Embrace Your Weird

Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

By: Felicia Day

Narrated by: Felicia Day

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's Summary

In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times best-selling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.

Including Felicia’s personal stories and hard-won wisdom, Embrace Your Weird offers:

• Entertaining and revelatory exercises that empower you to be fearless, so you can rediscover the things that bring you joy, and crack your imagination wide open
• Unique techniques to vanquish enemies of creativity like: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism, and jealousy
• Tips to cultivate a creative community
• Space to explore and get your neurons firing

Whether you enjoy writing, baking, painting, podcasting, playing music, or have yet to uncover your favorite creative outlet, Embrace Your Weird will help you unlock the power of self-expression. Get motivated. Get creative. Get weird. 

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Felicia Day (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio

Embrace This Book!

Whether you’re already a fan of Felicia Day or not, this book is sure to be a delight - the audiobook especially so, thanks to the author’s engaging performance as reader. In fact, if you’re torn between the physical book and the audiobook, I highly suggest opting for the audiobook. It comes with a 42-page printable PDF of activities and illustrations referenced throughout the book, and it is suggested that you keep a notebook handy for some exercises.
So, what exactly is this book? It’s an enthusiastic guide to exploring your creative side, not being bogged down by self-doubt or criticism, feeling proud of the things you make, and never giving up. And it’s read so incredibly enthusiastically, that it makes you want to get out there and do!
I myself went straight through without actually doing the activities/exercises, knowing that I will be giving this a second listen, at which time I will be doing them. But I could even see myself giving it further listens down the road, as its whole approach is like a friend you can turn to when you’re in a creative rut.
The author’s narrative style is casual, often comical, and endlessly charming, and the information she conveys is well-researched, expertly assembled, and endlessly helpful at sparking (and maintaining) creativity, and feeling good about yourself. It’s clear that she put a lot of time, effort, and heart into this book, and I cannot imagine it being any better than it is.

Great, but the audiobook isn’t ideal.

As much as I love Felicia Day’s frenetic narration and enthusiasm, this is a workbook and the pdf is necessary if you don’t have the paperback. It’s not the sort of book you listen to while driving or at the gym, so it really makes more sense to read a hard copy.

Self help for embracing your weirdness

I say this lovingly because I was *smitten* with this book right from the introduction. This journal + quest + finding yourself journey is a MUST for anyone looking for the next step in life, the next "how do I start" mission, the next, " I really want to..." - if you are stuck, not sure where to begin or plague yourself with self doubt... stop it! Pick up this book or do the audio, because Felicia is hilarious and I could listen to her all day and now I want to be her bff even more, and stop beating yourself up! EMBRACE YOUR WEIRD YA WEIRDO and go forth into the world knowing you are awesome and whatever it is that you want to do next, is needed. I loved this book even if I didn't qpply all the excercises now, I know I will refer to this one often! This is the ultimate self help book served up nerd style. You will not regret!

Not my thing

But I applaud her efforts. She’s cute. Kind of a stand up in print. Still might be better read than listened to. There were so many suggested exercises that were lost by listening during commute.

Inspriring - Awesome! Will share with my 10yr old!

Loved it. This book has inspired me to create more and more. I listened to it and did not complete the pdf of exercises, I plan to go through it with my 10 yr old. Felicia Day explains away issues I have felt all of my life. it has even given me a newfound courage to join a book club and tell them that I I pretty much only listen to audiobooks - it's the way that I consume books. That is what I am drawn to and should stand up for myself instead of being a closet audiobook listener. ha!

disapointed

I head this book through audible, where it was read by Felicia her self, and that might have influenced my opinion.

This is a book where Felicia Day is rambling on and regurgitating motivational posters and self-help ideas. I got halfway through the book, and I felt that the amount of original thoughts was to low to have paid the full price for this book.

I loved "you are never wierd on the internet" but I don't like this one

Fantastic

Loved the enthusiasm and brilliant ways to bring out the fun in life! Great listen, you WON'T be bored.

New fan of this author

Felicia Day, previously unknown to me (sorry!), is a comedic and creative genius. What a fun audio book. Now I need to listen to it again, PDF in hand this time. Great ideas. Inspiring and encouraging. And I’d pay money to see her do stand-up. Hilarious.

Very inspirational!

Love Felicia Day! This book is very positive and uplifting. Can't wait to share.

Inspiring and Readily Applicable

I wasn't sure what to expect from this audiobook when I got it, but I did enjoy Felicia's autobiography as an audiobook, so I figured this would be fun. But wow, a book literally filled with creativity prompts and encouragement may be EXACTLY what a lot of us need to get out of our creative ruts.

Once I got started, I was worried that this would be overly fluffy or with no real direction. But instead, I really appreciated all the different exercises Felicia crammed into this book and now I need to listen to this title a few more times just to document all of them and figure out which ones I like the most or may even consider doing on a regular basis.

It's a charming title and quite the creative firestarter and more creatives, whether you're a writer, game designer, or visual artist, can totally benefit from this. Be weird. Let your crazy out into the world. I'll be right there with you struggling to do the same thing.