You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit absent over the past month, and I wanted to make a quick post explaining that.
I jumped into the new year all gung-ho to start making YouTube videos, post every single day, get back onto Bookstagram – the whole shebang.
Unfortunately, however, my brain decided that was not going to be the case.
Recently, I’ve been in a depressive phase of my Bipolar disorder. I’ve also been dealing with a serious case of burn-out. This blog started to feel so much like a job that it wasn’t fun anymore. I was so focused on monetizing everything and trying to keep up with all the ARCs I’d received that I couldn’t find pleasure in reading anymore.
So I took some unplanned time off, and it’s working. I enjoy reading again. I realized that treating this blog like a job and trying (and failing) to make money from it was sucking all the enjoyment out of what started out as a fun hobby to talk about books that I loved.
I know I wrote a post explaining all the fun new updates coming y’alls way this year. Disregard that. I’m sorry.
I need to go back to treating this blog like a hobby. I’m removing ads, getting rid of Kindle Daily Deals, and will be spending less time agonizing over SEO and creating Pinterest pins and all the rest.
I don’t know how frequently I’ll be posting, but I will be posting somewhat regularly. Just not every day, because that’s not realistic for me. Maybe I’ll start filming YouTube videos again… maybe not. I’m not sure yet.
I’m sorry if anyone is disappointed, but I need to have fun with this again. I hope you guys will stick around.
If you’re going through anything similar, please take care of yourself.
Read Yourself Happy 