Yesterday I shared some anxiety I was experiencing during my 30 day Self Care Plan over on Facebook. I was having a medical test run to rule out the existence of a problem. The process precipitated a bout of both anxiety and stress. While undergoing the test, I focused on the faceless people forced to [...]
I am a bit wiped out. I like to think that the car can still go as fast as it used to. But self-care went the way of the fairies. This past weekend after an intense day of physical exercise using muscles that have been sitting fallow, I could not only feel the tightness [...]
I don’t think the word “respite” was in my vocabulary before I turned 55 years old. Indeed I’d known other words, synonyms that meant rest or reprieve to address caregiver stress. But the word “respite” inferred that a rest or reprieve was needed because an unpleasant obligation was in progress. Among Caregiver-Friends in recent years, [...]
I found out the hard way that my smart dog was not that obedient. I’ve got a Bouvier named Jinji that I have known for close to 8 years. Actually I’ve known her since she was 4 months old. She’s a herder who despite the two of us having attended The Hungry Puppy Obedience School [...]
It has finally happened. I joined the Tribe of Grand Parents a couple of days ago and a new brand new way of being and seeing the world opened up to me. I know, everyone says the same thing about this. But babies are so wonderful. The combination of having some idea of what to [...]
. One of the network’s lead stories this morning was of the double mastectomy of Angelina Jolie. In light of evolving medical recommendations about the frequency of mammograms that women need and my own family history, I listened to see what the media’s messaging would be about what most of us real people should do. [...]