JC offers a daily check-in that holds space to be seen and reflects on grief and loss, sharing a story about preserving videos of loved ones and encouraging finding external representations of what one is grieving.
JC: Every day, I jump into the Cadre sphere to wish you well and to remind you that this is always a space that you can find yourself. On Fridays, we talk about grief and loss, and you never know when it's going to present. JC: Today I wish for you to find those external representations of those things that you are grieving and losing.
Well, hey, good morning there, Cadre. Pardon the spooky lighting this morning, but I'm coming to you from my car as the days are getting shorter. m. and the sun has yet to rise. But by golly, it is Friday, and I hope you are okay. My name is JC, and it is Cadre. Today, I join the Cadre sphere every single day. Jada, nice to see you. Becky, good morning. Good morning. Every day, I jump into the Cadre sphere to wish you well and to remind you that this is always a space that you can find yourself, no matter how you're doing, for a moment, to check in, to be seen, and to see others, and to go, hmm.
There are many pathways to wellness, and how am I doing right now? On Fridays, we talk about grief and loss, and you may go, wow. I may not be in a space where grief or loss is front of mind right now, but you never know when it's going to present. Last night, I had a really awesome opportunity to think about this in a new way. So I was part of a group of storytellers and comedians. I told some stories and sang some songs from the piano. Hey, Jules. Nice to see you. Hey, Luke. But right before I went to the stage, there was a gentleman named John Beezlebits.
A gentleman named John. And he recently, about a month ago, lost his father. And he got up on stage, and he's like, for the last 20 years, I've been capturing my mom and my mother in law on camera as much as I could. And he says, I have probably once I edit everything, probably 50 edited hours. So probably 200 plus hours of video of the two of them living life together. And last night, he showed about ten minutes of their life. And I watched about 70% of the time of this ten minutes. The video that he put together, the other 30% of the time, I kept looking back at him, watching the video that he created.
I was watching him watch his dad and his mother in law, who very much was a mom figure in his life. Stepmom, not mother in law, stepmom. And he pleaded with the audience, he's like, capture moments of those people that you love. Cause it doesn't cost anything, and you'll be so grateful to have these moments. And it made me think about how the seasons in which we existed. Like, right now, I'm sitting in a dark season. I'm sitting in a car with spooky lighting because there's no sunlight yet where normally, when I have to do a morning livestream from my car many other times of the year.
I have some nice natural light zooming on in. You can see it's still warm outside because I'm getting sweaty. These moments that John captured allowed for him to grieve with some external remembrances. So often, I think one of the hard things about grieving and losing is that those external things start to go away and we have to be nourished by the inside ones. So today I wish for you to find those external representations of those things that you are grieving and losing. And you may be like, well, I'm not grieving.
I haven't lost anything. And I go, if you've loved, you've lost, and if you haven't lost,
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