hi guys welcome back to my channel how
are you guys tonight this is a week I
don't even know what would get us but I
feel like we have been in quarantine for
15 days self-isolation
it's been an interesting learning
experience about myself and just our
interaction in the family and just
figuring out our pace in our flow this
is a really scary times for us right now
but I also truly believe that we are
definitely gonna come out stronger than
ever it's really heartwarming to see the
kind of communities that are you know
coming together and helping each other
out to this difficult time but this
video is not about that this video is
first of all to check with you how are
you guys doing are you okay I hope you
keep busy I hope you are part of my ig
life series that we're doing talking
about different things I hope you get
your mind distracted with books and
movies and working out and baking
laughing whatever it is it makes your
heart happy I hope you do that a lot of
that because this is the time today I
wanted to really talk about the things
that I've been kind of doing well in
self-isolation I am trying to really get
inspired and bring as much value as I
can to my online community but I do find
pockets of time to indulge in Netflix
and Amazon Prime so I wanted to share
with you just a few things that I've
been doing to keep myself busy and
entertaining so let's start with shows
that I've been watching so obviously
trash TV shows or reality TV shows love
is blind is amazing I'm sure that a lot
of you guys watched it it was great so
digestible really really awesome I don't
know what it is with me and like dating
shows I'm really into it I feel like
it's interesting to see people's like
behavior in the psychology the other
show that I've been watched was dating
around basically each episode is
focusing on one person and then they go
on like five dates and then you see who
they pick the first one was just like a
guy a young guy the second
was like a young girl and then it was
like this man who's a widow and lost his
wife and he's like in his 60s or 70s and
it was so cool to see people that have
you know different sexual orientation
but very interesting one member of my
team James I saw it on his stories that
there's like a reality show that's
coming that's kind of like The Bachelor
but it's like with country music people
so they're like singing and I just
cringed at the trailer of this reality
show so I can't wait to watch it
I've watched you on Netflix and I can't
believe it took me so long to get into
it I absolutely devoured the show I've
watched it and finished like two seasons
so fast the next one that you should
watch is actually on Amazon Prime and
it's called modern love it's based on
this calm that is published in New York
Times I think it's kind of like a set of
stories of different people in New York
and each episode is devoted to different
character and then somehow at the end
you see how it's all connected it's
really cool really interesting every
episode teaches you something there was
one episode with Anne Hathaway actually
it was very powerful in a very
digestible beautiful storytelling way so
you'll see like an a-lister in every
episode and it was just really great
great show the next one is the marvelous
mrs. Basel in case any of you didn't
watch it it's also an Amazon Prime it's
absolutely phenomenal
I loved it very much and I actually
finished watching it a long long time
ago and I'm waiting for the next season
and then the next show that I'm planning
to watch is unorthodox which is on
Netflix I heard a lot of really amazing
things about it
I'm excited to watch that and then other
than that's been a lot of like dancing
with the kids different science
experiment that we've been doing and
I've been filming them and putting them
on my IG TV it's been really really
interesting to see how this Pinterest
experiment actually happened in real
life I don't know if you see but I have
sparkles like I have glitter on my hair
or maybe not because Maxie already took
it out but it's been really big
something we've been also cooking
together with it the black bean brownie
recipe and people loved it so many of
you created those and you loved it so
that was just really cool and fun thing
to do
also I just did like another healthy
recipe double chocolate zucchini muffins
I put healthy ingredients it's been a
lot of that and like movie nights we
watched avatar with them which I felt
there were two young Indiana Jones which
Gary insisted the original one and I
felt like they were too young as well
Karate Kid we saw the cruise which was a
really cute family movie it's just been
really nice to like have the time to do
all of that now let's move to the books
since we came into this self-assertion
situation I finished two and a half
books in two weeks which is insane
because in my normal regular life
probably takes me like three months to
finish one book
I've been putting extra effort at the
scheduling reading so I literally have
in my calendar scheduled like reading
window where the kids will be in front
of a screen or play with each other and
I'm just gonna like sneak away and do my
thing just like all y'all all the
parents out there at screen time rules
are not applying to this time around
whatever that keeps my sanity and my
well-being impact resulting in a happy
mama accomp household that's what we're
doing so the first one that I've read
and finish is this atomic habits by
James clear I love this book and I feel
like it was faked for me to read this
book right in the beginning of this
quarantine period because this is
talking about a way and system and
strategy to build good habits and
unlearn bad habits that don't
they showed me that motivation is not
such a big part of what it takes to
build a good habit I would actually love
to make me a video about this talk about
the book and talk a little bit about the
things that I marked so maybe I'll do
that let me know if that's something of
an interest book number two that I've
read this is probably the fastest book
I've read is untamed by Glennon Doyle
she wrote a book club warrior that I
feel like a lot of people read I haven't
read that one what I love most about
this book is the fact that it's this
short chapters and each chapter and each
story is really about different type of
experience that she had and the lessons
that you've learned and it really is
talking a lot about the unlearning of
the things that don't serve her anymore
about her identity about her privilege
as a white woman a lot of things that
she only now became open to after years
of living in the dark that makes sense I
feel like I've got a lot of inspiration
and a lot of insight insight is more the
asteroid board I got a lot of insight
and two things that I do as a parent the
things that I've used privilege woman
living in today's society it really
opened my eyes to a lot of things so
this I devoured I literally finished it
in three days so I highly recommend
three this one and then the next book
that I'm kind of on and off with I've
actually read this book and I also
listened to the podcast Oprah Winfrey in
a podcast like a series of podcast with
Eckhart Tolle
who is probably one of my favorite
spiritual teachers of our time he is
also the author of the power of now
which is a very famous book this is
something where I feel like you have to
be in the right mindset and not
necessarily go through the book fast
it's more of like opening it whenever
you're going through something and just
at that point where you're very open and
aware that's when you read it so that's
why for me it's been months whenever I
feel like I just need a little that's
when I pick it up and I also make sure
that I obviously mark everything that
I loved and enjoyed about this book
right now I'm also reading I can't find
it I feel like my kids hid it but wait I
just ordered it okay I found it the book
that I'm reading now is by Jacqueline
Woodson and it's called read at the bone
right now I'm halfway through and that's
more of a novel I do a lot of self-help
sub development books because it's
something that I feel like I crave I
want to learn so much I do want to
expand my brain a little bit and get
lost in someone else's story so I got a
few fiction books and the first one is
this one that Jacqueline Wilson and it's
just talking about an african-american
family every chapter is told from a
different member of the family so I'm
enjoying this book I'm not done yet but
I'm excited to keep reading it and then
I have three more just waiting for me
let me know what you guys what did you
watch what did you read what do you
recommend I want to hear it I hope
you're all safe and healthy see you guys
next time