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  • A Weekly Caregiving Comfort: Good

    A Weekly Caregiving Comfort: Good
    2024/05/28
    How do you manage when you may feel like you're failing?
    Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com.

    About Denise

    Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning and training. Through her work, Denise helps clients find hope, possibilities and a path forward. Denise began helping individuals who care for a family member in 1990 and launched a business to help them in 1995. She created one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 which she managed until its sale in 2020.

    Denise now develops and delivers training programs for the workplace and for individuals who want to coach family caregivers. More than 400 individuals from eight different countries have enrolled in her training programs offered through her company, The Caregiving Years Training Academy. Her training programs have been approved to provide Continuing Education Units to health care professionals, including nurses, and human resource professionals.

    Denise also hosts an online community, CaringOurWay.com, that supports individuals during and after their personal caregiving experience. Community members enjoy free workshops and special events like the Caregiving Listener Project and the 36-Hour Christmas Chat. Denise is the author of several books that provide insights, comfort and hope to those who care, including The Caregiving Guide, Your Go-To Reference and Companion During All Stages of Your Caregiving Experience, and After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again. Her free resource, A Workbook for Your Workplace Wellness, helps individuals who care, grieve and work.

    Denise began helping her parents in 2004 after her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis. Her mom, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in August 2022, one year to the date after Denise’s brother died. Her father died in July 2023.

    Next Avenue named Denise a 2017 Influencer in Aging, one of “50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts who continue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older.” Her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, USA Today, SmartMoney.com, Time magazine and Chicago Tribune.
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    2 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Pile

    A Caregiving Comfort: Pile
    2024/05/06
    It's all a pile: The laundry, the paperwork, the dishes.

    The excuses others make to get out of helping is also a pile of you-know-what. The way the systems work, especially the health care system and insurance companies, are another pile of you-know-what.

    It all piles on you. It's terrible to be under the pile. It's awful when you can't find a way up.

    How do you get up?
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    7 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Negotiate

    A Caregiving Comfort: Negotiate
    2024/04/22
    You're negotiating who does what when how and why.

    You're negotiating while suppressing the utter frustration that you can't just get a simple, "Sure, I'll do just as you requested. No problem."

    You crave the Yes.
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    2 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Forward

    A Caregiving Comfort: Forward
    2024/04/15
    Your progress in your life seems, at best, to stall.

    How do you keep your life moving forward when so much looks backward?
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    2 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Fine

    A Caregiving Comfort: Fine
    2024/04/01
    They ask, "How are you?"

    You answer, "I'm fine."

    The problem, of course, is that you're not really fine.
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    4 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Cost

    A Caregiving Comfort: Cost
    2024/03/25
    The costs, it seems, are just too high.

    We feel like we pay the price with our time, money and well-being.

    The stress of our caregiving days becomes the expense that we can't control.

    How do we manage our stress?

    Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com.

    About Denise

    Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning and training. Through her work, Denise helps clients find hope, possibilities and a path forward. Denise began helping individuals who care for a family member in 1990 and launched a business to help them in 1995. She created one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 which she managed until its sale in 2020.

    Denise now develops and delivers training programs for the workplace and for individuals who want to coach family caregivers. More than 400 individuals from eight different countries have enrolled in her training programs offered through her company, The Caregiving Years Training Academy. Her training programs have been approved to provide Continuing Education Units to health care professionals, including nurses, and human resource professionals.

    Denise also hosts an online community, CaringOurWay.com, that supports individuals during and after their personal caregiving experience. Community members enjoy free workshops and special events like the Caregiving Listener Project and the 36-Hour Christmas Chat. Denise is the author of several books that provide insights, comfort and hope to those who care, including The Caregiving Guide, Your Go-To Reference and Companion During All Stages of Your Caregiving Experience, and After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again. Her free resource, A Workbook for Your Workplace Wellness, helps individuals who care, grieve and work.

    Denise began helping her parents in 2004 after her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis. Her mom, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in August 2022, one year to the date after Denise’s brother died. Her father died in July 2023.

    Next Avenue named Denise a 2017 Influencer in Aging, one of “50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts who continue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older.” Her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, USA Today, SmartMoney.com, Time magazine and Chicago Tribune.
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    2 分
  • A Caregivin Comfort: Own

    A Caregivin Comfort: Own
    2024/03/18
    You'll have days when you wonder: What do I even own?
    Time, money, choice all seem to be swallowed up your caregiving duties.
    What can we own?
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    2 分
  • A Caregiving Comfort: Brew

    A Caregiving Comfort: Brew
    2024/03/11
    If only just coffee brewed.

    It all seems to be brewing -- the next blow up, crisis or decline. Because you can sense something's coming, you feel like you're in a constant state of brewing. You're simmering, only a moment away from boiling over from the pressure of being ready to manage the next difficult moment.

    How do you turn down the heat so the brewing ends?

    In this episode, Denise leads you through a guided meditation.

    Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com.

    About Denise
    Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning and training. Through her work, Denise helps clients find hope, possibilities and a path forward. Denise began helping individuals who care for a family member in 1990 and launched a business to help them in 1995. She created one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 which she managed until its sale in 2020.

    Denise now develops and delivers training programs for the workplace and for individuals who want to coach family caregivers. More than 400 individuals from eight different countries have enrolled in her training programs offered through her company, The Caregiving Years Training Academy. Her training programs have been approved to provide Continuing Education Units to health care professionals, including nurses, and human resource professionals.

    Denise also hosts an online community, CaringOurWay.com, that supports individuals during and after their personal caregiving experience. Community members enjoy free workshops and special events like the Caregiving Listener Project and the 36-Hour Christmas Chat. Denise is the author of several books that provide insights, comfort and hope to those who care, including The Caregiving Guide, Your Go-To Reference and Companion During All Stages of Your Caregiving Experience, and After Caregiving Ends, A Guide to Beginning Again. Her free resource, A Workbook for Your Workplace Wellness, helps individuals who care, grieve and work.

    Denise began helping her parents in 2004 after her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis. Her mom, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in August 2022, one year to the date after Denise’s brother died. Her father died in July 2023.

    Next Avenue named Denise a 2017 Influencer in Aging, one of “50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts who continue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older.” Her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, USA Today, SmartMoney.com, Time magazine and Chicago Tribune.
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    7 分