Being a Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Being – An Interview with Kimberly Snyder

Hi, everyone, and welcome. Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing the amazing Kimberly Snyder. I you haven't heard of her, you must be living under a rock, she's amazing!   Kimberly is the founder of Solluna and the Feel Good Movement. She's also a multi-time New York Times bestselling author of the Beauty Detox book series and Radical Beauty, co-written with Deepak Chopra. Not to forget, she's also a nutritionist, renowned speaker, meditation teacher, certified yoga instructor, and holistic wellness expert. Basically the long and short of it, is Kimberly does it all. So Kimberly, thank you for being here today! Kimberly Snyder: Oh Ashley, thank you so much for having me. I am so thrilled to be here today. Ashley: Now, I am really excited to be chatting with you, because you have a new book out. It's called Recipes for Your Perfectly Imperfect Life. Last time you and I were chatting, you told me a little bit about why this project was so important to you and how this came to be.  Could you share a little bit about the journey that this project took you on? Recipes for your Perfectly Imperfect Life by Kimberly Snyder _______________________________________ Disclosure: The link here is an affiliate link, meaning I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Yay! Kimberly: Yes. So this book actually feels very, very different than my other books. I went through a lot personally around the writing of this book. Last year, my Mom ended up passing away really suddenly within six weeks. She passed within a few days of my son turning one. So it was one of those moments in our lives where we just had what I can only describe as an awakening. I felt like I had a Durga sword cut right to my heart. And it cut through all these layers. I started to feel this really deep clarity, I was looking at things in a different way. I have worked in wellness now for over 10 years. When I look around, I can still see so much suffering, so much perfectionism and comparison within Instagram, all contributing to this deep feeling of not enough-ness, feeling like we're still not enough or not doing enough or not skinny enough. We don't know enough. We haven't got enough time by a certain age or whatever it is. So this book really came out of that. I was healing myself, and I was writing this book in that period. It's written with the intention, with the mission of helping women and everyone feel better, feel good, feel connected to ourselves. Ultimately, this book was created to help us find more peace in our perfectly imperfect lives. When I say feel good in our Feel Good Movement, it doesn't mean, oh, we're up and elated and happy all the time. It means we're connected to ourselves, to our guidance, to that inner wisdom. Through the ups and downs of life we go through so many cycles. Solluna, the name of my brand, means the sun and the moon. So it's in the dark period when seeds are planted. New beginnings come out of the darkness. So we certainly don't want to shy away from the darkness. It's then that we can feel connected to ourselves more and more. Again, find peace. It's not like, oh, we have to be happy once we lose 10 pounds or once we get that new job or we get the boyfriend or the wife or whatever it is. We can actually find it now. The other thing I'll say is, the title Perfectly Imperfect comes from me being a recovering perfectionist and having eating disorders. I was bulimarexic. And I think that's why I was drawn to becoming a Nutritionist in the first place -- I was healing myself. I think we teach what we need to heal in ourselves, what we want to learn. Ashley: So true. Kimberly: So, it was both. And I talked about this in the book... Our value really comes from us simply existing and being alive. We have these unique souls,