Hi!
This is Emma from mmmEnglish
and it has been a few months
since I last uploaded a video or a lesson here, several months.
And I wanted to take the opportunity
to talk about why.
I've had so many messages
asking where I am, how I am,
what's happened.
For all of you who reached out to ask, I'm really grateful
for your care and your concern.
So I wanted to make this video today to
to talk about that,
how I've been, what's been happening
and what's happening next here at mmmEnglish.
Where to start?
I became quite unwell at the end of last year,
I had a virus that infected my eyes
and then as it developed it spread
to a skin condition that covered my entire body
and it took
several months of treatment to clear.
So I was really quite shocked, it came
quite out of the blue.
I was scared, I was worried for a little while,
didn't know what to do, I didn't know how to fix it.
It was all triggered by stress and overwork.
It really forced me to take a big step back and
prioritise my health and then try to
prioritise my work and the things
that I do and how frequently I do them
and how I show up and where I show up
and what energy I take to all of those places.
At the time, I had so much on my plate. I
was really forcing myself to continually be showing up
and endlessly creating new content
and you can even hear by the words that I'm using there,
I was forcing myself to show up and
endless content, continuously producing, it really
felt like, at the time, I was showing up
because I had to, because I was forcing myself to,
not because I wanted to.
And then on the other hand, I had this incredible
business that I was building.
I've talked about Hey Lady! before.
And in Hey Lady! I have an incredible team
of coaches, of community managers, of
developers and they all need me to show up.
I had spread myself too thinly across
all of my responsibilities
that I just felt like I wasn't doing any of them well.
I don't know if you have ever
experienced something similar, maybe to do with work,
maybe to do with other things in life.
So often we get stuck in a place where
we just can't give our all.
We can't give everything.
And I was showing up in all of these different places
for all of these different people
out of obligation to do it, not
because I wanted to be there myself or I really
felt like I was contributing in a valuable way but
out of obligation for everyone else who needed me.
So something had to give
and
at the time I didn't have the courage to say no
to something,
to one of those things
and because I didn't have the courage to say no
I just,
I disappeared and this
tends to be how I manage difficult situations
when things get hard.
I slip away and I try and solve
problems myself on my own.
If you're like me and you do that too, I don't
think that it's a bad thing.
I think it's just something that you need to acknowledge,
you need time to do.
Hello Frankie.
Life is hard, isn't it?
She's right next to me on the couch.
But I'm so glad that I did it.
I really wanted to come back ready to give you everything.
I want to create every lesson that I make for you
willingly and freely and with so much love
because I know that that is such an important part about
learning. You need the people who you are learning from
to be inspiring you and to be motivating you and exciting you
about what you're doing and where you're going and
all of the opportunity that's ahead of you.
So here I am!
I'm back.
I'm here
and I am so excited about
all of the new lessons that I've got lined up ready for you.
They're going to start coming out
over the next few weeks
but I'm also going to be bringing back,
I'm going to be reviving
some older mmmEnglish lessons,
lessons that you probably haven't seen, they're like
circa 2018, you know, we're going back a bit.
I've been making videos here on YouTube for like
seven years or something now
so there's a fair few that you probably haven't even seen
so get ready for Throwback Thursdays where we will be
going back into the archives, reviving some older
mmmEnglish lessons and it will give you a chance
to review some of those important grammar points
or those important vocabulary sets
or pronunciation practice and we'll be doing it all together.
Every like, every thumbs up, every comment,
every share on a mmmEnglish video is going to help
bring mmmEnglish back to life.
And if you are still here watching now,
thank you for being here all the way through,
I know that that means that you
love mmmEnglish, that you care about
me and about new lessons that I'm gonna put out here and I'm
so grateful that I have your support.
In fact, just for you
I'm going to put a transcript of this video down in the description
with some of the key vocabulary and the expressions
that I've used,
highlighted
and some examples around how to use it in different contexts
because I don't often
just sit here and waffle on like this and speak off the cuff
and it's a really nice opportunity for you to learn
some of the words and expressions that I use quite casually
during conversations.
So I want to share that with you.
You can get the link down in the comments
and while you're down there, leave me a little comment
if you are excited about
new mmmEnglish lessons. If you have any special requests
or anything that you want to see from me,
let me know down in the comments. I would love
to reconnect with you and to
spark some new energy here at mmmEnglish.
Thank you so much for being here with me
all the way through
and over the years.
So much love and respect to you!