- Hey everyone. It's Katie again.
And I'm in Mammoth Lakes, California, as you can see,
the snow, we don't get this down in LA, unfortunately.
So today I want to talk to you about
cutting off our internet connection for a little bit
and vacationing.
So stay tuned.
So, like I said, we need to take a little break sometimes,
right, we need to cut off our communication online.
And I know that sounds bad, cause a lot of us,
that's our main outlet.
And I always tell you, you need a vent
when you need to talk, but sometimes,
it's important to breathe and take it in, right,
because we get so stuck online.
And I'll tell to, to be honest, it was hard for me to do.
I've been not online for four days, aaa,
I'm like fiending, right.
And we go through this feeling,
like I wanted to pick up my phone,
oh, I should check Twitter.
No!
I did not.
'Cause sometimes we have to cut away from that
so that we can interact with real people in our lives,
like in real life people, like our family and our friends,
people at school.
And we need to take that time to communicate
where we're not talking, but we're like
checking emails and we're like uh-huh, uh-huh.
We're not really listening.
And sometimes we need to take that time
to give ourselves a break, where we don't have to
respond to anybody right away.
They'll still be there. They'll know. It's okay.
And it's kind of setting those little healthy boundaries.
I have videos, my old videos, there's two of them,
Boundaries One and Boundaries Two, and I talk about
setting healthy boundaries within relationships.
Well, this is kind of a boundary for yourself,
for your self-care.
Because even for myself, I have my fabulous five
that I check, all of my sites, and I have to
take some time for myself, right,
so that I can keep doing this, ta-da.
So, I too, four days off.
The first day or so, it was really hard,
I kept wanting to get online and check things,
and ooo, I know there's questions that need to be answered.
But once I got past that, I could finally relax.
I would lean back, but I'd probably fall off of this rock
that I'm hoisted onto.
So, it's nice to kind of take a break.
So I would encourage all of you,
even if it's just for one afternoon,
You want to check your phone, you don't.
Try to give yourself a little break.
Take some time, do some self-care, take a bubble bath,
paint your nails, color, call that friend
you haven't talked to in a while, hang out with them,
grab a coffee, anything you can do that
doesn't create too much anxiety, but it's a nice getaway.
Do something different.
We have to change up what we're doing
to continue to take care of ourselves,
and we can't do that when we're online every day,
because what that usually means
is when we're online, we're inside, on the computer,
sitting down, versus being out, talking to people,
being our wonderful selves, right, and we're
trying to work on a healthy mind, a healthy body.
But we have to put it into action.
We have to show people.
People love us, people care about us,
and they probably miss the communication.
So take some time away.
That's my task and my little homework assignment.
If you can do something this week,
take a couple hours where you're not reachable.
(gasp) Horrible things could happen, but they won't.
It's only a couple of hours.
It'll be nice for you to not be reachable.
And the weird thing is, I know this is showing my age,
I grew up in a time without cell phones.
We actually had car phones, like in the car, a phone,
like a phone for your home, so ghetto now.
But, at the time, you were unreachable,
and nothing bad happened.
We got along just fine.
I didn't even have email.
We didn't have Twitter. None of that existed.
And everything was just fine.
So let's take a break.
We can all take a little vacation.
We can get out, we can see people, we can reconnect,
'cause I'll tell you what, it feels so good.
And it's nice to reconnect with the people
in our lives that love us most,
and who care about us most,
because that's what life's all about, right,
it's our relationships.
And keep checking back.
I'll keep putting out videos.
I just wanted to talk to you all as I was
on my vacation in Mammoth.
And don't forget to subscribe to my channel,
because I put out videos every Monday,
and sometimes in the middle of the week,
and then you'll get notified.
And don't worry, I'm comin' online tomorrow.
So, I'll be back.
And I'm trying to thing if there's anything else.
Oh, don't forget to check out for my workbook
on my website if you haven't already.
It's free. You can download it on there.
It can help you get started thinking about
who I am and what's important to me.
So, hop on and do that, and we will keep working together
towards a healthy mind and a healthy body.