Cadre Today and Family Ties

Good morning, Cadre. Hey, Steph, how are you doing this morning? Steph, nice to see you. Excited to watch your live stream. In about a half an hour here, we'll play in with a little ditty like normal to kick off Cadre today. Name the TV show. Hey, Seth. Nice to see you, my friend too. Getting to see some friends I haven't seen in a little while. Good morning. Good morning, Jules. You got some sunshine for me? Never. Venwill188443 Nice to see you too, my friend. I won't even try to sing anymore. I'll stop it right there.

Joe Cocker with a little help from my friends. Theme song to the Wonder Years, but also a great Beatles tune and one of those songs that I think kind of lives in our lives in our. In our free space. Well, my name's JC and it's an honor every single day to go ahead and get to wish you a good morning right here. Sunshine in the attitude. I love it. TV show the Wonder Years. Seth, I was gonna say I'm like you. Like you're the right age with me to go ahead and have Wonder Years be a pivotal part of childhood.

C. i'm really glad that you are here and I hope that you're great. Why? Because a, it's an honor to spend time with you. You change the world by placing yourself in community. And even though I hope that you're great, if you're not great. Shannon, nice to see you too, my friend. Even if you're not great. No, that's okay too. The prerequisite for being right here in the Cadre sphere is you having the curiosity, the courage, the will, the energy in that moment, even if you're laying in bed to go, ah, I'm gonna go ahead and connect right now.

So on Thursdays, what do we talk about? It's. It's. It's caregiver day. Um, if you look at the. Those people who jump into the live stream, they are people who spend time talking about being someone who is either all the time, either for a long time or a short time, or from a get to the the beginning and the end of time, they spend time taking care of other people. Rachel, nice to see you too, my friend. This is quite the powerhouse live stream here in the morning. So as Seth says, Seth never enjoys the beginning of the year.

You may be in that space right now. You may be in the. Ah, this is a daunting time, a confusing time, an exhausting time, an anxious time, especially if you care for someone else who may be having their own reactions this time of year too. Well, over the next 12 days, I'm going to spend some time talking about a new feature. Yeah, it's a feature, but also a new progression of how Cadre is providing you a community with resources fostered and fueled by professionals and peers, inviting you to see that there's lots of ways to be.

Well, we have communities. There are 12 communities. If you click on the little three lines up in the corner and pull down, you'll see 12 different things and one of them says caregivers or caregiving. I'm going to be very specific. Caregiving. So if you're like, wow, you know what? In this chapter of my life, I wake up, I go to bed, I eat, breathe. Caregiving. All of a sudden you can be within this community by simply clicking Enter or add. And also if you go, you know what, that isn't the focus of my journey right now.

You can also leave that group if you want and then come back to it and leave it and add other groups. Here's the definition, here's the title for our caregiving community. It says, supporting caregivers of all kinds with compassion and empathy on their journey to their mental wellness while helping them maintain their own well being. And I bet all y'all caregivers out there could go and add some colorful language to it, like while helping them maintain their own well being, maybe while helping them not lose their blippity blip, craziness, mindset, sanity, whatever, right?

How good is it sometimes to have a community of people who you can walk in or click in and go, huh? Here there are people who have their own experiences, of course, their own perspectives on those experiences, absolutely. But understand the life of being a caregiver. My favorite part about Cadre is that first line, supporting caregivers of all kinds, you get to self name yourself here. You're the one who gets to decide if your anxiety is anxiety. You're the one who gets to decide if the relationship you have with that other person is you being in a space of caregiving.

Or maybe it's your vocation, your call, your work, where you go, gah. I constantly feel like I am for everybody else and maybe never for me. So Speak Wonder. Coming up this afternoon, a great example of another perspective on being in the space of encouraging and caring for others. Speak Wonder says today on my live stream harbor pilots, I will be sharing ideas on encouraging others in a handwritten note. Seth, as you raise up, you know like the beginning of the year and all the reasons why often the beginning of the year offers some difficulty.

I think one of them, you know, is speak wonders. Addressing at the beginning of the year often seems like a sprint. It seems like now things have to change. I need to do those things starting right now. The power of a handwritten note. There's power. Shannon jumps in. It's also taking care of ourselves, learning how to do it. Sometimes it's the hardest. Oh, by golly. Right. Shannon, you know what a. What a what. What a great example you are to. To that journey. Right. Whenever you are constantly in the state of caring for others.

You know, if we think about how we train our bodies, if we train our habits, if we're always caring for everybody else. Yeah. We have to learn how to care for ourselves. That caregiving journey goes in every direction and for many of you, all of the directions all of the time. So you'll go ahead and see Speak one of this afternoon. You have Steph Irwin coming to us from Savannah coming up in about 22 minutes. And I'll be back here tomorrow. We're all kind of give the little headline into our grief community.

But in the meantime, back to a little have a little help from my friends. Joe Cocker title song A Wonder Years. Y'all have a great rest of your day. I'll see you tomorrow morning. That's the end of the theme song right there by Do I Do.