Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
When I lost my dad, I had plenty of warning. His decline over the preceding years. The hospitalizations, Assisted Living, his mental decline, and family dramas all clearly pointed to his exit. Yet when the time came, I felt hollow and bereft. The grieving process had begun, and I was starting at square one once …
Even when we are not channeling some form of perfectionism, we don’t like being wrong. As in early days as students receiving graded papers from the teacher, we always hope that the grade is going to be a good one, but we know that it can be a poor grade also. We know what we …
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Family relationships come in only one format: complicated. There are some common themes that we can share amongst ourselves. An unwieldy healthcare system and certain inevitabilities of aging that connect us together. Each relationship still retains a uniqueness that takes us into uncharted psychic and emotional waters. Real Life 101. Developing our own balance appears …
For anyone who has been transformed by a caregiving experience, there is a discovery process about the subtle (and not subtle!) changes that occur in our personalities that extend out to our personal relationships. The role reversals and the wholehearted pushes to move outside of our comfort zone that result in altering not just who …
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Dad's Back 