(gentle music)
- Good morning, my love,
it's been a while.
Your throat is sore, your legs are stiff,
your nose is stuffed
but you have to get up.
Put your snooze button
away, make your bed,
take care of yourself, make time to play.
You are the first person you neglect
when your life is busy
and hustling and bustling
but I remember that you like long walks
and dance sessions and
sister conversations
and long sleeps.
Take your rest but then awake.
Laziness steals from tomorrow's potential.
You are fully capable
and we have things to do,
places to go, people to see.
But they won't wanna smell
you so take a shower.
No, you really need to take one.
No, you already, no, you
skipped earlier this week,
take a shower, you'll feel
better when you don't feel gross.
Trust me.
I told you so.
Wear your hair however you want.
Dress in what your body wants to wear.
Try to eat sitting down and
not running to the next thing.
This is what they mean by self care.
But you have been running.
You've been on the road all year,
you've been constantly preparing
for the deadlines drawing near,
but you're here now.
Finish unpacking, settle
in, set yourself up.
You deserve the fine points.
You didn't get everything
done that you wanted to
but I forgive you for not being perfect.
Forgive yourself, love yourself.
I love you.
Hey, it's your girl Ahsante,
helping you move consciously
and creatively through life.
So let's go.
I have been in need of some good old
self love and self care.
It's just been one of
those types of weeks fam.
If you follow me on my Instagram stories
you will know that I
have been jetting, okay,
across the country, across the world.
This year I've been on an average
of two to three trips every single month
and when I travel my personal regiments
and self maintenance and
little personal routines
are the first things to go out the window.
Have we been meditating?
Hmmm.
Have we been getting our reading in?
Not really.
I usually fall asleep on planes.
So, you know, we have
just been on the hustle,
on the grind getting our work done
and now we need to work on
ourselves a little bit, okay?
Really, this past year has been
a really busy season for me career wise,
like much more busy and
much more career development
than I had anticipated,
which is great but it's meant that
I haven't worked on myself.
Gone through my personal
development that I had planned to,
I haven't developed this channel
in the way that I had planned to.
But life isn't a race and
you gotta remind yourself
that life isn't a race and we got time
and we can do things in our own time
and right now it's my
time to love on myself,
to love on my channel,
to love on y'all, okay?
We're gonna get this thing back going.
And this is a little love note to myself
and reminder to you all
who probably need reminding
as much as I do to take some time out
and take care of yourself.
Forgive yourself for not being perfect
and not living up to the expectations
of what you thought this year might be,
what you thought might come about,
what you had aimed to do for yourself,
all of your personal goals that
you maybe didn't quite meet.
It's okay.
Things happen and life is what happens
when we're busy making plans
and you gotta keep on
trucking, keep on keeping on.
For myself, I'm realizing
that this season,
really July to July, so
like the full 12 months
has really just been a different season
than I thought it would be.
I thought it would be kind of like a more,
okay, we're hunkered down,
let's pound out my personal
projects and personal goals.
And it's really been
about career and hustle
and career development and career growth.
And just gotta take it
in flexibility, you know,
stretch it out.
And honestly when you're open and flexible
it can lead you to some
really great places
and I've gone and traveled
to some really great places
this year so super grateful
for the year that I've had
even though it has been unexpected.
And in that kind of environment,
I just can't be too hard on myself
and I can't have expected
myself to do that
and my personal projects
and my personal development.
I have to forgive that,
I have to be compassionate about that.
In the comments, let me
know when you've had to be
compassionate with yourself
and just show yourself a little love.
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That's right.
♪ Baby, I'm back, yeah ♪
And thank you so much to my
wonderful Patreon patrons
for sticking with me this whole time,
through this tumultuous year
and helping me to support this channel.
As always, remember to live spiritedly
and think creatively and
I will see you next time.
♪ Do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do ♪
What's been making me
happy lately is VidCon.
VidCon was last weekend, it was super fun,
I saw a bunch of folks.
This VidCon was my fourth
VidCon so I really came in like
not even too much phased.
I'm like, I know the drill,
I know my people.
I was doing stuff with my job
and doing stuff with my personal channel
so I was super busy running back and forth
but I did get a chance to hang with folks.
My panel went well, my panel
on marginalized identities
and then I did my spoken word performance
so that was also great.
I won't have a VidCon vlog this year
but I did put highlights
on my Instagram story
so they'll be there at least
for a while so find it there.
Well, I'm gonna go love on myself.
I'll be right back.
(pop)
(Ahsante singing)
♪ Good morning, ♪
♪ Good morning, love ♪
