Backstage, actors let their hair down after doing their job on the stage. After you complete your tasks and duties, how do you let your hair down backstage? Your backstage may be a corner in a room, your journal, your garden. Wherever it is, use your backstage to just be, whether you be sad, tired, [...]
Life has its ups and downs. Caregiving, though, can seem like an one-way elevator—it just goes down. Caregiving can be a downer. You see so much suffering. And, so much seems to suffer because of caregiving: Friendships, relationships, career goals, your health, your independence, your confidence. Is it possible to go up? You push the [...]
Do you feel like life is one big search? You search for help, answers, treatment options, support, information. And, then, sometimes, you feel like you search for new friends, new jobs, new homes. Even worse, the search for acceptance, understanding and love can be absolutely be exhausting. Wouldn’t it be nice to stop the search [...]
Image via Wikipedia When you look around, do you seem to see a mountain of incontinence supplies, an ocean of dirty laundry and a sea of sad faces? Who knew a mountain, an ocean and a sea could provide such a depressing backdrop? While we can’t change our circumstances, we can change our surroundings. We [...]
(Editor’s Note: This week’s comfort is dedicated to Donna, who inspired this one.) Magic If only, we can sometimes think, we could wave a wand to make all the difficulties of life disappear. Wouldn’t that be magical? Difficulties uncover blessings. One uncovered, these blessings manifest into a perspective, a belief and a knowledge that life, [...]
Ahhh, you might think, life was perfect Before caregiving. Before, you may think, I had so much time, so many options, so many friends, so much fun with my caree. I had so much. Before, most likely, was much better. Because, Before, everyone in the family was healthy. Remember Before with kindness. And, then let [...]
Do you sometimes wonder if hope is friend or foe? You hope, but your hopes don’t seem to materialize. You hope a sibling will be more sensitive to all you do, you hope your care recipient will know more pain-free days, you hope your life will be easier. But, the hopes just seem to stay [...]
Your life has limitless potentials–even within the constraints of your caregiving. This week, consider: Who are you? Who do you want to be? How can you be who want today? Then, be who you truly are. Be the wise, strong, shining star you are. Be.
Want to make a certain decision but worried about how others will react? If you make decisions that will make everyone happy but you, then you’ve made a decision in fear. And, that’s selling yourself short. You make good, wise decisions. You can explain the reasons for your decision simply and successfully. When you do [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife In basketball, when someone takes a shot and misses, a teammate grabs the rebound in order to take another shot. The team trains to perfect rebounding as much as it does shooting—knowing every shot won’t net a score. Who grabs your rebounds? You can’t make every shot, i.e., solve [...]
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