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Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope that you're doing great and I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. T North. How are you, my friend? It's nice to see you on this Wednesday. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, you can find me here every single day to kick off the day. Shay, man, Newfie lover. Nice to see y' all on Wednesdays. Christopher, you're going to see a lot of live streams about kind of that big bucket of mental health.

It's kind of how I say it, right? We often look at mental health and we go, whoa, that seems like something very personal, but also something that includes everything. But each day kind of has a flow and a flavor. So as you look at yourself from different lenses, different perspectives, you can gain insights and gain pathways of understanding and new curiosities and maybe stir up some courage to really consider how you can feel better, take care of yourself differently, connect with people that you haven't connected with before.

So today I want to offer an insight that came out of some research I did a few years ago. The research was on food, fitness and body shame. It was the first major comprehensive research ever done on the subject. So it was really cool. The headline that came out of the research was, simple sounding solutions to complex problems are the root of shame. So in other words, you know, we feel like we have a problem, so we look for a solution and people want to give us really easy sounding solutions. Let's say when it comes to our physical health, how often do we hear, hey, eat less and move more.

So 100 different people eat less and move more, and 100 different people get 100 different results. Well, for those people who didn't get the results that they thought they were promised, they go, I must have done something wrong. They blame themselves. That blame leads to humiliation, that humiliation leads to isolation, that isolation leads to desperation. And then that desperation leads to them going, I need to find the solution. I need to get better. So when the cycle starts all over again and this cycle of shame gets faster and faster, we think that the solution to our desire, our problem, our issue, our compromisation should be easy.

And yet if we think for two seconds, we know that we are complex beings and that we live within our own realities. If you ever heard the phrase social determinants of health, yeah, guess what? We're not all a created with the same cookie cut and number two, we all don't have the same worlds in which we live in and the way that's stressed and the way that access to things that would make us be good and healthy and whole and safe. So, of course, there is no simple sounding solution. Well, there is, but it's not going to get us to where we think we're supposed to get to.

So my quick invitation for you today is this. Allow yourself to listen to those parts of your being that remind you that you're unique. Listen to your intuition, that gut, listen to curiosity, that playful, imaginative brain that considers. Allow your words to come from those places honestly and then be in the world in which you're in. That's kind of that presence, mindfulness, set and state. If you do these things, you're probably going to lead yourself to water, lead yourself to that little sip that makes you go, ah.

And it won't seem like the biggest thing in the world, because it won't be the biggest thing in the world. But it'll continue to show you that you are on your side and that you're acknowledging that your life is incredibly, your life and no one else's. That's why we got the Cadre sphere. Lots of people offering lots of perspectives that may resonate, that may challenge, that may be that puzzle piece that you're looking. And in turn, lots of different people, through lots of different ways starts to find some momentum together to feel better, to be better, to do better.

Y' all have a great Wednesday ahead. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good one.