A while back, when we were visiting a nearby town that has bookstores (I can’t believe I live in a town that doesn’t have a single bookstore and I have to drive 80+ miles one-way to visit a bookstore) I asked the owner of the independent bookstore if they had a copy of Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. He said they didn’t have a copy in stock but would order one and have it shipped to me. (Independent bookstores FTW!)
I can’t really put into words how much I am enjoying this book. Or how it’s helped me embrace (re-embrace) my own nerdy-ness and geekiness.
More importantly, Wil’s vulnerability and frankness, has helped me understand the need to own your mental health, and how even though we may be able to understand in a completely rational way the things we need to do to be kinder to ourselves when our brains aren’t cooperative, I have to actually step across the fear threshold and do the work, and that’s hard. And it’s okay to admit that.
So thanks, Wil, for your book. For a lot of reasons.
