Webinar Follow-Up: How Will You Beat Caregiving’s Cabin Fever?
Mar 29 2012 in Denise's Blog, Webinars by Denise
Thanks to all who joined me yesterday for our monthly webinar. During the 40-minute webinar, I suggested ways you can beat caregiving’s cabin fever. (Miss it? No worries–you can enjoy the archive here.)
So, I’d love to know: How will you beat your caregiving cabin fever? Please share in our comments section below.
Reminder: Mark your calendars: Our next webinar is April 25 at Noon ET (11 a.m. CT, 9 a.m. PT). I’ll help you listen for your answers to the questions which plague you.
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Bette said on March 29, 2012
Thank you for this webinar Denise, I love (and am so grateful) that you explore the underlying cause of a challenge we face. In this way, we can resolve the challenges that seem like they have no answers. Thank you for showing that there can be resolution; for understanding the feelings that caregivers so often have – but maybe feel we can’t talk about.
I could so relate when you talked about looking out the window and feeling like we want to scream – “help”. The mundaneness of the routine can become so overwhelming that the mundaneness feels weighted.
I’m so grateful for the opportunities to help you here at Caregiving.com – thank you for including me and each of us! Through helping, I’ve learned that I am still here – I’ve been mixed in with caregiving for so long, it was hard to separate the two. Helping brightens my days.
I’m also going to beat cabin fever this spring by doing some outside projects. Projects that can be done right outside my mother’s window (: I painted the shutters last summer and have never really liked the color…so I’m going to take a nudge from this webinar and redo. It’s fun and I’m outside for a bit. I have a garden that needs a little help as well.
Thank you again for such a great webinar, I look forward to April’s.
Jan said on April 2, 2012
Okay you know you have cabin fever when it feels like a vacation just walking outside to take out the trash or bring in the mail!
I listened to the webinar and learned a LOT! And I’m so grateful for the ideas that came our way. Denise is right. There are two kinds of cabin fever… environmental and internal. It’s important to look at both.
My goal is small breaks throughout the day. I’ll dust off the bicycle and circle the block a couple of times to clear my head. I’ll sit on the patio instead of in my office.
And I’m going to start a kind of journal in a 3-ring binder. A place to write down small victories, positive observations.. and the miracles that still come my way. I’m going to think of it as a book of blessings. And I’m going to load it up with emails from friends, blogs from this website, the pictures that the little girls at church draw and give to me, and the insights I gain from reflection and prayer.
Then, on the bad days, I’ll pick up my book of blessings and turn the pages, and marvel at what I’ve collected, and the cabin fever will evaporate.
I feel better already!