Throughout our caregiving journey, we are developing so many new skills and collecting more resources than we know what to do with. It can feel like we are getting our ‘masters in caregiving’ and preparing to write a thesis! Getting her ‘masters’ was an expression that Colleen Kavanaugh, Certified Caregiving Consultant, used to explain why after a […]
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Like many, I’m a working, caregiving mom in a relatively sedentary job. I sit at my desk or in meetings most of the day…five days a week. Even though I try to exercise several days a week, I’m constantly looking for simple ways to squeeze more fitness into my workday.
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Each month, I have a one-on-one call with a caregiver in the Happy Healthy Caregiver Community. I call each of these recorded conversations a ‘Caregiver Spotlight’. I started these because each caregiver journey is unique and I know every time I talk to another caregiver I learn something new and I leave that conversation knowing I’m not
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Have you created a bucket list? In this post, I’m going to share mine with you. It’s my ’50 before 50′ bucket list. So often I see caregivers put aside all their own dreams and goals in order to care for others. I know their heart is in the right place when they make this either conscious
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Sometimes you just have to laugh at your caregiving situation. A little caregiver humor can go a long way! When my sisters and I were packing my mom and moving her from her assisted living in Georgia to my sister’s home in Pennsylvania, we created a group text called ‘It’s a great day to give care’ (this
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What do you give a caregiver to show them you care and are thinking about them? What they want is more time and available hands to call when they are needed. But in our society, where the demand of our time far surpasses the supply, it’s a struggle to be that helper we want to
A Gift for the Overwhelmed Caregiver that Keeps Giving Read More »
My Spotify workout playlist is constantly a work in progress. I know for my music to continue to motivate me and keep me moving, I need to keep my workout playlist fresh and fun. Music is a must for me during a workout because: It offers a distraction – I forget how hard I’m working or
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‘We’re out of tricks.’ This is the phrase I used when talking to my two out-of-town sisters about the need to find a better living situation for mom…again. Mom has been in two different assisted living communities in the past year and half since my dad has passed. Neither place has been a fit and
A New Place for Mom Read More »
Happy birthday to Shadow! Our dog Shadow turned 5 this month…in human years. Adding Shadow to our family is the best decision I ever made that I didn’t want to make. For real.
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In the last post, I shared that this was my third time following the Whole 30 program – in a raw nutshell it’s a nutrition program that you follow for 30 days to ‘reset’ your body and let it heal and recover from the effects certain foods may be causing. The only way to really
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