This is the true wine of astonishment: “We are not over when we think we are.

In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.

She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes...

Never give up hope. If you do, you’ll be dead already.–Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

Alzheimer’s is the cleverest thief, because she not only steals from you, but she steals the very thing you need to remember what’s been stolen.

The phrase ‘Love one another’ is so wise. By loving one another, we invest in each other and in ourselves. Perhaps someday, when we need someone to care for us, it may not come from...

My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

I love you but I got to love me more.

My caregiver mantra is to remember ‘The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

Many of us follow the commandment ‘Love One Another.’ When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the ‘Love One Another.

One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel ‘dis-eased’ in the caregiving process.

Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.

As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns.

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle’s compass come.

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that’s...

Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.