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Good morning, everybody. How are you? I hope you are good. If you tune in regularly to Cadre today, you kind of start saying all the things I say along with me, like, hey, I hope you're good, but if you're not good, that's okay, too. Cadre is a place where you can be wherever you are, wherever you are, whenever you are. That's the point. Cadre is a community of people that is fostered by professionals and peers, providing resources to kind of web together a community, showing the world that there are.

Here's the part I'm going to focus on today, many ways to being well so often on Cadre today, I start with a little bit of music in the background, but a lot of times it's recognizable. You may be like, that was kind of cool music, but I don't know what it was. It was an instrumental piece by Theodore Shapiro. Theodore writes a lot of instrumental pieces for movie scores I'm looking through. So, like, St. Vincent, starring Bill Murray, secret life of Walter Mitte. You know, those. Those types of movies, you know, songs that are written to help people journey down the road.

The interesting thing about mental health, that's what we talk about on Wednesdays in the Cadre sphere. Wednesdays is mental health day so often with all things health, but especially mental health, I think. Anila, nice to see you. So often with mental health is people who care about us, and it's important to say people who care about us, and also people who may not care about us, people who have opinions. Whenever we're struggling with something, dealing with something, we share something, people often offer us one path, oh, well, you need to do this.

Or they offer us two paths. Like, let's say you are a big fan of western medicine. They may be a big fan of not western medicine. So if you're western medicining, they may go, oh, have you tried not western medicining? And again, then they set up this two path mentality. And really what they're saying is, oh, you're a path a person. I was a path a person, but now I'm a path b person, and path B is the right path. I like the idea that there are many pathways to being well. Here's the reason why I like that, because it's true.

I'm sorry, but it is. There are many pathways to being well. You know, I think about the times I'm watching, like, morning lifestyle television, like Good Morning America or the TODaY show, and all of a sudden they go, okay, we're going to Dayton, Ohio, where Ethel is 103 years old today. Ethel. Ethel, what's your secret to living so long? Vodka and snickers bars. And they go, ha ha. Thanks, Ethel. And we all laugh at Ethel. In reality, for Ethel, smoking cigarettes and eating Snickers bars every day is exactly what got Ethel to 103 years old, because Ethel figured out that doing things that made Ethel's nervous system say, hey, we are happy, we are safe, we are well.

Put Ethel in a place of rest and digest, in a place of parasympathetic response. So all of a sudden, Ethel's body said, ha, and continued to live on and live on and live on. Now, again, does that mean that the new fad is everybody should smoke cigarettes and eat snicker cigars bars every day? No. Do we think that our culture would try to make that be the thing? Absolutely. And on the bottom of the screen, it would say, results are not common for every participant. Here's the deal. There is not one pathway to wellness.

You should not give your, um, youre helper a hard time if they can't solve your problem. Your helper, meaning your doctor or your therapist or your chiropractor or your, or your whoever, because the world is complex and so are you. So if you're on thinking there's a one pathway, it's like, oh, I have problem. I need to go get problem fixed. And if all of a sudden that person who is supposed to fix your problem can't fix your problem, yeah, there's an opportunity to learn. And then if all of a sudden you start talking to people, it's like, oh, you're a pathway a person.

You should be a pathway b person. I think that's a normal, typical second step. The thing I love about Cadre is it's showing the world through a community of professionals and peers. There are many ways to wellness. And today you're going to see Doctor Rachel, you're going to see Doctor Christina, you're going to see Stephen. About 1213 and a half hours from now, you'll have the opportunity to end your day with Anila. You'll see later on this afternoon, you'll see Rachel Havocaus coming from the west coast.

From coast to coast, Steven on the east coast, you got Rachel on the well, havocaust Rachel on the west coast, Rachel Logan from Illinois. And then, of course, you always know you're going to have a couple Minnesotans in the bunch, too. But all of us are going to offer you different pathways to thinking about your mental health today. And that's a great thing because you want to know why? There are many ways to wellness, y'all. You are unique, you are special. And you deserve to wrestle and walk that path.

Have a good one.