JC reflects on Cadre's mission to welcome people into many pathways to wellness, explores community outreach and the difference between compassion and empathy, and reads from Mindful Work about helping in ways others actually need.
JC: Good morning, Cadre. If we care about the mission of Cadre, and that is showing the world that there's many pathways to wellness, then we need to always be thinking about the people who are not here yet. On Tuesdays, Betsy Hodges, Doctor Leslie Davis will be here talking about one on one relationship world.
The contrast between the two, compassion and empathy, is an important one. To be empathetic is to feel what other people are feeling; to be compassionate is to go, I don't want people to feel bad stuff. Consider the difference and a wonderful plug for Cadre.
I need somebody. Not just anybody. Help. You know, I need someone help. Good morning, Cadre. A little beatles to kick us in on this Tuesday. This could be the theme song of Cadre, couldn't it? An anthem, a proclamation that we all need a little bit of help. I do appreciate you being around Cadre. Hi, Chelsea. Nice to see you, my friend. Alright, that's a good place to pause. Well, happy Tuesday, everybody. My name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank. Thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now, right here.
This is Cadre today. A little opportunity for you to go. So, wait, what's Cadre? And you may be like, I've been here for a long time, JC. I've been here. I know it. Yeah. But if we care about Cadre, and if we care about the mission of Cadre, and that is showing the world that there's many pathways to wellness and inviting the world into a space where wellness and mental health is not something that is hard to find, then we need to always be thinking about the people who are not here yet. You may see on the title list, it says Cadre today and the outward facing click.
The outward facing click says that the longer you are here, the less it is about you and the more it is about the people that are not here yet. So that is what I am passionate about when it comes to community development or community growth, and that's kind of the sphere of conversation. On Tuesdays, Betsy Hodges will be here in about an hour, coming to us from DC, the District of Columbia, and at the top of the day, Doctor Leslie Davis will be here talking about that one on one relationship world, coming to us from St.
Louis. So I have a little reading to you today for you today from a really great book that, as you can tell, it's relatively worn in. I use a lot of tidbits from it. It's called mindful work by David Gellis. And when it comes down to it, so often, if you want to be helpful to those people around you, that's awesome. Level two, like, that's level one. Level one, want to be helpful. Level two is be helpful in ways that people need you to be helpful. This is a little passage from mindful work. Though oftentimes used synonymously in western culture, the contrast between the two, compassion and empathy, is an important one.
As the Dalai Lama explains, if you are walking along a trail and come along a person who is being crushed by a boulder, an empathetic reaction would result in you feeling the same sense of crushing suffocation and render you unable to help. The compassionate reaction would put you in the sufferers shoes thinking, this person must be experiencing horrible pain. So you're going to do everything in your power to remove the boulder and alleviate their suffering. I love that distinction. Sometimes we think, I need to be empathetic, I need to be empathetic.
Well, if you are empathetic, sometimes, you know, being empathetic is debilitating. To be empathetic is to feel what other people are feeling. To be compassionate is to go, I don't want people to feel bad stuff. I don't want people to experience bad things or inequitable things. So if you're looking at building community, my invitation for you today is to consider what people need from you. Do they need you to understand them? Do they need you to remove barriers? Do they need you to do both? They need you to do something else.
Consider the difference and a wonderful plug for Cadre. One of the things that people may need you to do today is to tell them about Cadre. How often in the world do you go, gosh, I know people who need help and I don't know how to help them. Tell them to download Cadre. Give them a community of professionals and peers who are creating resources and fostering a community to show the world that there are many pathways to wellness and placing it in their hands 24/7 every single day of the year. That's pretty cool, y'all.
We all need a little bit of help. Spread it around. We'll talk to you later, y'all. I'll be back tomorrow morning. As always, have a good one. Hey, I'm not that old help in any way. I've always needed a lot of help. Have a good one, y'all. Find the gentleman I open up.
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