Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Sometimes personal growth comes from caregiving. Sometimes this growth is from the effects of loss.And sometimes it is just all of the above. We’ve all had our heroes. Attitudes and personality traits that I once admired in my childhood mentors have been coming back to me in funny ways. Those role models all had a …
After all of the soul searching, evaluation, and deep thought, I arrived right back at forgiveness. Right where all of this caregiving started.
Funny how caregiving is the gift that just keeps on giving. We think it is just about the physical care and emotional roller coaster of caring for loved ones. With their passing comes a whole new package of personal work that circles around to address the many things we ignored during the times of providing care.
Caregiving is as much an emotional roller-coaster for things about the caregiver as it is to the caregiving itself.
Dad's Back 