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Alyssa Kuzins Caregiver Spotlight

In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, meet family caregiver Alyssa Kuzins. It hasn’t even been a year since her husband Brad’s bike accident resulted in a traumatic brain injury – Alyssa is just coming up for air. She shares about her unwanted caregiving role, her dedication to Brad’s therapy, the question people asked that made her want to punch a wall, and how her embodiment practices have helped her healing. Alyssa also delivers messages of hope by sharing a few of her poems.

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Words of Encouragement

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Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm. #CaregiverJar #selfcare

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Links & Resources Mentioned

  • We both love playing Bananagrams!

 

  • Alyssa shares an ’embodiment’ moment she had after the accident when she played their wedding song, Perfect by Ed Sheeran and Beyonce:

 

  • Another music recommendation from Alyssa is LeAnn Rimes’s album Chant

  • Another recent Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast guest also shared how poetry is helping with her self-care. Have a listen to Michelle Seitzer’s episode.
  • Elizabeth also shared a new podcast from former guest Colleen Kavanaugh called Love Letters which is only available on Spotify.

 

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Favorite moments & quotes from the episode

Burnout culture in and of itself is rampant through society. And then when you add that in as a caregiver, holy Toledo. #alyssakuzins #caregiverspotlight

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He [Brad] got a traumatic brain injury even though he was wearing a helmet. #alyssakuzins #tbi #braininjury

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He [husband Brad] had to learn to walk again and to bring a spoon to his mouth again. He couldn’t eat certain foods. He was on a liquid diet and then he moved to soft foods because he couldn’t swallow properly because his brain wasn’t…

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My ability to be where I am now emotionally spiritually, mentally…I credit to what I did before the accident and how I showed up in my life before. So I will keep preaching and teaching #selfcare because you don’t just want to turn to…

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I knew [wedding song] was going to make me cry. I knew it was going to make me feel the enormity of what had just happened and I wanted to go there. I did not want to pretend like it was okay. It was not. I felt broken so I put it on so…

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I wish more caregivers would talk about how hard it is while it’s happening. You don’t have to hold all of that, it’s so much to hold and it didn’t just happen to them, it happened to you. In some ways sometimes it almost felt like that…

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I got to the point where I could have punched a wall for the next person that asked me how I was doing. It’s such a lame low-quality question. #alyssakuzins #caregiving

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