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Thank you. Lovely and enter the code Lovely. You're listening to Cultivating the Lovely with me, McKenzie Monroe from Cultivating

the Lovely.com and bold turquoise across pretty much all social media along with

and jodi McKenna from jodymackenna.com and wisehouse oils.com. Today we're going to be chatting about

hobbies, why they're important, how to find time for them, and what some of our favorites are.

So I'm curious, what are you doing these days, McKenzie?

Okay, so there is one hobby that I am actively pursuing because I can do it in my

current living situation.

What's this?

And it's reading.

Oh, yes.

And it really does help me to either be able to process things or just wind down

or kind of check out from hard things that are happening in life. Because we kind of were talking

about that before we started recording. We both are kind of coming into this recording with

sort of heavy hearts, like a lot of hard life stuff going on right now.

And I just, I kind of told Jody, like, it's okay if we can bring some of that realness to the table because I'm sure a lot of our listeners have dealt with that too.

Like we can't always be like, happy peppy,ppy yay we're doing our hobbies today you know that's

right that is right now i'm curious as you're reading through things are you still like using um your journals

to put like some of those that information that you're learning into it because you're the one that got

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