Cadre Today

Hey, Cadre, how are we doing today? I hope that you are doing swell. It's funny. You're rested up against a basket here with flowers, so you're very colorful Cadre today. I hope you are doing great. I really do. And if you're not, I'll always invite myself to be that squeaky reminder that it is okay when you're not okay. There's a song by an artist named Ben Abraham. Hey, Alana. Hey, Mafi Amar. Nice to see you, my friend. A song by Ben Abrahamson. Shannon, nice to see you. The song is called Never been better.

And the song kind of goes through. I've never been worse. I've never been better. And it speaks about kind of that wonderful back and forth. Jules, Nikki. Good morning, y'. All. Rick, nice to see you, too. Hey, Andy, nice to see you. Hey. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those are some of those words as you go through life, let them be kind of a little superpower that you can bring into moments when you care, when you see that there's people who are excited to share time and space together, when you tap into your experience and the things that, you know, really, really wonderful things become possible.

I'm coming to you for the fourth morning this week from Shell Lake, Wisconsin. It's nice and crisp here, but the Canadian smoke is still rumbling around in the air. So even though the smoke makes it kind of hard to breathe, it's a great reminder that that breathing air is. Is always a gift that we don't always get to have for day in, day out. So appreciate your opportunity to breathe in the air you're getting to breathe in no matter where you are today. You know, on Thursdays, a lot of the contributors who kind of jump into the space look at the relationship of people who need a little bit of help, who need a little bit of assistance, care, time, and the people who provide them those things.

One of the beautiful things about this planet is that none of us do anything alone. And sometimes some of us need a little bit more care. And we always talk about caregiving from the seat of the caregiver. But I thought this morning it would be interesting to think about the times we sit in the seat of the one receiving the care. Because in micro ways and macro ways, for moments that last a second, for moments that last years and chapters of lives and lives from beginning to end, we all at moments are caregivers, but we all also are Care receivers.

And I'll tell you, I know a lot of you are full time caregivers who are on live stream this morning. Thank you on behalf of all the people that you care for. And also we see you and the amount of time and energy and the brick walls that, that runs you into. But maybe especially you this morning. What if you think about the times that you are the care receiver and the challenges of being the care receiver, being the person who says, I need help, the person who says, I don't know how, or the person who says, I used to be able to, but right now I can't.

You're good at doing hard things and you may go, gosh, I have all these caregivings to do today. And with a smile on my face, I offer you the challenge of going, yeah, and you're actually pretty darn good at doing all the caregiving. Maybe today's the day you spend a little bit of time working on the care receiving. How can you receive? How can you utilize the resources that are there for you from your caregivers to lighten your load, to expand your reach, to provide you A pause, a break. Yeah. Shannon says it's, it's harder to get care for sure.

And even if you have access to it, it's often harder to, to receive it, to go, thank you for doing that. Thank you for taking that off my plate. Thank you for not just like, oh, thank you for the opportunity, but I'm fine. Nope, thank you for the opportunity and let me wrestle with how I can best use it, receiving it emotionally and the, the part of our emotions that are tapped into our nervous system. Right. Your nervous system is going to innately start by going, no, I don't, I can't, I won't, I shan't.

The emotional response from a, from a neurological level, right? When all of a sudden parasympathetic or when sympathetic settles in you go. My reminder, your nervous system doesn't have an opinion. Your nervous system isn't saying, help is bad or I don't need it or I'm fine. Your nervous system is saying, something's happening. Someone is giving me something. Someone is, is putting something out there for me. And the other side of that nervous system response is the opportunity to receive. T. North, nice to see you.

So I always liked what I like to say, poke the bear in this little moment this morning going, huh, hello, caregiver. What if today you spent a little bit time being really good at being the caregiver and a little bit more time working on being good at being the care receiver, y'. All. I will be back tomorrow morning for one last giddy up from Shell Lake before I head back down to the cities. But reminder, if you did not tune into our Cadre Today interview yesterday with Josh Letty, Spring Park Awakening is coming up this weekend.

Great opportunity to dive on in. We'll share more information about that in the community feed. But a great conversation from another person being woven into the Cadre sphere. Have a good day, y'. All. If you need a little music to bop on in, Ben Abraham's never been better. It's a good morning bop. Give it a listen. Let me know what you think. Bye. It.