 So it's been almost one month since Eugenia Cooney made her amazing comeback by doing her video with Shane Dawson and it's been almost a month since Jacqueline Glenn came out with her series of videos about Eugenia Cooney. So after a month how is Eugenia doing and is there anything that we can learn from this? Of course there is so stay tuned. 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 what I like to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. 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I put up a YouTube channel too I've been so busy I have like I don't know like 10 or 15 episodes on there but I need to get the rest up there so you can go subscribe to that if you want I will hopefully have that updated by the end of the weekend all right so anyways yeah let's talk about Eugenia Cooney and how she's been doing so I want to reiterate the goal of my channel the intention of my channel like I am a firm believer in the idea that we always need to be learning and growing no matter what we're doing I believe that that is an opportunity to learn and grow so when we're consuming YouTube content I feel like we need to be taking some time after we watch a video and ask ourselves like is there anything I can learn that might be able to benefit my life right and I think we should do this with all situations when we interact with other people out and about maybe it's friends maybe it's family members maybe it's coworkers what can we learn from every single situation so when it comes to commentary channels when it comes to drama channels often we're looking at different influencers and the question is is this person a good influence or a bad influence and if we're being honest most of the videos commentating on different public figures typically it's pretty critical typically it's quite negative and Eugenia Cooney is no different for a very very long time people are making a lot of negative videos about her and when I say negative I don't mean like they were all like just bashing her anything like that but negative in the way of people are making videos being concerned about her people were concerned about the influence she had on her audience and I'm no different um I had a lot of requests months and months and months ago to start making videos on Eugenia Cooney and as I started to kind of learn more about what was going on in her story I made videos as well and here's the thing like my number one concern this is gonna sound corny but I'm being honest my number one concern is all of you it's you baby all right so like when I look at things and I look at different influencers I look at what's going on I'm like okay whenever I see a video or what's going on in the community I'm like how is this influencing the audience so you guys are my number one priority all right and sometimes when I call out a behavior and say hey maybe this isn't a good idea sometimes it might hurt that influencer's feelings but something that we all need to get better at myself included and I'm hoping I accomplished that with this video is talking about the good influences too and you guys I cannot express the warmth in my heart just seeing how Eugenia Cooney is doing that young woman has done this amazing 180 like when I first started covering you know Eugenia Cooney and trying to see what we can learn from it like one of my main concerns again was all of you and I started to learn about people following her for thin aspiration that's something I never even heard of before right people were being motivated by Eugenia Cooney's appearance to keep pursuing their own eating disorder and that's a very scary thing but with this complete turnaround that Eugenia Cooney's done we gotta learn from that too like girl do you follow Eugenia on Twitter like let me tell you that girl like Eugenia her tweets brighten up my day like look at these tweets on the screen right now and here's the thing here's what I love about it too seeing the the inspiration that she tweets out I don't know if she's thinking of um herself sometimes she does say I heard this today or if they're not coming from video games the reality is I do not care it warms my heart so much to see what she's doing like you guys um working in addiction treatment for three years and just even me being sober for seven years there is nothing there is no feeling better than seeing somebody overcome any type of challenge or mental illness or struggle whether it's an addiction or an eating disorder like I have been involved in so many people's lives and I'm so grateful like I used to joke around with my clients about this all the time like I would see people when they first came into treatment like right when they're going through detox and they're coming in looking all like right like I did when I first got sober and then seeing the the change in them not only like the physical appearance but seeing this like restoration of hope like it is just amazing and I really hope you guys are are acknowledging that and being very conscious of that when you're looking at Eugenia Cooney like what I love about her is when when any of us start doing better when any of us start recovering you know we can just stay on our own path and just keep focusing ourselves and doing our thing or we can realize that we overcame something huge and now we can take our story and use that as motivation to inspire others regardless regardless of what you thought of Shane Dawson's video with Eugenia Cooney I am willing to bet that thousands and that might be a conservative number maybe it was millions or tens of thousands or hundred thousands of people men and women right who went out and got help or even considered getting help like when people like Eugenia Cooney put themselves in the public spotlight and they let people know it's okay to ask for help it is just one of the most amazing things and that's something that I try to do with my channel I learned a long time ago that my experience doesn't have to be this dark shameful thing that I have to carry around with me right I can take that old experience that past experience that struggle I went through and maybe be able to help others and it's so awesome seeing Eugenia Cooney do that and Shane Dawson was the perfect person to help her move in that direction all right and like bring her back it's awesome and you see those two communicating on Twitter and they're like send each other presents it is just amazing so I want you to learn from that and be inspired by that and follow people on you know YouTube or Twitter or Instagram who inspire you and realize like me overcoming my addiction I'm nothing special Eugenia she's killing it but she's just an average girl who is overcoming her eating disorder in front of all of our eyes like if we can do it you can do it too all right but the next thing I want to talk about what we can learn from this situation is the struggle that Eugenia has gone through being in the public spotlight like it is hard enough for anybody to overcome an addiction or an eating disorder in front of their friends in front of their family members in front of their co-workers right and you see Eugenia and like when Jacqueline Glenn made her video there were a ton of other videos coming out as well with their concern about Eugenia Cooney or her mom and things like that right and that that can set somebody up for a relapse right but Eugenia Cooney myself anybody in recovery like we need to realize regardless of what else is happening regardless of the external circumstances we need to we need to stay mentally well you know what I mean like I used to relapse and use what people said and how people treated me as an excuse to relapse right so I've been watching I've been watching how Eugenia handled her comeback and all the videos being made about her Jacqueline Glenn making the video and everything like that and I'm like okay how is Eugenia going to respond to this and she's just doing phenomenal so what we all need to take from that is early recovery whether you're recovering from an eating disorder addiction if you're recovering from trauma or agoraphobia or anything like early recovery is rough but I want you to look at people like Eugenia Cooney and say oh my god like I don't even have millions of eyeballs on me if she can do it I can do it too right we need to be able to look at other people for inspiration and understand that if they can get through these challenges if they can get through these hardships we can too the last thing I want to talk about is it's really interesting because when Eugenia Cooney came back you know obviously Jacqueline Glenn made her video um well a few videos and other people made videos like oh no you still got to worry about Eugenia and everything like that I just checked online to see what videos people have made about Eugenia Cooney in the last four weeks not not really anything right like nobody's like oh you know what maybe we're wrong maybe Eugenia Cooney is doing well she seems to be doing well you know nobody's making those videos so I would like to continue to do follow-ups and I want to do this with more YouTubers and everything and people who are being positive influences in fact if you follow me tomorrow tomorrow I know I've been kind of up and down with my uploads and not doing daily lately but tomorrow I'm going to make a video about how well Taylor Nicole Dean is doing and those of you who follow my channel you're like oh god Chris but don't worry I have an exciting video for tomorrow because she's doing awesome all right but anyways let me know what you have learned from following Eugenia Cooney's journey down in the comments below and don't forget my podcast has been going daily so if you want some more Chris up in your life make sure you check down in the description and the pinned comment all right anyways that's all I got for this video if you like 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 of our patreon you're amazing and a huge thank you to everybody who's supported the channel through getting my books and all that other kind of stuff all right thanks again for watching I'll see you tomorrow