The host frames Wednesdays as a day focused on mental health as the core of wellbeing and invites listeners to show up authentically. They use a vessels metaphor—words as bottles or baskets—and prompts reflection on what one places inside them.
On Wednesdays we talk about the biggest of buckets. Mental health is at the core of everything else that we do. Show up and be how you're being. Think what you're thinking, feel what you are feeling.
Lukewarm: Today I raise the idea that words are vessels. Words are like bottles or bowls or plates or baskets. It's what you place in it that creates its specificity and value. There are many ways to wellness, it's a question of what are you placing in your basket?
Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you doing today? I hope you are good, but even if you're not good, know that you are still in the right place. Isn't it great to know that no matter how you're doing, this is. This is a place that you can go. This is a place where you don't have to mask or hide. You can simply not meaning easy, but simply meaning few moving parts. Show up and be how you're being, Think what you're thinking, feel what you're feeling. Jules. Good morning, my friend. How are you? Well, on Wednesdays here in the Cadre sphere, Tina Six, how are you?
Tina Six, nice to see you. On Wednesdays we talk about the biggest of buckets. I think when people think about Cadre, they think, oh, that's the social media for mental health thing. Yeah. So the fact that Wednesdays we talk mental health, it's kind of at the gravity point. It's at the core of everything else that we do. Anila, nice to see you, my friend. And at that core is, I think, the intangible. Right. We can talk about the other days, professional development, personal development, self care, building, community, grief, loss, caregiving.
We can talk about those things and go, ah, here is what that means. Then we get to mental health day and we go, oh, yeah, mental health. And we kind of pause when we say, what does this really mean? So today I raised the idea that words are vessels. Like my water bottle here. It's a vessel, right. It in itself has a great purpose, but if it doesn't have anything in it, it doesn't really understand or activate what it can do the world. And again, like, I call this a water bottle. Why? Because there's water in it.
Let's say I filled it up with Mountain Dew. Then what would it be? A Mountain Dew bottle. Yeah, at that moment. Because in reality, this isn't a water bottle. This is a bottle. Words are like bottles or bowls or plates or baskets. It's not in itself the thing that has value. It's what you place in it that creates its specificity and value. So my invitation for you today is to think about the words that you use and ask yourself, are you seeing them as the vessel that they are and placing in them your valuables?
That kind of makes sense. How often do we use a word and we move forward with the assumption that everybody knows what that word means, including us? Luke, good morning, my friend. We walk around the world thinking that there is a shared, decided upon definition for everything. That's why here at Cadre, we always say that we are showing the world through community, with resources that they're bringing together, that there are many ways to wellness. So at the end of the day, if someone said, well, what's wellness?
There isn't an answer because there's many ways to wellness. It's a question of what are you placing in your basket? What are you placing in that vessel? So today, as you engage with lots of wonderful people in live stream, right, you're going to see Anila wrapping up the day as I'm kicking off the day, you'll have Rachel Havocas and Rachel Logan. You'll see Dr. Christina, you'll see a wonderful swath of individuals coming into the Cadre sphere today to say, hey, you, I see you. And they're going to use words, they're going to use ideas, they're going to use things from their cultural.
Linguistic reality. Right? Culture, the world in which they operate, linguistic, the words they use to communicate within that culture. And my invitation for you today is to say, huh? What do they mean when they say X? But more importantly, what do I mean when I say X? So one of those big words that we often hear, and I don't think we always think about what we mean is the word hope. So if you need a little hope today, I'd say, cool. And then I would also ask you, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by hope?
I come to sing a song about hope I'm not inspired much right now but even so I came out here to sing a song so here I'll go I guess I think that if I tinker long enough One might appear and look, it's here One verse is done the work's begun I come to sing a song about hope in spite of everything Ridiculous and sad Though I'm beyond belief Depressed, confused and mad well, I got dressed I underestimated how much that would take I didn't break until right now I sing of hope and don't know how so maybe I can substitute strength Because I'm strong I'm strong enough I got through lots of things I didn't think I could and so did you I know that's true and so we sing a song about hope Though I can't guarantee there's something real behind it I have to try to show you all that I can find it and so today when life is crazy and impossible to bear it must be there Fear never wins that's what I hope the work begins Taking time to think about what you place in the vessel.
The vessel of a word, the vessel of a concept. The vessel of a relationship is a really great place to start your conversation on your mental health. Y'all have a great day. And even if you don't, that's okay, too. We'll talk to you later.
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