Your 21-day Family Caregiver's Challenge: Thrive into 2025!🎉Day 19: Make Time For Friends!📞💗🫂
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📞💗🤝Day 19:Take/make time to connect with family and friends, especially your peers!
There is life in association, and the isolation (self-imposed or otherwise), from the lockdowns of COVID-19, really caused many of us to feel isolated and alone, still 5 years later!😢 (yesssss it is still here!)😢
Think of a flock of sheep🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑!
Have you ever seen sheep alone? If so, it is LOST- What does it do to signal its distress? It bleats.........LOUDLY!!!
What is YOUR distress signal?
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Arrange for a friend's night out! Zoom- Facetime! A simple telephone call (remember those? LOL📞📞)
If a friend or relative, or even a trusted paid caregiver can arrange to come and spend just a few hours with your loved one, then arrange with YOUR peers for a "time-out together"- talk , reminisce, "get your groove back!
The association with peers who know and understand you can be such a refresher!💐🫂🫂
Schedule the time, do not wait for a "chance encounter"!
📞📲☎️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
From my heart to yours always💗
Dr. Lana
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Your 21-day Family Caregiver's Challenge: Thrive into 2025!🎉Day 18 -"Create Your Safe Space!" 🧘🏽♀️
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Day 18- on finding your "calm amidst the chaos" 🧘🏽♀️of Family Caregiving
When there is the possibility of a real and present physical danger to you and your family, more and more people are building a "panic😱 room"- a safe, secure separate area inside your home, accessible only to the family members and the authorities who can be called for help.
With this concept in mind- what is the "safe space"🧘🏽♀️ for a Family Caregiver?
A place in your home or out in the garden, garage, patio,.. where you can go for a 5 or 10 (or longer) respite, lock the door and just have a time-out; when for example, there has been a disagreement, or your loved one lashes out at you because of the ravages of dementia on their minds, or because they are feeling angry and upset because of their illness, and you feel hurt , upset and overwhelmed; a place where you can get away to "reset".🛌🏽🥵😮💨😮💨
✳️The place where you can go to breathe, slow down, pray, cry, scream, and call a friend for emotional support and reassurance.🙏🏽😢📲📞✳️
Caregiving is the "long-game" and finding the spot where you can just "pit-stop" for a refresher is crucial to your mental health.
Challenge: think of a safe space where you can just step away for the few minutes you need to calm your mind and heart. You CAN do this! You must! 😮💨🛌🏽🙏🏽🧘🏽♀️
From my heart to yours always💗
Dr. Lana
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Fellow Family Caregivers!
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Every day from December 21st 2024, until January 11th 2025, join me as we dive into 21 daily quick “thrive tips” to help you get through these busy, hectic last days of 2024 and enter 2025 feeling "like a boss"!🔅🙏👍💯💖💃🏽💥💥
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Your 21-day Family Caregiver's Challenge: Thrive into 2025!🎉Day 17- "Read📖!" "Just Read"! Why?
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Why is reading considered self-care for Family Caregivers?
Being a Caregiver, working, and all that includes, the only "free" time you may have, you need it for sleep, right/!
Reading (whether in an audiobook🎧, or playing while driving), expands your mind, and gives you a moment to learn and grow not just intellectually, but it takes you "away" to another world in your imagination; you explore different cultures, different experiences, and is a way of taking your mind away from the present challenges, even if just for a few minutes a day.
It can refresh your mind, entertain, and teach,. You may prefer reading autobiographies, thus delving into the challenges of another person, and perhaps getting ideas for how to manage your time and enjoy your journey.
Start with 5 minutes in the early morning or at lunch break, or if possible as a refreshing "night cap"- downtime.
Challenge....let your mind "escort" you to new lands and experience the mental freedom that reading can bring!📖📚😁💯
From my heart to yours💗💗
Dr.Lana
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Fellow Family Caregivers!
Join me through the a 21 day journey into 2025 with a special “21 Thrive Tips to 2025!”
Every day from December 21st 2024, until January 11th 2025, join me as we dive into 21 daily quick “thrive tips” to help you get through these busy, hectic last days of 2024 and enter 2025 feeling "like a boss"!🔅🙏👍💯💖💃🏽💥💥
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