Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Funny how we never seem to outgrow the competition we develop with our parents. Not always an overt or aggressive style of action but a quiet determination to somehow undo in your life what they had carried over from their life. To undo the corruption of an otherwise perfectly serviceable set of personal traits. I …
Letting go of feelings that hold us to trauma is so stupidly simple to do yet ends up being incredibly difficult to practice. Must be some cosmic rule in play here. Wish I had a copy of the book. Events that we view as being traumatic, happen to us all of the time. We lose …
Caregiving takes out so much of us that we can get lost - literally. In the same way that we have to bring intention to self-care activities like eating, adding a few daily activities can help restore some of our selves without neglecting any of our caregiving chores.
When I first started taking care of Dad, there was not a lot of resources for caregivers. Dementia had been around as a diagnosis for a long time but little attention had been paid to people who cared for these patients at home. Thankfully that has changed a lot these days.
Dad's Back 