April’s Newsletter contains:

• April Content Schedule

• Spotlight: Easter Ideas

• Encouragement

• Question of the month

Happy Reading!

February’s Newsletter contains:

• Product recommendations for feeding/eating items.

• Question/thought to ponder

• Encouragement

• March Content Schedule

  Enjoy!

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Today I want to take a quick moment to acknowledge all the love and kindness you pour out each day as a caregiver.

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Welcome back for the last week of our Practicals Series. I hope you have found a few things to be useful and make your day-to-day caregiving life a bit easier (if you've missed any of the previous posts, go back and check them out). Today, I'll be sharing five of my favorite things in the realm of caregiving.

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Welcome back to this series about the practical things or steps we can take to help reduce the fatigue from caregiving as we start 2023. Today we are talking about assessments made for caregivers. I hope that this week’s blog will help you understand which areas of caregiving are the most challenging, problem-solve to help make your caregiving better, and highlight the areas that bring you the most joy in caregiving.

Hey hey, Caregivers!

As we continue through this first month of 2023, I wanted to continue giving practical ideas for ways that your caregiving load could be made lighter and easier this year. Today we're looking at some different phone apps that can help you to stay organized and free up some of the mental space that you're currently using to keep track of ALL THE THINGS for your person (people).

Hey hey Caregivers!

Today we’re talking about medication management - how medication errors happen, the impact of medication management on caregivers, and I give some tips to make medication management go more smoothly.

With just a couple of days left in 2022, I wanted to chat about plans for change in the new year. I think there is so much value in reflecting on areas of growth for ourselves and also for those we support. As you reflect on what areas you want yourself to grow in this upcoming year and also what areas you want to support your care recipient for growth in this year, I wanted to share a little list with ideas of goals for caregivers and care recipients to help with any feelings of being stuck or of not being sure where to even begin.

Merry Christmas!

I hope you enjoy this short Christmas encouragement.

Much love!

As I’ve been preparing to write this week’s post, I’ve been thinking a lot about pain and endurance. I’ve been thinking about how much of our lives we spend in the painful or hard parts of the story. One thing that I’ve learned over the past few years is that a lot of the time life feels painfully slow –

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Welcome back to Caregiver Communion, I’m so glad you’re spending a little bit of your day here. I also want to start out by thanking you for all you do – especially in this crazy busy holiday time. I know that while things are really ramping up for the holidays, making the extra time to get all of the holiday stuff done, on top of your caregiving work (and most likely providing extra care as your loved one has less time at school or day program or less staffing for help) can be so much, so thank you for all you’re sacrificing to make it happen.

Happy December!

As winter is upon us, I thought this week, I'd share three of my top tips and tricks for keeping our wheelchair care recipients warm and cozy!

Hey Hey,

Welcome back to Caregiver Communion. I hope you had a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving. Today is the last day of our Thankfulness Series and today’s letter is to our care recipients. I found so much joy in writing this letter and I want to encourage you to write a letter like to this for your care recipient(s).

Happy Reading (and maybe writing too)!

<3 Rebecca

Welcome back for week three of our Thankfulness Series. Today’s letter is written to family caregivers. I wanted to quickly note that I will still be saying care recipient in this letter even though it is mostly geared towards parent caregivers because I want the letter to still read well for siblings or grandparents or cousins or whoever else the family caregiver is that is reading this letter. I hope you have enjoyed the last two letters (and if you missed them, go back and check them out).

Happy reading!

<3 Rebecca

Hey Hey,

Welcome back to Caregiver Communion and happy November! In this second week of November, we are continuing with our Thankfulness Series and this week’s letter is for the friends of our care recipients. I know I am so thankful for my friends and their influence in my life, and many times our care recipients have very kind and sweet friends but might not have the same conversations sharing gratitude for their friendship. And that’s what I hope this letter would do, give some language to the gratitude we as caregivers have for the friends of our loved ones / care recipients and maybe share some words that our care recipients would love to share with their friends that maybe they might not be able to express. I hope you enjoy this letter, if you did, I hope you’ll share it with some friends of your care recipient so they can feel the gratitude and thanks that we have for them 😊

Hey Hey,

Welcome back to Caregiver Communion and happy November! As we move through this month, we’ll be doing a thankfulness series that will be structured as letters to various caregivers and care recipients. I am so excited for this month’s content and hope that you enjoy reading the letters. I want to encourage you to read through each of them, even when they may not relate to you or your care recipient as I think they can really help us gain perspective on the experiences of other caregivers too.

Happy Reading!

<3 Rebecca

This week I’ll be sharing what’s been on my heart lately about misconceptions and misunderstandings as it relates to our care recipients. When I think about this topic, there are a few moments that come to mind right away:

- My care recipient moving in the way they do when they’re happy and content and their doctor thinking it was them being upset and would not change their perspective even though I explained those movements are what they do when they’re happy.

- My care recipient being asked to leave school for being “sick” when the “sickness” they were referring to was part of their baseline functioning.

Has this happened to you? I bet many memories come to your mind quickly.

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Today I wanted to talk about why it is so important to reduce stresses in caregiving and share some encouragement and practical tips on how to do just that!

Have some tips of your own? Please share them in the comments!

In today’s post, I dive into one of my own recent experiences with expectations in caregiving, and how reality can sometimes be different from what we expect. Plus, there are some words of encouragement for you, caregivers, in those moments when things change from what we might have expected.

Hey Hey Caregivers,

Today I thought we’d dive into a bit of a lighter topic after the last few weeks and talk about Halloween and all the added considerations you may need to think through as a caregiver. As we enter into October, I am sure many caregivers are thinking about how to find an adaptive costume, how to modify a costume, or how to make a costume to meet a care recipient’s needs. I also know there are so many caregivers out there who are thinking about alternatives to candy for Halloween, not purely out of a desire for a healthier alternative but because the care recipient cannot eat by mouth or cannot have sugar.