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Caregivers: How to Maintain your Health Despite this Taxing Job

  Being a caregiver has its rewards, but it can certainly take its toll on someone’s body and mind.   Between the mental and physical strains, caregivers report such issues as insomnia, poor eating habits, a failure to take care of their own physical health...

Make Self-Care Part of Your Caregiving Routine

Practicing What We Preach Growing up, I can remember my basketball coach relentlessly hollering at me to run faster, harder, and further.  Rather than focus on increasing my respiratory fitness (per his constant suggestion), all I could focus on was his rather...

If You Don’t Ask, The Answer Will Always Be No

A post I wrote last month apparently hit a nerve in the caregiver community, so I thought I’d address the gist of these comments. It was about asking for help at holiday gatherings. As a caregiver who became used to doing it all, I stopped asking others for help. Why...