mental health day vlog ☁️🌻🧸 relax, recharge, & reset with me

[Music] good morning guys we are taking a mental health day this is my first few words that I'm speaking so forgive me when I was younger my mom mom introduced this idea to me when I was having when I was just feeling really overwhelmed it could just be any random day in the summer or on a weekend whatever it may be sometimes on a Friday for a school day okay and I am just overwhelmed whatever it may be and she'd be like you need to take a mental health day and I actually thought it was really cool growing up that that was something that I you know even knew what that meant um and I'm really grateful to my mom for teaching me how important it is to sometimes take a step back and do things for you and do just have a day full of doing things that make you feel happy maybe it's just you laying down all day whatever it is like just giving yourself that excuse and some people are better than others at this like I go through phases of life and right now I'm in a phase of life where I feel like I con ever since I moved to New York honestly where I feel like if the sun is shining and there's an opportunity for me out there I need to be out I need to be doing things I don't want to say no and um today is not one of those days today is one of those days where I want to listen to my body listen to me and kind of just refuel myself recharge my social battery if you will the last since early September I have been go go go Fashion Week weddings travel hurricanes I think my social battery is at an all-time low in this VAR moment but also I feel like my body like I swear I'm getting a sty in my eye I sprained my ankle this past weekend at the wedding like fully Sober by the way I just tripped um and I'm sore like I don't know I just feel like my body is like hey Danielle Let's Chill so that is what we're going to do today I thought that'd be a fun little pivot to my normal Vlogs this will be a vlog where I take you along my day but I'm seriously I have not one thing that I have to be at today and I let me preface by saying I feel forever grateful that that is my day today I feel so privileged that I can have this day because I know not everyone can just take a full mental health day but I hope you take some inspiration from this video if anything so I started off my mental health day last night when I went to bed I said we're not putting on an alarm I put on my little night routine on my hatch alarm I did the red light I changed it to um it goes from red light for 30 minutes with music to um White Noise all night actually I think I have it on Brown noise I like brown noise um until you turn it off in the morning I slept so well I think just knowing too that I didn't have an alarm going off like that is a luxury um like even on the weekends I feel like I have an alarm of some sort also one thing I'm realizing cuz sleep the older I get I'm realizing how important sleep is I feel like when you're younger you're like I want to stay up all night and like who cares no sleep is important and it affects so many parts of your life um and your physical well-being um this is like such a random thing normally when I go to bed I have like a th throw pillows as you guys know I usually unless Ryan's here I will take all the pillows and just pile them up on the right side of my bed and just go to sleep I wake up they're all still there and it's so easy to make your bed in the morning that's the main reason I do it it's so easy to make your bed in the morning however I'm realizing particularly in morning where I want to sleep in or I just want to be lazy in the morning I the night before I take off all my pillows like last night I just knew it was going to be that kind of day so I put all of my pillows over there and I do feel like I slept really really well because I can just like sprawl and I'm not running into pillow I don't know my my Blanket's not tight when I try to pull it up cuz all the pillows are weighing it down I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but I just thought I'd share that a lot of times I will still sleep with the pillows cuz it does does make making the bed really easy but any who welcome to today and I'm really excited to take you guys along I'm really I'm selfishly excited for this day for me because I haven't had a day like this in so long and it's just going to be a well-rounded day full of you'll see you'll see what we're doing today so I'm going to start off by getting out of bed even though it is oh my dad's calling me I already he's going to ask me about my ice machine ready good morning morning good morning I I hope you're up now um I was just getting out of that actually well good for you good for you hey um I just realized tomorrow is a Debbie's birthday um yes it is she's coming here tomorrow yeah hey you want to check your ice cubes while I'm here just interested of course definitely should be there definitely should be more than yesterday if it's my dad got me out of bed um but yeah I feel like the key for a mental health day start is a relaxing restful start like waking up feeling like you got good amount of sleep and you can just kind of enjoy your morning like I purposely like not today but on another day I would normally get up earlier than I have to be like start getting ready so I can enjoy my morning so I am doing just that and I cannot wait to make my cup Cofe um I'm still on the decaf grind I had some caffeine this past week because I needed it but um on the day today I do adore my decaf coffee because I definitely still feel a little like buzzed but I don't feel as anxious and gosh I just love the act of making coffee and I feel like my CG just doesn't for me I actually fell asleep on my couch last night I started season 2 of tell me lies oh my gosh it's I'm I'm locked in um but hence the blanket and remote just like this whole area just screams I fell asleep on the couch I am going to light a candle this morning because I'm actually going to be in my apartment for a while I hate lighting a candle than just like leaving the house like I'm trying to be more mindful of when I'm lighting my candles this one is cotton Poppin from BYO and oh my gosh it smells so good I also am really into black candles like it look I think it's just the aesthetic of my new apartment you know and you guys know this but normally what I would do is while my coffee is being made I go rush to make my bed but it's not that kind of day we're doing what we want today so cheers my apartment gets beautiful sunlight in the morning however I don't really want it right now so I'm just gonna pull this down just because it's like direct sunlight in the morning and I think I want to watch some YouTube videos or some TV just to kind of wake up cuz normally I would sit here and listen to my jazz music which is also lovely but I just kind of want to not think about my own life right now not because I'm not for anything crazy I just I don't know it's fun to kind of take yourself out of your world that same thing goes for like reading a book or something it's just nice to watch someone else's life and not be in yours except my dad's calling me again hello long time no chat fam is just coming in hot today I got this video from my mom oh my God she's dancing to Sabrina Carpenter she's got her eye patches on under her glasses for the reference this how to do the trick get me all boosted up she had never heard of Sabrina Carpenter and I was like you know oh go girl if you were to ask me who my favorite YouTuber is I would a th% say Michelle Choy I love her videos so much as you can see I've watched all of these but I'm a little bit behind so okay I have three episod three episodes three YouTube videos I can watch so except I'm not really in the mood for what I eat in a day so I'll do this I just love her Vlogs so much they just put me in the best mood so we're going to watch one a big part of mental health days for me are being in nature getting some physical activity and of sorts but that doesn't always mean working out like I initially had a pilates class brooked for today and I was like I don't I don't want to do it I knew I wanted to move my body in some way I also my ankles really bothering me so sometimes like when in on the reformer I feel like you have to like bring in your whole body weight with your feet and like like that might not be good for my angle anyways I'm also dramatic no excuses because we don't need excuses on this day we can do whatever the heck we want but I would like to get outside be in nature maybe walk along the high line that's exactly what I'm going to do um I also do need to go to CVS I do need to do that so this will be a good excuse but I just put on this little outfit and a little button down a little little everything a button down bag in case I acquire things along the way AKA going to CVS and buying more deodorant um but I'm excited to get outside and just get some physical activity and get some steps in and I actually saw something on Tik Tok the other day and I might try it I'm not like anxious today which is lovely um but sometimes when I'm really anxious I go on a walk and I saw this girl she went on a color walk where basically on your walk you look for um you choose a color so she chose yellow I think and she would just basically kind of like I spy adult version so on her walk she be like oh that's a yellow thing that's a yellow thing so you're out of your mind and you're focused on something else um so I actually did that the other day I was kind of anxious walking somewhere and I chose the color red and it was really fun for me just to play that little game with myself of like oh there's something red there and then I'm like wait what was I stressed about it's it's pretty great um it's not a cure by any means but it is nice so that's something you can do for sure but I'm going to head outside maybe call a friend I always love talking on the phone to someone but honestly today's one of those like I'm recharging my social batteries so I'm not particularly in the mode to chat so I'm just going to enjoy some time with me myself and [Music] I we have made it on the Highline and it's popping there are lots of people here right now but it's really nice to be in all the nature normally I have my airpods in and I'm listening to some relaxing music maybe a podcast but today I'm doing a mindfulness walk which I do every now and then where no headphones in I'm taking in the sounds of the city like literally the sounds of planes driving by just kind of taking in everything all the senses smell sites hearing everything and it's really nice and just I love hearing birds chirp and I have her it for you today [Music] [Music] [Music] walk was so lovely I just had some lunch and I have tell me lies on now I couldn't wait till tonight and I'm going to get some cleaning done so roll the cleaning montage and let me say cleaning for me is a reset it feels amazing like I feel grateful when I have a lot of time in my day to clean because it allows me to have a clearer head space like I'm just in a good mood [Music] this might be my new therapy video call just zoom meeting area honestly the lighting is probably going to be fabulous but my apartment is nice and clean I've been listening to bosan NOA Jazz while cleaning which has been nice um like I said there's days where I want to listen to a podcast there's days I want to watch TV um and I had to tell me lies on but I literally was getting so distracted because it's just so good season 2 is so good that I had to turn it off and put on BOS NOA and we'll watch that later but I do want to thank better help for sponsoring this video I think it's only fitting for my mental health day to include therapy and I love better heal because it makes therapy so accessible you don't have to go into like a very intimidating waiting room it's very easy to get match with a licensed professional therapist which is just so nice it's literally so easy all you do is fill out a brief questionnaire and then they're going to match you and it's so nice because if for some reason you're not meshing with your therapist you can totally get a new one which is really nice like you're not tied to the one like better help wants you to have have a good experience um also these therapists are trained to ask you the right questions get you curious about certain things and they'll help you see things from A New Perspective which I think is really nice that's one of my favorite things about therapy and I always say this but it's so true it's because this person isn't in my life at all I don't have to worry like oh if I tell them this they're you know they're friends with that person too or you know it's Al like that's my mom and like that's her son that I'm talking talking about or whatever it may be just giving examples I feel so safe and I think it's so important to have safe spaces especially in this day and age I'm in my like upper 20s now I guess is that what 26 is and there's a lot of Life Changes constantly things that are going in on in my personal life and friendships relationships and I don't know what I would do without therapy to be honest so if you're struggling and think you'd benefit from a therapy session you definitely need to give betterhelp a try click the link in the description or go to betterhelp.com Danel Caroline to get 10% off your first month of therapy thank you so much again to better help for sponsoring this video and I'm in my little therapy Nook now Okie doie now it is time to start making dinner I don't know why I made that sound so dramatic but it's a little bit before 400 p.m. and I recently got this guy right here it's the Our Place dream cooker it's basically a crock poot but I'm an Aesthetics person and I do need I just I knew that I'd probably want to keep it out and I wanted it to look nice and crockpots are fine looking but this just looks so good and it like matches my vibe so I finally got one and I made chili last week it's actually what I had for lunch today it was really good so today today we're going to make split pea soup and something I find very therapeutic is cooking like chopping the onions listening to my BS and NOA jazz music Frank son or whatever it may be um so I'm going to do just that today and I invited Ryan over and he'll come over later tonight when dinner's ready but I want to kind of get it all prepped right now I think the recipe I found it's not like the chili I made you had to keep it cooking for like 3 to 6 hours but this I think is just 45 minutes but I kind of just want to like make it now that's where I'm at right [Music] now so LOL this recipe is not for crock pots it's just that's why it's so quick it's because it's for a regular pot because you need to like cook some of the things please comment down below your favorite crock poot recipes because I am so embarrassed but I mean it's fine I have a pot to cook it in it's just funny anyways let's continue the cooking montage [Music] [Music] everything's a simmering in there for about 45 minutes so I'm going to take a shower I'm listening to my jazz in here I love that I have the speakers in both rooms it's so nice I just finished showering and putting lotion all over my body I also did some more self Tan on my face cuz I still have a spray tan so I need the face to match but just doing all the things while I wait for my food to cook it's that time of day for a tall glass of Kombucha no wine today we're going kombucha I've been loving this little moment to myself in the evenings kombucha truly winds me down I don't know how to explain it just the way it feels in my chest I'm like oo I love it so it's been my little evening treat some kombucha soup is done this is a true labor of love right here I literally was like oh this is perfect I'll just pop it in and I don't have to touch it no this was something I definitely had to attend to but it was therapeutic and I had the time today so that's good um I sent it to my mom and her boyfriend he's a chef he was like did you have potatoes and the recipe I used was from delish.com and there was no potatoes but you can see the ham the carrots it smells so good and I had a little taste and it's good Ryan will be here shortly so we can eat I pulled out the place mats that's all I've done so far but I think it'll be a nice setup I also for my birthday my grandma and grandpa PA got me um a set of eight of these or she said of my choice um like dinner set so I got eight of each thing it looks gray on camera but they're black I absolutely love them I'm so excited so I think Ryan and I can eat out of these bowls actually no that is far too small so we will do my my standard these this time but um I am very excited about my new plates and bowls for sure instead of flowers this week Ryan brought me a pumpkin and I'm so excited oh it's so beautiful we have to make pumpkin seeds there's pumpkin seeds in this one there's pumpkin seeds it's nice and big oh you got all oh never mind he said there's always a dirty side they grow the ground they grow on the ground you're right this is stunning I can't wait thank you [Music] Ryan just left I took a shower hair wash you know like in everything shower um it's two showers today lol we get such a lovely evening and now I'm going to put back on and tell me lies for a little bit while I fold laundry because it's it's a reward um I also forgot I bought these and I want to try them these are kale chips all of a sudden I'm really wanting like something crunchy and salty I just don't know kale chips okay that tastes really good kale sunflower seeds chickpea miso lemon juice carrot onion garlic tomato Himalayan salt and turmeric powder this feels like a really healthy snack and it's definitely like satisfying my craving for like a salty chip I'm impressed I got these at Whole Food and I don't like things that taste healthy it's like like a vegetable this is good so try this blue dry my hair a little bit I think I'm going to wear it straight tomorrow which I don't do as often anymore with the extensions but yeah I'm going to blow out my candle turn off the TV and go to bed feeling very fulfilled very grateful today was such a nice well-rounded day I just love my time alone and in my apartment it's the best um I love you guys so much thank you so much for watching this video I hope it inspired you to have your own version of a mental health day and I'll see you guys next time our next video bye [Music]