Kimberly Snyder - Recipes for Your Perfectly Imperfect Life Everyday Ways to Live and Eat for Health, Healing, and Happiness

Acknowledgments

The greatest gratitude goes to my incredible friend and editor, Gary Jansen. Gary, thank you so much for helping me organize my ideas, guiding this book to how it is today, believing strongly in me and my work, and on top of all that, simply being a close friend who I love so much. I have the deepest respect for your brilliance and bright, sensitive spirit. You are the best! Thank you, thank you.

And an enormous round of thanks to Aaron Wehner, Diana Baroni, Tammy Blake, Christina Foxley, Brianne Sperber, Patricia Shaw, Jennifer Wang, Marysarah Quinn, Stephanie Huntwork, Ashley Hong, Heather Williamson, and all the other amazing members on the Harmony Penguin Random House team, for your collaboration and belief in me, and for bringing this book out into the world.

Infinite gratitude goes to my Solluna team, especially John Pisani, my long-term business partner. John, thank you for being a rock of support, love, and wisdom, always. I love you back. And thank you to my Goddess team members, especially Katelyn Hughes (aka Earth Mama), for embodying the light, love, and mission in action. And to all the rest of my beloved team. Our sacred circle is so magical.

Huge thank-you to Todd Rubinstein for so generously offering up your beautiful Apple Creek Ranch for our team to camp out and shoot all these photos. Thank you to Diego Saenz for so lovingly and diligently helping me test all these recipes! Thank you to Ylva Erevall, my longtime dear friend and photographer extraordinaire who shot the cover and many of these photos, as well as Victoria Wall Harris, for shooting some of the other great shots that line these pages.

There are not enough words to thank my village. Thank yousending so much love to you, Dad/Lolo. I am so grateful to you for being such an amazing father, and for us to have this special time together where you get to see EE every day. What a blessing. And Mom, in the spirit world, I feel your love every day and love you more than ever. Thank you, Laura Pringle, dear friend and soul sister who held the space and helped me really connect back with myself, and who also provided some input for this book. You are amazing and I love you! And Tita, for your loving and patient presence, and for maintaining our home during this whole book process and Moms passing, as well as Auntie and all my dear Mama and other friends. Especially Maki, Esther, Kela, and Ani. And Justin Cava Jones, for inspiring me with your life and teachings. Thank you, Mick, for sharing an amazing part of the journey together, and for being a great co-parent and dad. I love you always.

Last, but not least, infinite gratitude to Bubby, my little angel prince. You are such a powerful, delicious, joyful teacher to me, and I love you beyond words.

We are all part of the One Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

About the Author

Kimberly Snyder is the founder of Solluna, a holistic lifestyle brand, leader of the #FeelGoodMovement, and the multi-time New York Times bestselling author of the Beauty Detox book series and of Radical Beauty, cowritten with Deepak Chopra.

An in-demand worldwide speaker, Snyder also hosts the top-rated Feel Good with Kimberly Snyder podcast, which airs on the PodcastOne network. In 2018, she opened the Solluna organic juice and smoothie bar at the iconic Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

A certified nutritionist, Snyder has worked with the entertainment industries top celebrities, including Drew Barrymore, Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon, and Channing Tatum, among many others. A highly sought-after lifestyle-and-wellness expert, Snyder has been featured in media outlets that include Ellen, Today, The Dr. Oz Show, the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, and InStyle . She is a member of the Wellness Council for Well+Good and was named one of the top results-oriented nutritionists by Vogue .

Snyder is a member of the Board of Advisors for Visionary Women, a nonprofit organization that supports the empowerment of women. She also works with the Seeds of Hope charity, which focuses on building sustainable vegetable gardens in Los Angeles public schools.

After graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University, Snyder didnt choose an ordinary path. Instead, she embarked on a three-year solo journey spanning more than fifty countries. This exposed her to a wide range of health-and-beauty modalities, conventional and unconventional teachers, and worldviews from different cultures. This experience inspired her lifes journey into wellness.

She continued her studies at various other locations, including the American University of Complementary Medicine, where she completed a four-year Ayurvedic practitioner program.

A passionate practitioner of Kriya Yoga meditation, world adventurer, and mama, Snyder has dedicated her life to inspiring and helping others realize a more joyful life by embracing who they are through all the cycles of their lives.

Paramahansa Yoganandas site (my guru and the meditation I practice): yogananda-srf.org.

Garys amazing spiritual books and lecture info: garyjansen.com.

Lauras intuitive coaching and workshops: laurapringle.com.

Our mission at Solluna is to help you develop a lifestyle that promotes health, wholeness, self-acceptance, healing, and inclusion for all.

Solluna, a uniting of the sun and moon, means living in harmony with the rhythms of Mother Nature while embracing all the cycles of life-the highs and lows and all the moments in-between.

We are individuals and we are One. As a community, we meet one another where we are in life. Through our messaging, products, practices, and the #FEELGOODMOVEMENT , we are dedicated to empowering you in realizing a more joyful life by embracing yourself and your dreams.

SOLLUNA PRINCIPLES

Unconditional Love

Acceptance and Compassion

Soft and Gentle is Powerful with Clarity

Service to All

Nonjudgment of Self and Others

Everyone's Journey is Unique

Beauty and Appreciation

Oneness

THE #FEELGOODMOVEMENT

FEELING GOOD is not about having a picture-perfect life with a flawless body, job, family, and so on. That's all outside stuff We can have those things and still feel deeply unhappy. So it's not about what we have, but rather finding a level of inner peace in our perfectly imperfect lives.

Yes, we can strive for improvement. Yet at the same time, we can live from a place of understanding that no matter how we look or what we do, we're already whole, complete, and okay as we are.

FEELING GOOD is about accepting our inner compass, which can guide us in making decisions and tuning out the comparisons, overanalyzing, self-doubt, and pretending that causes so much turmoil in our lives.

Sharing our journeys is a powerful way to embrace who we are. Post your story and tag us in your photos, videos, and stories. We want to be there for your highs and lows, and all the moments in-between.

#mysolluna #feelgoodmovement @sollunabyks

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CHAPTER 1

clearing the blocks that hold us back

An And Life

We live in a world overrun by the word or . Traditionally, weve been taught to classify things as one or the other. Good or bad. Healthy or not. Fat or skinny. Beautiful or average. This small word might not seem like a big deal, but it dictates the way we think, experience, and ultimately embrace or reject the world around us. But we dont have to buy into an either/or existence. Instead, we can shift to the all-encompassing word and .