 Am I the only one out here wondering where the hell is Shane Dawson? What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah, today's video is about the wonderful Shane Dawson who hasn't uploaded a video in like two months and like for me, I have this thing, I mentioned it in one of Garrett Watts videos is that I don't like to subscribe to people who do not have consistent uploads but this is not a hate video on Shane, this is actually a video about taking breaks, mental health breaks, being a workaholic and all of that. So what I'm gonna do I'm going to show you a clip from Shane's Instagram story from the other day that I can really relate to and really connect with and basically Shane said that this Instagram story and the reason why he made it was because of this. We're thinking it because I saw a comment or it wasn't even a comment it was like a tag it's like a like opinion or whatever and it was like oh Shane's leaving YouTube bro he doesn't care about YouTube it's like no I care so much that I just it takes me longer to make it. So anyways I just want to say that I don't want you guys to think I don't care or that I'm not posting because I don't care or because I'm not doing anything because I promise I am and we already have the next three series I guess lined up. Now before I jump into this before I jump into this we are just about to hit Christmas and I know so many of you out there wondering like oh my god what can I get Christmas for Christmas I don't know he makes so many videos and they're so awesome you know what all I want for Christmas is do you know all I want for Christmas is for you to follow me on Instagram just follow me on Instagram at the rewired soul it would make me so happy to just hit 10,000 subscribers and get the frickin swipe up feature that's all I want for Christmas it's free so please head over to Instagram and follow me at the rewired soul it's up on the screen again just go follow me tell your friends tell your family tell your mom your dad your grandma your cousin on Christmas Eve dinner tell everybody to go follow me over at the rewired soul on Instagram but anyways back to the topic at hand I'm gonna play this clip from Shane Dawson it was actually like a little over three minutes but I'm gonna show you pretty much the first half and we're gonna talk about it hey guys okay I'm starting to feel really antsy because I haven't posted in so long I know this is so crazy it's only been two months oh my god sorry I just got the actual chills when I said that I've never gone that long without posting so but I just want you to know that we are working on stuff sorry I'm like nervous I'm like I don't know I just I it's a good test for me because I mean you know I've been posting videos for 10 or more years very consistently I used to do every day bro sorry triggered so this is good this is this is a good test for me because this next year I want to spend more time on the individual projects and then take time in between and then like you know I don't know I just want to like treat my YouTube channel kind of like if I had my own I don't know like the way that they do like Netflix that sounds gross but you know what I mean not like I think I'm Netflix I'm not Netflix what am I talking about so yeah a while back when Shane and Wylan first moved into their new house or they were about to move I can't remember which one it was but they were they were talking about being workaholics Shane was talking about being a workaholic actually it was before they moved in and I could definitely relate to that like those of you who have been subscribed to me for like more than a week you know that I hustle I work hard right so Shane like I remember when Tristan first introduced me to Shane he was doing like daily uploads they were like daily right like Monday through Friday yeah he was doing like daily uploads my son loved watching him too is when he was doing like food things and like trying like life hacks and all that so like I was used to very consistent uploads from Shane but as you've seen he's pivoted and I'm gonna make another video about him probably in a few weeks just about his his transformation on YouTube because I think a lot of people can benefit from that but I can definitely relate to what Shane's talking about when he's saying like he's actually like getting anxious and nervous when he's talking about how he hasn't posted in two months real quick if you look at this video right here I just want to show you a little body language real quick right here him rubbing this is usually an unconscious thing that we're doing and it's to pacify ourselves like that's how you know somebody is nervous or feeling anxious alright so I thought it was pretty interesting like you know you could tell that he's actually feeling anxious about not working but anyways like basically what Shane goes on to say is that you know what he's planning for like 2019 and you know the next series that he's going to do like you guys saw like the Jake Paul documentary and I'm like everything that Shane's been doing he's been learning and growing from it right like I'm sure some of you who are Shane Dawson fans have seen like the growth between his Tana Mojo documentary the little three-part one to where he was with Jake Paul like just a massive amount of growth right so I really look forward to seeing that but like what I want you to take away from what Shane's doing right now is like if you are workaholic like something I've been talking about is mental health breaks alright now something I've talked about with like Lilly Singh and some others who have taken mental health breaks is like when you're taking a mental health break make sure you're doing something with that mental health break alright like a lot of people just take a mental health break right and they don't do anything they just sit around they don't do anything and Shane what Shane's been doing is he's been spending a lot of time with Rylan like throughout the Jake Paul documentary series like they talked about how you know like Rylan was going to sleep and Shane was staying up all night editing and part of what they were talking about after the documentary ended was that they were spending a lot more time together so this is something that is definitely beneficial for your mental health and what I want you all to know like any of you who are like in a relationship like it's about finding that that type of balance like I have my amazing Tristan sitting over here on the couch right now and something I try to do which I'm not always great at is try to like find designated time where she's like okay I'm just gonna sit down let's watch some Netflix or do whatever you know what I mean same thing with my son I just took my son back home I scheduled some time to just sit there and watch him play the new Spider-Man game by the way have you guys played the new Spider-Man game yet because it is phenomenal alright but I find myself dealing with that same issue where if I'm not just go go go go go like I start to get anxious that's the way my workaholic brain is that's one of the reasons why I do so much content it's one of the reasons like as my channel is growing a lot of you are I've seen a lot of people saying like do you heart every comment like yeah when I'm just chilling like on the couch or whatever I'm just like refreshing the comments and seeing what you guys are saying and like I'll heart it or like it sometimes I reply or whatever like I want to be very engaged like something I'm trying to do is make sure that I always stay connected with you guys like as this channel continues to grow I don't want to lose that connection and lose who I am and lose what I'm trying to you know do here but at the same time I'm very mindful of my mental health okay so something that I often tell like my fellow creators when they're talking about being overloaded or being stressed or whatever like I give them some of my tips so those of you who have been following my channel you know I post pretty much daily right and lately I've been posting like two videos a day like one in the morning one in the evening all right but I've never promised anybody that and the reason why I do that is so I have wiggle room like if I'm having a bad day if my depression hits if my anxiety hits if an emergency happens or whatever like I can take that time off but I also feel confident in my channel being fine because I have such a bad catalog so if people find me they have plenty of other videos to watch this is something I see with a lot of youtubers is that they're afraid that they're going to lose subscribers if they don't post they they think that if they take a break they the algorithm is going to punish them but actually let's take a look at that Shane Dawson has a posted in two months let's see if that if that theory is true like look at this you guys like going back to like November look 38,000 55,000 scroll down a little bit more he's still getting thousands upon thousands it looks like he lost some with their little YouTube purge but then look boom right back up you guys if any other youtuber is watching this video Shane has just proved that you could take a break and still gain subscribers are you guys following me right now so get that insane idea out of your head that you cannot take a break oh my god this is amazing I'm going to start showing this video to every single youtuber who ever says they're afraid to take a mental health break this is great but for some of you who aren't youtubers like a lot of people are afraid that you know you'll get behind on work or you won't have a job when you get back or the whole business will crumble to pieces and all of these other things if those are topics that you want me to dive more into let me know but I do want you to take a look at your mental health are you overworking yourself are you somebody who gets anxious if you're not doing something like are you having trouble finding that work-life balance let me know down in the comments below okay but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and please please please for a Christmas present please go follow me on Instagram and tell everybody else to do the same all I want to do is be able to swipe up but a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon you're all amazing and I will see you all soon