Robert leads a Wednesday livestream about mental health terminology and community, using metaphors and music to invite listeners to explore personal pathways and share conversations about mental wellbeing.
Robert: How are we doing on this Wednesday? Beezle Bits. Sly and the Family Stone playing us in this morning, Everyday People. Maria says I changed the vegetarian lifestyle. I love that Maria's found her pathway. I hope you are looking for yours.
On Wednesdays, our live streams focus on that big bucket of mental health. Words are vessels, and they're empty until we place meaning within them. Many people shy away from entering the conversation because they think everybody else has something else in their mug. Fill up your mental health mugs and invite someone else into the conversation.
Sometimes I'm right and I can get home my own relief, sing my own song. The butcher, the banker, the drummer. And then makes no difference what group I'm in. Maria, nice to see you, my friend. Is the blue one who can accept the green one. Different strokes for different folks and so on and screw on. Scooby dooby dooby. Sly and the Family Stone this morning. How are we doing on this Wednesday? Beezle Bits. Nice to see you, my friend. I hope y'all are doing great. If you're not doing great, know that that is okay too.
It may not feel like it, but it is okay to be doing less than great by you. Walking into the Cadre sphere, you always have that mindset, that little bloop saying, hey, you know what? I am on my own side. I'm acknowledging that life goes like this. So thank you for being here, Robert. Nice to see you, my friends. That was Sly and the Family Stone playing us in this morning, Everyday People, which I think could be the theme song for Cadre, right? The lyrics, the butcher, the banker, the drummer, and then makes no difference what group I'm in.
I'm everyday people. Yes, you are. Maria says I changed the vegetarian lifestyle and it has changed my mood, my sleep and my outlook. Maria. I love that Maria's found Maria's pathway, y'all. I hope you are looking for yours. Robert, Jules, nice to see you all. So on Wednesdays, what do we do? We talk a lot about that biggest of buckets, right? We have all of these communities, we have all of these kind of spotlights that we shine on different days at different times and different parts of the Cadre sphere.
And on Wednesdays, our live streams really, really focus on that big bucket of mental health. I'll tell you, this past Sunday, you've heard some of us talk about our World Mental Teen Wellness Day. And that's a really big bucket. We had four younger panelists, two adult panelists, and four individuals who run organizations all sitting in front of the conversation using their words to talk about mental wealth, mental health, mental health. And then we had three artists and four musicians and we had other practitioners and people who create resources who are all there to think about that conversation about mental well being.
And here's my reminder today, you maybe have heard me do this before, but I'm going to use my Dr. Leslie Davis mug, my she Matters mug, and ready. Did you get wet? Why didn't you get wet? You may be like, jc, you're stupid. No, but there's two reasons why you didn't get wet. Number one, you're on the other side of the screen. So even if I did throw a cup of fluid at you, it would only hit my screen. It wouldn't hit yours. But the other reason you didn't get wet is because, as you can see, minus a few little drops of water, there's nothing in that cup.
Why did I just fake throw water at you? Because words are vessels, and they're empty until we place meaning within them. If you hear a term like mental health or mental wellness or mental well being, these things, you may go, it's like, oh, well, that person obviously knows what mental health means to them because they're sharing externally about something they're dealing with or about something they've learned on the pathway they've been on. You may. Gosh, I'm so far away from the mental health conversation that I don't even know what mental health is.
Words are empty vessels. You get to place things in them. You know, If I was Dr. Leslie Davis, what would I call this? I would call this a coffee mug because Dr. Leslie Davis puts coffee in her mugs. I don't make coffee at home. I don't have a coffee maker at home. So guess what? I would not call this a coffee mug. Why? Because there's not any coffee in it. I would call this a mug. If I would put root beer in it, I'd call it my root beer mug. If I would put water in it like there just was, I would call it my water mug.
But you don't know what I like calling it. Instead, I call it my Dr. Leslie Davis mug because that's what it means to me. That's what I put in that mug. That's why I bought it. It's a long analogy. It's actually pretty simple. You have the opportunity today, everybody, to go, when I say mental health, I'm talking about fill in the blank. Fill that term, those words up with what means something to you. Because there are a lot of people who are afraid to enter the conversation because they don't think they're worthy to talk about their mental health.
They don't know what they would talk about if they would talk about their mental health. Their curiosity isn't strong enough, or their curiosity is strong enough, but maybe their courage isn't, or vice versa. So all of a sudden, what do they do? They shy away from entering the conversation because they think everybody else has something else in their mug. The funny thing is, the happiest world is going to be when everybody fills up their mental health mugs with whatever they need to fill it up with, and then they clank it together and they say, let's have a conversation, y'all.
So throughout today, throughout this week, throughout this life, fill up your mug and then invite yourself into the conversation, because everybody's waiting for someone to invite someone else. You are the inviter, and you are the invited, y'all. Back to a little sly. We'll do the whole second verse together. We got to live together. I think no better and. And neither are you. We're all the same, whatever we do. You know me. You know me? And then you can't figure out the bag I'm in. Everybody, I You, everyday people, have a good one, y'all.
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