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. 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 oh, today, you guys, we have got a deep one for you. I have got

Katie Duckett, one of my very good in real life friends back on the show with me today.

She also partners with me with a lot of the content that we put out in Patreon. So if you want to

know more about that, head over to patreon.com slash live well together. But on this episode, we decided

to do a deep dive into what it looks like to support your friends through really

difficult times in their lives.

Now, we were originally going to do this show all about helping your friends coming out

of abuse because I get a lot of questions from all of you about that.

I get DMs on Instagram pretty regularly about what can I do for my friend who's coming

through a similar situation.

But as Katie and I were talking, it really ended up blooming into this much bigger conversation

about what healthy female friendships look like and how building those and taking the time

to invest in those becomes the undergirding to be able to help each other through all kinds

of different things that we

face in our lives. We were both blown away by how deep and impactful this conversation was

just between the two of us. And so we are really hoping that you guys resonate with it and are

feeling the same way we do about this episode. It actually inspired us to want to be making more content

around this particular topic of female friendships and how to do them well and how to do

them in a healthy way because we see the need for it. We hear about it from you guys all the time.

And so this is probably really just the catalyst for a lot more that we are going to be talking

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