I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 117.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast,

a show about living simply and sustainably with your family.

Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there friends and welcome back.

On today's show we are discussing coronavirus through a very wide lens.

Now I am all about the big picture and when I sit back and

when I look at the big picture as it is related to this pandemic I first find myself asking some big picture questions about life within my own home right now.

And I also find myself wondering, of course, whether there are some big picture lessons that we can learn as a

species from this pandemic and relate them to climate change. Now if none of this makes any sense stay with me.

First on today's show we are talking about the big picture concerns on the home

level. There are a lot of articles online these days about small

picture issues like how to keep your kids entertained and how to multitask when

you're working from home and homeschooling. I'm not tackling these small picture

issues today mainly because I'm still trying to figure them out on my own. Instead

we are tackling the big picture home issues.

And I have invited a yoga instructor and mindfulness

guru on to help answer those big picture questions, like how exactly we can go with the flow in our own homes

when our worlds have been turned upside down, or how is it possible or even if it is possible to go into the unknown with smiles on our faces?

I have a few other wide lens questions that I am asking Kathy in our mini interview today that I've been thinking about and perhaps you have to.

So that's Act 1 of the show.

Act 2 of the show, Part 2, we are talking about the big picture concerns on a global and an

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