getting back on track: seasonal depression season is OVER

[@gnarchar]

My favorite advice in terms of mental health - the cliches are true. Whenever I fall off track I start with the cliches. It’s not a cure-all but it helps! Also everything you eat looks so fkn amazing! And that playlist 🔥

[@allisonpaiges]

YES! my friends and i always say: cliches are cliches for a reason!

[@stxrmblessed]

i love coming back to old ally videos 🤎 truly my comfort person to watch on here. i hope you're well xx

[@hopeyonekenobi]

The way you’ve breathed new life into your videos just captivates me. I thoroughly enjoy your life at least the way you curate it! You’ve got me curious about reading a thriller book sometime!

[@allisonpaiges]

"breathed new life!?" what a compliment!

[@kagey7591]

Your videos always remind me of the sacredness of life's simple acts ... eating healthy food, moving your body, caring for others ... even the smallest of creatures like your rescued snails ... and practicing those small acts of kindness toward ourselves that make up self care. Thank you for inspiring me in every video to read more *and* to be kind to myself. 💙💙💙

[@lxxy05]

i’ve been binge watching your videos for the past month and i can’t express how grateful i am to have found this cute little corner of youtube. ally , you radiate such positive light and you are truly an inspiration for me. i tend to get extremely overwhelmed with the daily struggles of life but all of your videos remind me to appreciate the small things and take a breather. regardless of the situation, you always manage to bring yourself up and cheer yourself on and i’ve been learning how to do that for myself. i know this sounds cheesy , but your videos have changed the way i approach life. i have noticed a change in the way i view the smallest joys of life , and i feel my gratitude for life’s mundanity grow. on that note, i thank you. thank you ally, and i wish nothing but blessings and happiness for you. :)💛💛🤍

[@books_for_bees4476]

“I’m almost 30 years old and I still have that gifted-kid problem where if it doesn’t come easy to me, I shut down” OOF. me too 😂

[@marelevant]

I used to listen to Frog and Toad books on tape, and I just finished listening to them again for nostalgic and comfort purposes! How are we always on the same ~wavelength~ ???

[@Rachel-6016]

hello! I know I’m some random internet stranger from across the world, but I just wanted to say how much I love your content, and I’ve decided to join your Patreon (a first for me!!) to help support you keep creating 🥰

[@lukeycharms]

this video was just so delightful and everything i needed for a sunday morning. the food you make, the things you talk about, and the way you edit is just so much fun to watch. congrats on 20k subs! you deserve it

[@Helmielinaa]

this video just radiates the bright energy of spring! love to see you all excited and thriving, definitely inspired me to get out of my sleepy winter mood too!

[@lukeycharms]

“i’m feeling like i just got hit by a bus, regina george style.... too soon?” i screamed 😂

[@aydaybaynay]

Love the book content, love the kitties, love the food. 💛 I'm not plant based in my eating but all of your food looks delicious.

[@fionawilkes5866]

you + hubby = 70s folk singer-songwriter couple aesthetic

[@kirstea]

all this food do be making me so hungry

[@kirstea]

this was so productive and made me finally wanna pick up a book today. but unfortunately did not make me want to work out on my abs just yet😔

[@whataprilreads]

Sundays just aren’t Sundaying right if you’re not part of them! 💛

[@allisonpaiges]

this is the sweetest thing :')

[@kelleylovesbooks5688]

Boom! You hit me right in the OMG with that gifted child comment. My kindergarten teacher told my mom -- one day she will fail at something and it will be very very hard. Just be there to catch her when it happens -- wowser! Did Mrs. Lee know me or what?! I totally get it! Totally!

[@jillypepper_]

The woman in the window was the book that got me out of a years-long reading slump a couple of years ago!

[@beccabooked]

So happy that we all made it through winter. To brighter days ☀️

[@lemmings6516]

If you made a comfort food cookbook I'd totally buy it. I hope life treats you better soon 🌸

[@MackenzieEvan]

1:19 coconut mall!!!!

[@allisonpaiges]

thank you for noticing!!!

[@SallyThames]

this video might be a putting my life back together vlog but the vibes are so sunny and hopeful and that makes me so happy!

[@SallyThames]

starting a cooking channel when 🧐

[@SallyThames]

WAIT OMG IM YOUR BOOKTUBE FRIEND SALLY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@SallyThames]

“the doctors were right all along” i literally hate that they’re right but they’re right???

[@frogforadoption4686]

Not the orange corduroy pants😭😭😭😭

[@mojojojo1104]

I think we all agree that we NEED to know the recipes of the food you show! It all looks so yummy

[@allisonpaiges]

baked oats recipe is in the description! salad included only what you can see! lettuce boats: the cooking was canned beans & frozen veg we had on hand! (&what's in shot -+avocado +tomatoes +sour "cream") i'm sorry if this isn't helpful - i don't use recipes i usually just mash together whatever we've got

[@ambermondor8540]

those snails are living the life I want 😩❣️🐌

[@abigailborgmeier1205]

You always make my day!! It helps to see others just making their way through this life :)

[@ale950921]

I would love if you could talk more about suffering with chronic migraines. This is a new problem for me and I don't know what to do, especially when it comes to enjoying my main hobby...which is reading :(

[@julialkk]

this is genuinely the best vlog i've seen in years

[@ILoveJahangeer]

Seeing you happy makes me incredibly happy, Alli! You’re doing so well and I’m so proud of you!

[@boringthings]

I chose the perfect random vlog of yours to watch while I sort/clean my closet! 6:36 🧡

[@_feral_streep_]

Your music choices just make your videos so magical 🥺🥺 That oatmeal looked delicious!!

[@roxxxam7606]

every time you mentioned that excercise helped your mental health i growled cause I KNOW okay? i know. I'm just.. so cozy today...

[@thescarediest]

We both did “let’s go girls” at the same time I love that

[@robinplus1420]

ally you are one of the YT ogs and a big inspiration to people who make videos

[@GillKaulitz]

your salads reminded me to add some colour to my plate for lunch today. I love your videos like this, the self care spills over into my life for the next few days.

[@molliee9883]

Your food always looks SO GOOD! Girl pls drop some recipes 🤩

[@AnaWallaceJohnson]

dude, this vid is so good

[@courtneytownill]

Your videos are like tiny, little internet hugs. Love the books you share, but all of this food looks fire, too ❤️‍🔥

[@raspberryrave]

Loved this!! Defo feeling the joys of spring creeping in 🌷

[@ErinLouisee]

You made me hungry dam it and also reminded me i need to eat more veggies!! lovely video as always HAPPY SPRING WOOO!! 💛

[@cryingaboutbooks]

she’s here to bring inspiration to my life once again !! bout to do a mama mia workout to celebrate now 🎉

[@kelleylovesbooks5688]

I think we are going to need a vegan cooking video from you in the future. Your meals and snacks always look so yummy! Thanks for the great videos! I always love when you pop up with a new video. Be well ✌

[@mariaeugenia1886]

i love your bookish content, but i also love seeing you cook and the recipes you make :)

[@cynannered]

This vlog made me so happy! I’ve read Apples Never Fall and I liked it, but it is much more randomly about tennis than I expected. I read it on audio mostly and it was much easier to follow that way (I may just be a sucker for an Australian accent). It’s kind of rich people problems, so you might not love.

[@NeroBearo]

I have been grinding on the last steps of my thesis and this was such a nice, needed good vibes break~ I have been trying to leave the house more and it has been great for the mental health too

[@ohmygooooooooooooosh]

you’re it!!! you’re the ultimate you!!! 🎸🤘

[@justvynexa]

As a person who loves the cold, gray rainy days, I’m confused as to why I am much happier now that’s very sunny and bright and hot out? Oh, right. Cause our bodies need the sun or whatever. Anyway, now my body is hungry for every thing that you made in this blog. Thanks for that. Can’t wait to discuss Sharks in the Time of Saviors next week! 💕

[@clandestini]

my sunday is much better with your video on it. Love you.

[@KelsieRose94]

I loved this vlog, Ally! I loved the normalcy and honesty, it really made me go "I wish my days looked like that..." then realise that they DO, I'm just never present like I am during your video. Tomorrow is my day off and I'm going to find all the lovely little moments in it like I noticed in your vlog :)

[@imcbear6274]

I have the lovers bookmark from her!

[@bookish_and_wilde]

Quirky energy and quirky opinions... love it!

[@Hillary429]

👖🚿 ☀️ they say if you wear your jeans in the shower, loosen them up while wet, then let them air dry, they’ll stretch out and maybe fit again 🤞

[@juliavozar731]

My fav kind of videos from uuuu thank u for inspiring me to appreciate the little things. Time to have a good week!!!!

[@ReallyWatson]

Thank you so much for making your videos, they really brighten my day and re-centre me.💜

[@jess.hcknbrch]

Loving the level of Undertale music in this one hehe. Having a mini dance party to Death by Glamour on a Sunday afternoon? Yes please! Great vlog as always :)

[@ellenthompson3157]

i love this video also i love the berkeley sweater hehe go bears

[@kitkattictac7723]

You inspired me with my current obsession of overalls and for that I’m eternally grateful.

[@auseid1594]

I just started watching Sally's videos (immaculate) and it makes me so happy to know that you 2 are friends, but also it tracks. love this for me

[@batfacedgirl]

Tell me why I’ve always been too self conscious to read a book on the treadmill even when I know in my heart it’s the perfect idea?? No more! Officially inspired to take my book to the gym today 💛

[@pepperwings]

I've got some injury-related depression, sadly, can relate. It looks like you're really making the most of the time and energy you have though, and that's all we can do.

[@novelideea]

I was munching cucumber seaweed salad while watching! We’re in the process of moving so the body is getting pushed in ways that are different. Reading lots! Love to the kitties 🐈‍⬛ and the snails 🐌 🤗🥰

[@wiemgodcha4985]

Keep it up ally ! You are shining girl ! You can do it ! I am 32 with a job, 2 kids and a husband and I feel the same feelings as you 😅! What matters is to keep tricking you body and mind like you say until you feel good again! Vlog made my day since we ´ve been hit by corona and sick for most of the week ! Lots of love 😘

[@ktcrich]

What a delightful way to start my day. I have a lot of self care to do today. This was very inspiring so thank you my friend 🤍

[@tazisbooked]

I just started Duolingo (first time ever!) for Dutch too! I will be hearing een jongen en een vrouw in my sleep :’)

[@megdent8695]

I love your videos :)) recently binged your content and u help so much with my depression/anxiety so I appreciate u! Look after urself!

[@lexynope]

Your videos are my absolute favorite. Thank you for making them, they brighten my day!

[@TheKickasskatie]

Just wanted to say that I really look forward to your videos each week. And bravo for getting up to exercise. I'm still in my SAD slump and can't bring myself to get off the couch just yet 😕

[@allisonpaiges]

i appreciate this katherine! you'll get outta this slump soon - they're always temporary

[@TheKickasskatie]

@@allisonpaiges thank you, I know things will turn around. Btw, I always wanted to ask, do you have a cookbook recommendation?

[@priscillacosta1307]

oh how i have missed the vlogging and the food and the cats! wishing you all the best spring times in the future and thank you as always for the cosy video!

[@sh-fe2zn]

such a comforting video for some reason🥺

[@shayleecarter30]

you should read no exit by taylor Adams if you want a good thriller 🥰 also you might’ve already done this but I’d love to see a vid of all your overalls!! love to see you’re doing okay, and trying to improve your health 🖤

[@Kevin-sr8rr]

TRAVERSE TOWN THEME SONG…nearly dropped my phone out of excitement

[@allisonpaiges]

thank you for noticing!!

[@oliviajoyce776]

love these sm

[@rachaelkeating932]

I’ve needed some food inspiration and loved all the things you made in the video!

[@francescakyanda9182]

I aspire to own as many pairs of overalls as you do

[@jenb9478]

You made my day - a vlog! Hello from Caroline’s mom!

[@stace2490]

Pleeeease share how to make those shortcake oats they looked banging

[@louisedoeslife]

Thank you for making a lovely vlog! Hope you are doing okay. Look after yourself! ❤️❤️

[@ratgirl107]

Loved this vlog Ally ❤️

[@pragyasinha2718]

Love the tattoos! ❤

[@elinew222]

Question: do you buy the books you read online or at a local store? I’m having trouble finding a bookshop in Leuven that keeps up to speed with new releases in English. Thanks in advance!

[@allisonpaiges]

fnac is usually pretty ok! standaard is pretty on top of new releases. boekarest is on the smaller scale/not as commercial. there’s also a waterstones in brussels and i love passaporta - they’re there too! but sometimes it i need something specific that i can’t find i’ll order online through bol :-)

[@elinew222]

@@allisonpaiges thanks so much for the recommendations! Don’t know the last two, so definitely going to check those out!! I don’t like reading in Dutch anymore, it sounds so cringey in my head although it is my first language :). Signed up for your Patreon, looking forward to April’s book club!!

[@megangoodell]

Choke is one of my fav Palahniuk…not sure what’s wrong with me 😜

[@allisonpaiges]

that's fair! different strokes for different folks :-)

[@Hillary429]

That Kardashian audio was hilarious 👃 🌸 😋

[@libertysuzanne9199]

that turnitin page.... pure, unadulterated anxiety. pure fear

[@ameliemetzger5917]

ok sorry but i HAVE to know where you got that shirt with the two golden retrievers on from 😭😭😭 it’s so cute im obsessed

[@allisonpaiges]

she's thrifted!

[@ameliemetzger5917]

allisonpaiges aw thank you so much!! love your videos and your style :))

[@kyestrella]

ally you should toooootally look up A.J. Finn, the author of the Woman in the Window. him and his life is even crazier than the book 😳 like…….. wild.

[@caaaantabile]

The outro song unlocked some memories for me, pleeeeease where is that music from? 🌻

[@allisonpaiges]

harry potter and the sorcerers stone game! it’s called “happy hogwarts”

[@crawfishpi]

How do you have the executive function to make so many delicious plant based meals? How can I get the executive function to do that too?

[@maru2825]

you're always cooking the most delicious looking food. if you'd consider making recipe/cooking videos i think that would be... really nice :,) but i appreciate the recipes you do show off in your videos!

[@NoelleCanty]

Have you tried anywhere from 1000 to 10,000 IU of Vitamin D, Neuroscience supplements, or an anti-inflammatory diet?

[@Hillary429]

Life imploded but Husband and 2 sons are still here 😅

[@allisonpaiges]

you understand!!!

[@roxannejoncas]

I liked Big Little Lies years ago but DNF'd Apples Never Fall 🍎

[@allisonpaiges]

i also dnfd apples 🙈 maybe i’ll give the other one a shot!

[@roxannejoncas]

@@allisonpaiges I can't promise it'll be good; I read it in 2017. 😅 Currently reading Shady Hollow -- cute animal murder mystery. Or if you want scarier, 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

[@juananjones]

When are you gonna start your cooking channel? Also how do you do it to have that tan all year long? You're golden! P.s.: Sorry for all the non-book questions 😄

[@allisonpaiges]

this is as cooking channel as it's gonna get i'm sorry! also reading outside allllll summer long :-))

[@juananjones]

@@allisonpaiges well, I need your recipe for your artichokes, so you tell me how do we solve that issue. And summer ended 7 months ago...

[@claudiajade624]

You ARE thriving tho :)

[@Morocco-m3s]

💚 Tout le meilleur et succès continu Bon courage, super vidéo 🌸 Super vidéo, bonne chance et succès continu

[@lillyhayward2322]

howdy, i'd like to join pocket pages this month because i happen to be reading sharks in the time of saviors and would love to chat with other lovely folks about it! i want to make sure it isn't too late though. is there an official timed book club meeting or is it just an ongoing chat? thanks! -lilly

[@allisonpaiges]

we discuss in the discord group chat during the last week of the month, every month! so no pressure to be available during any livestream :-)

[@lillyhayward2322]

sweet, thank you!

[@agothbee]

the author of the woman in the window is as unreliable as the main character of the book. i met him and he was crazy.

[@WhistleStix]

Gourmet corn dogs? Were those women eating gourmet corn dogs?

[@allisonpaiges]

i’d consider them as such!

[@MissyTash24]

My one critic I have with the videos are the food/eating noises are driving me nuts!! Other than that I really enjoy watching your vlogs

[@allisonpaiges]

very fair - my husband has misophonia too.

[@MissyTash24]

@@allisonpaiges thank you! I didn’t want to come off rude with my comment because your style, editing and content are great. It’s just an awful thing to have to live with.

[@The_Curious_Cow]

Wow those eyes 🐱

[@MollyChristine23]

You have ads now?!?

[@allisonpaiges]

nope! just copywritten music in here haha shania twain getting them royalties as she deserves

[@ZovSinEl]

Please, tell your vegan story 🙏 or recommend your vegan books 🙏🐌