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
Balancing Career and Caregiving
Host Elizabeth Miller shares how employers can help their working family caregivers balance caregiving and career.
Using FMLA Benefits
Joe Vazquez and his wife Laura live in Texas and have been married over 11 years. In February 2021, Laura suffered a traumatic and anoxic brain injury. With Laura’s freak garden accident, life as they knew it changed. Joe had to find his way as a family caregiver with zero care experience. In this episode, Joe shares his story and we discuss marital commitment, mental health therapy, FMLA benefits, and the role TikTok has played in his caregiving journey.
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.
- 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
