 What is up everybody it is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and that's right ladies and gentlemen I am back and another big thank you to my man Charlie for coming over and doing some guest videos but yeah as most of you know I was just on a little vacation right uh with my girlfriend I went to go meet her family for the first time and in this video I'm gonna talk a little bit about what that was like as well as some of the other stuff I did um first and foremost I'm a workaholic I work constantly so this was really nice I'm glad my girlfriend invited me to go out on this trip we actually went because it was her little brother's 11th birthday and uh and yeah like I I work constantly I work at a rehab center we are 24 7365 I work on Thanksgiving I work on Christmas and things like that so it's very hard for me to pull away from work and especially all the stuff I do for all of you on the rewired soul but if any of you listened to my last video you were following me on instagram so you still got a little bit of content first and foremost like what an awesome trip with my girlfriend like this is the first long distance trip that we've done and like I don't get sick of her I don't get tired of her and I ain't afraid to share with all of you like the whole time like you know uh I was just having a great time great conversations having fun singing some songs in the car it was great um but yeah I was like oh man like we've never gone on a long distance trip am I gonna hate her by the end of this but no we had an awesome time but yeah we went up there um it was up in northern California Sacramento area and yeah it was it was great it was great to meet her little brothers I've played some video games with them uh on the xbox with my son and it was awesome meeting them but but these kids these kids and their wwe wrestling video games oh they beat me so bad they beat me so bad but yeah I did manage to get around in Mortal Kombat but that was about it but yeah I got to meet uh my girlfriend's lovely grandmother her awesome mom and yeah we hung out there all week and we did um a little bit of sightseeing and stuff um one of the cool things is one of my best friends this guy right here he uh me and him got sober together my man Sean and he actually just moved up to the Sacramento area so we were able to have dinner with him and his fiance and then we also went up and saw their new place which was gorgeous I wish I would have taken more pictures it was just uh um it was amazing but yeah he's one of my best friends I met him when I first got sober and loved that guy love him and it was great because my girlfriend got to meet him and uh and his awesome fiance so that was really really cool tripling great like everybody was asking me like and my girlfriend like are you nervous are you nervous are you nervous if both of us are like not really like I don't think I'm a bad dude you know what I mean like I wasn't all that nervous you know plus family members love me but for all of you who don't follow my Instagram the last day took a very bad turn very very bad turn so they have two beautiful cats one is Matilda the other one is Jack apparently Jack is a little standoffish but Jack loved me the entire time until like the last two days and I think he had it out to get me the very last day right me and my girlfriend we were gonna wake up early say bye to her brothers as they go off to school and we were going to head to Oakland to Jack London Square take the ferry over to beautiful San Francisco one of my favorite cities on earth but at 4 30 in the morning I had to go to the bathroom and then I decided to walk outside real quick and do my terrible habit of smoking and I go outside to have just a few puffs of a cigarette and I go out and I just see this little freaking furball take off and I'm like wait a second was that was that Jack was that Jack the cat right so I started looking around and I saw a different cat so I'm like okay maybe I wasn't Jack but I'm like freaking out and anxiety is happening and I'm half tired it's 4 30 in the morning it's pitch black outside there's a ton of bushes and I go back inside I can't find Jack right I looked around for 30 minutes while the whole house is asleep and I'm walking front to back front to back front yard backyard front yard backyard right and finally I pick up the other cat to kind of consult me and I walk into the bedroom and I'm just sitting there and I'm like should I tell my girlfriend should I wake her up should I wake Tristan up from her beautiful sleeping stage right and finally I just kind of shook her on the leg I'm like something happened she's like half awake so what happened and I'm like I think Jack got out but I don't know if he's in one of the bedrooms can you go check because I didn't want to like walk into her mom's bedroom that would have been bad so uh yeah the cat was not in the house so the last day of the trip everything's going swimmingly with the family and I lose that freaking cat right so we me Tristan and her mom go look for this cat we're like 30 minutes 30 more minutes so I already looked for 30 minutes now we look for 30 more minutes we walk all the way up the street can't find him we come back inside and like Tristan couldn't go back to sleep I decided to sleep for a little bit refresh and go look for this cat I woke up and I was so mad I love cats so much but like I found myself getting very angry with cats I'm like stupid cats stupid cats why don't they come when you call your name why do they want to take off why don't they just come back right and I was so upset but I went out I got some coffee and I came back I brought Tristan some coffee and I'm worried that her family's gonna hate me and I decided to go look for Jack and I'm driving around real slow her neighbors thought like I was a crazy person but I'm driving around looking for this cat and right before I come back to the house like I look and I see that little furball and I just throw my car into park and I just get out and I'm like all right Jack it's you and me now you and me right and this cat took off so fast so fast look oh and I chased him I chased him my car is like parked somewhere else with the windows down because looking for the cat I book it after this cat and he runs back to the house come inside I'm like hey I found Jack I found Jack and Jack actually went to the backyard and I was like okay cool so he jumped back over the fence and then I go out front to go see if I can find him and then finally Tristan texts me she's like all right you can come back so they put some food at the back door and Jack just waltzes in waltzes in like nothing happened he just went exploring for a few hours so Jack if you're watching this uh anyways now back to the good stuff so one of the things that we did um while we were in uh Sacramento was uh I started buying a bunch of books I started buying a bunch of books right so all those books oh and then I got one for my son Bob's Burgers Matt lives I'm not gonna go through my whole book haul I might do another uh video these are all mental health books by the way and they're great I'm actually gonna link them down in the description below if any of you want to check them out um but anyways I do want to talk about just two of the books real quick um I came across this book if you follow me on Instagram you heard me ranting and raving about how amazing this book is it's called Unbleep Your Brain all right and it's by uh Dr Faith G Harper amazing book so far amazing and I can't wait to review it like she she has this very like just kind of candid way of talking obviously there's some cursing in it but it's great because sometimes I think we take mental health too seriously and uh she's very fun she reminds me a lot of my mom who's also a psychologist but yeah this this book's great um anxiety depression a lot of it has to do with trauma she teaches about neuroscience pick this book up I'm gonna do a full review but just just go buy it just go buy it right now just just stop what you're doing and go buy it so I will do a full book review though then I got so excited about this book that I went out and got this book but actually my girlfriend actually um surprised me with this book this one is called uh this is your brain on anxiety what happens and what helps another book by uh Dr Faith Harper so that is my next one but yeah I could not set that book down so lastly my girlfriend and I we did end up making it to San Francisco we make it to San Francisco on 420 and we go to hate street and like oh my god like it was nothing but weed just nothing nothing but weed at all like everybody they were having like 420 festivals out there and stuff uh we did stop by this amazing vegan burger joint it was awesome and uh and yeah we spent a few hours there we headed um back down through California but we ended up uh stopping in Fresno that's actually my hometown that's where I got sober too so we went through Fresno we had dinner with my lovely mom two of my friends uh one of my friend's wife who I just found out is pregnant and it was one of those weird situations because I saw her like standing like this with a hand on a belly and I was like she pregnant and then she like went to the bathroom I'm like yo Jason she pregnant and she is so congratulations to them um and then my my other friend uh he he got a girlfriend and I got to meet her it was awesome we had Chinese food in one of my favorite places we went out for ice cream and uh yeah it didn't be my girlfriend we stayed in a hotel for the night that my mom so graciously got us and then in the morning this morning um I got to have breakfast with my dad so like it was crazy just in this week alone like uh I got to meet my girlfriend's family um we got to hang out with her friend Shelby and her husband Brandon he whipped my butt in Forza uh that was fun um we saw all of my best friends and she got to meet my parents too like what an amazing trip aside from the cat thing that cat thing really jacked me up but all as well all right anyways I'm back um I hope you were all doing well I hope you were all nice to Charlie I was in the comments too I know you guys were um but yeah I will also uh put in the description down below another link to Charlie's channel awesome guy again thank you so much Charlie um but yeah I'm back I'm gonna get the ball rolling again I'm gonna be doing a lot of new stuff on Instagram I'm kind of taking my Instagram in a different direction rather than just doing all of my like hey here's clips from the YouTube channel like I want to make it completely separate so I'm gonna try that see how it goes so if you're not following me on Instagram make sure you are it's displayed right here again as you can see follow me on Instagram all right but anyways uh if you have anything that you're struggling with if there's any topics that you want me to cover uh make sure you leave them down in the comments below I'm back and I have a whole laundry list of video ideas but as always I'm always here just to help you out to help you out with your mental health all right but anyways I'm glad to be back thanks for watching give this video a thumbs up do me a solid and if you're new here and stumbled across this video make sure you click that little route subscribe button all my videos are meant to help you out with your mental and emotional needs and if you're bored click or tap on one of those thumbnails check out some other videos on this channel all right thanks again for watching I'm glad to be back and I'll see you next time