thank you Nina, this was such a beautiful reminder to let go and let be. I've been really anxious recently, thinking about my career, finances and housing, along with working through my childhood trauma in therapy. I'm always a bit to hard on myself and so your kindness and sweet words soothed my soul this morning xx💛🌞
i actually teared up when you were talking about your communal dinners and the veg boxes 🥺 it's just so lovely to hear about community care in a real and practical way, i hope to have that someday 🥰
Thank you for always exuding comfort and safety through your vlogs. You have aided me in many different difficult cycles of my life over the years. depression being a big one. I always turn to your videos old and new to add to my safe haven vibes that I try to intentionally set for myself in order to heal. I always call you my RU-vid best friend lol Your laugh is so contagious and Pure. I appreciate your authenticity and value you. -pika aka @iloveyouzama
I am living communually atm and although it probably wont be so for ever, it taught me so much more than I could have imagined,; like (as you say as well) letting go of control. We have such an individualistic (capitalistic) mindset at times; thanks for showing another way pf looking at communities, be it friends or communal living etc.
I love every single video you post Nina, but this one was truly special! Those last few minutes where you talk about community and being able to reach out for help when you feel alone, really hit home. Thank you so much for taking the time to create these beautiful videos whenever you can, it's very much appreciated ❤
ah!!! i loved this video so much. maybe it's my hormones (and so what if it is??) but I teared up when yu showed the shots of forests on your hike. and as someone who studied food justice, urban planning, and now practices applied theatre, i love hearing about organizing community care. it becomes hard to put theory to practice when you rarely see many case studies by people you "know" in your network (and when there's apparently insufficient government infrastructure to support community care networks for food security). ALSO, you're my book influencer, truly!! i have read/about to read books you recommended, including Healing Resistance, My Friends, and A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. just wanna share my appreciation of you and this vid
Made me so happy to hear about the way you create a sense of belonging and care in your flat share and neighbourhood! I'm going on an about the importance of community all the time, or maybe rather my frustrations about the negative consequences of the lack of it. its so so important for our mental health, but we seem to have forgotten about it.
so much love for you, nina. I'm so happy you're being cradled and cared for by your community. i find it so hard to accept help especially from my parents. but hey, i see that and I'm trying to reach out and be vulnerable because those who love me and who care for me would love to help. i just need to tell them how. ❤
Used to watch ur vids years ago from way back when it was cam and Nina!! And then kinda stopped watching all RU-vid a couple years ago - found you again now and I think for a reason because wow I needed this vid and I've remembered how much you have helped me over the years - thank you 🌸 ❤
thank you for this, for the honesty. Been dealing with neurodivegent burnout while trying to re-learn how to practice the things Iused to enjoy, all while feeling sadness and anger. You were able to speak things out loud that I have been trying to figure out how to verbalise for months. Again, thank you, thank you thank you. ♥
i recently moved out and i resonate deeply with the healing that comes from living communally. not because its easy or fuss free or perfect but because it helps me to unlearn old individualistic ways of being and relearn new ways of being entangled and interdependent with others, which is how we should be i think
I see a new Nina video is up, grab a cuppa and some cookies ☕️🍪, sit by the window, and all feels right in the world. ❤ Thanks for the weekly dose of coziness.
What a gorgeous video! Your thoughts and experiences with community care resonated deeply as it’s something I’ve noticed I’m missing in my own life. Very inspired by you, thank you!
Ohhh!! I have been less committed to playlists 🥲 I have found myself preferring albums!! But who knows what the future holds!! I’m so happy you enjoyed them 💖
I am a journalist working on mental health issues and i really really love your videos (i've been following you for years now, back when you were living by a river, i think). I look forward to everyone of them as i know i would feel so good after watching it !! The topics you talk about in this one especially are so IMPORTANT and i find it very soothing to hear that on this platform where lots of people are promoting mental health as an individualistic thing and a way "to be a better version of themselves". It motivated me to write this comment (and i usually never do comment) and to be more mindful of the places where i can create or be part of communities
the Video I and we all just needed. I was thinking about it today, also how the more you think and talk about your problem the more bigger you might end up making it. Sometimes you need to go out there and help someone else or just don't do anything productive.
I also think about this a lot! Is this a mental health issue or is my body reacting normally to a toxic world. Is it possible to "fix" myself without fixing my environment? I was also thinking about work and how it's such a predatory system where we are all very disposable and we have to fight every step to not have every single drop of ourselves squeezed out for the betterment of the economy or the betterment of the cooperation, so people who are already super rich and be even richer. I mean being in an environment like this and having to be actively alert and protect ourselves all the time, I'm surprised how anyone could stay healthy.
Thank u for this video. I’ve been going through plenty and thinking lots of community and how does one partake in it. Seeing your point about clubs inspired me and just seeing another fellow human trying comforted me too. Thank you for your videos and would love to know some more about the food boxes yall do (ie how it started, how it works, logistics) would love to see if this is something my neighbors or houses would like to do:
Love the video, thank you! Could you please teach us a bit more about how the veggie box co-op works? It's something that I always thought I'd love to implement in my city. How did it come to be? Does each household has a shopping list?
Clubs are how we build community :-) If you can find the book and like reading philosophy, the book bowling alone is a wonderful reflection on why and how clubs work for society and what also works against them (the deterioration of clubs more or less).
Ive been feeling something similar lately how much responsibility and weight i put on myself for making my circumstances the way i want and when i fail it all feels like im not doing something well enough. And i realized i couldnt have done better with what i had and i stopped taking everything as my lack of competence. Also, i feel like shit every pms seasons and want to die badly and theres nothing positive about it or my life it feels lol and i dont think there has to be. I live in south korea where people kill themselves the most out of OECD countries. Every 1 in 3000 kill themselves here. And majority of people have depression here. And i just cant get it throu my head why EVERYONE isnt talking about every bad shit and how bad they feel and sharing it cus when i do i can find nobody to talk about these things when i know everyones going throu it looking at those stats. So im glad someone is talking about it the way it is :)
What a fabulous way to get fruits and veggies for everyone!! It makes me kind of emotional, just like your everyday family meals... Connection is so important indeed, sometimes when i'm down, I totally forget about it. Abrazo 🩷✨
