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hi guys welcome back to my channel as
you know if you follow me on Instagram I
am right now at the Hamptons we had a
little weekend in New York and I posted
a little 24 hours in New York family
vlog if you guys haven't checked it out
please do and then we decided to escape
the city to come and visit our friends
here it's been such an amazing and
peaceful environment and I had two to
three days where I completely
disconnected from my phone and I was
still kind of working but I wasn't mode
so that was really nice and I just had
time to reconnect to myself and rest and
spend time with my children and actually
take the time to slow down and be more
present which i think is a big problem
for a lot of us today it doesn't matter
if you're a mom or a career driven woman
or in school or anything it just it
always feels like we're behind something
I kind of started feeling towards after
my Israel trip when I came back home and
got right into the rhythm of work I just
got so overwhelmed and I felt so tired
and I felt kind of guilty for feeling
tired because I thought you know I was
just away on this trip visiting my
friends and family yes I was working but
it is what it is you know I want to
build something meaningful and
successful and you see all these quotes
and all these success stories of people
working 24/7 and you know those are the
ones who get to the top so you really
start feeling your mind with these
motivational like non-stop go hard type
of slogans and I have to say it really
burned me out so I decided to really
take advantage of the strip and to try
to not necessarily rush through it or
try to find content or shoot all the
time but more getting inspired by life
and just waking up feeling grateful for
the little thing
in life so just walking around and
looking at my kids checking out warms
and stopping for 15 minutes to look at
flowers and trees I really just kind of
followed their lead here it's funny to
me that children have a better
understanding of being present than
grown-ups so this trip is really about
me following their lead which is amazing
and brought me so much happiness there
are times where I feel like this is not
for me and I don't want to do this
anymore and I want to quit and I have to
remind myself that when if I get tired
and when I feel overwhelmed I need to
learn how to rest rather than to quit so
that's definitely something that I've
been working on since I started this
social media because this is something
that it's completely non-stop and your
24/7 connected
no no we don't didn't need sunscreen
what's there I feel like life is so
simple and us and humans really like to
complicate it and to overthink so I
definitely think that breaks like these
really help to cleanse your soul and to
cleanse your body and to just walk
around and admire things oh we
surrounded by that are kind of just
there it definitely teaches you a lot
about yourself I think that it's so so
important to keep reminding yourself
that first of all you are an individual
and someone else's rhythm of life or the
capacity for stress and things that they
do shouldn't be the same for you as you
noticed I'm super zen right now and I'm
gonna try to hold this feeling as long
as I can after I come back to really
remind myself the things that make me
happy and to remind myself that it's
okay to stop once in a while and to look
around and just stare and to remind
myself that I don't have to rush through
life and to remind myself that it's
never really the goal it's more the
journey so I really want to make this
journey as beautiful as possible and to
learn as much as I can really connecting
to your own self to ask yourself the
questions what do you need right now do
you need to rest you need to walk in
nature do you need to turn off your
phone for a few days and just focus on
your own well-being
I think having that honest conversation
is extremely important and I know that
it feels like we have all these
deadlines and stopping for a few days
which is gonna make us more stressed in
the days that we come back
but you really really have to make that
switch in your mind and I'm not gonna
lie it took me two days we got here and
it took me two days to be just like
valaria okay you don't have to answer
emails right now you have to remember
that you have to always fill yourself up
so you'll have enough to give to others
we can't pour from an empty cup I do
miss you guys and I do miss putting
content out there but it's it's been a
really amazing experience and I feel
like I'm getting slowly filled up to
come back home and to actually give more
you don't need much to do it you can
just go for walks you can go into nature
I find that nature is the place for this
kind of soul-searching and cleansing and
just going back to basics in your mind
so definitely do that if you have a
chance to walk barefoot on the grass and
have your coffee outside and not have
your phone and just stare at the sky at
the trees at the flowers whatever it is
I just really wanted to put that message
out there because I just feel so
inspired and so rejuvenated so I really
wanted to give you guys a little bit of
my experience of the little break that I
really really need it and I didn't know
I need it but I really needed it and
hopefully you guys will get inspired as
well to just and that's it you guys I
hope you enjoyed this video and I hope
you're having an amazing weekend go out
there and do something simple that will
make you happy and make you appreciate
the little things life has to offer to
us that is all around us at all times
which is way too busy to see it and I'm
gonna go back and drink my coffee
outside with a little oatmeal and watch
my children
to each other love you guys
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