 So euphoria episode 4 had a lot going on in it and in this video rather than just breaking down one character we're going to be looking at probably about three or four different characters and explain what's going on in their story arcs and see what we can learn from it. 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 typically what i do is i pull different topics from the youtube community but i like to pull topics from movies tv shows pop culture in general try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and make sure you check out my euphoria playlist i've been covering all the episodes but yeah before we get started in case you did not know i have my brand new book Rewire Your Anxiety out now and a bunch of people are giving me feedback on it and it makes me feel oh so good but anyways it's available in both ebook and audiobook format so if you want to check that out it's down in the description down in the pinned comment below all right so yeah euphoria episode four there's a lot going on um and obviously each episode kind of like really centers around one character but we kind of see what's going on with other characters so in this episode it really focused on jewels and it kind of gave um a little bit of her backstory and everything like that i'm not going to be diving too much into her going into a psychiatric hospital as a child but if that's something that you want me to kind of do a whole video on um and children going to psychiatric hospitals um when it comes to you know self harm or even what might have been you know her being put in there for you know gender dysphoria or whatever it is like if you want me to make a video on that let me know down in the comments below all right but i want to be talking about a few different characters so let's talk about rue all right played by zendaya which is really interesting because i just took my son to go see uh spider man far from home i act like i took my son like i did it freaking love it love that movie was so interesting just seeing like zendaya as mary jane blotson and then zendaya as rue you know what i mean but anyways i've done a lot of video breakdowns on rue because she struggles with addiction those of you who don't know me i'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic with over seven years clean and sober but yeah this episode it didn't focus too much on rue all right like there was like the quick little scene where she met with uh auli after she called him at the end of the last episode and like i'm telling you guys right now i'm telling you guys right now like their relationship this kind of sponsor-sponsor relationship is going to be legit all right like i love auli because he's the type of sponsor who i would want one who is just no nonsense get straight to the point like don't be like beating around the bush let's talk about the problem focus on the solutions you know what i mean so make sure you're paying attention to that but anyways i want to talk about rue and her relationship with her little sister gia because in this episode obviously like rue um you know took gia to the carnival and which is which is good so for rue this is good because it means her mother is trusting her more like when i first got clean and sober like i wasn't trusted for a very long time like even after i had almost a year and a half clean a year and a half clean my son's mother was still reluctant to let me watch him by myself all right so seeing the trust that's being rebuilt with um rue and her mom letting her you know take care of a little sister like that's cool so make sure you pay attention to that because that's something that helps encourage people's recovery but what we see later is that you know gia smokes pot with these dudes right and there's a few ways to look at this all right a few different ways like one of them is this is a kid just trying out some pot that's cool pot i have nothing against it is legal here in nevada i help vote for it whatever do your thing boo but something to pay attention to and this is something that we need to pay attention to in our real lives as well is modeling behaviors right but also gia went through like a traumatic experience seeing her sister overdosed all right like that will mess a child up like um those of you who don't know i worked in addiction treatment for a little over three years as well and there are many people who came in there were like their children right or their family um their friends found them overdosed and had to call the you know paramedics or whatever and it can be traumatizing and this is how addiction kind of has this ripple effect right because we affect other people than they try to self-medicate so like when i saw that gia was like you know messing around with weed like it has me concerned because she might start abusing substances as a way to handle her own problems as well so in ru's case like this is a tricky situation and something again i could do a whole another video on and i might if this kind of progresses into something else but anyways like ru this gives her even more motivation to stay sober and stay on the right track because her little sister might be modeling her behavior or whenever ru puts her through a traumatic traumatic experience then gia might want to turn to substances and that can turn out bad and then this poor mother is going to have two not one but two children who are abusing substances so next let's talk about cat so in the last episode it focused mainly around cat and what we know about cat is that she you know obviously struggles with some insecurities and everything like that so in this episode you know she goes to the carnival and there's that boy that she was kind of flirting with in class and then you know they were hanging out at the carnival and you know she clearly has a thing for him right but anyways you know she says hey i'm gonna go get us some you know drinks or whatever and then she comes back and she sees him talking to another girl so i've done videos in the past about like youtubers um you know who have been cheated on and everything like that like this is what i'm talking about like what you just saw with cat and obviously cat is not dating this guy but a lot of people do things right especially in relationships that are based on insecurities okay like something i i try to teach everybody is if you've been cheated on it is not because of you it is because of them and their own insecurities and you see how trivial this can be and especially in high school like it can be really trivial but this is something i see grown adults do hell this is something that i struggled with way into my 20s and my insecurities right so cat sees him talking to this girl and then when we hear the conversation this girl worked with his sister and she has a boyfriend and that's why they were talking but cat just seeing that she got jealous and she went and hooked up with that other guy all right and like as i'm watching this i'm like oh no no no girl no girl like go like walk up you know whatever it is right because we're never going to have healthy relationships if we constantly think that you know the guy we're seeing or the girl we're seeing whoever it is might be flirting or talking with other people like one of the things i love about my beautiful girlfriend Tristan is like she's one of the first women i've dated where like jealousy isn't this like huge thing right but i've done things to earn her trust and one of them is being clean and sober not being a scumbag anymore you know what i'm saying but i want you all to like really look at yourself and look like do you do this do you do this thing because sometimes it's not even you know seeing that person talking to another person sometimes it's just oh this person isn't giving me the love or affection or attention that i feel that i deserve that i feel that i need then you run off and you start talking to somebody else to get that attention that you need so i think as we you know see the season go on we're going to see more of what cat does based on her insecurities so if you're somebody who struggles with insecurities i recommend that you pay attention to cat because we're going to see how it causes problems in her life next let's talk about cassie played by sydney sweeney so this episode she ends up going to the carnival with mckay the dude she's seeing and in the last episode you like she went you know to his frat party and everything like that and yeah they like said they loved each other right and my teenage love like all right that's that's another whole another video all right but anyways um and i i'm just not thinking of this but she she gets upset with mckay because he he tells you know his boy that like they're just chilling right he doesn't say like they're dating this is my girlfriend or anything like that and in mckay's mind like he's doing the right thing because he's protecting her right he's protecting her because his friends they think you know not great things about her because of her past there was a video that we saw in the very first episode and everything like that but what i was just thinking about too is because like i don't recommend that you hang out with people or date people who are won't like tell their friends that you guys are dating like that's not cool like that is going to turn into a mess but mckay had no problem bringing her to the frat party so it seems like he just you know he has some like hesitancy for people who know about her past all right and that's something that we really need to think about like this is one of the reasons why it's so important to take things slow right like so many people want to toss out the i love yous and you know some people like you know these are high school students that were watching but some people you know they're moving in together or some people running off and getting married like like it's not just about like taking your time for the sake of taking your time like one of the reasons you take time with relationships before they get super duper serious right you don't let your emotional brain run things and use some of your logical brain is because you haven't been through enough situations together to know if this is the relationship right or if everything is honky dory like we all focus on the honeymoon phase but like we need to like realize like it's important to know how things are going to go when things aren't great like how do you handle fights how do you handle arguments how do you guys handle each other's friends how do you handle each other's family members and all these other things all right so this is one of the reasons why it might be good like even if you feel right even if you feel like you love that person like tone it down just a little bit wait a little bit longer until you're in more situations to say okay is this thing going to work and obviously like what we're seeing like this is a theme throughout the show throughout this episode is that you see people making bad decisions based on their emotions this is one of the reasons why I advocate that we need to focus on our mental health our emotions drive us to do things that we end up regretting right so Cassie in this situation getting upset she ends up getting high she takes the Molly she goes on the carousel and we all know what happened there right and that's going to be interesting too because I can see Cassie trying to change who she is get into this serious relationship with McCabe but she might be struggling from you know that phase she was in you know hooking up and everything like that and when she was on the carousel and you saw everybody see this right that might hurt her confidence and wondering if she can change and here's the advice I have for all of you like when we're trying to become that person we want to become there's going to be setbacks we're going to screw up we're going to have these roadblocks we're going to have these speed bumps whatever it is right but do not let that stop you from moving forward okay we're all going to make mistakes we are all flawed human beings okay the most we can do is learn from them and try to grow moving forward all right so the last thing we'll talk about is jewels okay so this episode had a lot to do with jewels but I just want to kind of focus on you know the ending where she finally found out that Tyler is actually Nate all right and this this was weird like just like purely opinion not like you know what can we learn from this thing like I don't know it was it was just weird like that that whole scene was weird it felt like it escalated very quickly and everything like that and you know obviously like Nate has a thing for jewels but you know he starts threatening her but like even though that's weird like this is something I could see really happening okay like Nate is the type of person who we've seen you know get physical with people but like he is also somebody who will use emotional abuse emotional manipulation right and that's what he was doing to jewels in that situation so we see this a lot just in shows you know with blackmail and you know things like that but Nate is somebody who does not have his own stuff in check like we saw that in episode what was it episode two where like this dude has some issues and he has daddy issues he has all sorts of issues so if if you start seeing signs like this in a dude might not be a good idea to date him it's not just dudes either because I have my share of dating women who are not all there right so like this is something we all need to watch out for here's something that I think is really good about this show though okay like it's it's good but like in the show we're seeing like it's obviously bad where they talk about sending these lewd photos to one another because I think I mentioned it in my first review of this show maybe um like a lot of people do not real realize this like even like like a lot of people said they're minors watching this show right like I hope you guys are learning like this isn't fantasy like you can get in trouble you can go on an offender list okay for sending photos and for distributing photos okay like I hope everybody realizes this like listen if you're of age and you want to send nudes do your thing okay but I really hope teenagers watching this show are understanding that there can be consequences for this I mentioned in the first review of this show that I did that I know of somebody right who was 18 and shared a photo of a 17 year old and he ended up getting in a lot of trouble legally for that all right so make sure that like you are learning from this like this is very very real and obviously the laws are different in uh in different states and everything like that but like it's better to be safe than sorry okay but anyways again let me know down in the comments below if there are certain topics maybe that I brought up in this that you want me to dive deeper into this the first time where the video is a little bit longer but I focused on a few different characters rather than just one so help me help you let me know what you like what you don't like let me know if you want me to break down um more topics whatever it is just help guide me as I review this beautiful show euphoria all right and don't forget check out the description and the pin comment down below because my brand new book we while your anxiety is out now an ebook and audiobook format 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 makes you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to become a patron support what I'm doing here you can also get access to my books full free you can click a tap right there all right thanks again so much for watching I'll see you 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