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- How Will I Let My Dream Come True?You've got a dream. Maybe it's not a Netflix special, but it's yours. And somewhere between wanting it and working for it, you probably started trying to control every piece of how it happens.
This week, a comedian's pre-show self-talk sparks a different question: what if you stopped mapping out every challenge and solution, and just let it happen instead?
Denise shares what changes when you trade control for trust and the one question that could shift how you start your day.
Resources- Turn your personal caregiving experience into your coaching/consulting career. Learn more about the path to launching your caregiving consulting business before December 1.
- Calculate your caregiving value: https://www.careyearsacademy.com/caregiving-resources/tools/costs/save/
- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by Susanne Jutzeler from Pixabay
9 min - How Will I Remember My Future Today?Have you ever tried to remember something that hasn't happened yet?
Years ago, a seminar took Denise's understanding of hope in an unexpected direction — a single phrase that reframed how she thinks about overwhelming days. It's a small mental shift, but it opens up something family caregivers rarely give themselves permission to feel.
This week, Denise shares the practice and the question it leads to that you can ask yourself every morning.
Resources- Turn your personal caregiving experience into your coaching/consulting career. Learn more about the path to launching your caregiving consulting business before December 1.
- Calculate your caregiving value: https://www.careyearsacademy.com/caregiving-resources/tools/costs/save/
- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
8 min - What Can I Explore?Your days can start to feel like one long to-do list — grind in the morning, more grind waiting for tomorrow. This week, we're asking what it looks like to break that pattern, not with a big life change, but with something smaller and closer at hand. We'll talk about what it means to explore right where you are — in a conversation, a detour, a hobby you've been setting aside — and why that kind of exploring might matter more than it seems. By the end, you'll have one simple question to carry into your morning.
Resources- Calculate your caregiving value: https://www.careyearsacademy.com/caregiving-resources/tools/costs/save/
- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Photo on Pixnio
7 min - Where Do I Live in My Head?You know the thoughts that trap you. The ones that circle back no matter how many times you talk yourself out of them.
This week, Denise found herself stuck in three of them. She shares what she did next, which wasn't about changing what was happening around her.
It was about where she decided to live.
Join Denise for this week's Sunday Question, where she offers the line she repeats to myself and the question she thinks you should ask yourself every morning.
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Photo by Allison Huang on Unsplash
5 min - What's My Personal Platform?Some of us are spending our later years the way everyone expects — travel, rest, time with grandkids. And some of us are still building something.This week, I'm talking about the choice to keep working toward a legacy instead of settling into retirement, and why neither path is better than the other — just different.
If you've ever felt out of step with the people around you because your priorities look different, this episode is for you. I'll walk through a simple tool I use to stay grounded in my own choices: a personal platform, a short list of the values and priorities that guide how I spend my time.
By the end, I'll ask you the same question I ask myself every morning. What's yours?
Resources- Join our advocacy efforts to build better support for family caregivers
- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by Free Photos from Pixabay
6 min - Where Will I Travel Today?Some days, you can't leave your house. Your life's responsibilities don't pause, don't give you room to get away.
But there's a kind of travel that doesn't require leaving anything behind.
In this week's Sunday Question, we explore the travel that's always available to you — the kind found in conversation, in imagination, in a book or a recipe or a moment you let yourself fully enter.
Press play, and ask yourself the question that starts the episode: Where will you travel today?
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by romaneau from Pixabay
4 min - Why Me?It's a question that can show up as a wail — why is the hard life my life? — or as a quiet curiosity when something good comes your way and you're not sure you deserve it.Either way, it usually starts with the same thing: a comparison. Their life looks easier. Their opportunity looks undeserved when it lands on your doorstep instead of theirs.
This week, Denise unpacks both versions of "Why me" — why they're both fair to ask, where they quietly lead you astray, and a shift in how you ask the question that changes what kind of answer you get back.
Because there is a good answer. You just have to be willing to give it to yourself.
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by feladombra from Pixabay
8 min - What Will I Preview Today?The pressure to respond right now, right here, right away is real. And sometimes, giving into that pressure means we later regret what we said or did.
What if you gave yourself a minute first?
In this episode, we explore the idea of the preview — a small, quiet practice of checking in with yourself before you go live. You can ask for feedback. You can sit with how something feels. You can find better words before they leave your mouth.
No performance required. Just a test run.
What will you preview today?
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- The Six Caregiving Stages
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by Joshua_Willson from Pixabay
4 min - How Will I Keep What Matters Safe?You give a lot of yourself to the day. Sometimes, the day asks for more than feels comfortable — more visibility, more exposure, more of you than you want to offer. This week's Sunday Question invites you to think about what you're keeping safe, and who gets to decide that.
How will I keep what matters safe?
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- The Six Caregiving Stages
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by NoName_13 from Pixabay
6 min - What's Today's Request That Honors My Work?Your work matters — at home, where family members receive your wonderful care, and at the office, where colleagues have a committed partner in their corner.
But when others take advantage of your generosity, something shifts. You may begin to withhold, to resent, to section yourself off. And when that happens, your wisdom, knowledge and skills stay hidden — when they deserve to be shared.
This week's Sunday Question invites you to consider how to share the best of yourself while advocating for yourself. How to turn work done by individuals into work done by a supportive, gracious team.
Begin your day with this question: What's today's request that honors my work?
Resources- The Sunday Question, Volume 3, is now available. Use our 53-question book to create a comforting, intentional ritual.
- Write your own Sunday Question with our interactive tool.
- The Six Caregiving Stages
- Find the comforting message you need to hear right now.
- Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay
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About The Sunday Question
From the publisher's feed
When our days feel full of too much stress and too few solutions, we can feel at a loss, unsure what we could do to help ourselves. The stress can make us question if we’ll ever feel better and if…
life will ever be easier.
What if we changed the question?
The Sunday Question poses just those kinds of questions to ask yourself as you begin your day. As you ask these questions, you’ll connect to possibilities which help lift the weight of your stress.
By asking the same question every day for one week, you create a ritual and a reminder to pay attention to what that question creates for you, such as help, support, opportunities, financial rewards, achievements, acceptance or closure. Rather than feeling stuck in stress, your question can move you into feeling better by taking control.
Denise M. Brown, your podcast host, put this technique into practice both while caring for her parents and running her own small business. The habit helped her when life's circumstances felt overwhelming.
We set our intention for the week with a question. When we ask a question in our head, our mind searches for our answer. With a good question, we can receive what we need.
Purchase The Sunday Question, Volumes 1 and 2, which offer helpful journal prompts to track the impact of your good questions.
What if we changed the question?
The Sunday Question poses just those kinds of questions to ask yourself as you begin your day. As you ask these questions, you’ll connect to possibilities which help lift the weight of your stress.
By asking the same question every day for one week, you create a ritual and a reminder to pay attention to what that question creates for you, such as help, support, opportunities, financial rewards, achievements, acceptance or closure. Rather than feeling stuck in stress, your question can move you into feeling better by taking control.
Denise M. Brown, your podcast host, put this technique into practice both while caring for her parents and running her own small business. The habit helped her when life's circumstances felt overwhelming.
We set our intention for the week with a question. When we ask a question in our head, our mind searches for our answer. With a good question, we can receive what we need.
Purchase The Sunday Question, Volumes 1 and 2, which offer helpful journal prompts to track the impact of your good questions.