AUTHENTIC CAREGIVING

Celebrate with us! Isabel Baker's book: The A-Z of Dementia Care. A book for academics and for anyone you know with dementia. A cutting-edge, forward-thinking book you can begin to apply today! Learn tips to keep your own brain sharp, too!Her newest book launches in Amazon by the end of July, 2023. Pre-order a copy in Amazon about July 18th.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Crystal is a woman with a working faith, kind heart, and compassion for others. There's no one like Crystal, and you'll love listening and learning from her.  She has six children, homeschools, and is an avid reader. Caregiving is part of her DNA and she has thrived caring for those needing severe medical care in a group home setting. to family members. Hear where she met her husband!   Listen in and learn something new from her life you can apply to your own.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

In a 2000 windstorm, a tree fell on their minivan, leaving Maria living life as a quadriplegic. She didn't have any control over her body.  Yet, she regained control through painting...with her mouth! She is a professional artist using oil & acrylic painting expressing her love of the outdoors.Maria is one of the most patient people I've ever met. She awakens each day with purpose. How does she do that? Listen and apply some of the same principles to your own life. Encouragement awaits you.VIEW HER ART AT: mariahuppi.comJoin today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

There are over 100 types of dementia.  That's just the beginning of an exciting, creative podcast with Isabel. She has over 30 years of working from weekends to dancing galas (that went on for 25 years!) with dementia client groups.  Creativity is at the core of everything Isabel creates.  She answers questions from the Zoom live. She'll be back in June to take it all to a new level with you.  Practical, innovative, and fabulous are just some of the words others described Isabel after her first talk with us.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Encouraging and insightful. Anne shares her ups, downs, tears, and everything in between.  She tells her top 5 caregiving tips, top 3 best parts of her life, and 5 words to describe herself - but that's just the teaser.  This is an amazingly courageous woman with an open heart.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Sharon  share five ways she describes herself that I found intriguing. Sharon has five unique tips for all caregivers. She tells us about her marriages, her 11 children! Sharon is a no-holds barred kinda woman. She tells us the three core values she lives by, and I think you might want to include some of them as your own.  Sharon's genuine spirit always makes me laugh from pure joy.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Learn the 3 basic steps to incredible self-care while caregiving or giving out to others.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

This episode Kay Nell Miller teaches you three ways to improve your caregiving and live in the moments.  You will be encouraged  and inspired.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

What are you speaking out of your heart? As a caregiver it's very important what you're speaking out. This topic is discussed in great detail and hopefully will be encouraging to your heart.For caregiver resources are available that anyone can use. You are not alone. You are seen. You are heard. Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Angela opens up her life to you on marriage in crisis and about living with her husband who was injured in a street-bike motorcycle accident; paraplegic complete. She shares her life; before and now. You will be encouraged and hope filled.  Buy her newest book: BETTER THAN BEFORE on Amazon.com.  She is currently working on the manuscript for her second book. Angela DiCicco, this girl is on fire!Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

ENCOURAGING AND INSPIRING INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN CARTER WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS AND TOUCH YOUR HEART.  SHE IS A CURRENT CAREGIVER FOR HER DAD, WHO LIVES WITH SHE AND HER HUSBAND, VINCE.  SHE HAS BEEN A CAREGIVER FOR GRANDPARENTS, IN-LAWS, AND PARENTS--A SEASONED CAREGIVER.  HER FAVORITE BIBLE VERSE IS PHILIPPIANS 3:14.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

What is caregiving like for you? What roads are you traveling? Find encouragement in this episode of roads less traveled.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Your core is a major group of muscles holding your body together.  Find how caregiving strengthens your core muscles, and anyone can work those muscles out!Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Laugh hearing about making something frustrating and crazy into something fun. It was my mom's superpower.  Find encouraging words for your life path.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

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Grieving is unique to your personality. It takes as long as it takes. Here a word of encouragement for the grieving we all experience at some point.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

I didn't see him or feel him, but he was there.  You are not alone.  Does caregiving fit you like a glove, or are your hands chapped and without protection?  Either way, you are fully equipped.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Learn easy ways to find your people in caregiving to help you along the way. You are not alone. People are there to support you. Reach out if you need a mentor or coach. I'm here to help.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Heather Boyd-Arruda is a daughter and carer for her Dad who suffers with Parkinson's Disease from Agent Orange in Vietnam.  She share her heart with you from every angle. It doesn't get more real than Heather talking about coping from teen years into her forties with her person, her Dad.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Caregiving of any kind can find you suffering at some point; physically, emotionally and mentally. Find 5 easy ways to relieve your daily suffering. Are you suffering? Listen and pick one of the five ways to help you relieve your suffering. You are fearless, and you are not alone. You must be so proud of yourself.

When is the last time you took time to connect with a close friend, mentor, or coach? Do you procrastinate self-care, and if so, what does good self-care look like to you? Name two friends you will contact in the next couple of days.You are not alone. Reach out. You are worth the time.

Listen for encouragement and affirmations as a caregiver.#caregiver #podcastforcaregivers #caregiving #encouragement #support #parents #elderly #family

Every day until 2030, 10,000 baby boomers will reach the age of 65. Check out how to ease the conversations with adult children as you think of transitions you may need to make in the future. Great questions to ask yourself and make lists to help.

Advocacy is an activity of the 44 million unpaid caregivers in the USA. You'll learn how to become the best advocate  for your care recipient--child, young adult, husband, wife, parent. Advocacy is ensuring the most vulnerable voices are heard and their rights defended in many ways.#caregiver #podcastforcaregivers #caregiving #encouragement #support #parents #elderly #family

You can stop all those racing thoughts today.  What distracts you the most? What distracting thought helps you?

Just by someone really seeing you can make the difference from birth to 100. There's magic out there for you to discover. Come experience it.

Change the way you think and change the way you live. (Jessica Hottle)Learn about CTFAR and how it can change the way you think, and that changes all your results in life.

How can you keep a good mental attitude while caregiving or doing difficult things? Do you know how much of communication is in the language we use? I think you'll be surprised.

Learn all the ways laughing benefits yourself. Even when grieving or sad, laughing can change the air. Life can be challenging, but laughing is still there, because life can be pretty funny at times. Join in and laugh a bit.

What's your superpower? You have one, you know.  Superpower: A state with a dominant, extensive ability to exert influence.

We keep it real by examining your personality style and how it will effect your future in a positive way. We keep it courageous, vulnerable and real. 

This episode is about adapting and organizing your future. Better put on those sunglasses!Order my new book: UNABLE TO RESIST--WHEN YOU'RE SUDDENLY A CAREGIVER AND IT'S REALLY NOT YOUR GIFT at Amazon and Barnes Noble on-line.

In-depth reviews of motels along the Oregon Coast from the point-of-view of an other-ability traveler.  This episode will save you time, phone calls, and money as you learn from our experiences from a spinal-cord injury (SCI) viewpoint. I'd love to hear your comments below about your journeys in Oregon.

Cheryl Boyd shares genuinely from her heart on caregiving and what that looks like in a 50+ year wonderful marriage. You will be encouraged, see what works, and all the ins and outs of caregiving. 

Enjoyment doesn't require memory--a quote by Isabel Baker, Dementia Specialist Nurse, who I recently interviewed. You'll know exactly what to ask your care recipient with dementia. You can still connect with interesting conversations.

What do I say to family caregiver? I don't know how they feel, but I need to say something! You'll never wonder again what to say.

Isabal Baker from Wagga Wagga Australia is the top expert on Dementia care with decades of experience. From the most basic needs of dementia clients to retreats, galas, and weekends away for dementia clients, with or without their families, you will be inspired, encouraged and challenged to never think of dementia the same way again. Listen now! Isabel is classically authentic, and you're going to love her accent, too!

Come join me! This covers everything from who is the future or current caregivers,  medical forms and necessities, decision-making skills, bathing, dressing, future resources, activities for all, video set up, and to recording your care recipient's stories.  It's all here waiting for you.

Caring for one's self is a skill, never a destination.  You will enjoy seasons of self-care that may look very different than other seasons. You will find answers to self-care questions:1. What is self-care?2. Name the last time you deeply nurtured yourself?3. When was the last time you were uncomfortable?4. How do you create space for yourself?5. Where is your community?6. What community do you want to build now?7. What's the last creative thing you did that brought you joy?8. What emotion do you experience and find complex?9. What is your coping mechanism?10. Where's your favorite place to go?11. Are you believing lies or the truth?12. What's you favorite way of pampering yourself?

AGING IN PLACE IS ABOUT THE BEST OF ALL CAREGIVING WORLDS. YOU'LL LEARN THE BEST WAYS TO PLAN FOR AGING IN PLACE, CAREGIVING OPTIONS, AND ACTIVITIES TO ENJOY TOGETHER EASILY.

THIS TAPS INTO THE ASSISTED-LIVING FACILITY OPTION. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO CONSIDER FOR YOUR CARE RECIPIENT, INCLUDING ACTIVITIES TO DO.

THIS IS LOOKING AT APARTMENT OR DUPLEX OPTIONS FOR LIVING AS YOU AGE. IT'S ALL HERE IN ONE PLACE FOR YOU AND YOUR CARE RECIPIENT.

What decisions are on your plate today? If you are considering needing extra help in caregiving, this one is for you. 

Stress Shows. Love heals. Not my finest moment. Are you task-oriented? Enjoy a little Elvis talk, too!

Kay Nell delves into how we talk with ourselves.  Are you using "should", either/or, or both/and statements?  What do those mean and how can we be kinder to ourselves as we care give?

I'm sharing a portion of my newest book, "Unable to Resist: When You're Suddenly a Caregiver and It's Really Not Your Gift".  When my mom was 96 years old, with dementia, and the ways we communicated through the years.