Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
In my younger days of competitive bicycling, keeping up with the group was an important part of your survival on two wheels. Lose contact with fellow riders and you lose your support. If I was having a bad day, I remember slowly drifting off the back of the group, lacking the necessary energy to pedal …
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Gratitude is most often enjoyed as we look out the back window of Life. Whether after an event or a relationship has played out, gratitude is a wonderful mechanism that connects us to what happened, giving us connection to our current surroundings. Gratitude can also sometimes present itself as an opportunity to change the future. …
Continue reading "All in the Timing: Gratitude for Second Chances"
All lives start to sound like a soap opera as you tell the story, and mine has been no exception. For many of my father's final years, I stepped into the caregiver role, like so many of us. My mum had not been in the picture for over 30 years, so it was quite the …
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Dad's Back 