S5 Ep165: Celebrating in Tough Times with Katie and Chelle
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie talks with her good friends Katie Duckett and Chelle Bruzas about clinging to celebrations and loveliness amidst the coronavirus crisis. This is a grace-filled, honest conversation that we hope will help you see the lighter side of life in a challenging season.
- Katie shares honestly how she is doing amidst coronavirus struggles
- Chelle talks about what it is like to parent with transparency during this season
- MacKenzie shares the challenge of being forced into schooling at home again
- Katie shares the analogy of a pot boiling over to talk about stressors and emotions
- MacKenzie talks about dealing with “parenting whiplash”
- Making the intentional effort to pull out of your own emotion and love on your family
- The kindness of communicating your needs with each other as a family
We have to be creative, but those small efforts pay big dividends in the hearts of our kids.
Katie Duckett- Setting healthy boundaries for ourselves and our kids
- Celebrating birthdays amidst social distancing
- Join in celebrating with us #lovelypandemicbirthday
- Katie's new family tradition and how it came to be
- The simple luxury of taking a flower bath or pedicure
- Other simple ways to bring some loveliness into your day
- Share how you are doing to celebrate the little things with us #cultivatingthelovely
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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Find Katie-You can find Katie Duckett on Instagram @may_these_arrows_fly.
Find Chelle-You can find Chelle Bruzas on @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.
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| 0:00.0 | it's doing something kind of fun for me. If it wasn't, if it was just a drain, I would say |
| 0:05.1 | abandon. You know, don't tap on things that make you feel more drained. But if you feel that |
| 0:09.3 | energy around it, like it is fun. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, |
| 0:31.9 | we know that 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, |
| 0:36.6 | and a healthy dose of community |
| 0:38.3 | to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at |
| 0:42.5 | cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the |
| 0:48.0 | lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact |
| 0:52.3 | with all of you. You can find me at |
| 0:54.2 | Mackenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. Ladies, this episode, it was so |
| 1:02.6 | therapeutic to record with my good friends Katie Duckett and Shell Bruises. Now, you guys have |
| 1:08.6 | heard them on the podcast a lot lately, but today we wanted to |
| 1:11.7 | bring an episode that was equal parts real and hopefully inspirational because times are hard, |
| 1:19.2 | and we got very real about how they are specifically hard for each of us, which we hope allows |
| 1:24.2 | you guys to be able to relate to us and know that we don't have it all together. |
| 1:28.6 | But we also want to make sure that we value the idea of celebration and being able to come |
| 1:35.1 | together even from afar and in small ways to have things to look forward to during this crazy |
| 1:41.5 | time. And so I am so happy with the way that this episode turned out, |
| 1:45.5 | and I hope that you guys just feel so encouraged and just loved on through this episode |
| 1:51.3 | that we are right there with you. And as long as we're talking about celebration, I know that |
| 1:56.3 | it's late notice. You are getting this invitation the day that it's happening but today on instagram |
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