Welcome to Live Well Anyway.

I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of cultivating the lovely, and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.

Basically, life is messy, you guys, and

here we learn to live well anyway. So join me on this journey as we figure it out together.

And just to get started, I'll go first. And that is exactly what I'm doing today, because today's

episode is just with little old me. You guys, today we are going to sit down and have a little bit of a chat about how to take

care of ourselves as grown women.

Now, I had originally thought I would make this episode all about the single ladies heading

to Valentine's Day and I am going to be hitting on that towards the end of this episode. How as single women,

we cannot feel bad about this holiday and we can actually learn to enjoy it for ourselves

and do some things to kind of pamper ourselves. So we're going to go there. But the more I thought

about this topic, you know, first I was thinking, oh, this is just for single women. I thought,

you know what? No, married ladies need this too. You know, I first I was thinking, this is just for single women. I thought, you know what,

no, married ladies need this too. We all need to be learning to take care of ourselves as grown

women because I think that it's become a little bit of a lost art form. I think they were better at

doing these things in like the 50s and the 60s and times gone by then we have gotten

used to in our current era everything is so lax and casual that we sometimes kind of lose

what can actually make us feel well cared for and feel feminine and just feel like we are our best

selves and I feel like I've learned a lot about this in the last few years and so I'm just going to

I'm just going to share what I feel like I figured out in my later 30s about being a grown woman

and I also want to preface this by saying that we're all in

different stages of life. And some of these things are not going to apply as much if you just

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