Cadre Today and Welcome to Cadre

Hello, Goodbye. Say goodbye. I say hello. Oh, Cadre, it's Friday. How you doing? How are you doing? Dream big. How are you doing, my friend? As you ticker tape on in, it's always that first question that we ask, and it's a hard question, right? How are you doing? Nice to see y'all, everybody. Andre, Speak. Wonder Amy Crew. How are you? How are you? How are you? Good morning, sunshine. Right back at you, Jules. So a little Beatles this morning, actually, little Beatles yesterday morning, too, or Beatles cover of the Joke, the Joe Cocker tune.

Sarah, nice to see you, my friend. It is indeed Friday, y'all. As always, I hope that you are great. And if you're not great, know that that is absolutely okay, too, even if it doesn't feel like it. The prerequisite for giving yourself nourishing connection community resource is not you having all your stuff together. It's not you presenting in a certain way. It's not you having answers to questions. It's not you being like anybody else. That's what we do here at Cadre, and that's why you get the squeaky wheel reminder every morning from me that we hope that you're great.

We hear again and again how this exercise, this Cadre, this special group of people with a special intention is leading to people having more tools, more resources to be better in small ways and big ways and ways that you see. So that's the first thing that we say. But why do we come here every. Every single day to come back and say these things again and again? Because every single day is the beginning for someone in some way and the end for someone in another way. Things are always changing, right?

So you may go, huh? You know what? Today was the day that those words hit. Today was the day that that person that I don't know, but I do kind of know because I spent time with them, that I was really glad that they were there for me. And that same person is saying right back to you, and I'm glad that that person was here reciprocally for me as well. So on Fridays, our live streams most often revolve around the idea of grief, loss and trauma. If we zoom out a little bit, right, it's about those.

Those. Those changes, those evidence, moments that we care about stuff, that we care about people, that we form relationships, that we dig deep into passions and projects, into the moments that we are in, and that those things are always changing. Those things always have beginnings and ends. As I shared yesterday, you've may seen recently, if you've been in the Cadre sphere for a while that there's some new, some new groupings happening. If you look down in the pull down menu and those are communities, the first 12 communities, there's more communities coming down the pipe.

And what we're doing with communities is providing you different. One of the early images of the Cadre sphere was this giant circle with little doorways all around it. And what we're attempting to do is to create as many doorways as possible for people to find their way in to the Cadre sphere. On Tuesdays, I often talk about the idea of the outward facing clique. And what is that? It is exactly what I just explained, right? A big group that faces outward to say, hey you, you who are not a part of this thing yet you are innately more important.

Because part of what our mission is, is to create pathways for people to find something here. So communities are one of those sets of doorways that we're creating. You may go, gosh, it's Cadre day one for me. Now all of a sudden you get to self select what communities you want to have populated into your feed. And on day three, on day five, on day 5,000, you can change your communities whenever you want. Because all of a sudden, as humans, we enter different stages, right? I think often we're sold the idea that humans exist in boxes.

It's like, oh, you're a caregiver, the end. Oh, you're that person who has anxiety. The end. Oh, you're the parent, the end. And all of a sudden six months pass, a year pass, and all of a sudden we may be those things in a different way. We may not be those things anymore, we may be those things in the future, even though we aren't now. So for the next 12 days, this is day number two. I'm providing a brief introduction to each of these 12 communities. And today, since it's Friday, I thought it was a good day to talk about the GR and trauma community.

Here's the headline for the Grief Loss Trauma community. Grief spans all areas of life and shows up when we least expect it. Find tools and support to navigate and honor your grief. You are not alone. So that resonates with you. Go to the pull down menu for me. It's over here. And find grief, loss, trauma and go ahead and click join the end. All of a sudden you're going to be surrounded by people who are already having an adjacent conversation to you. Never the same, maybe not even similar, but coming from their own human experience of grief, loss and trauma, you know, it is January 3rd, and there's kind of two groups of people I see right now.

The people who are like, yeah, New Year. Here we go. And people who are kind of in that space of I'm not ready yet, or I don't have the energy yet, or I don't know what to do yet. And all those things, I think, come specifically from a space of letting go of how we kind of look at time, right? What actually changed from last year to this year? Nothing more than a date on a calendar. But it feels big. It feels different for me. I'm kind of in that I'm not ready to start doing stuff with a 365 days in the future mindset.

Now, that's not very much me in the first place. I'm not a look too far ahead type of person. But even with that being said, I literally had to look at the calendar right now and be like, okay, I know New Year's happened, but is it the first. Okay, it's the third. You're going to see people start moving into the new year pretty quick, right? Next Monday. It's the first full week after the holidays. You're going to see and feel a lot of people who are going into the world of, like, all right, back to.

And they'll use that. That language, right? All right, time to get back to. And if you're not there, be where you are with what you have and honor that. Jules says grief is a powerful emotion. When it hits you unexpectedly. I'm very thankful to have people here at Cadre to talk to. Yeah, grief is a passenger. You are the bus. Grief will pull the little red cord whenever it wants to. But always remember this. I hear this translated in a lot of different ways for a lot of people that I just adore.

Grief is evidence of love. Grief is evidence of you caring about stuff. So every time grief presents, remember that. Not to make the grief go away, because you can't make grief go away, but grief ties, just like everything else complex in this world, ties to some really good stuff. So as you move into your day, whether you're in a space of saying hello or goodbye, I hope you have a good one. Our friends from St. Croix Hospice will be on this afternoon. They are darn lovely, y'all. I adore each and every one of them.

So check them out live, or you can always watch them in post record time as well. I say hello, y'all. We'll talk to you later.