Meet family caregiver and healthy aging advocate Anne Tumlinson. Anne’s experiences caring for her grandma led her to work in the aging industry and start a national support group for caregivers called Daughterhood. In this episode, we talk about how we are coping with life’s disruptions, what employers can do to support working caregivers, setting family priorities, and we confess our self-care secrets.

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Words of Encouragement

Each episode starts off with a few words of inspiration or motivation that is pulled from the Happy Healthy Caregiver Jar. You can also create you own jar by downloading the Caregiver Jar inserts.

Never stop learning because life never stops teaching. #caregiverjar

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Links & Resources Mentioned

2020: The Year of Grief Overload
Celebrating Milestones While Social Distancing
Anne helped care for her grandma and currently supports her mom in caring for her father who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
Anne’s Garden is her self-care sanctuary.

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Find Your local Area on Aging resources by entering in your zip code.
Elizabeth is the facilitator of the NW Atlanta Daughterhood Circle which offers support for caregivers in Atlanta. Check the directory to see if there is a Daughterhood Circle near you.
Washington Post article: The Daughterhood Circle: Where Family Caregivers Come Together To Find Community
Daughterhood: The Podcast. If you are a dementia caregiver, check out Episode #10 Caring for the Caregiver with Teepa Snow.
A Day In the Life for My Sister Susie – Our Mom’s Primary Caregiver
Mentioned post: Work Hard to Be Dispensable!
Emily in Paris on Netflix
Plants vs. Zombies Smartphone app
Elizabeth’s Instagram
All of the prompts from the lightning round segment of the show are borrowed from Elizabeth’s book Just For You: a Daily Self-Care Journal.

Elizabeth has a new puppy, meet Sunny!
Subscribe to the Daughterhood newsletter at daughterhood.org. You can learn more about Anne’s research and advisory firm by visiting atiadvisory.com.

Favorite moments & quotes from the episode

I did re-discover my garden. I am in the dirt. @daughterhood #selfcare #silverlinings

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My biggest involvement has been trying to navigate the medical care system with them [aging parents]. @daughterhood #caregiving

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There is such a big difference between how things play out at the family level and the research and policy work that experts do. I really want to build a bridge. @daughterhood #healthcare

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Imagine if we had no educational system and every kid in the country had to be homeschooled. Every family is its own island and has to figure it out on their own. That is what our aging system is like. @daughterhood

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@daughterhood has grown organically. We don’t have any funding. Literally, this is done totally by volunteers. I’d love there to be a Circle in every community. #caregiversupport

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Just to find those people that get it [caregiving] is the key. @daughterhood

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I think when people [caregivers] finally get some relief it’s when they make that switch from just reacting to everything that is happening to realizing it’s a thing that I’m going to have to take charge of and make some proactive…

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We just have to think in terms of ‘I’m going to live until I’m 90 and I want the last 10 years to be quality’ so I have to do stuff now to make sure that happens. @daughterhood #selfcare

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When someone takes something away from my energy then I can’t give as much as I want to be able to give. @daughterhood #boundaries

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When you make it a priority to take care of others, you are contributing to their #selfcare. It’s always important to take a step back and feel gratitude for our own contributions to other people’s well-being. #giveyourselfcredit…

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