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When Caregiving Feels Heavy: Recognizing Grief You Didn’t Know You Were Carrying When you’re caring for someone you love, especially someone living with dementia or a long-term illness, there’s a process of loss that happens — even if no one has passed away. You’re...

“Being a Caregiver is Killing Me” – According to Google Ads, this is one of the top searches where my ads show up. If you have put in that search term and you have found this page, I want you to know two things before we talk about anything else: You are not alone in...

When life feels heavy—whether you’re grieving, caregiving, or simply running on empty—self-care can seem like one more impossible task. The truth is, self-care isn’t always spa days or bubble baths. Sometimes it’s about protecting the little energy you have left and...

A person you care about has lost someone and now it’s been more than a few months. Bringing food no longer seems needed, they’re starting to connect with friends and life, and it almost seems like things are starting to go back to a version of normal. You’re unsure...

Thank you for being here. I’m assuming you’re doing your best to be part of the support system and that’s why you’re reading this now. The fact that you care enough to try to learn what to do and not do says a lot about you. It’s hard to watch someone else hurt. It’s...

Pets hold a special place in our lives, whether they have fur, feathers, or scales. They provide us with a type of relationship that most people cannot: genuine unconditional love, and unconditional non-judgment (for the most part - several of my own pets have gotten...

I love art as a way to express how we feel. Language does not always have the words to describe our internal states and at times we can find communicating difficult, if not impossible. It can be a relief when someone else has found a way to illustrate how we feel, and...

Most people don’t follow the five stages, and that’s okay. The original book that first discussed the five stages in 1969 is actually called, “On Death and Dying” by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. She was studying people who they themselves were dying – it was not about their...