Now more than ever, we all need to take time to recharge. This week’s topic – sleep – is the body’s natural way of recharging our emotional, mental, and physical batteries every night.
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“Understanding begins with all of us looking inward, reflecting on our own attitudes, and of course, having difficult conversations with family and friends.”
That quote comes from the introduction to this antiracist reading list, and it’s a great lead-in to our topic this week on the importance of disconnecting (looking inward to reconnect with ourselves), and then reconnecting with others.
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Current events have a way of shining a spotlight on society. With everything that’s happening in the country right now, the spotlight is showing that we are all a work in progress, and we have much to do to improve.
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Through all of the changes in the world - you are still learning and growing!
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We’ve all heard the saying that “knowledge is power.” Since this week’s topic is lifelong learning, I’d like to modify that saying slightly and put a Courage to Caregivers spin on it – knowledge is empowerment.
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When I think of strong communication skills, I think of my experience with dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, which is all about seeing BOTH perspectives in any scenario – definitely something everyone should master.
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May is Mental Health Month, with this year’s theme being “Tools 2 Thrive.” Those tools include owning your feelings, finding the positive, eliminating toxic influences, creating healthy routines, supporting others, and connecting with others. We want to focus on “finding the positive” because it fits right in with our topic for this week – positive self-talk.
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April’s newsletter is focused on Emotional Self-Care and provides tools for your Courage Toolkit.
Read our April Newsletter here.
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Do you ever think you’re just going it alone or going through the motions? That’s what can happen if you try to do self-care without first building a foundation of self-compassion, which is our final topic this month.
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This week, our topics are fear and courage. It’s been said that having courage doesn’t mean you’re never afraid. It means you don’t let fear stop you. While fear may inhibit action, courage encourages it.
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Continuing our theme of resilience, this week’s dual topics are guilt and shame, and how to tell the difference between them. Guilt is what we feel if we do something specific that goes against our values. Shame can be the painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by our awareness of doing something wrong.
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I feel that we all need some “calm” right now. We also could use a little pep talk. Here’s a mantra that does a little of both. I’ve been saying this one all week to myself and to anyone else who will listen: I CAN DO HARD THINGS.
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“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” - Katie Reed
Read our March Newsletter here.
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As we all know, caring for someone you love who is living with mental illness can be stressful on a GOOD day. These days, there’s even more adding to our stress levels. So this week, we’re sharing some strategies on how to cope.
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During these challenging times, caregivers are feeling more isolated and alone than EVER. We KNOW that we can help each other to get through this TOGETHER. After all, we know and DO HARD things every day.
We know that caregivers have many other responsibilities, too … and even in the best of times, this can cause compassion fatigue, which is this week’s topic. As caregivers, we may find ourselves with heightened anxiety about a number of things, which can lead to compassion fatigue and, potentially, to caregiver burnout.
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We’re kicking off a New Year of programming curriculum with a focus on the benefits of self-care and goal-setting. It seems like common sense that, in order to provide care, a caregiver must take care of him/herself first. But the truth is that we often tend to put our own needs last.
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We have a LOT to celebrate! 🎉We celebrated at our in-person programming this week with cupcakes 🎂Today we'll celebrate with you by sharing our first program year by the numbers.
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As caregivers, our lives are so busy and consumed with meeting the needs of others that we seldom find time to look back and analyze what happened, why it happened, and what other options might have been available. We also tend to sweep aside our emotional reactions to difficult situations.
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This week we’re exploring art and all of the benefits it can bring, whether we’re creating art or experiencing it. Feelings can be messy and sometimes irrational.
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