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Share Your Miraculous Moment

Yesterday afternoon on Your Caregiving Journey, Elissa Al-Chokhachy joined me to discuss her book and our March Caregiving Book Club pick, Miraculous Moments, True Stories that Life Goes On. You can listen to our discussion via the player, below. Miraculous Moments is a collection of 88 stories from individuals telling a true tale about connecting to family members and friends who have died. The authors write about...

Taking the Follow

We aired our March Caregiving Book Club discussion yesterday on Your Caregiving Journey. Cathie Borrie, the author of this month’s pick, joined me to discuss her book, “The Long Hello ~ The Other Side of Alzheimer’s.” You can listen to our discussion via the player below. Cathie cared for her mom, who had dementia, for seven years. During our discussion, Cathie shared her technique for coping...

How Will You Share Your Story?

Today, on Your Caregiving Journey, Cindy Laverty joined me for our monthly book club discussion. Cindy is the author of “Caregiving—Eldercare Made Clear and Simple.” You can listen to our discussion via the player at the bottom of the post. During our discussion, we touched on a variety of topics, including how, without a strong voice, we allow others to live our lives. We also spoke about the...

Book Club Talk: A Memoir of Yesterday, In Process for Tomorrow

This afternoon, we had our book club discussion on Your Caregiving Journey. Emily Placido joined us to discuss her memoir, Julita’s Sands. You can listen to our discussion via the player at the bottom of the post. As we closed the show, we discussed Emily’s life after caregiving, which has been quite difficult. To recover, she headed to Italy for a year to write her book. As you listen to Emily describe...

Dispelling the Lie We Tell Ourselves

Today, we aired our second part of our two-part book club discussion. Today, Whitney Sheppard joined me to discuss her essay, “Do You Have Any Brothers or Sisters?,” which appears in our July book club pick, “Voices of Caregiving, The Healing Companion, Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength.” You can listen to our discussion via the player, below. In her essay and on our show, Whitney...

Three Voices of Caregiving

Today, on Your Caregiving Journey, we held our monthly book club discussion. In July, we read  “Voices of Caregiving, the Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength.” Today, contributors Nancy Hoke, M.C. Winters and Marc Silver talked about their caregiving experiences. You can listen to our hour-long show via the player at the bottom of the post. Each told a different story of caregiving;...
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