by External Article | Jul 22, 2022 | Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Meaning, Millennial Generation |
Who cares? When picturing a caregiver, the person who comes to mind is almost invariably female. She is young (or young-ish). She looks healthy. She is usually in a uniform, the kind associated with nursing, to show that she is what she does. And she is never pictured... 
by External Article | Jan 20, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finding Meaning |
When the call came to say my mother had died, I was working on a jigsaw of Joan Miró’s painting The Tilled Field (1923-24). Like many others, I turned to jigsaws at the start of the pandemic as a way to manage stress, and symbolically reimpose order on a chaotic... 
by External Article | Nov 21, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiving 101, Caregiving Relationships |
I’m a mediator. I have helped people have difficult conversations for more than 20 years: in conflict zones and in living rooms, with leaders of corporations and foundations, and people in my own community. If you’ve ever avoided or postponed a difficult conversation,... 
by External Article | Oct 30, 2020 | Care Work Library, Journaling |
Life writing is about giving pause to the self to deal with this ‘mound of reflections’ and review one’s life from a critical distance. Simply put, it is nonfiction writing on a person’s life and experiences reconstructed from memory and linked to a larger theme of... 
by External Article | Sep 25, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving |
My father’s father talked to everyone, including the figurines on the sideboard, and he sometimes saw the ships he’d worked on as chief engineer sail across the field behind our neighbour’s house. My mother’s mother stopped speaking, also to her husband, who she... 
by External Article | Sep 9, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Finding Caregiver Support, For Professional Caregivers, Long Term Caregiving |
As a person with the mental illness disability of schizoaffective disorder, I am quite familiar with the inpatient mental hospital experience. I have frequently devolved into crisis and found myself in the Emergency Room. Being in a day programme provided me with... 
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