Wellness Rewrite

Well, hey there, Cadre JC here. And I hope you're having a really good day. And if you're not, that's okay, too. I think here at Cadre, one of the things that we are doing is normalizing what your life looks like, a bed of nickel. That your life looks pretty real. Some days it looks better than others. Some days it seems like you're going in a direction that you have planned out. Other days, it doesn't. Cadre is very much working very hard to make wellness and mental health look like, what your best efforts to think about your well being and your overall mental health, what they look like.

So then you can take hold of where they are. Know that that's good enough for right now and move it forward. Hey, speak wonder. Nice to see you, my friend. So this is wellness rewrite. It's a time when I hop on to maybe take an idea. Hey, Luke. Happy, happy Tuesday evening. To take a look at something that we maybe hear is really easy in the wellness journey and maybe define it more in realistic terms. Speak wonder. Happy birthday, my friend. Speak wonder. Let me know if it'd be okay to sing happy birthday to you.

I would love to do that. Hey, Chris. Nice to see you, my friend. So today I want to talk about the idea of progression. It's come up quite a bit in conversations. Luke and I were talking about it yesterday, but the idea that when we start to take care of ourselves, that all of a sudden we get a little bit better every day. Right? If where we are right now, all we have to do is do a little bit every day and things, things get better. That sounds pretty great. It also sounds pretty easy until we look at life.

Speak wonder. Chris, Luke, and curious. When you have for an invested amount of time attempted to care about yourself, have things gotten better every day? I know for me that things haven't. Some days are better, some days are worse. Some days are forward, some days are backwards. And that's the magic. Some days forward, some days backwards. That's the dance. You maybe have heard me say this before. I think progression is awesome. I think regression is awesome too. I think stagnant is when things get scary.

Stagnants is us giving up. Stagnants is us thinking there's nothing else that we can do. Stagnant is putting our head in the ground and hiding from reality. Progression is us putting our best effort forward. Progression is us making gains, getting stronger, getting clearer, learning. Regression is us maybe working too hard, giving too much, losing, failing. These are signs that you try these are signs that you're doing the work. We sing songs and write poems about the tree in all of its seasons, when it's sprouting, when it's growing, when it's full in summer, we sing beautiful songs about the leaves changing colors and the ambers and the browns and the golds and the leaves falling down.

We walk in the crispness of winter when everything is perceived to be dead and hibernating constantly in evolution and progression and regression in this cyclical fashion. Yet I don't know if we do a great job of showing the beauty of the fallback in our own lives, in progression. So here's a voice saying, if you moved forward today, way to go. If you move backwards today, hey, we see you. We see you working. We see you trying. We see you fighting on behalf of you and everything that benefits through and from you.

And you know what? If you get to those stagnant stages of life as well, I think that's part of the puzzle. It doesn't feel good. You don't stay there for very long, because life is a verb. Life is an evolution. It's not a noun. It's constantly changing. I had a two hour coffee with a friend of mine who has been battling the cancer for the past 14 months. And this is a superhuman, like, one of the most high performing, phenomenal, world changing humans that I know. And as they've been battling breast cancer, has still continued to do that.

Today, this person decided they need to take a three month leave of absence from work, gotten to a place where all of that strength, all of that capacity, all of that reality. And this person has been self caring and growing and learning like. Like a king of kings, queen of queens. But reality is unraveled to a place where they need to stop. This person is excited to be in this stage of awareness, of regression, of saying, I'm going to be doing less, because right now, that is the part of my magic, that's the part of my journey that I need to live right now.

How cool that we can come here in the Cadre sphere at 637 central time or eastern standard Time. Speak wonder, and go, ah. Life has impacted us. Right? I got impacted by this story, and now you're being impacted by it. And as you say, right, speak wonder. Life is a mixed result. Luke says it's impossible to constantly be in progression. Chris says that is so true. Speak wonder talks about the beauty of the in betweens. We're influencing one another, y'all. You are influencing and being influenced by people who are attempting to make life look like life.

Life, the wellness journey, the mental health journey is filled with you being on your side and knowing that other people are as well. So how wonderfully weird from a cultural sense that right now we can go ahead and celebrate a birthday, we can look at the progression of speak, wonder. Another day, another year lived and go right now, this day of progression. It's a sign that we're doing the thing. Speak, wonder. We love you being a part of these pop up conversations. So wherever you are right now, speak, wonder.

Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, dear speak, wonder, happy birthday to you Chris. We heard you, Luke. We heard you, y'all. Whether today is a day of progression, a day of regression, or by golly, that uncomfortable stagnants, you're here. You are enough and we are right here with you. Have a great rest of your day. We'll see you soon.