The Thin Space

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy, happy Sunday. And even if it's not a happy Sunday, that's okay, too. My name is JC Lippold, and on Sundays we talk about self care, the practice of doing things for you in a world where it's so easy to do things for anything and everything else. And I think the other beautiful thing about self care is it's doing things for you that you actually feel like you need and crave, rather than the world saying you need to do these things to be full. Morning, Cindy. Hey, Chris.

So my name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. It really is a highlight of my existence to get to come on here and know that you are here as well. Not because I have something to give and you have something to receive, but because we all have something to gain from spending time with each other. Beezobitz, noofy lover sue. Nice to see y'all. We got quite the. Quite the crew here this Sunday morning. So on Sundays, I talk about the idea of thin space, or maybe another way to think about it is the space in between.

The space between everything that has been and everything that will be. And any other time when we feel like we're kind of on that bridge, or maybe there isn't a bridge and we're 1ft on one side of the cliff and 1ft on the other. In those moments where transition is happening, where there's maybe. There's maybe an opportunity to be where you are with what you got. So today I want to tell a story on Thursday, this week, I was at my therapist. It's a newer therapist to me. Her name's Jill. She's wonderful.

And she raised the question about, how do I do in moments of uncertainty, moments where there's a lot of unanswered questions going on. And my answer was Jill. I actually think I do pretty good in moments of uncertainty, and I kind of crave moments of uncertainty. I place myself in moments of not knowing or not having. And I've been thinking about that because all of that is true. What about you? How do you do with uncertainty? And then I'll tell you kind of the realization that I had. But what's your relationship with the uncertain?

Is it a friendly foe? Is it a place that you try to avoid? Or is it a place that you seek? Is uncertainty something that sticks with you, that even when maybe you feel like things are pretty concrete, that you go, oh, but maybe they're not. Maybe they're not. Think about it. And if you're like, ugh. Uncertainty by nature isn't good. It isn't comfortable. The next part of this story, I think, will offer some nourishment and some support. I thought back to me kind of going like Duhdeh. Jill, I'm awesome at uncertainty.

Cindy says my life is uncertain daily with husband who has Alzheimer's. Cindy, thinking about you and your husband right now and always. But I love how you said that. You didn't say, hey, yay, uncertainty or boo, uncertainty. You said, my life is uncertain, and you go with the flow. Hey, Jules. Good morning. My friend Jules. Sidebar the place where you went to the sound bath with Jean. I used to teach there all the time, so it's so funny that I saw Jean sharing pictures of the space and you sharing pictures of the space.

I was like, oh, I know that place. But, Cindy, you walked right where my brain walked. The question of how are you with uncertainty, I think, is maybe not the question that hits the needle on the head of or the nail on the head. The question is, there are uncertain moments of life. The end. What do we do when we exist in that way? Uncertainty is life. And if moments, we go, ah, I am certain that life is this. Are we really? It's okay to go. It's like I am certain right now and to live in that truth.

But in reality, there's uncertainty in life and in the scope of thin space. Nuzzling into the uncertainty for moments is a really good way to find yourself present, to find yourself uncomfortable, to find yourself not taking full breaths, to find yourself going, ah, I don't want to be in this moment forever. It's a really, really healthy place to go. I often say on Saturdays when we talk about enoughness, that enoughness very rarely feels like it. Meaning if we think that enoughness is like a, ooh, I love enoughness.

Enoughness feels good. I go, no, we can love enoughness and also know that enoughness doesn't feel all that great. We're beings who often want more than enoughness. We want to be better than enough. So with that being said, even though enough is awesome, enough may not feel awesome. Thin space the thin space is magical in what it can do for how we feel and how we see and how we process. And at the same time, the thin space may not feel all that great when we are there. I'm in a space of uncertainty, being in the thin spaces, knowing that and accepting the truth of that.

So if you are like, gosh, I can't get to a good place today. Be there. If you know that you can't get to x, B, and Y. If you know that today isn't a good day, how about rather than trying to fix today, you be in the moment, knowing that today isn't a good day? And there are good things to find even in the not good. Because where you are is where you are, y'all. Let that be your nourishment right now. If you are in the uncertain, and if you are in the. If you are in the certain, be there too. So, y'all, we know that every single day, there's friendly, familiar faces that are gonna bop into the Cadre sphere.

And I'm speaking about your faces. And if we've shared time together before, maybe I'm a familiar face. But a great way to be in that uncertainty is to invite other people into it right here. So, y'all, I hope you have a great rest of your Sunday. And even if you don't, that's okay, too. We'll talk to you later.