And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought Podcast. Today's episode is staying healthy, mentally, physically, and emotionally during a pandemic.

Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick Gudro. Welcome.

You can find me at joyful vegan.com and on social media.

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find the link there. Thank you so much in advance. We are going to be talking about silver linings as a way to stay

mentally healthy during a pandemic, and one silver lining through all of this for me and hopefully for you has been the online

vegan cooking classes I've been teaching in real time every week the classes are

interactive they're super fun you meet like-minded people. You get the recipes in advance so you can cook along with me if you want. You don't have to. And you get a recording of the class at the end. If you can't make a class you can purchase the

recipes and that cooking video at the end, well as soon as I get it up, and I

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