Welcome to Live Well, anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of Cultivating

Lovely, and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life. I feature both a fun mix of

guests who I've invited, as well as some hopefully helpful and humorous solo shows centered

on things I've learned in my own life. And that happens to be what is happening today. We're

going to kind of hit it pretty hard on things that I did after I left my abusive marriage to receive

healing and to really figure out who I was again and to press into that process.

So I don't know how funny this episode will be, but I will be answering some questions that

I have gotten over and over and over again and kind of walk you through

the process that I went through to get to where I'm at now, which is, you know, I haven't arrived,

but I've come quite a ways. And so I'm going to talk about kind of what it took to unpack

14 years of a verbally, spiritually, and emotionally abusive relationship.

So I know that's a lot, but a lot of you've asked for it. So here you go. But before we get

there, you guys, there's so much fun stuff going on in Patreon. And we would love to have you come,

at least come check it out. Come to patreon.com

slash live well anyway and see what offerings we've got going on there. Because in addition to

the live shows that I do every day, that revolve around all kinds of different topics, Katie

Deccat and I have also partnered together to do some really fun things. We have a new mini cast where we're

challenging each other every month to do things kind of both within our own realms of stuff.

So hers is more like family and home centered and that sort of thing. And mine is like

stepping up her skin care and that kind of thing. In fact, that was the episode that we released

this week in which

I challenge her and I walk her through step by step from having basically no skincare routine

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