Caring – The Heart of Caring

What Resilience Really Means

Resilience doesn’t mean never feeling tired or overwhelmed. It means finding ways to keep showing up even when life feels heavy. In caregiving, resilience is ...

Awareness: The First Step in Compassionate Care

Awareness serves as the gateway to compassionate care. Without it, we overlook subtle cues of need, miss silent signals of distress, and risk slipping into ...

Compassion: Meeting Need with Heart

If awareness is the doorway to caregiving, compassion is what moves us through it. Awareness shows us what’s real; compassion shapes how we respond. Without ...

Finding Your Way on a Difficult Path

A Time For Remembering This past weekend, Americans celebrated the holiday of remembering—Memorial Day. A day for honoring men and women lost in American wars. ...

Music & Memory 🎶 The Yellow Rose of Texas

After wheeling my mother to a table in the activity room of her care facility in Los Gatos, California, I walk to a cabinet and ...

Along the Path of Caring

Caring Brings us to the Moment at Hand Care givers are challenged daily to deal with the unexpected. Accepting change and adapting to whatever arises ...

Three Paths of Caring

The Path of Self-Care “Mindfulness of the body is the body’s mindfulness.” Yoga and meditation are valuable tools for strengthening the body, balancing the mind and recovering ...

From Normal To Lost

Do you Know the Difference between Normal and Abnormal Memory Loss? Mild memory loss with slower processing time is a part of normal aging but ...

The Reminiscing Connection

For those with Alzheimer’s the therapeutic effect of reminiscing is particularly important as it taps into a visceral place, far deeper than memory alone. By ...

Lost a Mother, Gained a Friend

In the course of our lives Joan has taught me many things, as one would expect from a devoted mother. However, my greatest lessons have ...