Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Digital Diary. I'm your host, Hannah Elise. And for today's

episode, I wanted to do a quick mental health check-in with you. If you are anything like me,

it can be really easy to get caught up in life and in our routines and in our work

and in all of the goals we're working towards and the things we need to do and the expectations

we have for ourselves and the expectations that others have for us. And we can forget

amidst all of that to prioritize ourselves.

So I want this episode to be a break from everything else going on in your mind.

I want this to be time that you can just sit here and really check in with yourself.

I realized the other day how little I actually do this.

I get so caught up with all of the things that I have to do that I kind of feel like I'm just

riding the wave all the time. When I'm in a period of my life where I feel like I'm very go, go,

go, I don't think to stop and check in on myself and how I'm doing mentally. And I think that it's

really important to do that for a multitude of reasons. Number one, it helps to break up that cycle and that feeling of

being on autopilot. It's so easy to get caught up in the flow of things and taking just a

second. It doesn't have to be more than 10 minutes to just quiet the outside world as much as you can and sit and be with

yourself can help you to break up that cycle and that flow that you may have been getting caught in

and just to ground yourself and remind yourself that you are a human being

and to show yourself love and show yourself that you are listening and that you care and that you

prioritize how you're truly doing. It's funny how I talk about you and your mind kind of being two separate entities

when obviously they are one and the same. They're both you. But it can sometimes feel like,

at least for me, it can sometimes feel like it's me versus my mind. But stopping to check in with my

mental health and check in with just how I'm doing and ground

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