S2 Ep161: Flour and Flower Therapy with MacKenzie and Friends
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa sits down for a fun chat with three of her real life friends: Becca Lux, Katie Duckett and Chelle Bruzas. They tell us all about two different kinds of therapy that we can all be taking part in during these challenging times using flour and flowers! And they had so much fun doing it, that we have a bonus episode with even more goodness coming out tomorrow, so be sure and check back to get in on the fun! (Amazon affiliate links are used in this content.)
- A little about what “flour therapy” is and why you should join the Patreon group and get in on all the doughy goodness
- The ladies share how they got the idea for “flower therapy” in the first place
- Katie talks about her intense love for flowers and how she always stays prepared to gather flowers wherever she goes
- Becca shares some information about why gardening is actually physically, mentally and emotionally so healthy
- Check out the Flower Therapy playlist on Spotify
I do think that adding beauty to your life, in whatever form, gives your soul hope.
Katie Duckett- Chelle shares a little about what to expect from the seed “club” if you are part of the $15 Patreon level
- Katie and Becca talk about starting seeds and taking chances with what will work and what won’t
- MacKenzie highlights the value of accountability in keeping up with these habits of loveliness
- How being out in nature and noticing the change of the seasons helps us cope with these trying times
- Becca and Katie point out the spiritual significance of these practices
- Jenna Fischer’s bread-making journey on Instagram
- Check out the Flour/Flower Therapy wishlist on Amazon
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Find Becca-You can find Becca Lux on Instagram @wanderluxstudio.
Find Katie-You can find Katie Duckett on Instagram @may_these_arrows_fly.
Find Chelle-You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram @chelle_bruzas.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I do think adding beauty to your lifeappa. And around here, we know that |
| 0:32.5 | life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating the lovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely or by connecting with me on |
| 0:54.7 | Instagram which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at |
| 0:59.0 | McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. Okay ladies this is a really fun and |
| 1:05.4 | really different episode today because I actually have three guests. I have never done that |
| 1:10.8 | before but these ladies are ladies I know in real life. I have never done that before. But these ladies are |
| 1:12.7 | ladies I know in real life. Some of them have been on the show before and they are some of the |
| 1:16.6 | loveliest ladies that I have ever met. And they are really proficient in both flower therapy |
| 1:21.9 | and flower therapy. Okay, I know. That sounds confusing. But I really mean the two different spellings of the word. |
| 1:29.7 | So first of all, we've got Katie Deckett, who's been on the show, but it's been a little while, |
| 1:34.0 | and she has been making sourdough for almost five years now. And she is walking the cultivating |
| 1:39.8 | the lovely patrons exactly through how to do that from scratch like scratch scratch starting our own |
| 1:46.4 | starters and everything we're actually starting that right now in the patreon group it is so much |
| 1:51.7 | fun we're all naming our starters and showing our processes and keeping notes and like it's this |
| 1:57.9 | whole little lovely thing of being able to nourish something during this time. |
| 2:02.1 | Well, we go into it more in the episode, but it's super fun and we're super excited. |
| 2:05.8 | And then we've got flower therapy as in F-L-O-W-E-R. |
| 2:11.1 | And these ladies are the original flower therapy group. |
| 2:14.8 | They have used flowers to nourish their souls for a long time. I know that if one of them |
| 2:21.6 | has had a tragedy or something difficult happen in their life, food, that's one thing. Okay, |
| 2:27.0 | everybody needs to eat. But the way you're really going to speak to their souls is if you show up |
| 2:31.4 | with flowers. And in today's episode, we start going through all of the |
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