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Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, reflect on last week’s interview with Jane Daly. Jane shared her caregiving journey and how she learned grace during that time. Additional thoughts:
- Learning to be a family caregiver can be a journey of spiritual growth if you allow it.
- Embrace the fact that you need help sooner rather than later.
- Look at the structure of your care team and if there is no one under you, then you are doing things that do not require you to do them.
- Take the time to step back and ask, “What do I want this to look like?”.
- It is not sustainable to give, give, give, and not have any time to recharge yourself.
- “Should” is a dangerous word as it signals that you are not sure you want to take something on and can imply that you do not wholeheartedly embrace it.
- Compassion fatigue is when you reach a point that you no longer have empathy for the other person because you have exhausted everything in your being.
