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Live Well Anyway

S5 Ep159: Joy and Survival Amidst the Corona Crisis

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Mental Health, Arts, Education, Health & Fitness, Books, Self-improvement

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa and her dear friend Chelle Bruzas sit down for a casual chat about how they are dealing with the current situation due to the corona virus. They share some encouragement, ideas and resources for you and your family to weather these uncertain times. We hope it will be a helpful and uplifting conversation! (Affiliate links are used in this content.)

Those who live in the shelter of the Most High     will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:1 (NLT)
  • MacKenzie’s plan for working around having her kids at home
  • Some books and audio resources for joy and survival
  • Playlists for lifting your mood
  • Chelle talks about beauty and flowers and how they uplift us
  • Being an extrovert and being stuck at home due to social distancing
    • Using Voxer and Marco Polo
    • Using social media for good
    • Writing letters and cards to friends and family
    • Just reaching out and checking on others

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Find Chelle-

You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram.

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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I've had to endure long stretches of insanity and not being sure of what was going to happen next.

0:07.5

And how do you plan for that?

0:09.8

And how do you still enjoy your life and be joyful and still find humor and things?

0:16.1

And I think that those are keys to us getting through this.

0:31.4

Music think that those are keys to us getting through this. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.

0:35.2

And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do

0:38.7

everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great

0:43.2

conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those

0:48.3

things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com,

0:52.9

visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community

0:54.9

at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my

1:00.2

favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for

1:05.2

joining me today. Ladies, these are wild times. I feel like every hour I am finding out something different

1:14.4

about our quarantine or what is going to be happening with our lives. And I know we have all

1:19.9

been inundated with this across the internet, but we thought that we would be negligent to not

1:25.7

address what is happening worldwide right now

1:29.7

and to cultivate some lovely in the middle of it. I mean, that's what we're all about here, right?

1:34.7

And so we thought, let's take this topic, give some practical advice and some fun advice.

1:40.7

So we've got everything in this episode from what you can be doing to bolster your and your

1:45.4

family's health to how to pour into community when you can't actually be around each other,

1:50.4

especially for us extroverts who are going to be needing some interaction with other adult

1:56.3

humans. We've got the ideas for you in this episode. And we also have been inspired to be adding

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