I learned a few years ago, the hard way: Bubble baths and buying stuff is not self care. It’s realizing you need SUN first thing in the morning, it’s making sure you are eating, or eating the right things for yourself. It’s getting enough sleep. And it’s addressing what is causing misalignment in your life. Can’t go under it can’t go around it have to go through it stuff. I hope you can take care of yourself well this year Angie! ❤

Someone just told me Gardeners are rarely down because they always have something to look forward to and something to do. There’s always the excitement of planning the garden,watching the seeds grow and picking the flowers.

This video completely hit me!!! I'm not really a pick a word of the year kinda gal...but I just keep hearing the Lord whisper... "rest, be still, calm." We women just have a hard time allowing ourselves to NOT do it all!

I would totally LOVE to hear EVERYTHING about how you do Intermittent Fasting!!! As far as dealing with “Crappy Situations” that happen throughout my life, I try to remember…”God can do more with your surrender than you can with your control.” I give “it” all to God. It is comforting to know that He is in control. Prayer changes things!❤

Yesss! I would love to hear an intermittent fasting update video. I was all about it but also fell out of the habit and have been feeling "crappy." I've considered starting again but I'm nervous to and I don't even know why!

My adhd brain…..”oh no! Angie don’t change anything…I love everything you do..:wait, I love EVERYTHING you’ve done soooo I’m gonna love whatever you decide to do in order to make yourself good and happy with your job.”

The sunlight is so true. We’re in west Michigan and until today we’ve had a total of 3 hours of actual sunshine in the last 3 weeks. Even getting outside, sunny or not, helps with moods.

KZfaqrs keep saying get in the sun in the morning and I live in the north and we don’t get sunlight in winter until hours after I wake up😂 then it’s usually cloudy and snowing or raining. I have a sun lamp it’ll have to do

It's a balmy 3°F here in North Dakota this morning, and when I took my dog out earlier today, I was marveling at the beauty of the frost and snow covering the trees, the stillness of the air, the sunrise. It was lovely. I came inside with a 180 perspective from what I woke up with. Agreed; outdoors do more for my mental health and perspective than just about anything else.

Great analogy on the serenity prairie. Continue to be true to yourself. Love your family and channel.

Thanks Angie I've been watching for 4+ years now and you are always such a blessing and encouragement. I look forward to seeing your changes this year as well as all the great 'normal' stuff you do. ❤️

You are raw and real and bring Joy to so many with your love and humor. Thank you for being humble and letting us feel normal for having struggles too. We’re all just trying to get through this crazy life and do it with more Joy filled days! ❤😊

I cant believe how much time has passed since i started watching! I cant remember because i binge watched you when i found you. Maybe 4yrs now?? Thanks for all you do share- i love supporting you and CR growing amazing humans.

Great talk ! You touched on so many aspects that affect the majority of us...from needing enough sun all the way through the candy that's stashed in your desk !! I could listen to you for hours. Thanks for sharing !

I’ve also fallen off my fasting wagon this winter. When my Grandma was alive and in a wheelchair, she said once “my body has betrayed me”. She was talking about being bloated, but I think it also applies to our bodies aging before our minds. I think I’m still 18, but my body reminds me I’m 51. I feel all your aches and pains Angie. So happy to see you back!! Lorie 😊

Yes, to every single thing! So much of what you said duplicates myself, and it was very refreshing and inspiring to hear you talk about it. So thank you for sharing!

Yay! My favorite Angie is back!! I’d love to hear more on your IF journey. I wanna get back into it also!

Thank you!!! I have been trying to figure out what was going on with me too! You hit it on🎯💯. I have stopped being outside in the sunshine, digging around in the dirt... absorbing all that nature has to offer🤯 Thank you!!! Love y'all and appreciate y'all too!!!

Thanks for sharing. It gave me another approach towards changes or upgrades I want to do for 2023. Happy 2023!!🥰

I’ve soo missed your gardening!! 😍 looking forward to future content. Thanks for sharing your life ❤

HUberman Lab is my most listened podcast!! So nice you mentioned it!

Glad to hear about your plans for the new year. I’ve really missed the gardening, the interaction with the animals and the projects outside. I know it’s a balancing act but I know you can do it. I love your new hair style.

Ohhh, Scarlett!! 😆 BTDT. Hear you loud and clear! Etc, etc. Thank you for your raw honesty!! Cheers to a new year and fresh start at tackling all life's challenges!! 😘😘😘

You are so human. Thank you for your honesty and all of your followers are surely giving you a virtual hug:) Thank you for sharing and i wish you the best with reaching your goals this new year!

While you were "gone" KZfaq was feeding me old TGN vlogs and I was surprised to see how much you and your channels have evolved. I really appreciate your ability to change over time and still be true to you! You are like my long distance friend from the south! I'll just keep watching 😊

Yes! This is why I love your content, realness. I can relate with everything you said… I’m taking notes and taking action ❤

The most brilliant words ever spoke “you can’t always self care something away”.

Love you Angie! Hurts my heart to know y’all are going through a rough time. Fret not, He is faithful and is with Y’all ❤️❤️

Cannot wait for the summer!! I was sipping my tea and eating a bite of warm cornbread before we went and did some clothes shopping and I just had this huge flash of summer, such a great feeling, getting the house all re arranged for the new year has been a fresh breathe of air as well…

I'd love an update about the fasting! I'm just starting to try it out after watching your old video about it. Thank you! I get so excited when I see you have posted a new video.... I just went through all your old decluttering ones to help motivate me. Keep it up girl!! :)

I really appreciate that you take into consideration other people in your life. Honestly it is nobody's business what is going On in your husband's or kids' lives. I have to say I have been blocked by an influencer twice in my life. The first one when an influencer shared a Photo of her daughter whe potty training and I said that this is pretty intimate. And recently, when a well known diy instagrammer made a reel with herself crying over her dying father. I mean can you imagine setting up a camera right by hospital bed? She said that she did it in order to remember. Odd thing but ok, but then again why sharing it with millions of people. For likes? 🤷‍♀️ It's like an espisode of Black Mirror

I would love to hear more about IF! I found you for homeschool related things and that’s been super helpful and encouraging!

Hi Angie! I totally agree. Sunshine in your eyes and spending time outside is so important. This time of the year sunshine is hard to come by, as I live in Sweden. But my doctor says there is still enough light to benefit from. Currently only 4 below zero and a thin layer of snow here in the Stockholm area. Occasional sunshine. You've got to make the most of it. Happy New Year to you, your family and to everyone writing comments in here❤️

Thank you for being so transparent. I would love to hear more about intermittent fasting. Love you guys!

Glad you enjoyed your break-happy to see your face ❤

I can relate to so much of what you said. I just love listening to you- so funny and real! Thanks for being you!

Great video! We all have our stuff and its so easy to think we're the only one. Thanks for sharing, I feel ya and feel encouraged!

I relate so much with you on the sunshine and work family balance! Also I too have be loose on my intermediate fasting and I deal with serious bloating and inflammation! Thank you for bringing these things to the forefront of my mind!!

Yes I'd love an update on your fasting strategy! Sending you good vibes as you navigate the challenges in your life. Here's to digging in the dirt and changing what we can!

Thank you for sharing your heart in this video, Angie. You are such an inspiration and God is using you to bring light to so many of us. I feel the same way about self care. Crawling into God's lap and trusting him through the tough situations is the way to go through things well.

Thanks for sharing! I felt all of this! I'm also a business owner and have the same goal to define the time I'm working better. The end of year my vitamin d tanked, then our whole family got covid, so it forced me into a deep rest and retreat. Out of that came so many blessings, like the quiet stillness I desperately needed. I wish you all of the grace and success 2023 will bring!

I would love to see an update on IF and also follow along your journey getting back on it! I am looking into it too and I would love to see your experience with it ❤

Very informative video! I enjoy listening to your vlogs because you are so honest and real!

Thanks for sharing Ang!! 👍🎉❤️

Thank you for always sharing your heart. I could listen to you talk all day because it is like a girlfriend and I enjoy the conversation. ❤

Such great reminders. I went through a similar funk from about October until now, and like you said, you just gotta give yourself a slap in the face😂 get it together! This was a very relatable video❤️

Thank you for the positive influence 💞 love and appreciate your personality and how you view life 🤩 good lessons and thanks again for sharing 🙏 good character call on your boundaries of what to share, it’s so important to respect others involved. AND at the end of the day- you’re not actually “sharing life” with Nancy from Nevada, you’re sharing life with your family and friends 😛 it’s important to draw that line.

I found your Chanel a couple of days ago and have been going through like no other!! You have becoming that friend!! A conversation with a coffee! I have been approaching this funk and until now was still in the “I’m not seeing” fase, and you just shown a light on it! Thank you!!!! For sure more time in the sun and strength my body went to the top of priority!!

So appreciate this video!! Walking through the hardest season of my life and this was very encouraging. Thank you!

I just want to say thank you for sharing your journey with intermittent fasting. I started doing it after watching that video many years ago and it completely changed my life!! I lost 60 pounds and have kept it off. So I would love a updated video and to know what your eating and hours.

Hi Angie💮 thank you first of all for sharing the wisdom. Just helps knowing we not going through things on our own. Avoiding the issue.......defs something I struggle with. Please do share more on intermittent fasting.

Yes please! More details on the fasting!

So many good thoughts shared in this video. I really enjoyed it. ❤️

Thank you for the motivational video. I hear you girl! Sometimes you get to a season in your life where something's got to give. And that's okay. At the end of the day, your children and husband are the only thing that matters.

I thought you were still on your break (the YT notifications never came through so I'm watching a month + late!) SUCH an encouraging video-- thank you for sharing what you can -- it is helpful to hear your perspective. Prayers to you as you take on new challenges

I really relate to this video!!! I am 61... I over share all the time!!! Thank you for being candid, brave and so funny 😊. You are helping me to have more energy!!! Thank you for all you do😘. May God bless you and give you peace and comfort 🙂

This put a few things into perspective for me and I can fully relate to some of the things you talked about. Thank you so much for sharing x

Missed your ted talks! Hope you keep posting videos in 2023.

A sun lamp is a great help for 15-20 minutes in the morning and again around noon, especially for those of us who are in a colder climate with more cloudy days and the shorter winter days.

Thank you for your vulerability and honesty in sharing your lessons with us. I 100% agree with the importance of the sun and grounding in the earth. You don't need to share every detail of your personal life with us. I'm sure that we can all relate to the information that you did provide to a situation in our own lives-hello, life experience! Now that you mention your garden, I assumed that all was completed in that area. And you moved back indoors to work on the kids' bedrooms. I also recall "life" hitting the farm with the chickens being attacked, Shelby's dog requiring surgery and needing to be re-homed, a horse becoming ill, horses leaving for training, loss of a family friend that was also a horse owner, ducks having to be re-homed, etc, etc..I will continue to watch your content because I truly enjoy your soothing voice, "your favorites", and your do-it-yourself transformations in your home/cabin. I do miss seing the animals though, especially that Lottie!!

So glad I watched til the end because, oh my goodness, I can relate. It is the hard situations in life that can paralyze us. I think that, as a mother, hard situations in regards to your children can be the toughest to get through. Getting it through your head that there are things you just cannot fix or change is so much easier said than done. I know that it is only with my faith in God and the constant knowledge of my access to the Holy Spirit, I can feel hope. There are seasons of life that involve hard days, weeks, months and we have to go through these "crappy" times. You are so right in that we try to accommodate the hard times with things that are only masking them. When we face our situations and accept our human limitations we come out stronger and wiser. Thanks for the much needed reminder.

Love your video, looking forward to more videos like this, love your wisdom and way of talking, it reminded me of your book 🥰

I’m jumping back into intermittent fasting with you. We can do it! 😂 It’s actually your video that got me to subscribe to your channel. I love yoga as well. You’ve probably tried it but as for back pain, yoga has been a life saver for me. Happy New Year friend! 🎉😊

Definitely interested in hearing more about intermittent fasting and your journey with it! I did it to lose baby weight 3 years ago and am doing it again now to lose the rest of the baby weight from my second pregnancy (also dealing with lotssss if inflammation). Always love hearing someone else’s story!

I think keeping your personal life private is a very good call. You just invite so much unwanted scrutiny by not having boundaries around personal life. I suppose some people can handle that and it’s worth it. I guess it’s up to each person to decide how much is worth sharing. Good luck Angie! Love your whole vibe!

It’s important for us to stop and reevaluated things regularly. My hubby and I sometimes take on too much. Even with things we enjoy. Good to hear others do it too.

Ohh momma i hear you! I live in NB Canada and I've been having a hard time going outside and getting fresh air. We don't see the sun for months at a time. But this year i want to go for nature walks with my dog's and kids.

Look into your pelvic floor with your back pain. Best of luck! That can be so draining at times when it there is pain involved. Such a refreshing video that we are all in this together of life!

Try turmeric for any inflammation you may be experiencing! I love it! I tried IF and it is okay for me, but sometimes I need a little oat waffle for breakfast or scrambled egg. Happy New Year! Great goals! 🎉 I’ll be 40 in 2 months. Aiming to be strong and feel good like you! ❤

Wise words spoken! Thank you! ❤

Please yes! Do a video on intermittent fasting! I have been doing IF for a couple years and I enjoy these videos so much!

I relate to so many of the things you said. Thank you for making great content for women in our stage of life. I have many real life friends but it’s so ice to have online voices to listen to while I’m tending my family. Going on 3 weeks of being a nurse to kids with flu😢 Looking forward to it ending but thanks for being a comfort in the midst. …nice like ice 😅

I've missed you! I was excited to see your video :-) Hope you guys have a good week! :)

Hi Angie I love you and your family’s content on your channel!

Is always so refreshing hear you, your honesty, It helps me enter a process of reflection in my life, thank you. 🙂I would like you to talk in a video how you do to stay centered, be yourself, not lose your authenticity but at the same time evolve. We are in a society where many voices shout at us what we should do, what we should think, do you have any thought process or guiding questions?

I started intermittent fasting the first. I would love to hear how you do it and any tips you have. I can so relate to this video!!! Thank you for sharing!

This is one of my favorite videos you’ve done. Please share more “life lifing” situations. It would feel better to not feel alone.

All things I’m working on as well this year…IF…1000 hours challenge…good to hear about it from another perspective! Thanks for sharing!

Love to hear from you about IF. I love your realistic way of explaining and your story telling. Love from the Netherlands

I just want to tell you I appreciate your truthfulness!!!! I totally agree with what ya said about the sun on your face.

YES please video your journey with IT, exercise plan and what you eat in a day and/or diet plan. Would super love it! My goal is to clean up my diet and just feel better overall, including a walking challenge that I just started. Would love to see your progress and daily habits and changes. I find it very encouraging!! Also loved your ending, reminds me of the book 'Going on a bear hunt'!!

Love your updates! Watching from a very wet Scotland and been following you for YEARS!

Would love another video on IF. Also thank you for the reminder of the Serenity Prayer. That one has always resonated with me. ❤️

Very good video I needed to hear all of this.

The last 4 or 5 minutes got me in the feels. Thanks for saying the things.

Love this video! And please, more on the intermittent fasting.

Yeah please a video on intermitting fasting! And more on self help and not self care. good advice! What more can we learn about it? Avoident here too… And a video on your hair and your planes for it, perhaps a update on the hair, styling, lenght and so on. Maybe some update on minimalism? Love all your videos! ❤️ You are like the big sister I really needed but never got. So thank you! ❤️

Oh Angie!! I just love hearing you speak. The wisdom, the humor, the relatability!! You have a gift ❤️

❤ sending you prayers and hugs!

I love Angela and her family.

I got served your intermittent fasting video from nearly 3 years ago and fell down the KZfaq rabbit hole watching first yours and then others decluttering videos. I’ve watched your videos ever since.

Would love to hear about your intermittent fasting/exercise experience!

I love to hear about intermittent fasting - I do try to do that also - so updates are always welcome and encourage me to get back at it. same principle as decluttering - ASMR cleaning, etc lol

I started IF in November, I’ve lost a few pounds which is great, but I also feel so much better! Less pain, more energy, less moody. It’s great.

I miss seeing the family videos. That's why I started watching. Love family videos.

8:01 we have a pergola that I adore and from Mid-April to probably the start of October the sun rises directly in to it, we have a couch where I spent an hour with my coffee, my meditation and all the things it's amazing. But to say I totally get it. It's something I've been massively missing all winter. The sun on my face, its amazing what something so simple can give you if it's warm or cold outside. And what happens when you don't get it.

Angie I live in Florida where we have sunshine 360 days a year. My daughter and I did the intermittent fasting and we both feel better, I am 71 and I was able to loose 20 pounds and my health is much better. My daughter lost 100 pounds. However, we both experienced hair loss, every time I would brush my hair I saw a lot of hair I the brush. It has taken me over a year to see new growth. Angie I really loved today’s video and you are such an inspiration. PS I feel God is using this platform because you reach so many of your followers ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I would be SO INTERESTED to hear more about the intermittent fasting and your journey :)

Love you I learn so much from you! And yes please health journey and intermittent fasting video please can use all the help I can get on my health journey!

Yes please for an I. F. Video!! Love u girl, sorry u were in a slump, I am too, ur goals r good, that's it I'm going outside lol thanks!!