- Hey everybody, it's one
of those old style videos

that you all say you miss so much.

Coffee and a chat with Katy, ding.

Now today's video is really
just gonna be me catching you up

kind of on what's happening with me

and what's been going on.

It's been a busy year, I wrote a book,

I have never missed an upload
date and I've been uploading

two videos a week for a whole
year, another whole year.

Also we've been doing live streams

and I've been putting
together Patreon videos

and I've just been doing a lot

and as I'm always telling you,

I'm always preaching to
you about taking time

and doing self-care and all of the things

that are just important in
life I think as a whole,

I'm gonna do some of that.

And so actually I'm
recording this on a Saturday

and Shawn and I leave
tomorrow on Sunday, the 23rd

to go back to Washington
to visit my family

and to take some vacation time.

And so we're gonna be snowboarding

and catching up with my family and friends

and just hanging out and relaxing

so that next year I can come back

recharged and excited
because I really have

a lot of cool ideas about things

that are gonna come to
fruition finally in 2019.

One of those being Shawn and I's podcast,

I know many of you have
been asking about it

and we are still working on it,

I just haven't really had
the bandwidth to do more

than what I've already been doing.

And so, I just wanna let you
know a little bit about that

and how I've been feeling

because I was afraid I was
getting kinda burned out

and you know how I'm
always talking about that

and how important it is to take breaks

before we're burned out

because I wanna keep doing what I do.

And so I'm kinda preemptively striking.

And so I have bulk filmed all the videos

that are gonna happen for the next month

so that I don't have
to work on my vacation

'cause that's the problem
with YouTube, right?

I don't want any of you,

I know holidays are super stressful

and hard for many of you so know

that our whole community
is still here to support

and I have tons of videos about
all things holiday related

so you can search for those

but I just need to take a break too.

And so even though I don't
wanna let any of you down,

I still have to take care of myself

and so I've bulk filmed all of
the videos for the next month

and they will be going up as scheduled

but I just won't be interacting
as much as I used to.

They'll still be released

and I'll try to approve any
comments that are being held

but for the most part I'm
just gonna depend on you

and our community to support one another

while I take a much
needed break and vacation.

And so for two weeks,

I won't really be interacting much at all

but I will be on Instagram sharing along

my vacation on the YouTube stories,

that's a new thing that's
out that I've been utilizing.

So if you wanna follow along there,

you can see what I'm up
to and where I'm going.

So yeah, that's really it.

I mean I don't really know
what else to share with you

other than I'm just trying to take a break

so that next year I
can come back recharged

and with fresh eyes and hopefully

we can take the channel
in a really cool direction

because I really enjoy educating

and I want everything
to be really engaging

and I'm just trying to challenge myself

to do that in new ways.

And I've been talking a
lot about wanting to do

the this is what depression

or this is what anxiety feels
like kind short film ideas

but I just haven't had the
time to even consider those,

put those into scripts or
however people even do that,

I don't do that kind of thing

so I just haven't had a chance
really to do any of that.

And so taking a break will
really allow me the time

and the brain space to
come up with those ideas

and develop those ideas and
hopefully you guys see it

and feel it when I get back.

But thank you so much
for a wonderful year.

This has been a crazy and amazing year,

the community has grown a lot

so if you're new to the channel, welcome,

I'm a licensed therapist,

I put up videos on Mondays and Thursdays

but if you are looking,
if you have a question

and you're worried or
if someone in your life

is struggling with suicidal
thoughts or any of that,

you can just search on YouTube,

Katy Morton and put in
some of the key terms

whether that be suicide,
whether that be self-injury,

whether that be anxiety,
depression, holidays,

put in your key terms
and then all of my videos

on that topic will come up.

I use tags pretty well and
I have over 1,000 videos

so chances are I've answered it

but we also have an amazing community

that can guide you
towards the right videos

or share in their own experience

because as I've been saying
for over seven years now,

with your experience and my expertise,

we will keep working together

towards a healthy mind and a healthy body.

And I'm just really excited
to see what's to come in 2019.

I'm excited to hear from all of you

how your holidays are
and what's happening,

how 2018 has been for you?

Leave in the comments,
what are some great things

that you've accomplished this year?

What are some big goals maybe you have set

or even small goals that
were just really difficult?

What have you accomplished in 2018?

I wanna hear about it 'cause I think often

people focus on the negative

or we focus on like what's
going wrong in the world

or with people or whatever

but instead let's try to make
it a little more positive.

So let me know in those
comments down below

what you've been working
on and thank you so much

for allowing me to have this amazing job.

I'm really fortunate to do what I love

and to be able to help
people around the world,

it's just a really powerful
and wonderful thing

so thank you all so much, I
hope you're enjoying my book,

I hope you're enjoying the videos,

I love you all and I will
see you in the new year, bye.