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This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Stacey Johnston. Stacey has a varied background owning and operating a dance studio for 30 years and spending 11 years serving as a family services specialist. She is now a coach, consultant, speaker, trainer, and podcaster. Stacey is a caregiver for her mother and stepfather. She shares the following insights from her caregiving experience and her current passion for encouraging others:
- Caregiving is a balancing act between what we want and what our loved one wants/needs.
- Ask questions to help shift your loved one’s mindset from what they cannot do to what they can do.
- Find your ‘dance partner’. The world deserves the best version of you!
- You cannot give from an empty cup, so turn on your ‘light’, and things that you need to fill you up will come to you.
- Letting go of control can be difficult for the person being cared for as well as for the caregiver.
- Listen to “Everyday Heroes” for interviews with people from across the world who are doing great stuff serving other people and bringing hope.
