mornings in paris ☁

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

hello good morning for me and my tiny M I usually get coconut yogurt and this is my first time trying almond yogurt I quite like it good morning from a very dreary and slow morning here in Paris I don't know about you but I always forget to breathe so let's just take three deep breaths here one second it's crazy how much just three breaths can make a difference in how you feel and now that I'm back in school for the time being I really can't make these during the weekdays cuz now I have to be in class every day at 9:00 a.m.

as much as I'm trying to be an early to bed early to rise person it just hasn't quite set in we're getting there slly but surely so how I've been kind of passing my mornings here in Paris love the little home I'm in it's temporary unfortunately but honestly it might be for the best because it's on the seventh floor without an elevator you heard that correctly which is a lot every day and when it's the winter I try especially hard to romantic size my own life because I'm not a winter girl I grew up in Southern California I have been genetically coded for the beach and the Sunshine and yet here I am in a very cold incredibly gray City but we're making the most out of it and there can be so much simple magic to be found in each morning if you open up your eyes for it I think no matter where you live you can also decide to see the the dreary skies and the dirt and uh the angry people we're trying to have the opposite Viewpoint and look at the bright side and see all the beauty there is especially in a place like Paris that that's not very hard to do I also have this tendency to really wake up with everything that I have to do whirling around in my head it's probably cuz I need a slightly better night routine so if it's a weekday I like with my morning coffee to just quickly write down everything I know that I have to get done I like to make a little to-do list of like the main things I need to get done and then I have a little sidebar of all the smaller to-do list things that are always just circling around in my brain but as soon as I see it visually it just feels so much more manageable I can free up that mental space that was taken up trying to remember everything and organize everything and use that for more important tasks and you have on a weekend I like to think about the things that are important to get done that day as well as like plan the week ahead and as much as I love a slow morning at home I'm trying not to prolong it too too too long otherwise I could stay at home all day which is fine we need that sometimes and go out and enjoy living in this beautiful city and not hermit while I'm here and we're going to head to the gym I got a little gym membership around the corner which has been super nice I've been doing all my workouts with train well if you're unfamiliar train well is basically a one-on-one personal training service which I adore I'm pretty sure I talked about them in my last video it's just like helped so much with having a consistent and accountable workout routine that I feel like I can really keep up right now I'm kind of trying to do a split of two weight training days a week so like legs and upper body arms to get some muscle and then two more cardio Focus days because I feel like that across the board can help me feel strong in my body I get to work on continually increasing my endurance with cardio which is something I want to do I just also want to build a little bit more muscle's amazing about train W is it basically gives you this accountability and personalization all inone app and you can take a quiz to match with a trainer who will help basically give you this weekly plan and you can follow along with each exercise at the gym or at home or wherever you're working out and it's just so helpful used to have gym anxiety but with this I can just pull up the videos I can see the form of the workout I can see exactly how many reps to do and for how long it helps me really stay consistent cuz Jill is always checking in on me the trainers were just so encouraging and so positive which like I love a little positive reinforcement it makes me feel more motivated and if you want to work on having a more personalized fitness journey and stay more accountable definitely check out train take the quiz of my bio to get 14 days of free training and on that note I'm going to finish my breakfast and get changed and and we're going to go to the gym and do a little workout it a on the wall maybe the all time for a little bit of skin care maybe they all so I apologize for the not great lighting it's currently quite gloomy a little bit of coverage Tey bit of bronzer really love this ysel bronzer a Teensy bit of blush to give myself a little bit of color my favorite thing to do for daily eye makeup to take a cray of some sort like this I clearly have quite a few options I have the Ilia stylus Shadow stick in Adorn the Laura Mercier intense Moonlight caviar stick and I don't put it all over my eyelid I just kind of treat it like eyeliner essentially ring my upper and lower lash line with it other than that we're just brushing the brows and putting on a little mascara an ous 1.3 billion and I'm also excited cuz my friend Gabby is going to pick me up on her little scooter and we're just going to scoot around Paris it's like a very American dream I feel like to run a little scooter around not very popular in the US so ad don't see see you just don't care this world is to keep me from you all from you say Saed sa hello any morning in Paris it's a beautiful start of the day despite the gray I'm clearly trying to romanticize Winter a little bit and I recently have been reading finally a Movable Feast I love the line if you're lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast and that's something I've been feeling a lot recently I'm like the world is too beautiful to just live in one place it takes a lot of work and oops I have to jump through and privileged to be able to pull this off I'm so grateful to be here and to be able to experience a different way of living and I think of anything that Pion way living has taught me to find beauty in the small things like of course the architecture and the way of life here is stunning but it's really the pace and the appreciation here that has really had the most impact like you don't have to be in a beautiful city of par to enjoy the small things like cup of coffee journaling at your favorite coffee shop going to a park every day no matter where you are your life can kind of look like this it's focusing on the little things it just feels so full circle to be here because I actually was an opar when I was 18 and I had no money I came here on my own it was super intimidating I lived in bougival which is outside of Paris in this like tiny bedroom in a home of like six people and I'd have to take the train in like an hour from L Falls to now be here a decade later to be able to enjoy the city now as an adult is just like such a special full circle moment hello this is so cute how are you you look cute you look so sheep we met at midday so tall than me I know I'm on a slant you're my like one tall friend good morning you're a passenger princess today I feel like I was like I need to bring a real Parisian in what are your favorite bits of Parisian mornings coffee of the cafe culture is so good now it is going out for coffee with friends like you getting little breakfast just kind of being cozy at home not thinking too much about the gr it's like a kid way like let's go but I'm too young for this chicken like a leaf on a tree that's me chcken like a leaf on a tree that's me shaking like a leaf on a tree sh as usual thanks so much for being here and I hope you enjoyed spending the morning with me and don't forget to check out train well and get your 14 days of free training beaut Str and a crown sh like a leaf on a tree as me