Do not hide your emotions and breathe properly. This article provides reasons and techniques for proper breathing.
Accept your feelings and submerge in the loving and compassionate existence. Abandon your feelings of guilt and the need for approval before you start caring for the loved one.
To help a child deal with the loss of a loved one by encouraging children to express themselves by drawing, writing and sharing their feelings and thoughts through the process of journaling.
Gail Mitchell persuades to free yourself from negative emotions and nurture yourself to grow emotionally and spiritually.
Being caregivers we tend to forget our own needs until we are so overwhelmed that we cannot think of “how to” do this or that or the other thing. Here are some suggestions and websites to help you set up a support system.
Taking control doesn’t mean “doing it all” it simply means choosing what is important and letting go of what is not. Let us, as caregivers, look ahead to a one-step-at-a-time beginning in how we organize our lives and our attitudes.
Caregiver Burnout–One woman’s struggle to take care of herself and, what seemed to be, the rest of the world.
A sharing of how faith influences the caregiver’s perspective on life, including guilt, trust, and confidence. An exercise of thought on these issues is included.
I address this article to those of you who are the remaining spouse, having placed your loved one into a care facility. This is a personal story discussing and affirming the feelings experienced by caregivers of Alzheimers patients.
To provide optimal care for the loved ones, a caregiver must not forget about his/herself. Care for your health and treat yourself to something you like to do once in a while to keep you motivated and balanced.
The world of patients who had a stroke is completely different from ours. Discussion of types of strokes and consequences of those strokes.
Burnout can be dangerous to you and your loved one who you care for. Burnout can be very damaging and is quite common among caregivers. Signs and symptoms of burnout and how to prevent it are included.
