The Stubbornness of Caregiving
What is your relationship to caregiving?
Can you receive it with grace?
Can you offer it without losing yourself?
Can you allow the full range of your humanity—light and shadow—to exist within the caregiving arena?
What is your relationship to caregiving?
Can you receive it with grace?
Can you offer it without losing yourself?
Can you allow the full range of your humanity—light and shadow—to exist within the caregiving arena?
In 2017 she began telling anyone who would listen, “It’s coming.” My response for several months was, “Stop! You’re going to bring it on sooner.” But she knew is was coming, and we couldn’t (wouldn’t) see it yet.
A huge lesson for me along the journey and in review of it is coming out on the other side of it grateful, with a full heart.
Stay present as the disturbing bits unfold, because they will be weirdly comforting in the end.
You can’t serve from an empty cup. You just can’t.
I’m not sure this is how it works for everyone, but for me, it was safe to be at her side as she withered. The memories I carry forward are the good ones.
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