Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
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 …
To say we are unchanged by caregiving events is to deny an essential part of what it is to be human. We grow from events until the day we die.
When working with Dad during his declining years, I remember those oh-so-valuable conversation where we said the things we wanted to say. Conversations that eventually would become no longer possible. Talks of financial and burial arrangements that were thinly disguised versions of “I love you”. Bittersweet today but were just “significant” talks back then. Those …
As fears go, being afraid of dying is probably one of the most common. I openly confess that I have no real enthusiasm for firsthand experience of the process but I am learning to cultivate a familiarity that does comfort me.
Dad's Back 