by Jnette | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog, Caregiving, Sandwich Generation, self-care
The Beginnings of My Caregiving Journey One of my first caregiving duties was counting out my mother’s medication with her several times a day. I was around 8 years old, maybe 9. Sitting at our table in the small house behind our church we rented from them for...
by Jnette | Jun 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
The other day, after reading yet another post in a Facebook group in which family members were sacrificing themselves, their families, their finances, and their careers to try to make their parents happy despite their parents’ unwillingness to do what was...
by Jnette | Apr 15, 2024 | Caregiving, Childhood Trauma, Eating Disorder Recovery, Sandwich Generation, self-care, Uncategorized
The Invisible Transition into Caregiving Do you remember when you became a caregiver? Was it an emergency surgery, a diagnosis, a fall, or slow decline of your loved one’s abilities? Did you decide to become a caregiver or did it just happen to you? For me, I just...
by Jnette | Mar 13, 2024 | Caregiving, Sandwich Generation, Self-Caregiving, Uncategorized
From Stressed to Empowered: Celebrating Self-Compassion in Our Caregiving Community Caregiving is often described as an act of love and, while it is, it is much more than that. So much of the role of caregiving goes unnoticed from the shift in dynamic between you and...
by Jnette | Feb 26, 2024 | Caregiving, Sandwich Generation, self-care, Uncategorized
“It’s not that you don’t have the time to take care of yourself. It’s that you feel guilty about taking the time for yourself.” Do you think if you just had more time you would do all the things you know you need to do for yourself? Like go to that doctor’s...
