Unplugged: Do a Digital Detox [Episode #452]

This week’s topic is: Unplugged: Do a Digital Detox

I love this topic because we want to cover all areas of wellness. Everything affects everything else. And as we all know very well, we live in this super intense digital age where we’re not really off at any point. At any moment we can be on our phones, we can be on social media, shopping online, messaging or watching videos.

This can have a potentially detrimental toll on our nervous systems, our adrenals and on our hormones. Our ancestors never lived like this. So we want to talk about today just some strategies and tips and to build some awareness about what we can do to manage our health and wellness and beauty being in the digital age.

This will be both from a practical standpoint and an emotional standpoint, to ensure we are protecting and nourishing ourselves and that we continue to feel our best every day.

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[Questions Answered]

Pamela – Kentucky

Have you ever done a digital detox? With being pregnant, a mom and working full time, how do you balance your world so that you get what you need done without losing yourself in the digital world?

Macy – Cleveland

How do I balance staying involved in the world and what is going on without feeling like I am wasting my time and life online? I often get in bed and think wow, I spent my day behind a computer at work, finished the day with social media and tv… just to wake up and do it all over again, the only time my eyes are not on a screen is when I am sleeping for the most part. I feel like this can’t be good for my eye health?

Lindsey – UK

I’m so addicted to Netflix and other platforms and know it’s time to lighten up on the show watching. Without going overkill and eliminating cold-turkey, what would you suggest as far as baby steps in removing some of my watch time?

Charlene – New Jersey

How do you balance living a life of peace and calmness when we don’t have a choice to really fully remove technology from it? What are some tips?

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Kimberly: Hey Beauties, welcome back to our Thursday Q&A Podcast. Our topic today is, Unplugged; do a digital detox. I love this topic because we want to cover all areas of wellness. Everything affects everything else. And as we all know very well, we live in this super intense digital age where we’re not really off at any point. At any moment we can be on our phones, we can be on social media, we can be shopping online, we can be messaging, we can be watching videos. And this really can have a very detrimental potential toll on our nervous systems, on our adrenals, on our hormones. Our ancestors never lived like this. So, we want to talk about today just some strategies and tips and to build some awareness about what we can do to manage our health and wellness and beauty being in the digital age, both from a practical standpoint and an emotional standpoint and just to make sure that we are protecting ourselves and nourishing ourselves and that we continue to feel our best every day. Just a little reminder to please leave us a review on iTunes if you haven’t yet already.

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Kimberly: You never know which show is going to really hit your heart and make a huge impact on your life. And just a constant stream of positivity and good information coming in is a great form of self-care as well for your mental health, your emotional wellbeing and your spiritual growth. So, I highly recommend it. And all that being said, we have our amazing Katelyn on the line with us who just got back from getting married at last. So, Kate congratulations from all of us. We love you.

Katelyn: Thank you. Talking about digital detox, I definitely just had a big digital detox last week from being on the computer all the time for work and admittedly being on my cell phone a lot during regular life. It was nice to do and unplug and come back. I feel really relaxed and rejuvenated and I’m just happy to be back in the community. So, thank you. Now I’m a married lady as well.

Kimberly: You’re a married lady officially. How does it feel? Do you feel there was a shift in your relationship once you actually got married or not?

Katelyn: I think it’s nice to have that formal commitment, but we had been living together for a few years and I feel like I definitely had been investing in the relationship in the way that you do when you’re married. And I took it a lot more seriously than I did when I was younger in relationships and with my first marriage. So, I didn’t feel a huge shift, but it’s kind of the legalities. I did decide to change my last name. So, it’s updating things, all of that. But it was really nice. We had a really intimate ceremony where we did, kind of how you had the doves released, we did a couple special traditions, we did a handfasting ceremony where we tied knots and make commitments to each other, which was really sweet. So, just still reveling and how beautiful everything was and kind of on cloud nine. So, just enjoying where I’m at in life.

Kimberly: And I love it Kate. Well, congratulations. And I’m so happy you found your soulmate who what I know of him, I haven’t met him in person but just seems really lighthearted and supportive and positive. And it seems like you guys have a beautiful connection. So, congratulations.

Katelyn: Thank you. Yeah. He’s a big… I don’t call him fan of what we do, but he’s always like, “Tell Kimberly I’m making her green smoothie.” And he’s just cute like that. So, that he even cares about what I’m doing in the world and stuff like that. So, I think you’re lucky when you can find somebody who appreciates what you do in the world and as your partner in life. So, yes. Thank you for the congratulations. And I’m excited to dig into this topic because me coming back from unwinding like that, I realized how much… Because I was on my computer a lot leading up to taking some time off and just your eyes. I have my blue light blocking glasses on right now. Just realizing how much being on the computer can affect you physically or just technology in general. So, I’m sure you have a lot of tips to help the community today.

Kimberly: Yes, let’s get right into it because I do think this topic, as I mentioned affects all of us these days. And there can be some serious detrimental effects both emotionally and physically. So, let’s hear what our first PD has to say Kate.

Question 1: Have you ever done a digital detox with being pregnant, a mom and working full time, how do you balance your worlds that you get what you need done without losing yourself in a digital world?

Katelyn: Yes, let’s dig in. So, we have Pamela from Kentucky. Have you ever done a digital detox with being pregnant, a mom and working full time, how do you balance your worlds that you get what you need done without losing yourself in a digital world?

Kimberly: Pamela, thank you so much for your question. I give you a big hug out in Kentucky, which is the state I haven’t been to, but I would love to go one day. So, here’s my two cents about this. It’s sort of a digital detox to me can be the way that we do physical detoxes in life. So, it means once in a while you can do a full detox, a full smoothie and juice cleanse like we used to do at our do shop glow. And I still do administer some cleanses at my current juice shop at the four seasons, the salinity shop. But where you are blocking off three or five days and you go full out. Just like you did Kate last week, I’m on vacation and I go full out. So, I think those type of detoxes are very healthy to do periodically when you can a few times a year, like when I’m on vacation, when I’m overseas, I’m going to not be on my computer.

Kimberly: In fact, I don’t even bring my computer when I go on vacation. I really try not to. So, the second kind of detox though is what we call… Those of you that have read the Beauty Detox Solution, this idea of ongoing cleansing. So, it’s what do I do on a daily basis where I start to filter and be more discerning and cut back. And this honestly for me has been the biggest impact on my life, because you’re right Pamela. I am working every minute pretty much I’m not with Bobby. Now, he’s in preschool for a couple hours a day and I am cranking and when I’m with him I am present. I try to be really, really present and I am pregnant. So, there’s a lot going on. And I want to have time with my husband and I’m definitely more tired at night.

Kimberly: And so there is a lot. So, here’s some of the ways that I manage my digital world. Number one, and I talked about this before, but when I opened up my computer, when I go on my web browser, it used to be Yahoo and then I would have little links at the top and I would go click through to my Solluna email. That was wasting, I would say on average 10 to 25 minutes a day because I would, “Oh, look at what’s trending.” I don’t know if they do it anymore. I haven’t been in Yahoo in a couple of years since I did this, but I would click on what was trending, whether it was in politics or entertainment or whatever and it would be a big waste of time. And then I would go down that rabbit hole digitally and then be like, “Oh yeah, I got to get into my email.” And every time I opened up my computer, I was caught up in that.

Kimberly: Now, it opens up to the self-realization fellowship page. So, I just get a nice message about meditation and it’s not distracting, it feels grounding. And then I go right into my email. So, boom, I stay focused by what comes into my space when I go on my computer. So, I would encourage you to look at these little transition points, what your web browser opens out to. Believe me, these little things start to make a big difference. Number two, I started batching my texts and when I write back. So, instead of just someone texts me and I write back right away, even if I’m the middle of playing with Bobby and we’re picking oranges or I’m in the middle of writing something. I actually put my phone in airplane mode, if I’m working on an article or I’m writing. When I’m not… When I know Bobby is okay, I’m mean sometimes if he’s napping or whatever.

Kimberly: Obviously as a mom, sometimes you need to always have your phone on just in case for emergencies or just keep your phone, you could have a special alert from the school or from the babysitter, whoever’s watching them, but other than that, I don’t let this dribble come in where I’m constantly feeling like I need to reply. I do it when I sit down for 10 minutes I’m going to answer back all my friends and all the texts and everything I need to do in one go. And I do the same thing on WhatsApp. And so that really helps to batch versus letting it pick away, because I know Kate, you always say habit wise, if whatever you do that interrupts your flow, it takes what, 40 seconds or a minute to get back on track, something like that?

Katelyn: Yeah, it takes a few seconds. So, it’s like if you have to think every time. That’s why I say multitasking isn’t good because if you’re constantly going back and forth from things, like you’re saying it ends up being a couple of minutes and then you quantify that, maybe you’re losing 30 minutes to two hours a day just because you’re doing too many things at once.

Kimberly: Exactly. And then third, my third and last tip here is that I maintain what I call the sacred times. So, for me that’s very much the morning and it’s the evening after a certain point, which right now for me is probably around eight o’clock. And again it could be while you’re with your children or while you’re with yourself or whatever. And those are the times where I am not digital. During the morning, I need that time to ground, Bobby usually comes into our bed and we’re cuddling and we meditate. I’m not on my phone. I admit I, when I get up, I do check for emergencies but then I don’t get on Instagram, I don’t get into emails until later. I like that time digital free. And also after sacred time at night by eight o’clock on, it’s just time for me and my husband and I’m not on there. And again, when I’m playing with Bobby, if he is in the corner playing with a puzzle for a couple of minutes, I may check. But I avoid the dribble and there’s times where I’m just not going to be on there.

Kimberly: And I think finding in your life, setting those limits and sticking to them it’s discipline, right? Just like, “I’m not going to eat donuts every time I see them. I’m not going to party every night.” Treat your digital space the same way. As soon as I get out… Whatever it is for you. I’m not going to be on Instagram until I have my glowing green smoothie, until I meditate or until I’m in my commute. Just try to carve out some real boundaries and I think that really helps. Otherwise, it just seeps into our whole life and it takes over and we don’t really have that sacred routine time, we don’t have that sacred me-time. And again, I think that’s so, so critical.

Katelyn: 100%. So easy to just scroll along and hours have passed.

Kimberly: Yeah, exactly.

Question 2: How do you balance staying involved in the world and what’s going on without feeling like you’re wasting your time and life online? I often get in bed and think, wow! I spent my day behind a computer at work, finish the day with social media and TV just to wake up and do it all over again. And the only time my eyes are not on a screen is when I’m sleeping, for the most part. I feel like this can’t be good for my eye health.

Katelyn: Yeah. Well, we all can relate. I think that’ll go into here, what Macy from Cleveland has to say. “How do you balance staying involved in the world and what’s going on without feeling like you’re wasting your time and life online? I often get in bed and think, wow! I spent my day behind a computer at work, finish the day with social media and TV just to wake up and do it all over again. And the only time my eyes are not on a screen is when I’m sleeping, for the most part. I feel like this can’t be good for my eye health.”

Kimberly: Macy, wow! Thank you so much for your question. I think this is so relevant to the world today where you’re right. It’s a lot of screen time. So first of all, I think here it’s really great and important to do an audit of your life and to start picking out what is necessary, what feels good and then to start detoxing what isn’t serving you, what doesn’t feel good and what isn’t necessary anymore. So for instance, if you have to be on your computer at work, that’s something that we obviously can’t really adjust. The reality for work for a lot of us, including me, is email and I have a lot of time writing and things like that. But do you need to be on TV every single night? Maybe not. Maybe that’s time where you could get information while you’re stretching, listening to a podcast, getting off the screen, meeting with a friend. There’s many other ways to unwind.

Kimberly: You could get back into reading or integrating if you never were into it in the first place or just find something that’s not TV. Now, I get it because I know what it’s like after a long work day to just want to chill, but I think Macy, even if it’s a few nights a week, if you find another way to chill. Again, music, podcasts and stretching, something auditory or Kate does a lot of crafts and art stuff or having a friend over for tea and relaxing or getting yourself a massage. Anything you could do to break up that pattern of screen, screen, screen I think is really important. And also for your sleep. So yes, this can affect your eye health, it affects your hormones, affects your brain health. So, the days where you are going to be on your TV or computer or social media into the evening, I definitely recommend as Kate mentioned earlier to wear blue light blocking glasses. And there’s a great company called DefenderShield, which is the ones that Kate and I wear.

Kimberly: So, you can check that out. And just to protect yourself from more of that blue light when you are going to be on there. But try to find options. So, it’s just not always this constant. Get into a… We get into these routines and sometimes it feels stagnant we’re just doing it over and over again. So, I would encourage you to think about alternatives in the evening. And then I would really look at your morning Macy, before you go to work. How can you protect that sacred time? Maybe you get up a little bit earlier and do a walk. In your little description here, I didn’t hear anything about exercise. Maybe you do a home yoga practice, maybe you just spend the time in the morning sitting, journaling, making yourself a nice elixir and a good green smoothie or whatever. Meditation practice hopefully. But just, or Ideally, because I love it and I think it just benefits all of us. But try to say, “Okay, the morning is my time to be and to be screen free.” And at least you can commit to more of that time as well.

Katelyn: Yeah. I think scheduling helps because we live in such a busy world and we can get caught up and you can get sucked into bad habits. We talk about building good habits, but you can get sucked into that habits where you are just turning on the TV just because it’s there or… I had gotten into that, I never really watched too much TV but my fiance, husband now, likes TV. So, I would get into the habit. That’s how we would unwind at night and I started being like, “I’m just going to go in the bedroom and read,” because I just really didn’t want to watch TV anymore, where in the beginning I was like, “Oh, let’s stay together and watch TV.” So, just looking at your habits and cleaning them up can be important and setting new routines for yourself you’ll see a big, big, big difference.

Kimberly: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Exactly. I love it. Thank you Kate.

Break

Katelyn: All right. So, we are going to take a short break and then Kimberly will be back to answer the last two questions.

Kimberly: All right beauties, we are back from our short break and we have two more questions for you guys on this very important topic of being unplugged in a very digital world, doing a digital detox. What that means, what some of the benefits are and how we go about it. I love this topic because I love not being digital all the time. I can feel it. I just feel less scattered and I feel a lot more grounded. And when I started really managing it, I noticed a big difference in my life. I noticed I was sleeping better, I noticed that I just felt a lot more peaceful and it was easier for me to drop into meditation and stay focused. So, I would want that for all of you beauties, and all of you listening, you amazing soul, you…

Kimberly: We want to feel good in our life. We want to feel that we’ve… Being focused feels powerful and we want to honor our time and not just give it away. And a lot of times I think when we kind of just sit on there, whether it’s TV or social media at the end we feel like we wasted our time. If we just [inaudible 00:19:24] it drifts along and we’re not really consciously choosing and that’s not a good feeling. So, so far we’ve talked about scheduling, we’ve talked about carving out sacred time in the morning or at bedtime. We talked about batching texts and emails. So, let’s see what our next beauty has to say as well Kate.

Question 3: I’m so addicted to Netflix and other platforms. I know it’s time to lighten up on the show watching. Without going on overkill and eliminating cold turkey, what would you suggest as far as baby steps and removing some of my watch time?

Katelyn: Yes. So, we have Lindsay in the UK. “I’m so addicted to Netflix and other platforms. I know it’s time to lighten up on the show watching. Without going on overkill and eliminating cold turkey, what would you suggest as far as baby steps and removing some of my watch time?”

Kimberly: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Lindsay, thank you so much for your question. This is a perfect question for what I was just talking about Kate, which is I would say Lindsay, to do an audit of what you’re watching and really prioritize what you really want to watch instead of, I think sometimes we go from show to show and it just keeps drifting along and we’re like, “Oh, I didn’t really want to watch that, but it was the next thing that came up.” Or “Hey, what else is there?” Versus being very clear because I think again there’s so much power in clarity. “This is the one docu-series or this is the one series I’m super into and I’m going to give myself an hour to watch this tonight.” Or whatever. An hour and a half, whatever. For you Lindsay is not cold turkey, but it is a conscious choice and stick to it. Right?

Kimberly: So, it’s like with Bobby when he has something that he’s playing with or now he has this little in-digital toy thing that John, my husband got him. And I’m like, “Okay, you can play with this for 20 minutes.” It’s a discipline. And then he knows that’s it. It’s really for real, it’s getting taken away, it’s getting put on the top shelf and now we play with blocks and we do art projects and we do puzzles and we just… It’s just the way it is. So, I would say Lindsey, it feels really good to stick to a schedule, it feels really good to be disciplined and it feels really good to watch something that makes you feel happy and satisfied, but then that you’re not just being a TV head couch potato and then you move on to something else.

Kimberly: I would almost guarantee that you start exercising more, connecting with your friends more, meditating more, reading inspiring material, just having you-time. Maybe you trying out all these self-care practices or exploring things that you just felt like you never had time for. When you start really being clear about how much time you’re going to give away to these other media outlets, I just think your world is going to open up and you’re going to feel amazing.

Katelyn: 100%. And when you’re talking about connecting with people, one thing I’ve been thinking about throughout the show too is, where a lot of times when I’m with my friends it feels like they’re on their phones the whole time. And one thing I’ve tried to do when I’m out, whether it’s with my family or with friends or with my husband, we don’t have our phones because you’re spending time with the person you’re with. And I think a lot of times just having that awareness of what you’re doing with technology is really important because we’re, so… I think there was a study that said, how many times do people look at their phone on a daily basis? It’s in the thousands. I have to look at it now-

Kimberly: Oh, my God!

Katelyn: … but it’s crazy. If you think even just if your phone’s next to you, how often are you just checking it really quick or sometimes you have to consciously put it away and some people are on different levels than others. But that was just one thing that came to mind when you brought up… With for Lindsey maybe going out with friends to just… If you are a technology junkie maybe to just really schedule that time like, “I’m not going to go on my phone unless…” You have those special alerts for maybe children or husband or whoever your parents that need to get through if there’s an emergency. But otherwise, your time away is your time away.

Kimberly: So, I feel really strongly about that. And I will say that my husband is a lot more addicted to his phone than me and he has his own business so he always feels like it is a client based business. So, I think he always feels that pressure of being on and checking and knowing what’s going on. And I understand that to a point, but at night when I get off my phone, I’m like, “Come on babe, you don’t need to answer anybody this late at night.” It’s eight o’clock here, it’s whatever, 11 o’clock on the East Coast. So, I feel-

Katelyn: There’s fear around it too. People feel like they can’t disconnect or maybe not fears in other words, anxiety around.

Kimberly: Well, but we create it, right? So, I have this healer I talked to and I schedule things on WhatsApp and stuff. And she just creates really clear boundaries. She doesn’t answer you back on the weekends and she doesn’t add into back at certain points. And you get in touch with her on a schedule or whatever, but that’s just the way it is. So, I think when we start to establish these boundaries, whether it’s with friends or with ourselves and technology, it starts to become our reality and we start to just… In your life shifts, it’s amazing how that happens. Whether… For me it was like, “Well, I don’t know how… My life’s so busy, how am I going to be a mom, how am I have all this time for a kid?”

Kimberly: Well, life changes. And I’m sure it’ll change again when this next baby comes and all these different points in your life. So, we’re evolving and we’re creative. So, it’s like with food. There was a time where I never thought I would give up French fries, but then you shift and you’re like, “Oh, I don’t want them as much as I wanted.” It doesn’t mean I don’t eat them because I definitely eat them sometimes. But we just keep evolving, we make the best choices that we can. We are clear and we do our best and we take the steps and then life keeps evolving. It’s really a beautiful thing.

Question 4: How do you balance living a life of peace and calmness when we don’t have a choice to fully remove technology? And do you have any tips?

Katelyn: So true. Well, to round up the show, we have one more question from Charlene and she’s living in New Jersey. “How do you balance living a life of peace and calmness when we don’t have a choice to fully remove technology? And do you have any tips?”

Kimberly: Charlene, thank you so much for your question. I love these words you’re using, peace and calmness. And it can feel really jarring with things always coming into your space. Like, “Oh, my gosh!” An alert for instance. it’s jarring, right? You may be in the middle of a meditation or a peaceful conversation and something goes, beep-beep or lights up. I think it’s very invasive. And back to what we were talking about earlier, I think it has a major impact on our nervous system. So, we have the sympathetic part of our nervous system and the parasympathetic. And for most people, our sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive because we’re constantly getting these nudges and these alerts and we’re meant to respond. And so we’re kind of like you were saying Kate, anxious. Because we’re on our tip toes like, “Oh, my gosh! Stuff keeps coming in, do I need to respond?” It’s not how we were meant to live. So, first of all, I would say it’s not about removing technology completely, but I would do a detox an audit of your alerts.

Kimberly: Do you really need an alert for Instagram? That’s not an emergency, right? These are all personal choices. I’m just going to raise this. Do you need an alert for Twitter? Do you need an alert for Facebook? Or can when you have a time that you carve out in your day, let’s say it’s after work or at lunchtime, can you just go on those social media channels when you choose to. It’s very empowering when you choose to, not want alerts are coming in and then you kind of review your favorite channels or whatever you want to look at. So, I think alerts make us slaves to technology. Some are important like calendar alerts. I have alerts for my conference call so I don’t forget my conference calls, but there’s a lot of alerts I think that keep us trapped. And to your point, Charlene, keep us out of peace and calmness. So, I think everything we talked about so far also really relates to your question Charlene, about this idea of batching, keeping your morning sacred so you do your meditation, your grounding time, your breath work, you get into your body.

Kimberly: And then evening time, elixir time, connecting time with friends, family, with yourself, journaling. And that is the way to keep peace and calmness I think because middle of the day can get fuzzy and crazy and overworked and over-scheduled. But if you start and you end with a little period of no digital invasiveness, shall we say, then that’s going to start to feel really grounding. That’s going to start to be a beautiful filter that runs through your life of more peace and more calmness and coming back to yourself and connecting with your body. And those are some of the most sacred junctures of time daily, morning and night that I think we really need to protect. And that will help to reset your nervous system and to make sure that your nervous system doesn’t get overworked, that your adrenals don’t get overworked, that you just start to feel more calm all around.

Katelyn: That’s so true. And I think just having that separate space, you realize how much you can accomplish. A lot of times we say there’s not enough time in the day or I didn’t get this done. And for me, I know if I spend time on my crafts or I got to read a book, I feel a lot better about myself than if I just spent time texting and watching TV. And everybody’s different, but I think if you just pick out a couple of things that make you feel really good and everybody has an extra 15 minutes. Right? Maybe [crosstalk 00:29:42] hours of time, but we all probably waste at least 15 minutes though we could clean up. If you start there and go even just 15 minutes of reading or 15 minutes of doing a hobby or listening to music, something like that. You’ll end up feeling a lot better and balanced in this crazy, crazy world. So with that, before we let you go, is there anything on top of mind to leave the beauties off for your quote of the week?

Thought of the Week

Kimberly: Yes. So here’s our quote of the week beauties and I actually pulled this from our February Solluna Circle document, which if you guys are not aware is our online modern tribalism program. It’s our community program, it’s where we dive deep on a theme every month. And our theme in February was self love. And I wanted to pull this up because I think that part of doing a digital detox it’s standing for self love, it’s standing for your time, it’s standing for connecting with yourself and your power and your true beauty and not feeling scattered by constantly being bombarded with everybody else’s ideas and all this imagery and all this advertising and everything from the outside world. So, I pulled this from our PDF which is one of the things you get every month. You get meditations and video and audios in the PDF with recipes and things.

Kimberly: So anyways, here’s the quote. When we stop chasing life and when we feel worthy and beautiful simply that we are enough, we can create everything we were chasing in the first place. So, it’s this idea that instead of turning the search lights, the energy outward all the time to the external, we start to pull it back in, we start to stop chasing and following every alert and every text and every Instagram post and every Facebook post. And we start to ground in with everything we’ve talked about today on the podcast.

Kimberly: And that’s when we start to create more of what we want and manifest the life that we want and to create the reality that we want. Because we are in our power, we are calm, we’re an equanimity, we are connected to ourselves. And that’s when the magic really starts to happen. That’s when the creativity flows, that’s when we start to feel we were a different energy, we are magnetic, we start to attract in different relationships and friendships and it’s very powerful. So, it just a reminder of tuning back in and to stop chasing and to let the magic happen, which is already inside of you.

Katelyn: Such good advice. We all need a reminder just to have a time to center and just connect with ourselves and love ourselves and that comes up a lot for rounding out February here which we really tried to focus on self love and self-care for you guys. We had a bunch of great vlogs and other content over on my Solluna for you to check out. If you haven’t can go click on those posts and dive in. But as always, thank you for listening. If you would like to submit a question, go over there to my solluna.com/askkimberly and submit your question. Otherwise, we’ll talk to you next week.

Kimberly: Awesome Kate. Well, thank you. So, much love for really just being such an anchor in our community for your positive energy. Again, we were so happy for you in your marriage, in your joy, in your life that you bring. So, thank you so much. Big, huge gratefulness for you today especially.

Katelyn: Thank you.

Kimberly: And beauties, thank you for bringing your light and being part of our community as well. As Kate mentioned, tune in we have lots of resources for you. We love you, we appreciate you and we will see you back here Monday for our next Q&A Podcast. Sorry, next interview podcast and next Thursday for our next Q&A Podcast. So, then take care and so much love.

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