Words of Wellness with Shelly

Shelly's Shares: Finding Unity Amidst Tragedy: Reflections on Community and Healing

• Shelly Jefferis • Season 2 • Episode 123

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Some conversations transcend our regular wellness discussions, and today's reflection on national tragedy is one of those moments. When devastating events shake our communities, we're reminded that wellness extends beyond nutrition and exercise—it reaches into how we connect with one another as human beings.

Sharing my experience attending a local tribute and prayer vigil after recent national events, I was struck by a profound yet simple truth spoken that night: "We shouldn't be on one side or the other of anything. We should all be on the human side." Those words have stayed with me as I've contemplated what healing looks like for our communities. The sight of diverse people gathered together, holding candles and flashlights in solidarity, offered a glimpse of what's possible when we step beyond our differences.

This episode is an invitation to reconsider how we engage with each other, especially across differences. Much like a marriage doesn't dissolve at the first disagreement, our social fabric requires patience, understanding, and willingness to listen. The smallest gestures—a smile to a stranger, a moment of connection at the grocery store—can be revolutionary acts of wellness in a fractured world. We don't know everyone's story, but kindness bridges gaps that arguments never will. In your wellness journey today, consider how extending humanity to others might be the most healing practice of all.

If this resonated with you, please share Words of Wellness with someone who might need this message. I'd love to hear your thoughts—reach out through the contact information in the show notes. Until next time, do something for your wellness today, and remember that we accomplish so much more together than apart.

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In Health,

Shelly

Speaker 1:

Take time to say hello to a stranger, perhaps, smile to someone you walk by as you're out walking, perhaps. Or you see someone at the store and your eyes you know you connect you can smile. I mean, the whole part of this is just being human. We don't know what everyone is going through human. We don't know what everyone is going through. We don't know everybody's stories, and a little kindness and love and humanity goes a really really long way. Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more to share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today.

Speaker 1:

Hello, my friends, and welcome back to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly and I will be your host, and this is our Monday episode of Shelly's Shares, and I come in here and share anything from nutrition tips, exercise tips, science-based information, all of that, and then I also share some of my personal journeys and stories along my wellness journey and my life journey and just all kinds of different things. I come in here and truly whatever comes to my heart is what I share, and I have shared some series, like my last few episodes I shared with you all about the TDoS syndrome, which has to do with various things that are impacting our health as a nation and those different areas that have the biggest impact in a negative way, and that includes toxins being deficient in our nutrition negative way, and that includes toxins being deficient in our nutrition, being overweight and then stress. Those are four of the biggest, biggest areas that are impacting our health in a really negative way. So I shared those. I just really touched the surface, and that's the idea on these Monday episodes to hop in just for a few minutes and share with you whatever is on my heart or any information that I want to get out to all of my listeners. I wanted to come in here and share a little bit about recent events that have happened in our world and there has been a lot of them, let's face it. There has been a lot of them. I know for many, many of us have really been impacted by the assassination of Charlie Kirk for various reasons. Share with you education and information, but also to be able to share with you my thoughts and and just some personal thoughts that I have, and it's in no way, in no way shape or form. Is it a from a political standpoint. In no way shape or form is it from a divisive standpoint. It's more of just coming in and sharing my heart, and I don't know that I'll be able to completely verbalize what I'm thinking and feeling right now, but I will share that.

Speaker 1:

I I think the hardest part for me among many things and again, depending on what, what we're experiencing, where we are, we are at in our lives, in our personal journeys. I know one aspect of this and it's one part of it. Believe me, there's so many more very impactful parts of what we've experienced as a nation these last few weeks, but I couldn't help but keep thinking that our youngest son is in college and it could very well have been on his campus. And that might be a selfish thought. I don't mean it in a selfish way. I think it just means that I feel more connected to to what happened, and and I've I've seen, and I've heard and I've read a lot of individuals out there who are saying that they've been impacted by this more than they ever have by the death of any celebrity or well-known figure and I just think to me it's what it represents. What it represents and and also it's it's how do I say? There's been so many tragedies that this felt like this just pushed us over the edge. It was just too much for some of us to even comprehend, and really, truly still is, quite frankly, and I wanted to share, no matter what your beliefs might be, and I don't pass judgment in any way on that.

Speaker 1:

I did attend a tribute and a prayer vigil in our community and it was truly amazing and I'm going to tell you what struck me the most and I could get really emotional about this but what struck me the most Was how many different individuals came out, all walks of life, all ages. There were so many people out and you could just feel it was just. It was just a beautiful, it was a beautiful night and the event itself was was run so smoothly and the speakers were amazing. And one of the one of the quotes that really had one of the biggest impacts on me and it was it's it's just really, it's truly so simple biggest impact on me and it was it's it just really, it's truly so simple.

Speaker 1:

But he ultimately ended his time speaking by saying we shouldn't be on one side or the other of anything. We should all be on the human side. We should all be on the human side, and that just really struck me because he's right. He's right, and I don't know your thoughts on what has happened, and we all have our views and our beliefs and our rights to have those but I do know and I do feel and I'm thinking that you are probably feeling it too that there's a difference. This time feels different, and definitely there's some nastiness out there some nastiness out there.

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However, I am one to really believe that there is good, there was a reason for everything, and all I kept thinking is there must be, there must be a reason why God took his life at such a young age, and that there will be good that will come out of this. And I don't know about all of you, but I have certainly been overwhelmed to see so many communities of people coming together to pay their tributes, to honor Charlie and to have a prayer vigil for him and for our country, and it's been, it's been really remarkable. So I just felt like I wanted to kind of hop on and just share some thoughts on this. I didn't feel like it was something that I wanted to skip over and I truly didn't know exactly what I wanted to say or how I wanted to say it, but I just knew I wanted to come in today and just share some thoughts with you all, and I hope and pray that this can be perhaps the beginning of some sort of conversations together, some sort of dialogue that you know, charlie was encouraging with young students that this can be some form of healing for us as a nation.

Speaker 1:

And I don't know, I don't know what that looks like. I just always am one to you know hope, have hope and look at the positive side of things and and pray that more of us can come together and just share our thoughts and our dreams and our beliefs, and even if they don't necessarily align, that's okay, it should be okay. Right, it should be okay. And so I want to welcome any conversation. I would love to hear from any of you if you want to go into my dms and message me your thoughts and, with that being said, this is not to encourage any nastiness in any way, shape or form, and I would certainly hope that for any of you listening, that's not the direction that you would take at all. I won't respond to that. What I am saying is I would love to know your thoughts and if they're a little bit different, let's have a conversation, let's have some dialogue.

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That is something that we used to be able to do as a country and we've lost that along the way. And we can blame whoever we want and I'm not going to play the blame game but it's up to each of us individually to attempt to change that and to make a difference. I mean, I even think and I you know, it's just such a quite simple comparison but in a marriage you know, my husband and I do we always agree on things. Of course not, but think about how many couples would no longer be married and would no longer be together if, the minute they didn't agree on something, they got nasty and said forget you, and they left, left the conversation, left the relationship, like, what, like that's. That's not how we handle things. Should be able to talk and discuss and share our thoughts.

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So, anyway, it was just, it was on my heart and on my mind, and I think it's because last night was so impactful. It was just, I looked around and my gosh, there there was just a sea of people, like I mean, there was people everywhere and, you know, at the end everybody held up their candle. If they didn't have a candle, they put their flashlight on their phone, held up their phone. It was just a beautiful sight, it was a beautiful site and it was a beautiful experience and I just wanted to hop on and share about it and and share the quote. Share the quote that we should all be on the human side. We're all in this together, my, my friends, and I hope that we can move forward together in that manner because, my gosh, we can accomplish so much more together. So, if nothing else, I hope you, I hope you, take time for your wellness, your own personal wellness, on this day, and take time to say hello to a stranger, perhaps, smile to someone you walk by as you're out walking, perhaps, or you see someone at the store and your eyes, you know you connect, you can smile. I mean, the whole part of this is just being human. We don't know what everyone is going through, we don't know everybody's stories, and a little kindness and love and humanity goes a really, really long way. So, sending much blessings out to all of you and, until next time, have a beautiful, blessed day and rest of your week and I'll see you next time.

Speaker 1:

On words of wellness. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you gained value and enjoyed our time together as much as I did, and if you know someone who could benefit from today's episode, I would love and appreciate it if you could share with a friend or rate and review Words of Wellness so that more can hear this message. I love and appreciate you all. Thank you for listening and if you have any questions or topics you would like me to share in future episodes, please don't hesitate to reach out to me through my contact information that is shared in the show notes below. Again, thank you for tuning in to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I encourage you to do something for you, for your wellness, on this day. Until next time, I hope you all have a healthy, happy and blessed week. You.