S5 Ep166: A Realistic Mother's Day with MacKenzie and Chelle
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa and Chelle Bruzas sit down and have a little real talk about how to have a better Mother’s Day in this season of lockdown by setting realistic expectations. We want to encourage you during this challenging time in your parenting journey to be gracious with each other, look outside of yourself and find the bright side.
- Talking to your family about what you would like for them to do
- Making your own backup plans for food and treating yourself
- Prepare yourself with realistic expectations of behavior
- Celebrate your children’s efforts to do things for you
- Chelle shares her heart for women for whom Mother’s Day is painful
The most perfectly worded Hallmark card will never hold a candle to personal words from someone.
MacKenzie Koppa- Some idea for gifting yourself and the other mothers in your life:
- Flowers, of course!
- Gift cards
- Printed photos
- Candles from a small business
- Locally roasted coffee
- Support small business
- Books
- Making time to say and write about your love for your mom
- Plan for lighthearted fun and not take yourself so seriously
- Be encouraged!
- Giving and receiving forgiveness
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Find Chelle-You can find Chelle Bruzas on @chelle_bruzas.
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| 0:00.0 | Just think of like, what is the day that I want to have and then do whatever you have to do to make that happen. |
| 0:06.4 | And I think you really will be happier in the long run than just like wishing it would have happened. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to cultivating the lovely. Welcome to cultivating the lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, 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 |
| 0:33.7 | mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy |
| 0:37.9 | dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website |
| 0:42.9 | at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating |
| 0:48.5 | the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact |
| 0:52.9 | with all of you. You can find me |
| 0:54.4 | at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. Oh, ladies, Mother's Day is right around |
| 1:03.8 | the corner. And Shell and I decided we needed to have a little chat about Mother's Day today, |
| 1:09.3 | not just because of quarantine, |
| 1:11.5 | but also because Mother's Day tends to be one of those days where we set maybe some |
| 1:16.1 | expectations that aren't very realistic, or we feel a little disappointed in the way things play |
| 1:22.6 | out. And so we just wanted to give you guys some encouragement, some ideas, and some help to make this be a really successful, lovely Mother's Day in spite of whatever may be going on or not going on in your life. |
| 1:37.2 | But I also wanted to mention you guys, we still have our promotion running in Patreon right now. |
| 1:43.4 | We decided to go ahead and extend it because |
| 1:45.9 | all of our stay at homeness has been extended and we still all really need community and people |
| 1:51.9 | and things to look forward to. And we have got a lot of that going on in Patreon right now. |
| 1:56.8 | So if you join for just $5 a month, you will automatically receive all the digital benefits up to the $15 |
| 2:03.6 | loveliest level. And so at that level, you can be a part of our book clubs. You can get into a |
| 2:09.2 | cultivating group. You can become a part of all of our flower therapy stuff, whether that's sourdough |
| 2:14.1 | or actually growing flowers. We have all of that happening and we would love to welcome |
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