- 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.