Growth

Nobody liked pop quizzes back in school…well okay, maybe the brainiacs liked them, but none of the rest of us did! They caused an instant feeling of dread, anxiety and resignation whenever the teacher announced one. Well, perhaps unbeknownst to you, you’re still having them! Now, however, they are something that can actually help you have [...]

This week I want to share with you a beautiful and thought-provoking article by Barry Jacobs that I read last week, since I expect you will probably appreciate it as much as I did. Barry, in addition to being a clinical psychologist and family therapist, is also a former primary caregiver for his mom, who passed [...]

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 possible. Yet even with clear desired outcomes, [...]

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 you actually take a break, [...]