oh boy that I really make this subscriber mass 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 typically what I do is pull different topics from the YouTube
community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional
well-being so the internet stuff make sure you
subscribe and ring that notification bell and by the way did you know did you
know that rewire your anger is now available over on audible so if you want
to if you've been waiting for it to go up it's there for you now so go check it
out I think it's like less than five dollars alright so anyways go check it
out and you're something that you struggle with rewire your anxiety should
be coming hopefully in the next couple weeks or so right but yeah anyways I
stumbled across a video by one of my subscribers by one of my own reward
soldiers and they were talking about how they were pissed off at me and it was
like 22 minutes I'm like oh my god this is Elsie
I know Elsie what is this mad at me and I'm like watching it and like I'm
getting upset all these other things and then I stayed in Washington I'm just
like oh okay but anyways anyways I want to talk about
you know tough love accountability all sorts of things but anyways like I'm not
the right person to talk about that why don't I have Elsie come in and explain
why she got so pissed off of me hey there Elsie W here thank you Chris and
all you rewired soldiers for allowing me to join you for a few minutes I've had
my channel for nearly six years now and in all this time after years of coming
up with tons of video ideas that I wanted to make I didn't put out a single
one until a few weeks ago and you might be wondering what was it that finally
motivated me to get over my issues with self-doubt and perfectionism and
fascination and my intense anxiety and low self-esteem what was it that finally
pushed me to complete and upload my very first youtube video I'll tell you it was
watching a video by the rewired soul that really pissed me off and don't get
me wrong I've been watching the rewired soul since about September of last year
and I even joined the Facebook support group a little while after that I found
Christmas videos and started binging on them at the lowest point I have ever
been in in a very long line of low points and I distinctly remember
watching the video that he made about losing his job just a few weeks after I
had lost my third job in less than six months and he wasn't prettier than me
he wasn't living fancier than me he wasn't even really more qualified to
speak about serious mental health issues than I am right now and I actually found
that kind of comforting because when I couldn't think of a single positive
healthy line of thought I could just redirect my attention to this regular
guy who was doing the same thing as me trying to dig himself out of his own
hole and turn his life around to change his mental health and his
well-being every way that he could and I gorged on all of that so much and became
so full of Christmas ohms that I could finally start doing that for myself
identifying my own problems and solutions in my real life and even
though I love his channel and respect his hustle earlier this year in January
he put out a video titled the youtuber burnout myth and it got under my skin in
ways that I haven't felt since I was being coached in youth sports I got
fired up I was mad he clicked baited me into watching this video and wasn't even
talking about how burnout really feels he wasn't even talking about other
youtubers or fans he was just talking about how he's not going to burn out
anytime soon and then he's calling out these other
youtubers for making excuses and washing their fans into co-signing their
laziness and he wasn't just calling them out he was calling me out and I about
lost my mind when I got to the part of the video where he said if you spend 40
hours a week working on videos there's really no fathomable excuse that you
can't put out at least one video a week and I'll be real with you since I was a
child defiance has been one of the strongest motivators for me I will move
mountains if it means proving someone wrong and maybe that says something
about me that I should spend a little bit more time reflecting on but we're
gonna save that for another video bottom line I wanted to call Kris out
for being lazy too I wanted to pull a bootay
on the rewired soul and use his own format to do it I actually took a lot of
inspiration from that video that he made why I hate tea spill but even just from
that connection in my mind when I first watched this video that pissed me off so
much I realized that my feelings were rooted in some issues that I need to
work on for myself as well I have insecurities I have sensitivity about
burnout for my experience with it last year and the only reason I could even
recognize that was because of the months I had spent watching his videos tell me
more about myself using a bunch of youtubers I'd never even heard about
before and showing me that not only could he relate at some point in his
life to the problematic behaviors that they had but there was a reason I could
relate to that too and that it didn't have to just stay that way that we can
change and we can get better and if he could do it I could do it
so if you want to know the full story on what I learned about myself from that
whole process you are absolutely welcome to come check out my channel I only have
a few videos so far and I've already gotten a ton of comments from other
rewired soldiers who have been doing the exact same thing as me putting off
things that they know are good for them or the
we'll make them happy for no good reason and so I really hope that all of you who
can relate to that will take this opportunity to turn that around right
now and just embrace the solution I know that sometimes it's more comfortable to
sit in the problem but you're just gonna waste yourself there there's so much
that you can gain and so much that you can give by just putting yourself out
there so I strongly encourage that and also Chris thank you so much for pissing
me off because otherwise I probably never would have done this thing that
I've been dying to do for years now and I'm having so much more fun than I ever
could have imagined so thank you all and I'll see you around booyah
and that's lcw for you by the way I've never told LC this but I love how our
name just kind of rolls off the tongue right LC w LC w LC w anyways I am so so
so so proud of LC like please please please go check out her channel go
subscribe to it like I can relate to I can relate so much to everything that
she's talking about in her videos and everything just the perfectionism just
holding ourselves back just not doing something out of fear and all sorts of
things and like she said like she connected with me on like the job loss
and all of that and that fear that comes along with it like I am a recovering
drug addict an alcoholic I have been fired so many times and just working at
a job I constantly had this like this anxiety of getting fired by every minute
right like every time like the boss is like hey can we talk or whatever like oh
my god what I do what I do what I do what I do right and it kind of puts you
into this freeze mode right because we talk about anxiety you know fight flight
or freeze and when the amygdala gets triggered that little piece of our brain
in the limbic system and a lot of us just freeze and we don't do anything
right but anyway it's like LLC's only made a few videos but like I keep
commenting cuz I can already see her getting more confident and getting
better at it and absolutely amazing but the last thing I
want to talk about is kind of tough love and calling us out and like not all of
us are wired this way not all of us are wired this way but when LC was talking
about how I made her mad enough where her defiance kicked in she's like okay
okay Chris you mother-effer I'm gonna prove you wrong right I'm like I can
absolutely relate to that like you guys one of my secrets to recovery that
doesn't work for everybody but it work for me one of the reasons that I am
still sober over six and a half years later is because of all the people who
didn't think I can do it right like I just weird figured me maybe it's
you know competitiveness maybe it's like part of that defiance @lz was talking
about but when people tell me that I can't do something it is just this fuel
to make stuff happen right so like if like that's something that I talk about
a little bit and rewire your anger as well right like take that anger and
channel it into something good you know what I mean
and I've turned it into you know not only a way to better myself but also to
better like the message I give the the way I grow this channel like despite
what people say like I'm always trying to reach a larger audience because I
want to help as many people as possible and like I originally just put a lot of
hustle and hard work into this channel because there were a lot of people who
didn't think this channel was going to go anywhere you know what I'm saying
so if you could tap into that like LC did or like I do like use that as a fuel
to get better right like because we have two options we have two options when
people are saying these things to us we either prove them right or we prove them
wrong and what I like to do what I like to do
is prove them wrong all right but anyways this is actually this is
actually the start of a brand new series because the rewired soldier was never
the rewired sole router was never meant to be about me there's a reason why my
channel isn't just called Chris you know what I mean like it is about all of us
okay because like I learned a long time ago that us sharing our stories helps
other people so I had LC come over to do this first
but I want to get all of you involved as well so I've set up an email
it's rewired soldier at gmail.com it'll be linked down in the description down
in the pin comment if you if you have taken anything from any of my videos
like if you learned something that made you like go out and do something to
better your mental health whether it's going to therapy start to meditate
starting the journal getting involved in the Facebook group or the discord server
just send me an email tell the story right or you could do like LC did and
send me a video clip and I will be doing this at least once a week because I want
to put a spotlight back on all of you because like no matter what I do on this
end of the camera it's all of you out there who are actually doing the work
you know what I mean like it's something that you know my mentors and sponsor
told me like they won't do anything it was me who had to put in the work so now
I am telling all of you that as well and I want to share these stories with other
people so maybe they have some hope to change their mental health situation
alright so again thank you so much LC for coming over and doing that guest
clip go subscribe to LC I'm gonna link it down below in the description and in
the pin comment it'll also be linked in the end screen go check her out on her
journey it is absolutely mwah phenomenal alright anyways that's all I got for
this video if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new
make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank
you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and
just like I promised boom right there there is Elsie's link to her channel go
check it out and go subscribe alright thanks again for watching I'll see you
next time