R Cycle

I'm your host, Dr. Wendy.

With each episode that we begin at The Well, we'll start with where that episode will draw us in in the R cycle.

The R cycle is a framework that I developed to help those, uh, who I work with kind of figure out where they are when they're in their leadership renewal and, and wellness journey.

[lip smack] Uh, there are four stages, so I'll tell them, tell you them really quickly now.

Um, and you can, of course, learn more about The Well and all the things that we do at The Well on, on my website, drwendywilliams.com.

But there are four stages in the R cycle.

The first is to remember.

The second stage is recover and repair.

We are thriving and sometimes we are just doing nothing and perfectly happy there and that is fine.

and not performing anything for anyone so there are some frameworks that i've developed black women's liberatory leadership praxis as a model a framework that i take people through the well work i call it the r cycle so i'll be teaching a little bit of those things and making them available for folks to have them as tools for themselves ways to figure out where they are in process and navigate that and then finally we do retreats we do i call them retreats and briefs because folks sometimes don't or can't feel don't feel like they can take the full couple of days and so we'll just take an afternoon good three to four hours and reset a little bit so we've done that in a few locations throughout the country and i continue to do that as well

Well, I love that because also it makes people where they are.

Yes.

And I said, what now? currently

right now doctors are finding many patients coming in with an autonomic nervous system that is so dysregulated and cannot get regulated so that folks are having a hard time because of the ways that they're working and especially given the political climate and the news cycles and all the rest they are not getting the typical usual restorative cycle of rest in the evening they cannot shut it down right that is incredibly dangerous.

So it's PTSD and it's also just doing too much that you cannot allow the body to engage in its regular cycle of slowing down and resetting.

To not reset is deeply dangerous.