Encore Episode #3 Becoming a Resilient Caregiver

A Season of Caring Podcast

This week, on our #3 most listened to podcast in 2022, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Susan Stern. Susan is a wife, mother, and family caregiver. After 20 years as a speech-language pathologist, she changed her career path to pursue her calling to support other caregivers. Susan became a certified coach and started her business helping overwhelmed family caregivers improve their self-care and life balance. She now helps family caregivers to be strong during one of life’s most challenging seasons. Susan shared the following tips:

• Cultivate a sense of trust and respect.
• View the relationship as a partnership in care.
• Get the legal paperwork in place right away.
• Find a way to support their independence for as long as possible.
• A lack of good self-care can cost you your health.
• Meditation can be helpful in self-care.
• Make memories doing the things they can still do.
• Try to have calm body language.
• Be present with your loved one.
• Permit yourself not to be perfect.
• When faced with an urgent decision, stop, breathe, and look for options.
• Protect your health.
• Prioritize your self-care.
• Develop good morning and evening routines.
• Keep your medical appointments.
• Find an emotional support system.
• Manage stress.
• Identify moments of joy.
• Remember something funny to get you through a hard day.
• Get in touch with Susan at her website SpringtoLifeCoaching.com