The Tender Times When You Deserve Extra Support
Shore up support for these emotional experiences.
Certainly, every day brings a need to receive support for our caregiving situations. We need support because we navigate the fragmented, disorganized health care systems, we manage the fraught family dynamics, and ensure our carees have they what they need when they need. We do this as we care for own families, manage our career responsibilities and do our best to meet our own needs.
We also experience some truly tender times when we need extra support, including during the following situations:
After a family member receives a diagnosis, you deserve support to manage the impact of the news and to consider what’s next. I also consider the decision to start hospice a diagnosis — the diagnosis of end-of-life. For support after hearing the difficult news of a diagnosis, join our free monthly planning sessions, A Plan for You After the Diagnosis.
When you start to help a family member, you deserve support to learn about providing care, communicating with family members, and finding your priorities. Our Certified Family Care Manager training gives you the confidence to manage the caregiving experience. With our training, you’ll also have professional experience to include on your resume, especially if your caregiving experience created a gap in your work history. You now will have a designation and work experience that fills the gap.
After a family member’s hospitalization, you deserve support because of all you witnessed before and during the hospitalization. To help heal your mind, body and soul, join us for our free monthly planning sessions, Create a Caregiving Recovery Plan.
After a terrible day that tried your last nerve, tested your patience, and threatened your sanity, you deserve support to take moments away. Because leaving at times can feel impossible, we help you get a break right where you are. To take time away right where you are, join us for our free monthly planning sessions, Create Your Respite In Place Plan.
When you feel alone in your challenges, you deserve support to remind you that you are loved and that you matter. When you need to connect to compassion, join us for A Soul Break and enjoy our Good Morning messages posted weekdays on Caring Our Way, our community on Mighty Networks.
After a day when a caree’s decline truly breaks your heart, you deserve support so another catches your tears with kindness and compassion. To connect with another who understands, join us in The Caregiving Department to ask for suggestions and receive support from Certified Caregiving Consultants.
When your worries seem to steal your peace of mind, you deserve support so that you can relax after a long day rather than fret. I believe every worry needs a plan. To receive ideas for your plans, join us for our free monthly planning sessions, Release a Worry with a Family Emergency Plan.
During the days after your caree’s death, you need support when the medical equipment supplier takes away the hospital bed, the oxygen supplies and other equipment. The shock of the loss can hit home when you see the house without caregiving. To talk out your grief, join us for free grief programs and meetings.
When do you want extra support?
Resources
Our free resource, A Workbook for Your Workplace Wellness, offers additional tools and strategies to manage when caregiving responsibilities, a grieving experience and your work collide. You can download your free copy at caringourway.com.
Our journals offer prompts to help you write it out by planning it out. Journals include:
The Daily Healing Plan: After Caregiving Ends
The Daily Healing Plan: Support for Your Worries
The Daily Recovery Plan: Support for You After a Bad Day, a Difficult Situation or a Caregiving Crisis.
Our free courses on Caring Our Way offer additional ways to receive support, including through journaling prompts, healing plans and finding your purpose.