The Thin Space

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? I hope you're great. But, you know, even if you're not great, that's okay, too. You may not feel like it, but you are still incredibly worthy, incredibly capable, incredibly ready to do today. If we've shared time together before, you know that I'm going to say pretty much exactly what I just said every single time that I click on in. If we've never shared time and space together before, thanks for letting me share some time with you. My name is JC, and this is the kickoff to self care day here in the Cadre sphere.

Self care. Right. Your ability to take care of yourself. You know, there's a really great Ted talk by a gentleman named Guy Wench. W I n c h. It's all about kind of emotional awareness. And guy talks about how one time he went to dinner at his friend's house, and while dinner was being made, he was sitting on the couch at his friend's house, and he noticed that his friend's young child was getting ready for bed and walked into the bathroom and got out the little stool, put it in front of the vanity, grabbed their toothbrush, put toothpaste on their toothbrush, stood on the stool, started brushing their teeth, and all of a sudden, the stool tipped over and they fell down and they bumped and scraped their arm.

All of a sudden, this kid all by themselves, cried, stopped crying, got a band Aid, put a band aid on the wound, picked everything up, finished brushing the teeth, and then went to bed. Guys says, isn't it amazing how at the youngest of ages, we know how to take care of our physical health? Yet if he would have. If he would have done the same thing as an adult, he would not have acted as emotionally cognizant and lovingly to himself. Right. Kids know at a young age, I need to brush my teeth before I go to bed.

Kids also know that when we fall down, we should feel something. We should emote, we should respond. We should do something that's good for ourselves, like put a bandaid on our Owie. And then guess what? We move on. But as we get older, what do we forget how to do all of that. We act like we didn't get hurt. We get embarrassed. We, um. We get mad. We. We bottle things up. We stop understanding how to take care of ourselves. And that's the whole point of self care, helping you remember how to take care of yourself.

So that's what we talk about on Sundays. I kick things off. But later on the day, you're going to see Jean and Daryl and Seth. You're going to see Tiffany. You're going to see Jason. I have a great lineup of people splattered throughout the day to say, hey, here are some ways to take care of yourself. And if it's not like a tip or a tactic, like, oh, here's something to do. Guess what? Even logging into Cadre to connect with someone, to say good morning, like I'm doing right now. Good morning, Jules.

That is self care. So if you saw the title of this live stream, it's called thin space. Thin space is the space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. It's in that moment that there's some power. The reminder is you have no power in the past, you have no power in the future. And if you want to fight me on that, please do. But I'm being incredibly literal. Can you learn from the past? Yes, please learn from the past. Can you influence the future? Maybe. Maybe. But the only moment that you have any power in is right now.

Good morning, Anila. So within this thin space, we take a moment to flex. We take a moment to consider what is right here and right now. So I'll tell you, Sundays, in my mind, is the greatest kind of thin space day. For the longest time ever since, oh, by golly, 1998, in some way or another, I've had events all around this idea of holding space on Sundays, normally Sunday evenings. And it's all around this idea of thin space. And I just announced last night that starting up next Sunday, I'm going to start teaching a somatic movement circuit in person again on Sunday evenings.

And I'm excited, but so funny. It reminds me of something. Whenever I do things on Sundays, let's say I have 100 people sign up to come. I will hear from at least 30 of them, at least 30%. Within an hour or two or 3 hours before the event, they'll message me and they'll say, ah, you know what? Nah. You know, I was planning on coming, but now I'm gonna do something else and I celebrate. Like, I'm so glad I'm not gonna see you. I'm so glad you know exactly what you're supposed to be doing right now in this moment, because that's what thin space is all about.

So as soon as I put out the eventbrite last night saying, hey, next week, Sunday evening, people signed up in a snap. Why? Because things look different in the future than they look in the now. That doesn't mean don't get excited about the future. What it means is give yourself great permission to be excited when all of a sudden you change your mind. Jules, Anila, everybody else out there, if right now you're planning on doing something later on today, and then all of a sudden you go, nah, I want to do something else.

Courageously and confidently do that other thing and shout to the world, I am in the present moment. And here is what I am craving. You may be craving stillness or nothingness. You may be craving a car ride. You may be craving a dance party. You may be craving a donuthenne. You may be craving playing games with your kids upstairs. Anila, I remember that. I remember from your live stream talking about when you had to be in overtime parent mode. And all of a sudden, rather than going to bed, you said, kids, let's hang out some more.

In that moment. That was the thin space. Example. Jewels, solitude in your garden. Jules, how crisp is the air up north right now? I can only imagine. I walked outside and it feels like September now again, we still have 21 days left of summer, everybody. Yes, yes, yes. But still in Minnesota, the second we feel that cool air, we go, mmm. This reminds me of other times that I was in that thin space. So wherever you are right now, be in that moment, because you don't really have a choice. My friends.

We'll see you tomorrow. Keep checking in today if you need a little bit more. Moments of self care. Reminder of self care. Tip tactic right here in the Cadre.