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Reflections from the Crossroads
Trauma-Informed Care Training comes to Omaha this June
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires the provision of Trauma-Informed Care, and your nursing home needs to be in compliance by this November! What?!?!? Have you wondered where or how to start with implementing Trauma-Informed Care in your...
Time Saving Tips for Caregivers
Today, we welcome guest blogger, Christine Klotz, author of All-In Caregiving: A Guide for the Care of Aging Parents. Providing care and support for a family member or other loved one takes time that you just might feel you don’t have. You have your own life that is...
Is it Just the “Winter Blues?”
This interactive webinar distinguishes between two types of Seasonal Affective Disorder, and explores the various facts and myths about this form of depression, including symptoms, treatment approaches, and strategies for coping if you know you are prone to S.A.D.
How To Say “No” As A Caregiver
When was the last time you said “no” when someone asked you to do something? It might have been an invitation to a party, to serve on a committee, or to help with an event at your faith community. It can be very hard to say “no!” We often feel that if someone...
What Is The Real Meaning of Trauma?
Everywhere you turn these days, it seems you run into something about trauma. The word is used so often, and in so many contexts, the meaning seems to be lost through overuse, even as it is poorly understood. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
When Elder Care Hurts: The Q.U.I.C.K. Map to Preserve Your Peace, Save Your Sanity, and Find the Right Path for Your Caregiving Journey
No one in the world makes as big an impression on us like our parents, (unless it’s our siblings!)For good or ill, our parents’ guidance, praise, and criticism shape the way we view both the world and ourselves. As they grow older and their needs change, we often have...
News for the New Year
I hope you’ve had some moments of peace in this holiday season, however you honor the mid-winter, and whatever your personal situation. I know it can be a busy time for healing and helping professionals, and a stressful time for family caregivers. It can be a lonely...
Winter Seminar: Nurturing Peace & Meaning During the Holiday Season
When we care for others, whether professionally or as family, we may feel time passes very quickly just as we have a longing to slow down and savor it.
As Nature slows for the Winter Season, and many traditions celebrate mid-winter holidays and Holy days, we offer this virtual seminar as a safe space to pause in quiet contemplation with a small community of fellow travelers.
Virtual Candle Lighting Ceremony for Bereaved Parents & Siblings
You are invited to join us online for a Virtual Candle Lighting Ceremony to honor children who have died, at any age, in conjunction with the Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle-lighting. Sunday evening, December 9th, 2018 7:00 - 8:00 p.m., Eastern time. Hosted by...
Recipes for Respite: Part Two
This next episode of Care Partner Connection: Office Hours comes just in time for the season of giving. When you add the furor of the holidays to your responsibilities as a caregiver, you might be feeling more depleted than ever. But with a little bit of respite...
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