Cadre Today

Oh, hey there, Cadre. How are you? I hope you're good. I always hope you're good. And it's okay if you're not good, too. I'll wait a little bit here for people to jump into the Cadre sphere to open that wonderful door into this world where there people. There are people who are excited, ready, and expecting to listen. Hey, Lori. Hi, Heidi. Nice to see you two. Oh, my gosh. And then all of a sudden, a bunch of people come running in. Hi, everybody. Nice to see you. Your names are flying by. I cannot catch them all.

There's a Jules. Hi, Jules. Well, if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend a little time with you, Miss Stafford. Nice to see you. Cwk heals. Oh, my gosh. I recognize that name. Amy. Cindy Joy. Oh, my. What a crew this morning. Well, if we haven't shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to do so. My name is JC. It is a gift to spend time with you, and if that makes you a little uncomfortable, to know that I'm okay with that.

This is Cadre today, every single day, I jump into the Cadre sphere, this world of professionals and peers creating resources and community to show you that there's lots of ways to wellness. And I jump in to make sure that we never go, oh, everybody knows what Cadre is, because then we stop growing. Then we stop being what we are. So I come in to give you a little bit of insight as to what we're doing in the Cadre world. Well, on Wednesdays, we talk all things mental health. But you go, oh. So on Wednesdays is the day, if I'm here because of my mental health, Wednesday is the day I need to be here.

These buckets that we have, like, mental health on Wednesday. That sounds like a big bucket, right? Yeah, it is. And here's the cool thing. Everybody's got all the stuff. Tomorrow, Thursday, we talk caregiving, right? There's 55 million unpaid caregivers in the United states. Where do we go? We go here. Fridays, we talk about grief and loss. Guess what? No one ever signs up to grieve. To lose. But as my friend Kelly says, grieving is the sign, the indicator of loving, right? If we love, we will grieve.

So where do you go when all of a sudden you're going, like, I want some conversation or perspective on grief right here. But like I said, on Wednesdays, we talk mental health. So you have a lineup of. Of therapists and counselors and social workers, professionals, and also peers, people who are living in the reality of their mental health. Stuff. Stuff. Right. So coming up today, well, before me, you had doctor Charryse coming to you from the east coast. You'll see Doctor Christina coming up in a little bit, the wonderful Steve and Amelia talking about kind of secular minded mindfulness.

And then later today, you have paella, you have Anila. Who am I forgetting? You have, coming from the west coast, you have Rachel Havocost wrapping up the day. But the last couple of weeks on Cadre today, I've been spending my time going, huh? I want to learn from one of these wonderful contributors. And when I learned from a contributor in Cadre, for me to reflect that back is another way that Cadre works. How often do we go, wow, I'm not filling my cup. I'm not filling my funnel. So then it's really hard to put things back out.

So this morning I watched Aneela's last livestream from a couple of weeks ago, and it was wonderful. Anila, who will be on later this afternoon, shared that her husband was out of town and then came back and came back with COVID So all of a sudden, single parenting into longer single parenting. She said old Anila would have grinded through and done all the things and made sure nothing fell apart. Current, Aneela said, and this is one of my favorite words, and I'll use it all day long. I let myself fill in the blank.

I let myself do less. I let the kids stay up late, and we played a game upstairs, so they got more of me and I got more of them. The act of letting, how often do you let yourself let? That's what I got from Aneela today. And the cool thing is I messaged Anila. I'm like, anila, I'm gonna talk about you this morning on Cadre today. And then all of a sudden, I was like, and, Aneela, your message of letting reminded me of one of my two favorite books. It's called essentialism by a wonderful author named Greg McKeon, who has a great podcast.

And all of a sudden, these connections started happening. So just as Wednesday is mental health day, guess what? That is a big bucket that has rivers and tributaries to other big buckets that remind us that the human experience is whole. You are whole when you are developing professionally or personally. Monday and Saturday when you are flexing your self care muscles. Sunday when you're building community and relationships. Tuesday when you're thinking about your mental health. Wednesday when you are in a state of grief.

Friday when you are caregiving, Thursday. All of these little identities that you carry with you are connected to the best identity that you have, and that is you. That is you being whole. So guess what? That's Cadre today. That's Cadre every day. And for all you who just jumped in, you made my day. How does it feel to know you're making someone's day? How often do you feel like you are making someone's day? How hard is it for you to think of ways that you can maybe positively impact the world? Well, guess what?

You log into Cadre, and by your name. Flicking in helps people see that they are part of a bigger whole. They see names, they see letters, they go, oh, my gosh, my people are here. Cadre definition. A special group of people with a special intention. You are each other's Cadre. Y'all get ready for a great lineup. We'll talk to you later.