Professional Self-Care
Professional self-care is about sharing your strengths and gifts with the world. It’s also about defining boundaries and developing strategies to minimize stress so you live a well-rounded life and don’t burn out. Below are the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast episodes and blog posts sharing ideas to help you with your professional self-care.
Podcast Episodes
Employee Resource Groups
Gene Lanzoni’s life centers around caregiving, both at home and at work. As an only child, Gene and his wife of over 30 years, Elizabeth, took on the responsibility of caring for his aging parents. Professionally, Gene leads the development of thought leadership research and produces content on caregiver trends. He is also a co-lead and founding member of a caregiver-focused employee resource group (ERG). In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, we discuss the origins of the ERG and the numerous benefits it offers to employers and employees. We also explore how Gene’s spiritual self-care practices and his love of coffee have helped him navigate the challenges of caregiving.
Balancing Career and Caregiving
Host Elizabeth Miller shares how employers can help their working family caregivers balance caregiving and career.
Adjusting News Anchor Career for Dad
Richard Lui is a veteran and award-winning journalist. You’ll find him currently on MSNBC. When his dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Richard made a tough decision – he put his successful career on the back burner to help care for his dad. This selflessness didn’t come easy for him. In this episode, we talk about all of Richard’s current projects plus mental self-care practices, pivots during the caregiving journey, and seeking the flexibility you need in your professional career.
- Using FMLA Benefits – Joe Vazquez
- Invisible Caregiving Labor – Belva Denmark Tibbs
- Working Daughter – Liz O’Donnell
- Helping the Working Caregiver Crisis – Debbie Howard
- Full Time Caregiver Advocate – Aisha Adkins
- Full time writer – Kate Washington
- How Caregiving Inspired Her Career – Cathy Sikorski
- Leaving Career to Care for Mom – Adrienne Glusman
Articles
From Our Gift Shop
Reading & Writing
Energize Your Work Day
- Caregiver Jar Inserts for Inspiration While You Work
- Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living by Liz O’Donnell
- Desktop Dry Erase Board
- Healthy snacks for your desk
- Energizing multi-vitamin
- On-the-go breakfast and lunch smoothie
- Hydrating coconut water
- Elevate your coffee experience
Other Professional Caregiving & Self-Care Resources
- Use your ‘master degree in caregiving’ to help other family caregivers. Become a Certified Caregiving Consultant, Facilitator, and/or Educator. Learn more here.
- Perhaps you want to use your caregiving skills to secure a professional healthcare position. Search caregiver opportunities through Jobble.
- The Working Daughter’s Guide to Working from Home
