Me Time ✨

Foreign Mitchells here. Happy Sunday. Popping in a minute early. Always excited to be here. Pulling a JC move. Dialing in from my car today. Hello, Jules. Happy Sunday. So as you pop on in today, and especially if you're in Minnesota, I would love to know what is your temperature. Right now I'm sitting in my car and it's a balmy minus two, two minus two. So if you are anywhere in the United States other than Minnesota, you will be ticking up in temperature from us. I have an. I have a feeling it's Sunday and we're here.

It's beautiful. The sun is shining and I could sit here if I chose to and talk about all the things that aren't great about it being cold. But here's what I'm gonna say. It's refreshing. If you are out there just for a little bit of time, not for an hour or an overnight, it can be a little refreshing. So today on me time, negative 13. Ooh, that's chilly. Don't do a cold punch today. And as my dad would say, don't lick any metal. I don't know why you would, but that's what he would always say on days like this.

So cold. So today on me time, I wanted to invite us into a conversation around nourishment. And when I say the word nourishment, we often go to food. And I'm bringing this conversation up today because I. I'm not great at going to the doctor. I will self admit this. My friends will schedule text messages for days in the future so that it's a reminder for me to make a doctor's appointment and then I'll see it, then I'll think about it and I'll have an intention to get it scheduled and then I don't.

But I do see a chiropractor on a regular basis. She does my blood work. And my acupuncturist, who is brilliant in western medicine. Happy Sunday. Luke finally moved back to the United States and she's getting her doctorate. So she's my person. So I have my two people. I go to a chiropractor who does wellness and my blood tests, and I go to an acupuncturist who is a herbalist as well. And it's just different, right? Hello, T. Brown. Happy Sunday. Balmy Sunday. It's only minus two here. Jill's gets the lucky win for the day at A minus 13.

But you know there's value in nourishment, right? So nourishment can be about food and Why I bring this up today is when I was seeing my acupuncturist because I am doing some check ins with everything and I do need to schedule a regular doctor's appointment. I'm not good at that. But this is my steps towards just checking in to see how I'm doing. I'm training for some marathons and I think it's really important. I'm feeling a little more fatigued than normal. That's going to be normal, right? I'm running a lot of miles, I'm burning a lot of calories.

I don't get enough food in my system. So it goes back to that nourishment thing. But I was talking to my acupuncturist and she's fabulous. I love her. And when I'm sick, she'll help me figure out what herbs to take. And if I have to go to the doctor to get medications, she'll help give me herbs in my system to balance. Because I believe personally for me this is what works for me. Everybody is so different that there is an intersection between eastern and western medicine that works. But what I learned from her this time is based on things that were going on in my body.

Like, you know, not getting enough food and running cold in temperatures because I'm running outside in really cold weathers. She just gave me some insights around some foods to get into my system. So get more soups, get more soft vegetables and warm vegetables. So it's the season of, especially if you're in the Northern hemisphere, it's the season of eating warm things to nourish our bodies. We can get a lot of great nutrients from like a bone broth or a beef broth. We get a lot of great nutrients from steamed vegetables or boiling vegetables versus eating raw, which they always say we'll get the most nutrients eating raw.

But if our bodies can't process it, then we're not getting the nutrients anyway. So why not make it accessible to our bodies? And it really made me pause and think. And then she told me something that made me laugh. So I'm going to say this out here and if there's any other doctors on here, type in the chat what you know. But in Eastern medicine she said, if you burp. I can't even say it without laughing. She said, if you burp, what does it taste like? That's disgusting. And she's like, Jean, there's so much information there.

She's like, if you burp up broccoli, like if you eat an entire meal and you burp and it tastes like broccoli. That means that your system isn't processing the broccoli. So maybe it wasn't warm enough, and maybe you didn't cook it enough for your body to process it. And I literally laughed out loud. And I still can't say it without laughing because it sounds funny. But what I love about that is that our bodies will give us information all the time. The question is, are we listening? And so I've been playing with that the last couple of days just to see what is my body doing.

And she said, you know, if you eat something and your body immediately feels bloated, what did you just eat? And maybe your body doesn't need that right now. And so it was a really interesting dialogue around nutrition nourishment from food. But food isn't the only way we nourish ourselves, is it? I find that Cadre is a form of nourishment. The number of people I tell about Cadre because I love it so much, not even just being out here sharing things with all of you, but what has been created is a way for us to connect and nourish our souls in ways that in our minds, in ways that I probably hadn't even thought of before, with new ways of thinking.

So how we nourish our whole selves, super important. It's nourishing our minds. What are you curious about this year? What did you read last year that got you really excited? Are you into some new podcasts? If yes, share down in the comment section because I guarantee you, 100 people are waiting to hear new things to listen to, maybe even more, probably thousand people share it with us because none of us contributors have all the answers. We have really amazing perspectives, really deep and rich experiences and educational backgrounds and all of these things to give to you.

But you guys give to us in ways you don't even know. So let me ask you a question. My invitation will be to you. Type into the chat. What has nourished you just this week? It can be food. It can be a book, music, podcast. It can be anything. What has nourished you? So for me, my nourishment has come from just holding space for people. This week I have a lot of people in my life that are in some yo yoing, some highs and some lows, people that have gone through some job transitions, and it's been really good food for my soul this week to hear their stories.

I, like many of you, get so busy in our days that we are checking the boxes and we have our list of to do's and I've been able the last week and actually the last two weeks to meet with some people that I haven't met in a long time and hear their stories. And I love hearing people's stories. I love hearing where they're at. I love the honesty and the transparency and the vulnerability that comes with sharing your story. Jules says, reaching out to a friend for guidance, doesn't that feel good when you know that there's somebody out there?

I just read something that said if you have a friend in your life that you've been friends with for seven years, most likely they will be a friend of yours for the rest of your life. Think about that. Seven years can turn into a lifetime. That doesn't mean you talk to them every day. That friendship might ebb and flow, but there's something about that relationship that is nourished you for seven years. So my second invitation to you as we're talking about nourishing ourselves, is to do this simple thing.

Do you remember when you were in maybe grade school or high school, maybe you didn't do this. So maybe it's just a me thing. Do you remember having a pen pal? Maybe it was your grandma, maybe it was an aunt, maybe it was a friend that moved away, or foreign exchange student. Maybe your school did something where another school wanted to do a pen pal program and you got assigned some random name and you wrote a letter to that person. So my second invitation to you is grab a pen, grab a card, a piece of paper, anything.

Don't type it, don't text it, don't voice memo it. But physically, tactically, sit down sometime today or this week and write a letter to somebody that you haven't talked to in a while or somebody that has inspired you and grab a good old stamp, find out their address. If you don't have it anymore, pop it in the mail and give it a kiss. Send it with some love. Jules. We did hands across the border pen pal deal with students in Canada. I love this. So my invitation to you is to just write a letter, write a card, and just put it out there.

Because what you write in that card.