try you first for a month Transcript: Caregiving is not just about giving care. From the Big Picture Perspective, a caregiving situation offers you daily opportunities for you to start shifting your relationship with control and perfectionism. Clinging to the illusions of control and perfection may have actually brought you some comfort over the years in different ways, but I guarantee they have been slow, constant drains on your [...]

try you first for a month Transcript: Caregiving is usually framed as something that we are doing for someone else. But that’s not my perspective at all. From my perspective, we are choosing to do everything we are doing as caregivers for ourselves. Meaning you are making the choice to care for your loved one so that you will not feel regretful on your deathbed for how you did [...]

try you first for a month Transcript: As a caregiver, you may have closer contact with the loved one being cared for than the rest of your family does – which means you may be the first to notice changes in your loved one’s behavior or personality that you need to bring to the attention of everyone who is involved in making decisions about their care. Group conversations, however, [...]

try you first for a month Transcript: It is a true blessing when a caregiving situation for a parent unites you and your siblings rather than divides you, but even in the best of circumstances, there is usually some friction. If this is the case for you, it can be helpful to remind yourself that each sibling in your family had a different set of parents. Your parents were [...]

try you first for a month Transcript: As caregivers, we are usually quite familiar with the word “selfish” – defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as doing what is pleasurable or advantageous for your own self without regard for others. Other people may have used that word to describe you. You may have used it to describe other people. And you may have flung it at yourself a few times, [...]