Sometimes self-care is getting your important paperwork together. Other practical self-care activities that result in peace of mind include: keeping our loved ones safe, advocating for ourselves, finding ways to make caregiving sustainable, and making our home a place we want to be.
Podcast Episodes
Messy Caregiving
Natalie Elliott Handy and JJ Elliott Hill are sisters. Together, along with a third sister Emilie, they manage care for their mom who is living with Parkinson’s disease. Natalie is also a caregiver for her spouse, Jason, who receives palliative care to help navigate his cancer journey. In this episode, we discuss all the total messiness around family caregiving. We talk about letting go of perfectionism, getting access to your parent’s finances, the benefits of palliative care, and they both confess their guilty pleasures.
Organizing Copious Care Data
Tara Ross brings a wealth of personal experience and unwavering support to fellow caregivers, drawing from more than a decade of caregiving roles. Having navigated the complexities of caring for a veteran, her in-laws, and balancing the needs of young children and pets, Tara intimately understands the challenges caregivers face. In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, Tara shares her journey of overcoming caregiver burnout and implementing strategies to prevent future exhaustion. She also discusses how her own caregiving journey inspired her to develop innovative products to assist other caregivers. And, Tara introduces a transformative visual tool designed to help caregivers assess their energy levels and maintain balance in their lives.
Communicating with Persons with Dementia and Dev. Disabilities
In this show, we learn how Teepa Snow’s experience caring for grandparents shaped her career focus, the language and visual cues to use to better communicate with our care partner, her self-care rituals, where she obtains her trusted dementia information, how her training may also help better communicate with persons with developmental disabilities, and the story of how she got the name ‘Teepa’.
- Unpacking Family Expectations – Lynn Abate-Johnson
- Long Distance Caregiving – Elizabeth Miller
- Self Care for Caregivers – Susanne White
- Fun Activities with Your Care Partner – Patti Lafleur
- Life After Caregiving Ends – Susie Morrell
- Live Without Regret – Rayna Neises
- Become a Badass Advocate – Erin Galyean
- Navigating Military Family Caregiving – Caira Benson
- Reclaiming Your Identity – Ashley Jackson
Articles & Event Replays
- TV Segment: How Technology Can Be A Part of Your Care Team
- Caregiving Advice I Gained from Watching Ted Lasso
- Writing a Self-Care Plan or Your Own Caregiving Plan
- How to Have 'The Talk' With Your Parents About Assisted Living
- Navigating the Role Reversal with Your Parents
- 3 Strategies to Improve Your Home Care Experience
Product Reviews
From Our Gift Shop
Learn from Other Caregivers
Help Keeping It All Together
More Practical Favorites
Other Practical Self-Care & Caregiving Resources
- Digital Course: Six Steps to Infusing Self-Care into Your Caregiving Life
- Uber Caregiver program
- Cindy and Christina Hardin-Weiss are a wealth of information on how to help your care recipient live independently for as long as possible. Check out their Adaptive Equipment Corner videos on YouTube.
- Hospital Stay, Discharge Planning, Rehab, and Home Care Guides & Checklists
- Mediation & Conflict Coaching Services
- Check out our general resources page and our partner discount page.