Monday Motivation

Good morning, Cadre crew. Gosh, what a great day. It's beautiful here in Minnesota. We have a little bit of this, the haze that's going on from the Canada wildfires. But still, we'll take it. Beautiful week. It's going to get a little bit hot here in Minnesota. But, you know, this morning, I just want to tell you that it's okay to be happy and sad in the same breath. Right? It's really okay to be happy and sad in the same breath. And I'm going to give you two examples for myself. Number one, I was up north visiting my father in law this weekend, right?

So I was up north visiting my father in law and my six year old son, Cameron was dancing with some 90 year old women at the nursing home during their happy hour where they were playing harmonica, right? So they had some harmonica. Good morning, Katie. They had some harmonica going on. They call it their happy hour time, where somebody plays some music for the elderly folks. And it's a lot of individuals congregate in the middle. And my little six year old Cameron goes running out, literally running out.

And he's dancing. He's pretending like he's doing some sort of a jig in completely. Like, we didn't tell him to do this, nothing like this. He just went out and did it. Good morning, junk food junkie. Love you. It's always so good to see you on the lives. You're amazing. But my little six year old Cameron goes out and then finally he's grabbing with each one of his hands two gals in wheelchairs, and he's like spinning them around and he's going like, from side to side to side. And I was just like, gosh, the quiet confidence.

The quiet confidence of a six year old that goes out there and just dance and who cares who's watching? It could care less what people thought of you. But he just went out there and did it. And quite frankly, the 90 year olds, too. Right? So just how, you know, how happy and joyous they were knowing you're in a nursing home, you know, as you get to the end of your life, but enjoying that moment and happy hour, it was, it was just, it was absolutely amazing. So that was one of those things that made me so happy.

It's just an incredible. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Heidi. Nicole. But I also wanted to share something that made me really sad. Right. Again. So what I'm trying to tell you is it's okay to have feelings both ways on the pendulum in one day. Right. To be very very happy and very, very sad. So we started our weekly AA meeting here at Cadre. It's been going for about five or six weeks now. And the first meeting, you know, again, we had, you know, five or six individuals that showed up.

And then it's kind of grown and went down and grown over the course of the last several weeks now. But one of the individuals that was on our very first meeting, overdose, and he's no longer with us. And so, you know, again, you know, addiction, I just can't stress it enough. You know, addiction is just so real. And, you know, what we're dealing with, with the opioid epidemic today is there is. There's absolutely no middle ground. It is jail, incarceration, death, or finding a way to live in recovery or get clean.

So we just have to remember to give people grace, throw the kitchen sink at individuals, any which way, shape, or form that we can do to help and be there to support one another. So, again, what I wanted to try to tell everybody here is you could be so happy and so sad, literally in the same breath. And, you know, that's kind of how I felt this weekend. And I know there's other individuals out here that are obviously familiar with what's going on with the opioid epidemic and have been touched by it.

Maybe it's with their family, extended family, coworkers, you name it, and do everything you can to lean into those folks. Do everything you can to support. Don't give up. Be helpful, be there for them. And it's just too bad. This individual has just had such a bright light of energy that, you know, communicated and talked to at the meeting. You know, now he's just no longer with us today, you know, in five short weeks. So, you know, my heart hurts. My heart really hurts for that. And. And I'm sure there's a lot of individuals, their heart hurts when it comes to addiction and what's been going on in our world.

So, yeah, that one just really, just really, just really hurts. So over the weekend. So. But with that being said, that's what we're here to do. That's what we're here to try to help. That's. We're here to try to cope through, get through the grief or overcome. So whatever you're going through in this life, you know, it's our job here at Cadre to try to support you in whichever transformation that may be a part of, either directly or indirectly. But let's. Let's help one another. Let's be here for one another.

We have an amazing live coming up here momentarily with, with Katie Donovan. You know, she's went through a lot with her daughter and she wrote this mother's addiction journey journal blog, and it's remarkable, just like she is. So please, please, if you have an opportunity to listen into her live and some of the things that she's dealing with, either from her familiar based perspective or lived experiences, it is beautiful storytelling and how she tells it and how important it is. Our Tuesdays are always packed.

So please, please join into our live streams. Our Tuesdays are amazing. Wednesdays is always our support group. Anybody can join at any given time. It's just to let things off your chest and share. So if there's anything that you'd ever want to share with anybody on Wednesdays, you can always just log into our Zoom meeting. It's our support group on Thursdays, we're going to have another live and then with Nick. Take a walk with Nick and then. Yeah, so you. You just. There's a lot going on this week from a live based perspective.

I think we have twelve lives scheduled, so please hop into any and all. There might be something that resonates you, with you or otherwise. Okay? But with that being said, have an amazing week, y'all. We do what we do for you. We do what, we do it for your families. We do what we do for our mental health. We do what we do for our overall wellness. We're here to support one another. That's why we exist. This is your community. This is our community. Let's be good to one another. Let's share and love each other up.

If there's anything that we can do to help and support in any way, shape or form that's different than what we already do, we would love your feedback. Please either shake the phone or send it to feedback at helpersupportadre IO again, Cadre IO. And we'd love that information to come to our eyes so we can do what we can do to continue to be the best platform for you. Have an amazing week, everybody. And always remember, it's okay to be happy and sad in the same breath. So take care of y'all. Have a wonderful week.

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