by Heather Braucher | Mar 6, 2024 | Encouragement, Self-Care and Stress
Caring for our Bodies to Meet the Needs of Those We Love Caring for our bodies to meet the needs of those we love is a good thing to do. In this post, guest blogger Heather Braucher tells about her long journey to improved health for the benefit of her family members,...
by Jolene | Dec 27, 2023 | Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
I Didn’t Want to Learn Hard Caregiving Lessons, but Now I’m Grateful I didn’t want to learn hard caregiving lessons in 2023. Mainly because I’m a big fan of easy. Hard? Not so much. Yet here I am waiting for 2023 to end—believe me, I’m ready to put it behind me—and at...
by Jolene | Oct 23, 2023 | Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
The Time Warp That Is Disability Caregiving The time warp that is disability caregiving is a concept that came to me in the middle of the night. Before you categorize me as a crackpot, be assured of this: The thought was not caused by alien abduction.No zombies came...
by Jolene | Sep 25, 2023 | Grief, Special Needs Parenting
Caregivers Can Do Hard Things Caregivers can do hard things. In the nearly sixty-seven years my mother and I shared on this earth, she taught me many lessons. The one I leaned on the most as our time to say good-bye drew near was this one. Caregivers can do hard...
by Jolene | May 10, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
It’s Going to Be a Different Kind of Mother’s Day It’s going to be a different kind of Mother’s Day for you this year. God whispered those words to me as I waddled into the doctor’s office in early May of 1982. Never mind that my husband and I wouldn’t see our first...