Caregiving
Caregivers need care too!
Caregiving in jobs, families, and communities is so very important, and often a really valued priority for the people I help. And complicated. And heavy. I think about caregiving in this broad sense, because the selflessness, challenge, importance, and complexity of this work exists in all of those spaces.
Whether you caregive from a distance, as a daily act, or somewhere in between; there is value in having space to sort out what you can control, what you cannot, how to be compassionate with yourself, and how to not put yourself last on your caregiving journey.
Sound like you?
You feel guilty when you don’t give caregiving your all?
You look at your caregiving to do list and realize there is no end to that list, because you check something off and something new pops on?
You feel like others don’t understand or know how to support you in a helpful way? Maybe they say things like, “you’ll regret doing/not doing [insert action here] when they are gone”, or “but you get paid well to take that on”)?
You find yourself putting important parts of your life on pause for some “future you” that seems to never arrive?
we can work on this together
Therapy for caregiving can help you:
find a workable balance between caregiving for others and taking care of you
develop tools to navigate guilt, emotional exhaustion and overwhelm
have a safe space to acknowledge your thoughts, feelings, and wishes without judgement
At the end of the day, I want you to know: