By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.

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

I love you but I got to love me more.

Many caregivers share that they often feel alone, isolated, and unappreciated. Mindfulness can offer renewed hope for finding support and value for your role as a caregiver…It is an approach that everyone can use. It...

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.

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

Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.

Lift up your arms, then, and I’ll slip it on.” I did. But instead of slipping it over my arms, it was himself he slipped between them. He kissed me in the hollow of my...

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

You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn’t even started yet.

There are only four kinds of people in the world.Those who have been caregivers.Those who are currently caregivers.Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.

During the last week of her father’s life, Blanca stayed home with him. ‘I didn’t bathe. I didn’t sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all...

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

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

Expect the best; prepare for the worst.

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

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman’s responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don’t have support or make time for self care.

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

If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it.” And I’d reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. We’d both seen the other alternative: patients...

The number of Canadians providing or expecting to provide eldercare in need is already a staggering statistic. Baby boomers are aging and this figure is likely to grow substantially.The Caregiver’s Guide for Canadians will provide...

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

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

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