reset day with me | getting my life together

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

foreign I just got out of the shower very clean for a new day and I'm just gonna do my little morning skincare cleanse my face today's video is sponsored by Melanie Getz which I am very excited by absolutely iconic I'm gonna show you guys what I've been loving from them this is their foaming cream cleanser it's a great daily cleanser that lifts your makeup as well as excess dirt or oil weaving at your skin feeling so soft and hydrated it's 100 fragrance free and sulfate free I'm really just getting it in good now I've been I've been flooded with prebiotics too to help calm even the most sensitive skin dermatologist tested it's vegan and cruelty free so I've just been a really big fan it's my go-to cleanser these days it leaves my skin Feeling So Soft while the products are so simple and now a little moisturizer for the day I'll pretend my beauty Guru I don't know if that's even gonna work it's our vitamin E face moisturizer skin gets so dry I will link everything down in the description below I am getting now I think just put on a little light makeup it's like unnecessary but it does make me feel good and like clean and put together start some of my little Wellness reset steps so thank you probiotics baby I missed you I haven't done like a New York Vlog in so long this is going up so out of order after this video I'm definitely going to be posting a lot of stuff that I filmed before this video but I don't think she cares about the chronological order we're posting so hi how's it going I'm in New York City I've had probably the um craziest summer of my life if not the craziest year of my life it's been insane and my body has reached its end my mental space has reached its end as in been very very burnt out like I got back to back different unrelated sicknesses even though my immune system is usually strong it's completely shot I have not meditated or journaled or read or done the important things in so long and so I figured I'd take this little Sunday in the city to have a little reset getting my life together whatever you want to call it a wellness day honestly Sundays are some of my favorite days of the week with that in mind I get no fomo Sundays I don't feel like I need to be doing anything other than just taking care of me that's what I'm going to be doing a little bit today doing the things that make me feel good and make me feel like I'm kind of back on track even though I'm gonna have a lot of travel videos coming up after I post this video I'm definitely gonna be in New York for the next few months which feels good because I've traveled a lot in the past year which I'm so grateful for but it tires you out it's hard to like exist in a space of depth when you're always on the go if that makes sense so it feels good to just be home for hopefully a while at the same time I had such a great time in Europe I'm wanting to move there if I'm being honest I don't know if I'll actually do that but I have looked into some visas I'm like so amazing kind of like I sound like a study abroad girl but it's just like the European way of life it doesn't even matter if you're in a bigger Metropolitan city or a smaller European town the feeling is so different from New York City that it kind of transcends different places within Europe so it's a big generalization but just like the pace of life and the prioritization of just people and enjoying the slow and sweet and simple moments it was really refreshing um obviously you can find a little bit of that anywhere in the world I like having an apartment to return to to feel grounded but at the same time I do like the kind of nomadic lifestyle hopefully do more slow travel and visit places for long periods of time kind of like how I did Paris for a month last year but at the same time probably need to address my desire for lack of stability and the escapism prevalent in much of my life anyways I've really really excited for fall I think it's gonna be slow girl fall it's gonna be a wholesome girl fall I'm excited to kind of fall back in love with New York I want to explore some new restaurants that like I was writing little things I want to do each day like putting in airpods dancing for 15 minutes every day you know even reading for 10 minutes not for super long and finding those little things to sprinkle throughout my days now that I'm a bit more settled in New York that just make me feel good um and bring some Wellness into my life it's that time I have to address returns do you ever just you know wait until you literally have one day left to be able to return these to please you you don't know how much I need you run away from home why don't you cause I did the same just we don't know how much I love you so there's something I've been putting off for a while now it's kind of my dirty little secret except it's not little and I'm not hiding it that well so I don't really know if it's a secret behind this blue chair lives this pile that I've been putting off for so long and it's time to address it I've hidden this from Sony so the clothes that need to be sorted this is from closet clean outs of spring cleanings come and gone I basically need to go through and figure out what I want to donate and what I might want to sell on depop so let's address the Beast shall we all right first trash bag full and ready to be donated progress it's being made Believe It or Not which is good oh my goodness I have seriously I like to sometimes on Sundays when I'm feeling on top of my ish to do a little weak planning and I love these by Katie melotti shout out to my girl Katie these are so helpful um because while I used to be a bullet journaler back in the day I really like to be able to like scratch things up tear it out start fresh so I really like this like pad pad where you can just rip off new pages so I actually have quite the busy week ahead um I have a bunch of different like events and conferences um which is exciting I'm going to like a heafushi United Nations conference I'm going to YouTube climate action conference so I'm so excited and I'm gonna go down and kind of write down everything that I know I have going on this week and then put in you know different work dates as well as like the prioritization for each day I just did my little nighttime skincare routine I'm looking squeaky clean at the end of a nice somewhat productive day I'm going to uh reward myself with a little chill down time before going to bed and I've been obsessed with Lord of the Rings recently I am truly the last person to watch this series I've never seen it before I um started The Hobbit on a plane ride not that long ago and I was like wait how have I been missing out on this my whole life this is so good so I watched all the Hobbit movies down on the second Lord of the Rings and I am loving it and have a little cozy moment to myself