Wellness Rewrite

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy what? Tuesday evening. I hope you are well. My name is JC. If we've never shared a moment together before, thanks for spending some time with me. Today. We're going to start a Tuesday evening live around the idea of. Of rewriting wellness. What I mean by that is, each week we'll take a term, an idea, a common used word, and maybe reframe it, put it into a perspective that is more pluralistic, meaning it can mean what it is, happy and healthy for each and every person, and in doing so, allow you to truly become the one at the center of your wellness reality.

I want to say wellness journey, because no matter where you are, it is. It's your reality. Right where you are, there's an opportunity to be well right now. This is Hamilton. Hamilton's hanging out with us. Hey, jungfood junkie. I hope you are having a good night. Shannon, nice to see you, my friend. To raise up kind of a benefit of this Cadre. Cadre means a special group of people with a special intention. Cadre is bringing you wonderful content, but it's also bringing you a community that will inspire things, that will support you through things.

Shannon here offered this idea. I asked the question. I'm like, hey, Shannon, what would you like to see me do a live on? And Shannon said, ah, do a wellness rewrite. Hey there, Christine. Hope you are well, my friend. Cadre loves you as well, because guess what? Saying that you love Cadre in this group, you are a part of this group. So that's a self love statement right there, my friend. So, wellness rewrites. I'll start by saying this every single week. Words are vessels. Words are vessels. They're an empty.

They're like this water bottle, right? This is only a water bottle if there's water in it. If there's no water in it, it's a bottle. If there's mountain dew in it, it's a mountain dew bottle. Words are the same meaning. It's what you put in the word that has the value. So this week, let's talk about the vessel wellness. No better place to start if we're going to talk about wellness rewrite and the word wellness itself. Recently, I was in a room full of people for a few days talking about wellness.

There was people who are passionate about certain topics, educated and trained in certain modalities, beliefs, pathways, people sharing from their experience. But all of the time spent was around the idea, the concept of wellness. There was a time at the end of a day where many people had presented where I had the opportunity to ask everybody in attendance, hey, did you agree with everything that everybody shared today? People are talking about wellness and they asked the question, did you agree with what everybody shared around the idea of wellness today?

About two and a half people raised their hands and I was like, really? Because I've disagreed with things that everybody has said today. And I went on to make the point that wellness, very much within our culture, is set up to be a, there's a pathway to wellness and every other pathway is a way to, to not wellness. I think that's false. Our pathway to wellness individually is a rather specific one, a rather unique one. And sometimes it may feel like a rather lonely one for you to do what is well and needed for your healthy mind, healthy heart, healthy body, healthy spiritual, healthy relationships, healthy vocation, healthy job.

You may need to do things that are very, very unique to you. So with that, what is wellness for you? I'm quiet on purpose for a moment because that's, I think, the first step to being well, to listen to that little voice inside. Shannon says, taking care of myself. That's, that's loud. That's a, that's a bold act. Junk food. Junk. You say I don't go live, but I do post in the community feed every Tuesday. My posts are titled Tuesday's food for thought. Junk food junkie, how does it make you feel to share, to share your food for thought?

I love and you just did it right there. Junk food junkie. I start by loving myself first and foremost. Every pool of, of thought, of kind of religion, of idea, of pathways to enlightenment and fullness. Start with that idea. Right. The golden rule. No matter what tradition it is. Hey. The way that we love others is the way that we love ourselves. Christine says, staying healthy, y'all. I'm really proud of you for sharing how you look at your wellness, ownership and journey. The world will tell you, hey, here's what you need to do.

Here's what you need to eat, here's how you need to move, here's what you need to do every day. And I think sometimes there's really good intention behind those pathways. People want to help other people, but I'll offer my thought, my thought in what does wellness look like? Wellness connects us to our intuition. I define intuition as the part of our being that says, hey, do that. That will feel good and right. All the dogs are coming and saying hi today. So you saw Hamilton before. He's, he's the old, he's the old boy.

This is baby Willow. Baby Willow just had her gotcha day. She's about one and a half. Maybe Jefferson will come and say hi, too. But I wanted to introduce everybody who's on the call tonight back to intuition. Your intuition is the part of your being that says, hey, do that. That will feel good and will make sense to all that we are. It's the voice that is inside of you that is always on your side. That voice will say things like, eat some tacos right now. Listen to that song that reminds you of that person that you miss right now.

Hey, get outside right now. Hey, raise your voice right now as the. The one saying the thing that's different than everybody else. What if we listen to that voice, which is a really hard thing to do all the time, or if we kept coming back to that voice and all of a sudden there is 8 billion people on this planet all listening to that intuitive voice? I think that would be the collective wellness kind of aha. But for you right now, I had Jungfu junkie saying, it feels great to share my experiences and knowledge of things, to help others and to teach others that your experiences, your knowledge, your internal drive and understanding has a lot of value for your wellness and teaches people to listen to theirs.

So we're going to talk about a lot of words here on Tuesday nights, words that we may go, oh, yeah, I hear that word all the time. Then I'll go, what does it mean? I'll do my best to step on the outside and go add base, non culturally affected. It probably means this. I encourage you to do what you've done tonight. Shannon, junk food junkie. Chris, make sure I didn't miss anybody else rewrite your wellness to actually bring you to a state of being. Well, because I think what you're going to see here at Cadre is you're going to see people saying a lot of different things.

Maybe not a lot of things, but you're going to see people being like, well, JC, you said this and Shannon said this, or Luke said this, Ronna said this, or da da da da da da da. Yeah, what do you do with it? It's all coming from that collective care for other people. At the end of the day, wellness is your journey. Unique, specific, responsive, and, yeah, sometimes kind of lonely. How wonderful that we have this Cadre sphere where even if you are walking your lonely path, you know, there's a lot of people right here to say, hey, where are you going?

Hey, how you doing today? That's the focus, that's the opportunity, that's our drive. Here at Cadre, the hardest thing for anyone is a listen to their internal echo that tells them to try to try to find what is good for you. Junk food junkie. I'm going to leave it with your teaching for tonight. I'm going to take that and let that be what nourishes me for the rest of the day in my wellness journey. Everybody have a great rest of the evening or whatever time of the day it is for you. And I hope to see you soon.

But in the meantime, you are surrounded in this Cadre sphere by many special people with a special intention. That is who we are. That is what we do. Have a good night. Peace.