Cody’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2019)

Cody’s comments from the fyevibesperiod6 group.

Milo wrote: "1. So far, I still love this book. I'm only 45 pages in, and I have a lot of reading to do, but it has already been very interesting. One of the passages that encompasses the book well is in a sect..." Im still in the begenning of my book an it is also ery good, both of our books talk a lot about shame and how to handle it and i think both of our books are made by Brene brown?

1)"We know how to eat healthy.We also know how to make good choices with our money.We know how to take care of our emotional needs.We know all of this yet.... we are the most obese, medicated, addicted and in debt american's ever." We know about all of these things and we know how to take care of them but were struggling like never before. The reason is because we dont talk about the things that get in the way of doing what we know is best for us.

2) You have to know your own story and understand your own experience to discover who you are and to establish YOUR voice. We pretend that things are fine and try to focus on others and that regulates ourselves or we freeze up for awhile and take in experiences that happen to regulate ourselves. People who are close to us and deserve to hear our story help boost our motivation and connection with those people boost our motivation and that its harder to walk through our story alone and talking about it to just anyone rather than talking about it to someone who we deeply trust. Most social awareness comes visually and that isn't a bad thing but we can't judge people from just their appearance so we have to befriend those who we socially judge. If we don't talk about our problems they will never be solved so opening up and talking about your close peers allows us to let go of keeping our story a secret, and trying to hide our stories by putting on fake emotions is the way we destroy the relationships we have.

3)My opinion on this book is that it digs deep into me and reminds me of who i am and how i can let my story be known. People who have lost themselves should read this book because it reminded me of who truly am.

4) One important lesson i have learned is that there's types of friends who are just there to up-size you or feed off of your true self because they are in need of help and rather bring you down with them instead of going down themselves. A second lesson i learned is that shame is something that is very hard to concur in my book it states "shame is often referred to as the swampland of the soul" the book also says "the swampland is an important place to visit but you shouldn't stay there." You don't want to live off of your shame you want to walk through i and make it our the other side. The third lesson i learned is that society and our peers keep us afloat in the world and they feed off of our strengths and we feed off of theirs this is what the book calls connection. We are all connected through this energy loop that feeds off of each other and that were hardwired for connection and our relationships shape our biology and experiences.

Matthew wrote: "A) I enjoy the book well so far because it is teaching you how to introduce yourself to people. It is easy to read and fun.

What does it tell you about introducing to yourself to people and how is this useful to you? And how does it teach you to be comfortable with introducing yourself?

Davani wrote: "A. I like my book so far, she speaks a lot of encouraging words. She talks about personal experiences with her self esteem and how people use the word "pretty" to categorize others.

How else would we tell people apart from each other if we didnt categorize them? And how did her self esteem impact her categorizing herself?

Missy wrote: "a. The book so far is going well. I feel interested enough to where I won't feel forced to read and annotate. I like it because the book is uplifting and gives me a positive mindset.

My book gives me a positive mindset but somewhat i do feel forced to read and annotate because its opening up my mind to things that i have always tried to ignore like accepting the fear of my pain.

Norah wrote: "but nobody abuses us like we abuse ourselves..."

This passage is very impactful because we as teenagers always criticize ourselves and look at ourselves negatively. Whenever i have a grade below a B i go straight to criticizing myself instead of thinking ways to get over the grade and how i will fix it.

Milo wrote: "a. So far, I do actually like this book. It gives interesting information in a new way, and it's written in a way that is easy for me to understand and process. My book by Brene brown is also written in a way that is easy to understand and my book has a ton of interesting information.

a) The book is pretty good, Brene uses her wrong doings to show us whats the right thing to do. Brene shows us how to use our imperfection to our advantage and how we should invite our fear in to overcome it.
B)Brene Brown states"The dig-deep button is a secret level of pushing through when we're exhausted and overwhelmed, and when there's too much to do and little time for self-care." This is impacting because i always use this constantly, almost everyday i have to dig-deep to find my motivation.
c) A thing that i find challenging about this book is accepting that we all have one these things. Such as being bad a communicating all though i know i'm bad at doing this to other people i don't want to accept it.
d)Brene Brown states "I tried to push back instant replay of me acting crazy, but i couldn't stop thinking about it. The shame storm was brewing." Brene lost her way of regulating herself and crumbled under her emotions, without her self regulation she can't motivate herself.

I want to learn how to be myself all the time and learn more about myself.I want to learn how to control my mental health and how to organize my emotional health. I want to learn how to identify what i'm feeling and express those feelings. I want to learn how to take care of people who are a hindrance to me and how i can still engage with them. I want to effectively use my gifts of imperfection and show others what i can do. Finally i want to learn to let go of the confrontation that other people give me.