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How Caregivers Can Go from Critical to Loving

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Nothing has pushed my buttons and brought up my “stuff” more than being a family caregiver for my husband with Parkinson’s. Exactly a year ago, I had to make the heartbreaking decision to put my...

Tags: family caregiver, genuine feelings, heartbreaking decision, lifelong journey, true love

Caregivers: Release Negative Beliefs to Heal Self-Worth Issues

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Feeling a lack of self-worth takes an incredible toll on our effectiveness in being family caregivers -- as well as on our own health and well-being. When we feel a lack of self- worth or self-regard,...

Tags: emotional freedom technique, lack of self esteem, negative perceptions, subconscious beliefs

Family Caregivers: Practical Strategies to Give Your Loved Ones Better Care by Loving Yourself

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Over the years and before becoming a family caregiver, my personal growth journey took me down a spiritual path. Recently when I was feeling down and trapped as a family caregiver, I received the following...

Tags: boomer, caregiving role, family caregiver, stress

Five Steps Improve Family Caregivers’ Health Over the Long Term

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Providing care for an ill relative may be among the most challenging experiences of our lives. It certainly has been for me.   Our bodies were made to deal with short terms stresses effectively. (Think:...

Tags: breaths, family caregiving, meditation, nourishing food, reinforcement

Boomers: Have You Checked Your Ingrained Perceptions Lately? (They May Hold a Key to Degenerative Disease)

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Perceptions have a tremendous influence in shaping the character and experiences of our lives and our overall health.  Recent research shows that perceptions inform the placebo effect (healing effects...

Tags: biology of belief, cell biology research, energy healing, healthy environment, negative perceptions

Boomers: Shift from Life-Negating to Life-Affirming Communications and Transform Your Caregiving

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

Since June is “Effective Communications Month,” it’s a perfect time for Boomers to consider the challenges of effective communications within relationships, especially for those in a family caregiver...

Tags: boomers, effective communications, emotions, family caregiving, genuine feelings

Boomer Family Caregivers: Stop. Look. Listen. Then Act.

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

If you care for your ill and ailing loved ones, and you are feeling guilty or stressed out or overwhelmed by the challenges of being a full-time family caregiver, KNOW that you are not alone. Like the...

Tags: boomers, challenges, family caregivers, interaction, stress

Boomer Caregivers and Appreciating Your Loved Ones: Why to Celebrate Older Americans Month

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

I know first-hand the heartache and stress that is involved in being a family caregiver. I have a mother, age 95 this summer, who lives in a nursing home. I have a husband who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s...

Tags: adequate support, convalescent home, family caregivers, stress

Becoming Your Own Authority

Posted in: Caregiving Center & Home Care |

How are you doing with Being Your Own Authority? “Just fine,” you say. Is that really true?  Let me ask it another way. How are your stress levels? Do you ever feel poorly about yourself? Are...

Tags: family caregiver, healing journey, Health, stress levels

Betty Smith

Posted in: Boomer-Living's Authors & Caregiving Authors |

Betty L. Smith is a lifelong learner and tireless explorer of human nature.  From the time she was a teen, she inquired and studied, to understand why humans behave as we do and get the results that we...