 Katie Morton is one of the biggest mental health YouTubers on the platform and she just released a brand new book, but is it worth buying? 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 pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell but today we are going to be talking about one of the other mental health YouTubers on this platform arguably one of the biggest ones. Katie Morton the licensed marriage and family therapist herself you might know her from a little series called The Mind of Jake Paul which stirred up a little bit of stuff after her episode but I've been watching Katie since I don't know since I got onto YouTube and I wanted to see who else was doing mental health stuff so it was super cool when I found out she was releasing this book and I just finished it so yeah I just want to kind of explain what the book's about without giving spoilers there's not really spoilers to the book though but yeah I just want to talk about it in case you're wondering what the book's like. Well anyways real quick funny story so this book came out on Tuesday and I've been waiting for it I've been waiting for it for a while I actually tried to email her management team to see if I can get an advanced copy but I was too late but yeah I went down to Barnes & Noble Tristan and I did the night before it came out and I asked them like are you gonna have this book available and they said yeah and the girl actually said like they already had it in stock but they couldn't sell it to me because the release date was the next day I'm like oh crap so Tristan and I usually when we go down to the bookstore we'll like check out like the psychology section and just see what other mental health books are out there and then here it was it was sitting out there the night before the release so I picked it up and I started reading it um either that night or the next morning I can't remember but yeah I'm an audiobook person so I actually downloaded this book which is narrated by Katie Morton over on Audible so if any of you want the audiobook like like it's really cool I will say that because I listen to a lot of audiobooks and a lot of audiobooks come out sometimes weeks or months after the hard copy comes out so it was really cool and it's and it's narrated by Katie so if you watch her videos it's kind of like just listening to one of her videos with this book but yeah anyways let's talk about this book so are you okay like I didn't know what to expect when coming into it um one of the first questions I had was like who is this book for right like who is this book for so the first thing I will say is this book is not for me but that's not a bad thing all right this book is phenomenal like absolutely phenomenal when it comes to helping you understand mental health versus mental illness like that was one of the first things that I really loved about this book was Katie talking about mental health versus mental illness like that's something I'm really trying to teach people on my channel even though I don't talk about it that much is that mental health does not just mean the lack of a mental illness or some kind of psychological disorder like mental health involves like managing your anger managing your emotions managing your relationships and the book kind of starts out with like separating those two she talks about the stigma she talks about why she got into therapy and all sorts of stuff like that like the main audience that I really think should pick up this book like I know I do a lot of books about going to therapy like you should get therapy therapy therapy therapy like Kenny Morton does an excellent job in this book of like helping you feel comfortable going to therapy like most of this book is answering a ton of your questions about like setting up your first appointment what kind of therapist you should look for knowing what the different licenses means like the difference between a marriage and family therapist and a social worker the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist you know like there's so much information and like this is important like if you're somebody who is looking to get help for your mental health you should know who to go to Katie also does a great job like giving you tips on how to find the right person like just for example she talks about how some therapists out there say that they specialize in like 50 different disorders like eating disorders addiction you know depression anxiety like they talk about all these different things but they're just doing that to get the most clients in but like she gives you some tips on how to find out if they really specialize it in that field if they're really the right person for you so like even at the end of the book she talks about the different levels of care like the difference between like you know who needs hospitalization who needs outpatient who needs an intensive outpatient like this will help set your mind at ease before getting therapy like I think that's primarily the audience that this is for but that's one of the benefits of Katie Morton being on the platform like a lot of this book is like some of her videos that kind of just explain the process to help you feel more comfortable going to therapy she also talks a lot about from you know a therapist point of view like there's a lot in there about boundaries and like one of my favorite parts in there was and this is just because I've worked in mental health treatment where she talks about like why they do 50 minute sessions instead of an hour right and she kind of like explains it like we have to put in notes sometimes we got to go get something to eat sometimes you know what I mean like she explains that because so many people get angry upset like my my doctor for example spends a lot of time with me answering my questions so when my doctor is late for my appointment I notice because she's spending time with somebody else so I really think it helps give you another view so like because therapists are humans too you know what I mean like all that backlash happened with the Shane Dawson series like Katie came out and made a video like Katie Morton is a human too you know I also think this is this book is great for anybody who is considering becoming a mental health professional if you're thinking of becoming a therapist or a social worker or counselor whatever it is I think this is very very good like in this book like you'll like you know it's not like you know all of your schooling but it's a great like crash course to kind of get the information she talks about how much schooling is required for different licenses and things Katie also has some good tips on how to find the right therapist and should you get a new therapist like kind of what you should be looking for and something that she kind of dives into is like knowing if you should stick with a therapist and something I like that she touched on real quick is that she talks about how sometimes it's going to take you time sometimes it's going to take you more than one session to know if you click with that therapist so one thing I will say like so first off in case I haven't made that clear or if you're new to my channel I am not a licensed therapist or anything I'm currently in school um I've you know gone through my own mental health stuff and overcome addiction and everything but I have worked in treatment I have worked with clients more like peer support type stuff but anyways what I will say is like for example Katie Morton and I have two very different styles of working with people right and and I think it's important that you you figure out who's the right person that you work with as a therapist like Katie is much sweeter than I am right like a lot of you who know me and have been subscribed like I come from that kind of tough love angle I've seen I've seen Katie get a little tough on some people before but um but yeah she's a lot so a lot like sweeter and kinder and some of you need that right like me personally like I need somebody who's a little bit harder with me gonna call me out on my crap all the time and like kind of like shove it in my face you know like that kind of like it's just what works for me so like that's kind of a difference so like some of you are subscribed to both me and Katie so you see the two different styles of the way that we talk to people but I should give you some great like tips on how to find the right therapist and to know if this therapist is the right person and if you should stay with that therapist all right a lot of that you know is the positive things I don't really have much negative to say about this like I like I said this book is you know a lot of stuff that I just already knew you know about you know therapy and schooling and the different levels of care and different treatment methods and everything but as far as like the the content of this book so the first like eight chapters I believe discuss like you know therapy and helping you understand what it's like and actually it's the first seven chapters and then chapters eight and nine eight and nine are about relationships right so that that to me it's just it kind of like messes up the flow of the book and maybe I'm just being picky but like it goes from like you know just educating you about like what therapy is in the treatment process and you know how to find the right therapist and then it kind of like just starts giving you some like tips now now don't get me wrong there is some amazing advice in here about toxic relationships and like you know there's some parts in there about dealing with like crappy co-workers there's a very great advice for me it just didn't seem to flow with the rest of the book but like I said it's like the last few chapters of this book one thing that I will say is interesting is like some of you saw that I did a reaction to Katie Morton doing like couples therapy with Jason Nash and Trisha and like it was interesting to me because when you read this book and how much Katie knows about toxic relationships I'm like kind of sitting there thinking as I was listening to that section I'm like it's really it's really intriguing like because like Katie didn't call them out on a lot of stuff that she talks about in this book now I will say this like there's probably reasons for that maybe a YouTube video isn't the right place to call Trisha and Jason out for all their toxic behaviors but in this book like going through it like Katie kind of recommends that Trisha and Jason should not be together but overall like would I recommend this book like gauging by my audience is seeing your comments like absolutely 1000% yes like a lot of you who know me I'm really big on like support groups and stuff that's why we have the Facebook group and the discord server and all of that but like a lot of you need to work with a professional and Katie talks about that in here if you read this book like whether whether you've never been to therapy before or you've had a bad experience with therapy but you need therapy like get this book it will help you feel more comfortable you'll you'll understand it a little bit more she has tips and advice if you feel that therapy is not working and she also like talks about some like journaling exercises and some coping skills for in this book so like this is a very good book like if you are watching this video and you're part of my audience like I do think you should go out and get this book either like the the physical copy or it's actually on the kindle like my book and it's on the audible version as well but anyways I would love to know all all of your thoughts down below like just on therapy in general like have you had good bad experiences or anything like that like let me know talk to me or or let me know if you're a subscriber to Katie Morton how many of my fans are Katie Morton fans and how many of you think that Katie Morton should tweet at me and we should do a collab together let me know down in the comments anyway 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 huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and in case you didn't know I have a brand new book out over on the amazon store as well but both the books will be linked down below check them out all right thanks again for watching I'll see you next time