Bonus: How to Stay Calm in the Chaos of COVID-19
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In part nine of their “Momming During Coronavirus” bonus series, Shanna and Laura interview meditation expert, IVF warrior and mother of five Josephine Atluri, who shares her wisdom about how to find your calm in the swirl of coronavirus chaos. She explains the importance of self-care and taking time to breathe, she gives tips on how to stay centered while parenting during the pandemic, and she offers advice to people whose fertility journeys have been delayed or derailed by COVID-19. Also, Shanna reports on her experience getting a COVID test, and Laura talks about recently expanding her quarantine bubble. They also share several BFPs that have arisen amidst the chaos of the last few weeks. It’s been 16 weeks since the coronavirus pandemic has shut down schools, workplaces and all non-essential businesses in Los Angeles, where Shanna and Laura live.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's very special coronavirus bonus |
| 0:08.3 | episode, we are doing our long-awaited check-ins to see how we're doing. And we have a fantastic |
| 0:13.9 | interview with Josephine at Lurie, who is a meditation teacher, and she gives us some great tips |
| 0:19.6 | on how to stay calm during coronavirus with our kids. |
| 0:23.3 | And we close with our BFPs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:27.7 | Hey, Shana. |
| 0:29.1 | Hey. |
| 0:30.1 | It's been a while since we've done a coronavirus check-in. |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah, it's been a long time. |
| 0:36.7 | So what day is today? Well, I've got to ask Alexa, |
| 0:40.3 | because I don't know. Let's see. Alexa, how many days has it been since March 13th? March 13th, |
| 0:47.4 | 2020. It was 116 days ago. What did you say? I can hear? |
| 0:52.7 | Oh, 116 days ago. Oh, here. Oh, 116 days ago. |
| 0:55.1 | Oh, Jesus. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:58.6 | It's what, July 7th today? |
| 1:01.0 | It's July 7th. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | Wow. |
| 1:04.0 | So we're really just in the thick of it. |
| 1:08.0 | And, you know, not too much has changed because i know that our city and our state |
| 1:12.4 | has started opening up a bit you know restaurants gyms all kinds of stuff started opening and i was |
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