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Well, hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing on this Friday? I hope we are doing good, and I hope you being a part of that we is understanding that even if you're not feeling great, doing great, accomplishing what you want to be accomplishing, feeling the way you want to feel, that you are still capable, you are still worthy, all of those things. Ah, crew, welcome, welcome. Sandra, nice to see you. Amara, nice to see you. Oh, my gosh. Other people bopped on in. I didn't. Oh, Jules, nice to see you.

Marisa, nice to see you. T. North. Oh, Cruz coming into the house. How are we today? It's Friday. And I'll say, like, I get the. The little snapshot every day of. Of how the Cadre sphere is spinning and moving and keeping and quite often, smzob, nice to see you. Quite often, it feels like as I watch the ticker tape parade of people coming into the sphere, that less people bop in on Friday mornings, which kind of makes sense, right? Either you got a busy last day of the week, or you're maybe tired and you're taking some time, or you're discombobulated and you're not focused on maybe the power of spending a few minutes here.

So if you're bopping in this morning, bravo. Bravo on going, you know, I think I need something right now. If you're not here this morning, bravo on choosing what you need when you need it. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you are here. I know what I know, and I care about you. Courts in session. You know, Fridays, we often talk about loss and grief and the other side of the things, the other side of the moment, the relationship, the high, the person, the animal, the relationship, the job, the chapter of life, the season.

Right? We get on the other side of those things. And yesterday I was reminded we had our advisory meeting for Cadre. C. i was at a thing and some people knew you and they shared where they were. And I was like, oh, I bet it was, you know, these people who was saying just in my head was. It was kind of processing and guessing and it was people from kind of the family fitness community movement space, which I'd been on. Been on that. On the. On that crew of people for a really, really long time. And then over the last kind of two years, I've had some health stuff that's not allowed me to be a part of that community in the same way.

I still love them, I still feel supported by them. But it was a moment yesterday when I looked back and I was like, oh my gosh. So much of my life was woven into close proximity with this really awesome group of people. And now because of circumstances, I just, I'm not. I'm not there in the same way. And it made me think about those times when we go, ah, I miss being a part of. Hit the pause button. Jen says I have more time to leisurely arise on Fridays. Yeah, right. Every day to its season. Every day to its flow.

Every. And hopefully. The reason why I brought up earlier that it seems like often less people are up and going at 7:30 Central Time on Fridays is because when you notice that the world around you moves at a different flow in rate, you can find permission to give yourself to go, huh? Me showing up different every day makes a lot of sense. That's not a lack of consistency. You know, I often say back to the idea of leading people in movement. I always say something like this, you know, let's say we're moving the body or stretching the body on one side, like right arm.

And then we go, okay, now we're going to do left arm. And there's this assumption that we should be balanced or symmetrical. And we aren't balanced in symmetrical beings in any ways. Balance theme of the month. So what I always say is like, rather than seeking balance and capacity, seek balance in the amount of time you spend being curious about your capacity. So rather than going, I need to never miss a Monday or I need to wake up early on a Friday or I need to show up every day the same way, go, huh?

I'm gonna spend some time considering how I show up and what I do. Jules says, personally, I'm on the struggle bus today. Work burnout is no joke. By golly, Jules, ain't that the truth? Ain't that the truth, Jules, I'll tell you, all week, this week, when I've gone to bed, the last thought in my head is there is not enough hours in the day for me to sleep, to wake up the next day feeling refreshed, feeling ready to do the next day. So every day I've been starting with a little bit less in the tank and a little less capacity.

That burnout or, or that, you know, situational exhaustion is real. But I'd love to say those next couple of messages. Marisa given the hugs Smz holding close in heart. These things don't absolve, but these things remind us that that the dance we're doing is worth dancing. So, yeah, this group of people, Marisa, you were. I know you from the movement world. And it's been a long time since we've been able to be in space together, moving together. Yet the relationships we have. Sometimes grief and loss is not, this person is gone, or I don't get to ever see or do this thing again.

But it's. Things have changed. And the beautiful thing in this type of grief is we can still get close to those people in different ways. I sent some text messages this morning to the people who our advisory member shared yesterday that mentioned me saying, hey, thinking about you. And it felt good. It felt good in that, like, ah. I remember because on a day much like today, it's kind of rainy outside. I remember in the year 2000, me sitting in the parking lot of Champlin Park High School before I walked in for my graduation and the Beatles song in my life.

There are places I remember in my life, though some have changed. That song, it started playing in the rain. I had a moment. I had a moment because I think it was one of those first really big times where I realized the things that I was knowing, the things that I. That I was experiencing, we're not going to be experienced anymore in the same way. And it felt good to feel sad. It felt good to feel that separation, that change happening. So today I invite you, if it's kind of cloudy and mucky and tired and you're feeling those things, to go ahead and look back and to feel the feels that you're feeling.

That's what they're there for. Feelings are not good nor bad. I always say our nervous system doesn't have an opinion. So if we have a reaction, it's not something's bad happening or something's good happening, it's saying, something's happening. Your intuition and your feeling muscles are the same. Your feelings may go, I am going to cry or I'm going to laugh. So you may interpret those as like, one is good, one is bad, one should be felt and one should be avoided. But no, if your body's going, I am having a response.

Those responses are a sign that you are indeed alive and well. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, sending you a lot of love, and I will see you tomorrow with a little bit of enoughness. Bye.