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This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Susan Stern. Susan is a wife, mother, and family caregiver. After 20 years as a speech-language pathologist, she changed her career path to pursue her calling to support other caregivers. Susan became a certified coach and started her business helping overwhelmed family caregivers improve their self-care and life balance. She now helps family caregivers to be strong during one of life’s most challenging seasons. Susan shared the following tips:
- Cultivate a sense of trust and respect.
- View the relationship as a partnership in care.
- Get the legal paperwork in place right away.
- Find a way to support their independence for as long as possible.
- A lack of good self-care can cost you your health.
- Meditation can be helpful in self-care.
- Make memories doing the things they can still do.
- Try to have calm body language.
- Be present with your loved one.
- Permit yourself not to be perfect.
- When faced with an urgent decision, stop, breathe, and look for options.
- Protect your health.
- Prioritize your self-care.
- Develop good morning and evening routines.
- Keep your medical appointments.
- Find an emotional support system.
- Manage stress.
- Identify moments of joy.
- Remember something funny to get you through a hard day.
- Get in touch with Susan at her website www.SpringtoLifeCoaching.com
