by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Beliefs, Caregivers, Growth, Happiness, Relationships, Self-Awareness, Self-Care, Self-Sabotage
In the last three posts I’ve given an overview of three important pillars of successful self-care when part of your daily life revolves around caring for a loved one. Put these in place and you can begin to reclaim more of your life for yourself than you thought...
by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Beliefs, Caregivers, Growth, Overwhelm, Self-Awareness, Self-Care, Stress
In my last post I wrote about how easy it is for caregivers to fall into patterns of self-neglect and not even realize it. I hope you took something away from reading it that nudged you into awareness from time to time when you were pushing yourself to exhaustion. Did...
by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Blog, Family, Happiness, Hopefulness, Inspiration, Renewal, Self-Awareness
How are your holidays going this year? (…and yes, I know you may feel like most of it is already in the rearview mirror, but it’s not officially over until the new year begins!) Have the last weeks or months been filled with just the right amount of relaxing,...
by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Boundaries, Caregivers, Family, Overwhelm, Patience, Relationships, Self-Awareness, Self-Care
What happens when you feel judged for how much you do to take care of your family member, or criticized for particular choices you’ve made in providing that care? Do you react by feeling like you have to prove to your judges, and justify to your critics, what you do...
by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Caregivers, Family, Happiness, Health, Hopefulness, Overwhelm, Relationships, Renewal, Resilience, Self-Care, Stress, Support Groups
Thinking about the importance of recognizing the immense contribution of American laborers this past holiday really highlighted for me an issue that’s been coming up a great deal lately in caregiver conversation circles: the growing number of caregivers suffering in...
by Loren Gelberg-Goff | Attitude, Caregivers, Change, Family, Growth, Inspiration, Overwhelm, Renewal, Self-Awareness, Self-Care, Stress
Does the picture this Reader’s Question paints of a caregiver’s life sound like yours? I have been a caregiver for my mother for the past 5 years. My mother lives alone and has a full time aide, but I am the “go-to” person for all calls, decisions, issues that arise,...
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