A Thursday conversation on caregiving that reflects on Hurricane Helene and offers simple, repeatable acts of care to support people in crisis, with perspectives from community guests like Shannon Stouff and Speak Wonder.
On Thursday, we talk about caregiving. Right now, Hurricane Helene has created havoc and hindrance for tons of people in the Southeast. What are the little things that you can do that impact those people around you? Do those things often.
Hey, hey, everybody. Happy, happy Thursday. Nice to see you. We'll let Florence and Florence's machines give us a little musical intro into Cadre today. Today, as you're coming into the Cadre sphere, I love Florence's voice, don't you? Especially when it builds. Hey, Speak Wonder. You're gonna see Speak Wonder coming into live stream later on today. Oh, shake it out, y'all. Sometimes we just need to shake it out. Doesn't feel kind of good to just every once in a while. Yeah, good times and the bad times.
We need to shake it out. Well, hey, my name is jc if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some time and space together right now. I hope you're good. If you're not good, that's okay too. No matter how you are in the Cadre sphere, that's the way to be. I bet. Normally, taking a little moment in the Cadre sphere has a positive effect on your state of being. Being around other people, taking time for yourself, showing yourself that you are on your side normally has a positive effect on you.
Why? Because it shows your nervous system that if you are in a fight flight state that you are on your side, that there's something going your direction. So on Thursdays, what do we do? We talk about caregiving In a little bit, you're going to see the one and only Shannon Stouff. I already gave the surprise way you're going to see Speak Wonder coming to us from Lake Erie this afternoon. There's always, always a wonderful docket of individuals sharing about their perspective on caring for others.
But as we are all aware, right, there's always people on this planet who are in some state of struggle because of what's happening to them. Right. Right now, Hurricane Helene has created havoc and hindrance for tons of people in the, in the Southeast. So how do we care for those people? Because sometimes we go, oh, I'm not a caregiver, or oh, I'm not in a state of grief and loss like we talk about on Fridays, or, oh, like I'm happy so I don't have any mental health issues like we talk about on Wednesday, or I'm not a professional, I'm.
Maybe you're retired or maybe you don't have a job or maybe you don't work out of the home. So maybe you don't see yourself as a professional like we talk about on Mondays. Increase the lens to see that we are all humans doing human things, right? So right now is a really great reminder that we always have the opportunity to consider how we care for those people around us. Because this world is in constant flux of healing and hurting, of needing and giving, of succeeding and failing, of feeling like things are going in the right direction.
And then all of a sudden, some big icky hurricane comes and smacks us upside our face. The reminder today, doing little things often gets us pretty far. What are the little things that you can do, often, consistently, repeatedly, that impact those people around you? They're there, they're out there. Do those things. And you want to know what? Sometimes those things internally focused, you doing things to make sure you're in a good state so you can take care of other people. Yeah, that's part of it.
Sometimes it is going, hey, do you have the resources you need to take care of yourself? And maybe that's it. Maybe it is monetarily making donations. Maybe it is time. Maybe it is providing an ear, maybe it's providing a shoulder. All of these things are little. Not meaning easy, but little meaning things that we can do that we often go. It's like, ah, that's only a little thing. Do those things often. And what we're doing here at Cadre is encouraging everybody to do those little things. All of a sudden, we start feeling that shake on this planet, y'all.
As Florence reminds us, when in doubt, shake it out. I'll see you tomorrow.
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