Caregiving Comforts

You can wonder: How am I going to do this without enough help? How am I going to afford this without enough money? How am I going to manage this without enough time? Without enough, we can lose faith. Without faith, we can feel lost. How can we find what we need, including the belief that we will be okay? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise  Denise supports i...

As you go through the motions of your day, you always seem to hear the heckler. There's always one who believes they know better and can do better no matter they aren't actually doing what you do. How do you handle the heckler in your life? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise  Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, plan...

At one point in your life, fall simply meant a season, a time of bright colors, pumpkins, a crisp change in the air. You may have enjoyed some scares around Halloween. Now, fall means something completely different -- your caree's falls, which are more frightening than any haunted house. Some of the falls play on repeat in your head, reminding you over and over of what you saw, what you heard and...

During your caregiving experience, you invest. You invest time, money, resources, energy. You wonder when you'll receive your return on investment.  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 pat...

You feel like that you've been driving on that tire that's been flat for 500 miles without anyone telling you. How do you pull over so you can fill up? 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...

You seem to be running late regularly during your day. It's not just for an appointment or because of a deadline or due to another delay beyond your control. You feel late in life, as if life continues while you stand still holding all the caregiving worries, stress and responsibilities.  How do we catch up? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise  Denise support...

When you look at yourself in the mirror, you may wonder: Where did I go? This week's Comfort, offers a reminder that you are still there. 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....

You've had a long night which means you're having really long day. You want to cope. Really, you're just moments away from a good cry. It's so frustrating when you can't sleep. It's awful that you are regularly robbed of rest. Of course, you want to cry. Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise  Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with...

If only you could make some bets about what will happen next during your caregiving experience. You'd win more than you could count. What about your chances? 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...

We toil. Our days are back-breaking. Heart breaking. Soul breaking. We toil, day in and day out. How do we keep going? 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 helpin...

I wonder:  Because we do so much, do we allow others to be lazy? Because we are so detail oriented, do we make it okay for others to be lazy? Because we are so diligent, do we make it easy for others to be lazy? 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 he...

The caregiving experience feels like a constant churn. You go through it. You can feel depleted of patience and energy and too full of body aches. How can you feel good about a life with such high churn rates? 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...

After we clear our calendar in order to take a few hours for ourselves, why does the day immediately fill up with a caregiving crisis that needs our attention? After we organize our day with careful, thoughtful consideration, why does the day have a different idea and derail our plans with problems we need to resolve? After we share that we need help, why does the help agree to step in and then ju...

You take a swing, a try, an attempt. The swings, though, just seem to exhaust you. No matter how many swings you take, the ball stays still. Or worse, you hit a foul ball or land in the sand bunker or in the water. You just don't see progress. Sometimes, you feel like you're moving back rather than forward. Why keep swinging? Are our efforts just futile in the face of a relentless disease process,...

It's one of the ironies of the caregiving experience: Your day is full of decisions, pivots, advocacy, all of which take wisdom, agility and tenacity. So why do you feel so dull when you connect with family members and friends? During those conversations, family members and friends seem to have such lively lives. They travel! They attend concerts, sports games, movies! They share reviews of restau...

Clear heads prevail. With a clear head, we have the capacity to exercise every day, take time to shop for and prepare healthy meals. With a clear head, we want to work out. We crave fruits and vegetables. In order to have a clear head, we must be free of worries, pressure, stress. How do we clear our head during our caregiving days? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. Abo...

It's what you wear and what you do. The watch you wear reminds you that you are late, that you must rush, that you'll always be behind. The watch you take means you watch for declines, for problems, for the next shoe to drop.  How do you take a different watch? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise  Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experience...

You make it all happen. How do you make it happen so you receive, too? 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 199...

You'd love some good company as you lead this company called The Caregiving Experience. Because you're in the lead, you feel alone at the head of the pack. No matter how much room you give so others can share the lead, they slow their pace to remain a follower. They see how hard it is to be at the front. Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise Denise supports ind...

You deserve our thanks and appreciation. Share how we can thank you, 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...

It seems everyone has an opinion about what you do, how you do it, and when you do it. Their opinion really is a judgement. In their opinion, you're doing it all wrong. They're happy to tell you all about it. Let's turn around the tell. Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com. About Denise Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning...

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...

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? Caregiving Comforts offers...

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. Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your ca...

Your progress in your life seems, at best, to stall. How do you keep your life moving forward when so much looks backward? Caregiving Comforts offers exactly what you need: 2-3 minutes of genuine understanding, comfort, and hope. Every Monday, Denise M. Brown shares reflections that speak directly to your caregiving reality—the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the moments when you wonder if life has can...