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Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, revisit last week’s interview with Aaron Blight who shared his insights from his personal family caregiving experience as well as his professional expertise in helping other caregivers and caregiver organizations.  Additional thoughts discussed:

• Although you cannot always prepare for the caregiving season, you can choose how you respond.  Do you put your head in the sand and keep doing what you are doing, or do you find the experts, ask the questions, get the information you need?
• It is important to identify as a caregiver and to maintain your hat/role as a daughter/son or wife/husband.  Remember that you are stepping in to help meet their needs, not giving up your original role.
• Take the time to pause, observe, and ask yourself what could have been done differently.
• Take time to figure out your caregiving style.  When you are not doing things within that area, you are probably building resentment.
• Self-care is the small, everyday things that you do to address your needs to keep you healthy and at your best.
• Having a team for your loved one helps you with self-care and helps you have time for reflection.
• We need to find team members who are both competent and compassionate and we need to also find that in ourselves.