by Tedx | Apr 2, 2019 | Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, For Friends & Family, Grief, Millennial Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Schutt spent four years as her mom’s primary caregiver, writing songs about the dark and the light of her mother’s journey from diagnosis to death of ovarian cancer. Kate wants us all to know how to show up for our grieving friends so they don’t feel alone with their...
by External Article | Feb 14, 2019 | Care Work Library, For Friends & Family, Grief |
Empathy Deficit Disorder (not a real condition, but maybe it should be) has reached epidemic proportions: “After our daughter was stillborn,” wrote Wendy Thomas, “a colleague told me I shouldn’t have used the photocopy machine.” “My first husband died of cancer when...
by External Article | Nov 18, 2014 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, For Friends & Family, Grief, Reviews |
You’d think losing your mother would be the worst part of losing your mother. But for Annie Broadbent, whose mother succumbed to cancer in 2011, one of the hardest parts of the loss was watching her friends and family become paralyzed by the fear of saying or...
by Alexandra Axel | Nov 16, 2014 | Caregiving 101, For Friends & Family |
Dear Friends and Family of Caregivers, First off, thank you for the love and support you have shown the caregiver in your life this far. You want to help– that’s great! Caregivers could use some support. What to Say and How to Help The caregiving role can...
by External Article | Sep 17, 2013 | Care Work Library, For Friends & Family, Grief |
It’s an awkward situation. Someone you know has just lost a close friend or family member or significant other, and because you are a kind and decent human being, you want to express to them that you’re sorry for their loss. What do you say? What do you do? Nothing...
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