Episodes

Do you really not have time to do things for yourself? Or is it because it isn’t important for you to do? Listen to, or read, Episode 84 “Finding Your Caregiving Self-care Style: Part Three” and hear why I think it’s hard for you to do things...

Show Notes Do you stop yourself from doing things that would make you happy or give you a break from caregiving because it makes you feel guilty to even think about it?  Does it feel selfish to want or to do something for yourself because you...

I bet your idea of self-care is flawed.  Listen to Episode 82 “Finding Your Caregiving Self Care Style: Part One” to find out if it is and learn two ways you can bring self-care into your day. Show Notes If you have listened to any of my...

Find caregiver support and downloads at Show Transcript Time seems to run super slow and then too fast when we are caregiving. All of a sudden we find ourselves looking back at the year and not know where the time went. Maybe we mourn not being able...

Show Notes Find more resources and a PDF download at www.loveyourcaregivinglife.com Learning to Listen to the Person You Care For Caregiving is like that gait belt they put around a patient in a hospital to get them up to walk around. It usually...

Please leave a rating or a review. the pdf "Top 5 Tools Every Spousal Caregiver Must Have" now. Show Notes: Episode 79 "How Not to Hate Caregiving" You might have woken up today and thought how crappy it is to have to be a caregiver. It could be a...

Show Notes Family caregivers have a lot they have to deal and cope with, but you already know that don’t you? There are all the doctors’ appointments, treatments, therapies, surgeries, special diets, changing your home to accommodate their needs...

Show Notes Do you understand the power you have to change a person's day? Let’s talk about the ripples we create. My nieces came to visit me and my family this summer and one day we were hanging out by a pool. The girls sat at the edge and put their...

Last night I was watching , one of my favorite series to watch, and it ended up being a Christmas episode. Now usually I don’t watch episodes that are holiday-specific but this time I kept it on. It’s one of those shows that make me feel happy to...

Show Notes :45 - Intro 1:05 - Cameron shares stories with us about her parents and family. How she came about moving back home and was able to catch changes she saw in her mom. 2:30 - The signs of Alzheimers Cameron began seeing with her mom. 4:07 Her...

“Help… I need somebody…” Do you remember the Beetle's song?  I read the other day that Lennon wrote the song as an expression of the stress he was feeling due to the group’s quick success as a band. It was a song from his heart. He was...

When do you know when it’s time for them to start doing things for themselves? That’s a tricky question, isn’t it? We all have different caregiving experiences and the people we care for all have different needs.  No matter how different we...

Do you worry about things all the time? I mean to the point that you can’t stop worrying about them and then feel stuck in that worry? I was there for a while and it wasn’t a good place to be.  Right after my husband was diagnosed with cancer...

Today I am sharing with you a caregiver conversation with Robert Pardi. Robert was the caregiver for his wife who had breast cancer. He is now a certified life coach, adjunct professor, international guest speaker, and the author of Chasing Life - The...

Have you noticed when you or someone you know buys a new car you start seeing that care everywhere? Or maybe that color care shows up everywhere and even though you know that car or color existed before you never noticed it until then? That’s how it...

Those that we care for are people and sometimes we lose sight of that. No, I get it… you know they’re a person. But do you always see them for the actual person they are? I’ve talked about turning off the caregiver switch so you can connect with...

You can do this… I know you feel like you just want to run away… You want to hide from the world…. You want to wake up and have it all be a bad dream. But you realize you’re living it. Like a bad groundhogs day loop where every morning you...

The phone call. You know, the call from the Dr that you are waiting for. You have no idea when it will come and you definitely don’t want to miss it because that means the process would start all over again. Today let’s talk about waiting for the...

Caregiver Conversation with Cameron Huddleston

You’re a caregiver… so you know that nothing stays the same for too long. Everything shifts and changes and once you feel like you have a handle on things it changes again. I know how unsettling that can feel.  When I think of change the song...

My husband went in for surgery three months ago and I was concerned because I felt waaaaaaayyyyyy too calm. It wasn’t anything like the way things were for past surgeries.  I thought maybe I should take this as a win. But….. it made me a...

There’s so many different levels of stress right? But I find that the higher up we go on that stress spectrum my body reacts to it differently.Then there is caregivers stress that just is it’s own beast, right?  I feel that as a caregiver...

Deep down there is a little part of you that knows you need therapy. If you are a caregiver you can find a million reasons why you don't have the time/can't go. This episode is for everyone who wants to know... * What happens in that first therapy...

Do you understand how important caregiving is? I know you’re doing it but do you understand how critical your role is for the person you are caring for? Have you taken time to actually write out everything you do as a caregiver?  In today’s...