 I got a really exciting announcement which I'm also kind of nervous about but I wanted to talk to you about it to keep myself accountable and it might be pretty cool if it turns out all right. So stay tuned. What's up everybody it's Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. So first off I just want to send a huge big amazing thank you to everybody who is watching this and will watch this because right now as of right now I have passed the 300 subscriber mark and I'm at 308 so that's awesome like that that really keeps me going. My whole motivation for starting this channel and doing what I do is like I care a lot about mental health mental illness and the solutions around those things because I know that it's possible for everybody else but I just thought nobody really cared about it so I didn't think this channel was going to go anywhere and this is only the beginning but part of what I always talk about and I hope it's reflected in my videos is this attitude of gratitude. I have to be grateful for all these things and my lovely girlfriend does a great job keeping me in check on this stuff because I'm like why don't I have thousands of subscribers or why don't I have thousands of views you know and she reels me back in is like you have a lot of people and especially since I just started doing this in like July really seriously like that's pretty cool. Also a shout out to all my peeps over in the awesome creator academy which is ran by Mr. Big Huge YouTuber and creative entrepreneur Roberto Blake. If you are a creator of any type whether it's through YouTube or you just like creating stuff I highly recommend that you join the awesome creator academy I'll put a link in the description below but like every time we talk there's a private Facebook group or we always do these mastermind calls and every time we do it like my creative juices just start going all over the place and I love it because it helps me provide you with better stuff. Anyways anyways now you guys are like or Chris get to the point thought you had some exciting news so as you probably saw in the thumbnail there's a symbol for ASAM which stands for the American Society of Addiction Medicine ASAM. They are one of the leading medical organizations with thousands and thousands of members and they are heading a lot of the research when it comes to addiction and every single year they do this huge conference and a bunch of addiction professionals and doctors and scientists and psychologists from all over the place come and meet and there's like sessions and seminars and workshops and all sorts of things. My wonderful mom she got to go there last year it was in New Orleans so I'm a little jealous about that but anyways it's an organization that I often turn to to get the information that I then relate to you and on Monday there is a deadline for anybody who wants to do a presentation at the upcoming conference in 2018 which will be held in San Diego so what I'm doing is I will be submitting some possible presentations and an abstract to hopefully be able to do some presenting at this amazing conference and I wanted to do this to keep myself accountable because now I have to do it but my brain is something that constantly goes. As I've mentioned in other videos I struggle with a generalized anxiety disorder this thing does not turn off but through my recovery from addiction as well as just improving my mental health I've learned to turn that into a positive and I use this thing as a creative outlet and all the information and education I get I kind of piece these things together and I have a lot that I want to share with other addiction professionals so we can maybe help treat addiction a little bit better but I've also been really meaning to do some videos about this topic because some of you might have seen this viral video about the opposite of addiction is connection and rat park and I have an argument against that and it's not necessarily saying that it's wrong but it doesn't expand further based on what we know about the brain so I take a few different things and put it together but I don't want to spoil anything I will launch it release it whatever you want to call it so all of you can read it and hopefully you enjoy it um but yeah I want to put that together and hopefully I can present it I also have another presentation I want to do about how I truly believe that mindfulness is probably the best way to treat addiction and I have a lot of scientific research that backs that out but anyways that's the exciting news I got again thank you so much for everybody who subscribes who watches all these videos I have a bunch of people telling me how they've referred like their friends or family members to check this stuff out and I have people say hey my parents have been watching your videos to understand addiction better and good news is too very very very soon I will be making addiction education videos for my youtube channel and I hope they help all of you out if you want to get educated more on addiction head over to the rewired soul.com I have courses up there available to help you understand addiction more it is a course that I teach inside of treatment and I teach it to families and I have the whole thing up on my website the rewired soul if you are interested in checking it out and if you are and if you are watching this and you want to check it out check the description below there is a coupon code I will give you 50% off if you want to check it out and learn more about addiction if you like this video make sure you give it a thumbs up if you are new here make sure you click the little round subscribe button below and then off to the left of my beautiful face you will see two little thumbnails where I put other videos and playlists that you might enjoy so check those out too thanks for watching and I will see you next time