My Career & Caregiving Journey

06/15/23 • 35 min

Young Life Interrupted - A Podcast For Young Caregivers

A free gift from me to you! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE YOUNG CAREGIVER SURVIVAL GUIDE: Your Cliffs Notes guide to surviving (& thriving) while caregiving. Whether you're preparing to care, new to your caregiving role or a seasoned caregiver, these tips will help save you time, energy and regret throughout your care journey. This guide includes simple yet effective strategies to prepare & support you through the challenging times.
If there’s one stage in life during which job flexibility is extra valuable, it’s when you’re a caregiver for a loved one while also trying to do your best at work. Caregivers get caught in the crosshairs, responsible for the home front, caregiving, and a profession which leads many of them to have to either reduce their hours or quit their job completely.

When you have that trifecta of responsibilities, caring for aging parents and/or raising children at the same time while working, it can take a significant toll on your career and work performance. The stress can be tremendous. In reality, you’re essentially holding down two jobs, and work-life balance takes on a whole new meaning!

Just know that you are not alone.
In today's episode I share my career journey while caregiving - going from working a 9-5 job to finding remote work to eventually starting my own small business, all while caregiving for my Mom. I share the ups and downs and the motivation behind wanting to become my own boss - one thing I will NEVER regret & helped me tremendously in balancing the demands of caregiving.
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Previous Episode

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

It’s the stories we tell ourselves.

As they relate to caregiving it’s the stories around what it means to be a caregiver at a young age, how much we need to give of ourselves as caregivers, how good, or bad of a caregiver we are, that caregiving is our whole story, not just a small part... and I'm sure you could add many more of your stories to the list!
Our perception of the world is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves. We all have an internal narrative (self-talk) about who we are. Sometimes, self-talk can be constructive and life-affirming, but self-talk can also become distorted, creating a consistently negative point of view that’s detrimental to our mental and emotional health.
In this episode I talk about flipping the perspective on the stories we tell ourselves and simple tips to keep top of mind to start noticing what you are telling yourself about everything as it relates to caregiving & other areas of your life.

NY Times Magazine article - The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents
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Next Episode

Why Planning Ahead is ESSENTIAL in Caregiving

A free gift from me to you! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE YOUNG CAREGIVER SURVIVAL GUIDE: Your Cliffs Notes guide to surviving (& thriving) while caregiving. Whether you're preparing to care, new to your caregiving role or a seasoned caregiver, these tips will help save you time, energy and regret throughout your care journey. This guide includes simple yet effective strategies to prepare & support you through the challenging times.
Whether you are a caregiver now, have a parent or spouse who may need help someday, or are thinking about your own health, it's never too soon to start planning for the time when help is needed. In this episode, I will help you organize important documents, medical information and the home and also stress the importance of planning in advance and revisiting plans that may have been put in place years ago. I'm sharing the mistakes I made and the things I wish I would have planned for, and educated myself about sooner so you don't make the same ones.
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Join the Young Life Interrupted Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/younglifeinterrupted
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