak and I actually wrote together called Radical Beauty. And it was how they measured a skin cell. And they said that the cell had the qualities, the characteristics of depression, right, on this part of the body that you wouldn’t really register. So if depression can be stored in skin cells and manifest, right, in all these different ways in which the body is so interconnected and really is one holistic unit.

Kimberly Snyder (16:21.908)
It makes sense that trauma is not just a mental concept, but it is definitely stored throughout the body. So to be free, we want to move the spine. We want to move through the organs. And this also adheres to how traditional Chinese medicine believes that certain emotions in particular are trapped in certain organs. So for instance, liver, the liver is said to hold anger, right? The kidneys, the spleen can hold sadness, can hold grief.

So we want to just move and breathe through the combination of moving organically and taking deep breaths, I believe is true medicine for the body. Now, a 2017 study involving randomized controlled trials published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress evaluated somatic experiencing. So this is somatic experiencing therapy. This is using the body and touch and

movements instead of just talk therapy. And it found that there was a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms compared to those in the control group. using the body is one of the most powerful ways I think we move to that next level of healing. It’s not enough to just understand something mentally. We want to embody it, right? We want to embody heart-led living. Embodying it means we’re using

the full capacity of our bodies, the full capacity of food and these practices to live a heart led life. So when it comes to trauma, it’s this understanding that we don’t want the trauma to sit in the body, to come up in our conversations, in our relationships. So we start to cleanse our perspective. We start to do.

the heart align meditation. start to realign our hearts and our brains. And at the same time, we also take detoxing, right? This is another thing I wanna mention, especially when you’re going through your heart awakening journey, there’s a lot that can come out through your GI tract. This was my direct experience. When I started really emptying my colon, I started to feel lighter in my mind. I started to feel less anxiety.

Kimberly Snyder (18:40.81)
If I don’t continue to have regular bowel movements, it continues to happen. This is an ongoing process. In the beginning, yes, I did colonics. I don’t do colonics anymore. I stopped when I started having children, essentially. And I think they can be good in certain instances and at times, but I was a little bit worried about thinning the lining and just, you

There’s different types of colonics, but all the time long-term, I’m not sure. It wasn’t something that felt right for me to continue long-term, but taking detoxi, which is the natural, allowing the natural mechanism to take place by your body’s intelligence. Detoxi, if you don’t know, is a supplement you can take long-term that we offered Soluna, and it’s a mix of nascent oxygen and magnesium and stable vitamin C.

And so the point is regularly emptying your bowels is a way to continue to cleanse trauma from your body in a way because so much can get encrypted and stored in old debris. And since your body needs support and continually detoxifying in this very toxic world, the more you rid, the cleaner and more present your bodily cells are to what is right here right now.

So I recommend detoxing, sweating, especially when you’re going through letting go of something major or let’s say a big forgiveness process can be really powerful in a sauna. Some of us may be called to do a te mezcal in Mexico or sweat lodge or some sort of ceremony that involves the letting go process can also be really powerful.

And let’s see, there’s so much, there’s so many different studies about different modalities. There’s also some types of therapeutic body work out there. So this is where I also urge you to really use your intuition. A 2014 study in the Journal of Complementary Therapies found that this was measuring moderate pressure massage significantly helped to reduce anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms.

Kimberly Snyder (21:01.234)
I urge you to find a therapist that you vibe with. You can get great recommendations for people, but everybody’s energy is different. So if someone’s going to be touching your body, massage can help to release a lot. You want to make sure that you feel that there is a healing quality to this person, whatever that means for you. For me, it means nurturing touch, firmness.

but this person that is giving me a sub massage, want them to feel very grounded themselves. They tend to be more kaffa body types. I’m very Vata, so I need someone who’s a little bit more grounded, maybe a little bit thicker boned, feels grounding to my body as they are massaging me. Again, intention, you know, I’m using this massage to relax my muscles and to release whatever energies are trapped here.

Ayurvedic medicine is such a big believer in massage, right? We need some help and support sometimes to move energy through the body. There’s lymphatic drainage massage, there’s cranial sacral, there’s reiki, there’s so many different types of complimentary healing. And I urge you again to really get coherent, to get calm, to get clear, to do your heart aligned meditation.

in your heart aligned harmonized practice that I mentioned in the book before choosing a practitioner, you do not want to choose someone from a heady place like, this person works with such and such and da, da, da, da, da, da. That can be a guidance point, but ultimately you want to work with someone who vibes with you. And this is a very personal thing and it’s not something that anyone else can tell you.

I know that I’ve worked with therapists and healers before that really didn’t feel right. It was like a one-time deal, a one-time session. There are masseuses that I really love and I can’t say that I get a lot of massages other than my husband, but when I do, there are certain people that I know to call on and it feels like a really healing therapy. There’s something that really relaxes the nervous system from massage.

Kimberly Snyder (23:13.652)
And of course, there’s also acupuncture. There is Shirodara. There’s all the different Ayurvedic therapies you can get. There’s countless therapies. And so this is something that you may feel when you’re looking to really move something through the body can be very powerful. And once again, what I’m talking about here is in conjunction with any type of talk therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, energy healing, where you’re talking through issues.

as well so that you are working on multiple levels in the body.

So there is also an energy healer that I want to mention if you want to check out. I mentioned her in the Hidden Power of the Five Hearts. Her name is Laura Pringle. And you can go to laurapringle.com to learn about her. She does distance energy healing as well. And so, again, you can work on multiple levels. You can work on a bodily, physical level and all different.

ways in which you feel drawn to personally. So another thing I want to talk about is yoga asanas. And I say asanas to differentiate the poses because yoga really is a complete system. And for me personally, right now, yoga is primarily my meditation practice. But through these ancient poses, and especially if you take a more intuitive approach where you may feel called to be in

triangle pose or you can work with a teacher that will support you through a more intuitive practice. There is great healing I find in, you know, for instance, in the heart openers and the throat openers, if you’re working with trauma in your throat, in your expression, holding in your heart, fear in your hips. So it may be worth either buying a yoga book or learning some basic yoga poses that you can call on.

Kimberly Snyder (25:14.722)
As you’re working through some different energies that you want to move through your body, can be really, really powerful. Another thing that I want to mention can be really wonderful for releasing trauma are the creative arts. So touch, I know that when I do, yes, for my children, we do clay together. We work with different forms of art. It feels really…

It feels really healing to paint, to use finger paints, which I do with my younger son, or even to dip the clay in water. Sometimes we don’t get to process everything through words. And sometimes when we’re working in a tactile way, it could be through knitting or hand work or gardening. I find it working through the hands or doing things with our hands, creating crafts.

is very therapeutic and can help to heal and soothe when we’re working things out in the nervous system, which leads to nature, of course. There’s so many different ways to heal the body. When people think of grounding, for example, we think of walking barefoot through the earth, which I think is wonderful. For me, one of the most powerful ways I feel that I ground is to lay my spine down on the earth.

I feel that the earth can absorb and take so much. So if you feel like there’s something you really want to release, I recommend this practice. I lay on my lawn, you can lay on the beach, you know, right now be a little cold depending where you live. But as the water starts to warm up, try lying your body on Mother Nature and letting her take energetically, let her absorb and transmute these energies that are coming.

from you. Again, it has to do with the intention, right? Walking through a forest has a very different vibrational frequency than walking through a city. So sometimes when we change our environment, it helps us to release things that are stuck, laying our spines down on the earth, using water while, you know, swimming in a lake, in an ocean, or even in your bath, and adding some salts to the bath with the intention to help energies.

Kimberly Snyder (27:34.944)
release from the body, again, these intentions can be so powerful and so incredible.

So another thing about releasing trauma from the body is that, you know, we mentioned detoxing, we mentioned moving things through your GI tract. Remember that water does that as well. So it’s a really powerful experience to drink a lot of water, glowing green smoothie, herbal teas with the intention of flushing energy through you and making sure that you are properly hydrated all the time. Anytime we can use these carriers.

to move things through, moving through our bowel movements, moving through the sweat, moving through the water, moving through, for example, acupuncture, the energy through the meridians, through the acupuncture points, through the Marma points, if we’re doing an Ayurvedic type of a Rishayana practice or massage, we’re just helping to escort energy through because energy can very much sit and get stagnant. I can’t tell you how powerful it is to pay attention to this.

in conjunction with everything else we’re doing in our lifestyle. I became really aware of this, again, through the physical digestion, through physical digestion and means. But it became even far more powerful to me when I started to just open my eyes up to energy healing in general and realized that the same energy that gets trapped in our body through physical food can get trapped through not emotionally processing and digesting. What happened in the past?

And so we can need support as we start to get stronger. This is what heart coherence does. This is what heart lead living does. It allows us to be more resilient and real self care means when those reactions come up, we don’t just pretend we’re there. We don’t just move past them, hurry through. We pause. This is the heart aligned steady in life practice in the heart, third heart stage of the book, the steady heart. We meet those big emotions, which often are tied to the trauma and the

Kimberly Snyder (29:41.826)
past, with the power of the heart, we breathe through, it gets easier and easier the more coherent we are, and the more embodiment that we have to support ourselves, right? So the steps of the practice are listed there, but basically you hold the space for yourself to digest in this present moment. So that’s where we’ll review some of these exercise, intuitive movement to release pent-up trauma, deep breathing.

Heart focused breathing, breathing deeply while you focus on your heart. Trying yoga asanas, going in nature. Try full body grounding, placing your spine on the ground, drinking lots of water, eating high fiber foods, taking detoxing to flush out your GI tract. Trying complimentary healing methods like reiki or acupuncture or massage. All of these are helping your body and your energetic state.

to be as strong as possible, as aligned and balanced and resilient and harmonized as possible so that as the traumas come up in each moment, you meet them and you digest and process a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more so that eventually you are more in the present and you are less and less ruled by the traumas of the past. And this is such.

a powerful thing to do for yourself. And again, this is how we step into more expansive freedom. This is how we shift our lives. This is the way of the heart. The heart is of the present. The heart is of our true potential. The heart is of the love and this incredible strength and peacefulness inside of us so that we are not going to be ruled and dominated and controlled by the past trauma, which is a very mental thing and an egoic thing.

The heart is the way to overcome trauma. The heart is the way to heal the trauma in the body. So let your heart guide you. Keep practicing all of these different tools or choose a few that work, that call to you as you practice your heart aligned meditation, which I believe when it comes to this topic in general is one, if not the most powerful way to heal trauma from your system.

Kimberly Snyder (31:52.13)
So I’m here for you always. I’m so appreciative that we get to talk about these topics. We all go through this. We all, believe, I don’t wanna make a generalization because maybe the research says 75%. I always say, none of us have perfect childhoods and pasts. So maybe 100 % of us have some type of trauma. And that means that there’s just room to expand. There’s room to experience more freedom right here, right now. And why not? We’re here.

having this incredible experience of being alive, why not keep expanding and living in more joy and bliss and the love of the heart. So I’m here for you always. Remember on the podcast, mysalooner.com, you can write in for questions. I encourage you from my heart to please write a review for the show. Please write a review for the book. If you’ve read the book, it’s a…

Wonderful way to support and I appreciate it so much it directly supports the podcast and the writing and everything and just to help more people find the heart I’ll be back here Monday as always for our next show Remember to subscribe so you stay on top of all our new publishings. Thank you again so much for everything Being in the community. I look forward to connecting with you more. Thank you and sending you much love