by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 1, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care 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 | Feb 22, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care 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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 15, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care Like many parents, we worked to “get our act together” before we had children. Assuming we could shield our children from unnecessary hindrances, our six and half years of marriage prior to children helped us mature our relationship, our...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 11, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care I love this bit of wisdom from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, “Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.” And grief is the appropriate word here. Any...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 30, 2018 | Caregiving
Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) Purpose is a tricky word. Loaded, yet it sometimes comes off as trite or insensitive. It seems easy for the person with everything going their way to speak of purpose. But, what does it mean to find purpose in the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 27, 2018 | Caregiving
Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) What if? Have you ever arrived at gratitude via the side door or perhaps the back door? Here’s what I mean. As Christopher Peterson articulates, “It may matter whether we think about the good things in our lives...
