I wanted to do something

a little bit different and

something that I

love hearing about

and that is ways that people

like to de-stress

or just kind of switch off

and have a little bit of me time

you all know how much i love to encourage people to have downtime

me time, and to re-charge their batteries; which is why i wanted to do a video

on the ways that i choose to do that

so different ways to de-stress or i'm just having

a particularly busy month

or i just find that life is getting a little bit

too much which i'm sure we all

do from time to time

and i feel like a lot

of time, people don't give

themselves the quality of recharging that they probably need

I think it's particularly important to learn how to manage ways in which

to make yourself feel better if you're feeling particularly stress and also just knowing

those go to things that you know will instantly chill you out

make you see a little bit clearer and as I said recharge

everyone needs to do it

So I have broken this down into 3 different categories

The first one being your environment

I don't know if any of you ever heard the saying

"tidy room, tidy mind" I never used to believe this until I became a home owner

and now if things aren't in a certain place I feel that i clutters up my mind

in a different way. If things are a lot more organize in my home and in my environment

I feel like it eases everything else and although I'm not saying to spend all your free time tidying and sorting your house

because let's be honest for a lot of people this would just add to the stress although I do find cleaning and tidying is quite a good stress buster sometimes

you've got to be in the right mood for it thought

what I'm saying thought is that if things have a little bit more order around you it makes you feel like your life is in a little bit more order

it doesn't always need to be that everything is where it should be, that the house is spotless and everything is clean

it can simply be something like new bedding.Whenever I buy new bedding I feel so happy.

getting into bed with new sheets is one of the best feeling. And even if that sometimes means treating yourself one week

taking all your bedding to a launderer and getting them to wash and iron it just because I mean for me

it's one of my least favorite chores and it doesn't actually cost that much to get it done but having fresh clean sheets

is such a lovely feeling and having new bedding I like to change my bedding up quite a lotI currently have some automnal bedding

but also I like buying cushion just like cute little home finishes and that makes me feel happy and relax and very content with my living situation

candles, candles are probable one of my most comforting home essentials if I'm having a particularly stressful day or particularly stressful week

there is absolutely no doubt about it that when it starts getting dark there will be candles lit from room to room

they just add ambiance calm and cozyness and you can't go wrong with a bit of coziness

house plants! this might seems like an obvious one or maybe a not so obvious one and i feel like you don't have to have green

fingers is that what they are called ? green fingers when you are a gardener. Green thumbs ?

something.You don't have to have green limbs in order to look after a house plant.You may thing there is no way

you can keep a plant alive but there are things succulents and cactuses are a lot more easy to look after and I think it's just nice

having plants in your house. I know so many people who swear by plants in their living space and it's green

and it's pretty and it's alive and I love having plants in my house. Granted not all of them stay alive but they look really pretty

whilst they are there. Another one which sits quite comfortably alongside candles for me is fairy lights. I mean

it doesn't take a genius to work out that fairy lights are one of the things I can't live without in my environnement.I absolutely love them whether it's the middle of the da

whether it's the evening whether it's summer whether it's winter. I love fairy lights.The best thing I can

do is light a candle, wack fairy lights on and forget that main lights ever existed they just have a nice glow

they're very warming and they are very pretty and I think somewhere underlying all of that is that it reminds me of Christmas and christmas

is the best time in the world.I mean that might have something to do with them.

The next category is You time and switching off.

I feel like this is the category that most people probably find quite difficult it's so much harder this days to switch off

when everything is so easy access threw your phone which is constantly in your hand and especially for me because of everything

I do and everything surrounding social media and email and everything is very digital switching off can be a little bit more tricky

I think with this the best thing to do is find things your passionate about that don't involve being on your phone

or on a laptop or any other electrical device that has wifi because of my job and YouTube and everything

for a while when ever someone said to me so what do you like to do while your not working or what are your hobbies

and obviously this is my hobby so for a while i was like oohh what do i like doing

thats not making videos, editing videos, designing products and writing books

like i don't really know, what is my non-work hobby

so for me if i'm having a particularly stressful day or i'm feeling a little bit anxious and i just need a bit of a me time

and I just need to switch off,

these are the things, I will most likely do:

Going for a walk.

I think this is the most important thing

it's gentle exercise and exercises are always good

if you're feeling stressed or anxious

it's just such a lovely thing to do

where I live I've got a countryside

and I've got the sea, so walking in the beach is one of my favourite things to do

whether it's windy, wet, sunny, cold

it doesn't bother me at all,

I wrap up warm and I go for a little walk,

take Nala with me sometimes.

I think being by the sea

is such a huge destresser.

I love the sound of the waves,

I love the sound of seagulls,

when I'm not living next to the sea, because

then the sound of seagulls grates on me and becomes

one of the reasons I get stressed.

I just honestly think when you're standing on the beach

looking at the sea - nothing else matters.

Like, you just can't be stressed.

you just can't.

sometimes when I can't get down to the beach

I'll just listen to the sound of the waves on my phone.

And if you don't have a beach near you, then

find a lovely countryside walk or in fact

walk somewhere you've never walked before.

I think that's quite nice, like discovering new places.

Just generally clearing your head,

there's the reason they say: go clear your head, go for a walk

I know we're switching off, and we're technically not using or phone, but

some apps don't require wi-fi

and they're just really great for meditation,

calming andgenerally just relaxation.

I like to lie down on my bed

and listen to the calming apps, or

sometimes I'll listen to them at night or

if I'm on a train, or

even if I just wanna take five minutes

out of a very busy day

I put my headphones in and just, kind of

gather my thoughts a little bit

I find this so helpful

And the more you do it,

I feel like, the more impact it has

and I recommend it to everybody I know.

A couple of the apps I would recommend are

Relax Melodies, which is great to listen to if you

have trouble sleeping or

if you want to listen to the sound of waves

It's essentially a soundboard of different very calming noises.

HeadSpace is brilliant.

There is everything on HeadSpace,

It's a great place for meditation

and just clearing your mind

especially if you have quite a busy day

and you wanna pack in like 5 minutes here and 10 mins there

and the other one I have is just called "Relax"

and this is a 28 to 30 minute

chat, which when I'm feeling particulary uptight

nervous, stressed I'll listen to this same half-an-hour

I probably know it word for word now,

I could probably recite it to you

which I won't do, don't worry

but I listen to that a lot

it's kind of like a positive affirmation

slash destressing

pep talk, I would say

again, this is one that I like to recommend to pretty much everybody.

because I just find it very, very calming.

Making lists.

I know not everybody is organized, and that's fine.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm a very organized person

However, if my mind's feeling quite frazzle or

I'm having a stressful week,

I find that writing down everything I feel

as thought I'm trying to store in my mind

makes me feel like someone's taking a load off my shoulders

so I like to write lists

to feel as though I'm a bit more organized

even if I don't follow the lists or

or tick anything off

writing it down always feels so much better

I like to do this before going to bed,

I just find lists a really good way of decluttering your mind.

So, if it's been a stressful week,

granted there will be multiple lists around my house.

This might be a really obvious one but

reading is a really great way of switching off.

You can get lost in books and stories and

I have always been a massive bookworm

I absolutely love it.

I get so excited at the prospect of having a new book to read

or when I'm getting to a really good bit, but then I

think 'now I'm gonna save it for tomorrow'

I just feel as though I can really fully escape

when I'm reading

and I think that that's such a nice feeling

to have if you feel as though you're having a particulary stressful time.

the last category is a good nights sleep.

now this might seem fairly obvious

but if you are stressed

you're probably aren't getting the best sleep that you could

or alternatively

if you're not getting a lot of sleep

it could make you feel stressed.

the two of those things come hand in hand.

sleep is one of the biggest things

that you need in order to feel recharged.

and these are a couple of the things that I like to do

to make sure, I get the best night's sleep.

A bath.

I mean, it's pretty obvious, but

having a bath is so relaxing

I mean as long as you don't go overboeard on the hot tap

and you end up like sweating and wishing you'd get out

a bath can be so relaxing

I have quite a few different products that I really like using

there are so many amazing products

which help you to get the best night's sleep you can.

And I feel like I tries quite a few.

I also like to light some candles

And actually more recently I've found spa music on my phone on youtube

and some of these spa music videos are like 6 hours long

I'm not recommending you stay in the bath for 6 hours

because you will look like a raisin, but

they're really great to listen to

whilst you are in the bath

because then you actually feel like you're relaxing

it's like you've managed to recreate your own little at home spa

and it's really-really lovely.

Brands like Aromatherapy Associates also have some really lovely relaxing oils, too.

The next thing is te calming tea, now

there are many different types of tea

that you can have before bed, which

are supposed to help you

haveing a best nights sleep

I've got camomile teas, peppermint teas,

in fact, I think that peppermint tea is the one that I reach for the most, but

camomile is obviously supposed to help you sleep

and is very relaxing

also I think it's just kind of like the regime

of making yourself a tea

and sitting down and like enjoying the tea

because then you are relaxed

because you're not rushing around

so I think any sort of tea or

night time drink

in that sense is a really nice way to wind down.