Caregiving brings love and purpose; however it can also bring burnout, worry, and fear.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about the emotions that come with knowing it’s time to take the car keys from your loved one. 

In this episode ValerieB will: 
* Discuss what driving means to an aging loved one. 
* Discuss some gentle approaches to the conversation.
* Explain how to provide support through other ways. 

The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space for caregivers to find support, encouragement, practical tools, and wisdom about the realities of caring for an aging loved one. 

Caregiving brings love and purpose, however, it can also be more challenging when there is a loved one who refuses help.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks about the emotions that occur when a caregiver desires to help a loved one who refuses the help. 

In this episode she will discuss: 
* Why a loved one resists and refuses help.
* How a caregiver can best handle the rejection. 
* Provide some gentle approaches that will prove helpful. 
* What to do when the situation is serious.

The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space where caregivers find encouragement, confidence, wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one.

Caregiving brings love and purpose, however, it can also bring some anger.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about an emotion that caregivers often feel but does not readily talk about. 

In this episode she discusses: 
* Why anger shows up in caregiving. 
* Reveal some hidden sources of caregiver anger. 
* Why some caregivers feel guilty about being angry. 
* Provides some healthy ways caregivers can respond to anger. 

The Empowered Caregiver podcast it’s a safe space where caregivers can find encouragement, confidence, resets, wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one.  

This Caregiver Calm reset is for the caregiver who doesn’t feel he or she is doing enough and who is questioning himself or herself.  You need a few moments to breathe, reaffirm yourself, recharge, and quiet your thoughts. 

If caregiving feels overwhelming, you constantly criticize yourself, and you feel you need to be perfect, this short guided reset offers caregivers emotional support, reassurance, and a calm space to exhale.  

Take a few quiet moments for yourself because you deserve care too.

Caregiving brings love and purpose, however it can also teach us lessons that will help us on our caregiving journey.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about the hidden emotions experienced when a caregiver learns the hard way. 

In this episode she discusses: 
* The importance of getting an elder care attorney early.
* Choosing the right facility. 
* Having no basic knowledge of my loved one’s disease. 
* Dementia-proofing my home. 
* Self-care as a necessity. 
* Anger and resentment as a huge obstacle. 

The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space where caregivers find support, encouragement, resets, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one. 

This Caregiver Calm reset is for the caregiver who rarely takes time for themselves and feels that you are alone.  You may need a few moments to breathe, release some tension, recharge, and give yourself permission to pause. 

If caregiving feels overwhelming, this short guided reset offers caregivers emotional support, recovery, focus on what’s in front of you right now, and a calm space to exhale. 

Take a few moments for yourself because you deserve care too. 

Caregiving brings love and purpose; however it also brings a heaviness.  In this episode, of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about the hidden emotion of grief caregivers sometimes do not openly express. 

In this episode, ValerieB will discuss: 
*How to understand grief.
* Explain why caregiver grief is so complicated. 
* Discuss the quiet loneliness of grief that caregivers experience. 

The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space for caregivers to find encouragement, wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one. 

Caregiving brings love, care, patience, and purpose; however it can sometimes be overwhelming.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about the emotions associated with caregiving and working.  

In this episode, ValerieB will discuss: 
* The risks that working caregivers experience. 
* The 3 things that makes working and caregiving so hard. 
* Implementing micro-recovery moments. 
* Reclaiming your identity
 
The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space for caregivers to find encouragement, a place to recharge, wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one. 

Caregiving brings love and purpose; however it can also be overwhelming and cause burnout.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB talks openly about the hidden emotions caregivers sometimes experience as it relates to feeling unqualified.  

In this episode ValerieB will: 
* Squash the myth that caregiving requires classes, certification, or a title.  
* Explain why you are qualified to be a caregiver. 
* We explore the traits necessary to be a caregiver. 

The Empowered Caregiver podcast is a safe space for caregivers to find encouragement, feel empowered, find wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one.  

Caregiving brings love and purpose; however it can also bring burnout.  In this episode of the Empowered Caregiver podcast, ValerieB continues to talk openly about the hidden emotion of burnout and what it takes to break it. 

In this episode ValerieB will: 
* Help you shift from just knowing what burnout is to breaking it.
*Shifting your mindset. 
*Five steps to help you break burnout.  

The Empowered Cargegiver podcast is a safe space for caregivers to find encouragement, wisdom, practical tools, and honest conversations about the realities of caring for an aging loved one.