by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 31, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #4 People never seem to ask when you’re ready for them. These surprise attacks can happen in waiting rooms, on elevators, or in the bleachers. “What’s wrong with your hands? Does your mother have Alzheimer’s? Why were you in the hospital?” In...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 24, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #3 For many family caregivers, the notion of self-care seems counterintuitive. You might even feel a twinge of guilt for resting, exercising, or doing something to rejuvenate. But, if you don’t, you’ll burn out faster. In this spirit, today’s...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 17, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #2 As you lean into your unique situation, remember, there is grace for you! If no one else has ever extended it, or if you have a supremely difficult time believing it, allow me to extend some grace to you: You are forgiven. Today is a new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 15, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #1 The moist smell of cool, morning, summer air stirred lightly past my nostrils and I breathed it in… deeply. Pepper, our cat, was playing with an unlucky toad. A young robin kept an eye on the cat as it pecked at the bird feeder. The steady...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 3, 2025 | Caregiving
Telling Your Story #4 If you had to boil your story down to one sentence, what would it be? Essentially, this exercise demands that we know the point of our stories. Surviving adversity, finding true love, experiencing rare friendship, our stories will be most...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 26, 2025 | Caregiving
Telling Your Story #3 Challenge. Choice. Outcome. Perhaps these three words could form the template for your story. Often, we get stuck in challenge. But, we have choices about how we interpret and talk about those challenges! While we may tend towards either/or story...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 12, 2025 | Caregiving
Telling Your Story #2 Sometimes in the telling of our stories, we get stuck. Stuck? Yes. So, what causes this and how do we get unstuck? Here are a few common contributors: Guilt. We may have trouble forgiving ourselves. To be sure, we all make mistakes in the course...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 12, 2025 | Caregiving
Telling Your Story #1 Orientation. Disorientation. Reorientation. This model has helped my wife and I think about our journey of caregiving and chronic illness. My wife has lived with Dermatomyositis for 21 years as of this writing, and I am very proud of her. She...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 5, 2025 | Resilience
Your Best #3 When you do your best and success comes easily, you may be tempted to think that this is how it will always be. You’ve lived long enough to know different. Sometimes, you have to push through with tenacity. Summoning your deep wells of persistence,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 29, 2025 | Resilience
Your Best #2 Did you know that we tend to think the same thoughts over and over? Our self talk gets in a rut. We wake up, get ready, go to work, slog through emails, go to meetings, etc. with many of the same thoughts accompanying us on most days. What if you created...
