Caregiving Comforts

They ask, "How are you?" You answer, "I'm fine." The problem, of course, is that you're not really fine. 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 canceled you.

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 he...

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? 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 wo...

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...

Your day can seem to be about the orders. A life of orders can be exhausting. 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 membe...

You feel like you live life in a loop, repeating the same information over and over. The repeating gets old. How can you make the repeating worthwhile? 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...

During our caregiving experience, it can feel like it's all a mess. That mess can feel like too much for us. We can feel like we have to live with a mess. Do we have to live with a mess? 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 clie...

The day feels so heavy which means you feel heavy. Even your eyelids feel too heavy to lift. If it's all too heavy, how do you carry your load? 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 for...

During a caregiving day, the drudgery of the same combined with the awfulness of the new can make the day feel endless. What can help you cope? 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 for...

A caregiving experience seems to keep us in a perpetual middle between a beginning and an ending. It's why we crave a finish. 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...

Recent research that found prayer makes a difference inspires me to share a prayer for all family caregivers. We pray for you because we know how important you are. 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, possibi...

Bring our wishes for you into the New Year. 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...

During our caregiving experience, we expand but not in the ways we want. Our waistline expands because of the stress. Our wait times expand because we wait. We wait in the doctor's office, the Emergency Room, at home for test results. We wait for our caree. Our guilt expands as we worry we don't do enough, we can't be enough and we don't have enough. All this unwanted expansion can really be disco...

In all that you lose during a caregiving situation, its loss of space that seems so surprising and so sudden, like it just happened over night. How can you turn your house back into your home, a place that entertains, delights and refreshes you? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com . About Denise Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching,...

During our caregiving experience, we live by the pressing needs of our carees because we know what can happen when we don't prioritize the pressing needs. As hard as it is to live by the pressing needs, it's worse when we can't manage those pressing needs. Our caree pays too high a price. We do too. How do we ensure we make for our own pressing needs, too? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support...

A caregiving experience can sometimes feel clumsy. Clumsy, though, is an inside job. 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 famil...

Logically, you know you're not alone. You're with your caree. You sit with co-workers in meetings. You sit with family members at the holiday table. You work your way through the crowds in the grocery store. Yet, it feels like it's just you. You are the one. No wonder we have days when we're tempted to run the other way rather than take the lead, especially when we don't have a map. Read more Comf...

During your caregiving experience, you can feel like your life is stuck on hold. It's not stuck because you're not trying. It's stuck because caregiving is that intense and exhausting and demanding. How do you go from holding to living? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com . About Denise Denise supports individuals managing difficult life experiences with coaching, planning...

Our caregiving day can feel like one awful riddle after another. Even worse, these riddles feel impossible to solve. 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...

You know all too well how the swiftness of a caregiving day can leave you breathless. How do you tailor a day that works with and for 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....

It should be so easy to think. You think through such tough problems to implement really creative solutions. And, yet, at times you feel like you can't think. When a co-worker asks for your lunch order or when you have to pick out an outfit to wear, you feel like you just can't think. We'll think this through with you so you feel better. Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com...

Even when it's quiet, the noise of caregiving can drive you nuts. How do we silence the noise? 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 f...

We feel the pressure to get our caree's life story before a disease process progresses or end of life arrives. We run the race against time -- trying to get what we can before we can't get anything. Because we are the primary family caregiver, we also become the family historian, the keeper of the stories. What if, despite our best intention, we really don't get the whole life story? Read more Com...

It's really hard to hold onto quality of life for two. It's why we lapse. Our lapse doesn't have to lead to a judgement of ourselves. 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. Deni...

The load we carry each day feels so heavy. The worries, the responsibilities, the pressure take up so much space in our day that we have little room for relaxation. How can we relax when so much and so many depend on us? How can we take time for ourselves when we have so importance to manage? Read more Comforts and enjoy our support at CaringOurWay.com . About Denise Denise supports individuals ma...