JC Lippold leads a Friday session on grief and loss, discussing fresh grief and impending grief while highlighting hospice perspectives and reflections on supporting loved ones through end-of-life moments.
On Fridays, we talk about grief and loss. A good old bill Withers tune, you know, or maybe you don't. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity. It is a gift.
Grief and loss. That's what we talk about on Fridays. No one ever signs up to be in a grief chapter. How do you deal with grief that is in the moment? Today Rhys is going to be speaking about kind of that impending grief.
Maria: How often do we go through other chapters in our life alone that we shouldn't have to? She says that last stage, the dying part, is very lonely. She says Cadre is here as a resource to bring people into your life that you may need at any moment. Maria: Coming up tomorrow we have personal development day.
Well, happy Friday, everybody. It is officially 730 in the morning central standard time, so it's time for a little Cadre today. Per usual, we got a little music jiving and we'll go ahead and wait a moment so you can enjoy it. Sing along, y'all. We all have pain, we all have sorrow but if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow lean on me. We'll go through the chorus, y'all. Hey, Lily. Hey, Jules. Nice to see you on this Friday. Junk food junkie. Hey. Hey. No, I'll hit the pause. So, yeah, great tune, right?
And a tune that is almost kind of one of those songs that everybody, everybody knows or everybody's heard. And I think that's a great thing, right? Lean on me. A good old bill Withers tune, you know, or maybe you don't. On Fridays, we talk about grief and loss. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, tcroften, how are you? If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity. Opportunity to share some time and space with you. It is a gift.
Cadre. Today is an opportunity for you to get a little bite size of. Wait, so what do we do on this day or so? What's going on in the Cadre sphere? Grief and loss. That's what we talk about on Fridays. We have a wonderful, wonderful relationship with St. Cray Hospice, which helps people with a really, really powerful chapter of their lives. I listened to Sarah's livestream from last week. Sarah's part of the St. Croix hospice team, Risa is going to be going live today. But I encourage you to go ahead and check out Sarah's livestream from last week.
And you may be like, well, I'm not grieving right now. I haven't lost anybody or anything. The interesting thing at Cadre is we go, gosh, all of the things that help us be well are innately connected. So you may not be in a stage of grief right now. You may be. But first of all, grief, grief never ends. We move on with grief. We don't move on from grief. And number two, you never know. No one ever signs up to be in a grief chapter. No one ever signs up for any of the things that we deal with, with our mental health.
Life happens to us. Cadre helps life happen through us. So Sarah spoke about fresh grief. How do you deal with grief that is in the moment? Today Rhys is going to be speaking about kind of that impending grief, like grief is. Grief is going to be coming up. You're in a stage where you are supporting someone who you love, who is at the end of their life. Both of these conversations resonate with me. I'm curious how they resonate with you, because last night I had the opportunity to attend the premiere of a documentary which was about a woman named Judy.
And this documentary called Death is not giving up was interviews of Judy in the last couple months of her life, talking about and talking to medical professionals on how to support people as they enter the last stage of their life. And one of the things that Judy said, and it hit me like a lovely brick, is Judy said, the hardest part of dying is you have to do this chapter by yourself. People can support you in the process and move along with you. But that last stage, the dying part, is very lonely.
The cool thing is this Cadre was, was supporting this event. When I heard that, I was like, gosh, Judy's right. That last chapter is a very lonely chapter. But how often do we go through other chapters in our life alone that we shouldn't have to? But the way that the world's set up is we often go through a lot of things alone because people are afraid. They're uneducated. Hey, Maria. Nice to see you. They're unaware. They simply don't have the tools or the resources to support people who are going through a lot of stuff.
Or maybe we don't have the tools to support people as we're going through, as they're going through a lot of stuff. And by golly, what I told everybody in that room afterwards when I was telling them about Cadre was, you know, Judy's right. That last stage of life is one that we walk through by ourselves. But there are a lot of other chapters that we don't have to walk through by ourselves. And Cadre helps you not be alone in lots of those chapters. So I encourage you to share Cadre with people.
Share Cadre with those people who you may not know how to help, you may not know how to support, and you can go, you know what? Cadre is here as a resource to bring people into your life that you may need at any moment. Junk food Junkie says, I'm still grieving the loss of my mom last October, but it's getting less as time goes on, but hits me out of the blue when not expected. I've been in grief counseling here at the hospice of Chesapeake. It has helped me greatly learn to deal with my grief moments.
Jungfu, junkie, thanks for sharing. And like, you just wonderfully pointed out, grief isn't something that we get done with. No grief. Grief. Grief is something we carry forever. The woman who was supporting Judy, the focus of this documentary, her name is Kelly. And Kelly always says is grief is the evidence of love. If you love someone, sooner or later you are going to have the evidence that is grief. And the way that you tell that person that they're still in your life, that you still love them, is that you grieve them.
And I love how Jungfu Junki said that this counseling has helped Jungfu Junkie learn to deal. It has helped you move forward and to continue to live. That's what we're doing here at Cadre, y'all. Who needs, even though they may not understand why they need, or when they will need a community like this of professionals and peers who are bringing resources and moments of conversation to show you that there are many ways to be. Well, Cadre is here. And even though some chapters are lonely ones, most of them don't have to be.
Y'all have a great Friday. You'll see Risa later on today from St. Croix Hospice. And then it's the weekend, y'all. Coming up tomorrow we have personal development day. Such a great lineup. And Sunday we talk about self care. When are you going to tune in next? You may not know. You may not even need to plan it out. But sooner or later, you're going to be able to call on Cadre when you need a hand because we all need somebody to lean on. Sing it, y'all. I just might have a problem that you'd understand.
We all need somebody to lean on peace, y'all. When you're not strong.
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