Just kind of had a restful Sunday which was good, which was really nice. Rosie Nest talks about savoring of giving and receiving in relationships. In November of 2024, she had a brain aneurysm rupture. She had to rely on her family and friends to pick up her slack. She felt guilty about it.
Hey Cadre. Happy Monday. We had a good weekend here. We celebrated my husband's birthday on Saturday. And yesterday we met up with some, some friends at a local park here. Just kind of had a restful Sunday which was good, which was really nice.
Rosie Nest talks about savoring of giving and receiving in relationships. In November of 2024, she had a brain aneurysm rupture. She had to rely on her family and friends to pick up her slack. She felt guilty about it.
My challenge is think about how you can savor and enjoy and be present for the ways that you're giving in relationship. My hope for you is that you create space for rest. See you next week.
Hey Cadre. Happy Monday. I hope you all are having a really Good morning. It's 9:30 where I'm at in Minneapolis and I hope you all had a really good weekend. We had a good weekend here. We celebrated my husband's birthday on Saturday so he and I had a date day which was fun while my mother in law watched our daughter. And then yesterday we met up with some, some friends at a local park here and got some lunch and just kind of had a restful Sunday which was good, which was really nice. I'm in my kitchen, I should do this intro every time.
But I'm Rosie Nest. I talk about life loss and layoffs and that can mean a lot of different things. But today we're going to talk about relationships and how we savor and really just maybe enjoy both sides. The giving and the receiving in a relationship is something I've been thinking a lot about this month and we'll do that. While I'm in the middle of cooking, honestly, I think I'm just gonna talk because the cooking I need to do. Okay, I'm cooking is I'm making an egg bake for the week. I need to chop up this parsley because I don't know, I feel like that would be good to put in an egg bake.
Just kind of winging it, like going to stuff in my fridge, got my eggs, cheese of course. And then I don't know if anybody's into pesto, but I made this carrot top pesto. Honestly I didn't like it that much, but I think it'll be good in an egg bake. So I'm just gonna put it in. I'll let you know if I think it's good or not. Anyway, that's what I'm up to. But I've been thinking about this like savoring of giving and receiving in relationships. And why I'm thinking about it is In November of 2024, I had a brain aneurysm rupture.
And so I had brain surgery, emergent brain surgery. Like I, I had it rupture at like noon on a Thursday. And I was in brain surgery by before 5pm like very quickly had brain surgery. And with that experience I had to release a lot of control. I had to just accept all of the help because I literally couldn't do much. I was in the ICU for two weeks and everybody in my life, my husband, my parents, my siblings, my in laws, my friends, I really had to rely on them to pick up my slack because I could not do much of anything beyond rest.
And my job in that moment was truly to rest. Like, as I left the icu, the neurosurgeon said, okay, your job is to go home and rest and not be stressed and manage your stress and rely on people. And I historically, have always been the person who is leaning in to help everybody at the drop of a hat. And I almost think I've built my relationships around that maybe. Or. Or that's the friend. Like, that's the friend that I always admin in relationship is, you need something? I'll be there in 10 minutes.
You have an issue with something, let me do a bunch of research and send you a beautiful email on things I think that you could do or ideas I think you could follow up on. I get a lot of joy from helping people in that way with the knowledge and the skills that I have. And in the moment that I needed the most support, I was feeling a little guilty about it. And so I've done some work to unpack that. Like, why was I feeling guilty? Why was I feeling like, you know, at the drop of a hat? I would do this for a friend, and they would do it for me, and they were trying to do it for me, and I was sort of like, I think I'm okay.
I think I can do it. And the reality was I couldn't. And so I really had to rely on them. I really had to rely on, like, peeling back the layer that things that I was maybe unlearning, which was just receiving help and receiving support and receiving care like, I've tried to give to people. And that can be really hard. It's really hard to just stop and slow down and accept the support that you need in those moments. So my. My prompt to you as you go into the week and as you're thinking about how you can really stay present with relationships and really savor them, My challenge is think about how you can savor and enjoy and be present for the ways that you're giving in relationship, but more than that, the ways that you're receiving.
Are you pushing away care? Are you pushing away support? Are you pushing away community? Or are there opportunities for you to receive it a little bit more and enjoy it a little bit more and savor it, because it goes both ways. Okay. Thank you for joining me this morning. This is a short and sweet one, but it's been something that's running around in my brain, and I thought that maybe it would be something that was resonant with you as well. Okay. Cadre, I hope you have a wonderful week. I will see you back here next Monday.
Between now and then, my hope for you is that you create space for rest. If you're on right now and you need to put it on your calendar or put a reminder on your phone or write yourself a post it note on ways you're going to rest this week, that's my call to action to you rest and accept care even when you think you don't need it. Okay, Cadre, see you next week. Bye.
