Intentional Self-Care

Breakfast of Caregiving Champions

ART - Breakfast of Caregiving Champions

One of my favorite memories from childhood is coming downstairs early in the morning to find my grandfather, his comfortably faded flannel bathrobe knotted over his blue pajamas, his feet cozy in fleece-lined slippers, stirring a pot of something on the stove. What the something was would vary – sometimes rolled oats (never “oatmeal”), sometimes farina (cream of wheat). In the warmer months he might be poaching eggs or soft boiling them for presentation in adorable ceramic egg cups. But the point, other than that he often expressed his love for us by cooking, was that he knew what we so often forget: breakfast is important.

Navigating Change

ART - Change

Change competes with our desire for predictability, and at the same time calls us to adventure, possibility, and surprise.

Hope

Hope is what happens when we assess what we can do with a situation. Is there something I can do to make a change? Hope doesn’t deny that a situation is happening, it asks the question: “Is there something I can do to make a change?”  Hope is assessing the future and influencing it.  

Forgiving Yourself

Being human comes with many wonderful moments; it’s also laced with mistakes. The time for forgiving yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know is now.

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