Are You a Good Listener?

Are You a Good Listener?

Do you give the gift of listening? Need some tips on becoming a better listener. Real listening can be learned. Research and books such as The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships, by Michael Nichols, and Mortimer Adler’s How to...
Learning with the Caregiver Warrior

Learning with the Caregiver Warrior

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 131 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Susanne White.  Susanne was able to care for her parents and venture out on a caregiving journey that would change her life.  She is now a blogger and...
Additional Help with End-of-Life Preparations

Additional Help with End-of-Life Preparations

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 130 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her interview from last week with Pastor Rick Craig (Episode 129) and the discussion related to end-of-life preparations.  In his book, When It’s Time: End-of-Life...
End-of-Life Planning – Pre-Need vs. At-Need

End-of-Life Planning – Pre-Need vs. At-Need

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 129 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Rick Craig. Rick is an experienced caregiver, author, and ordained pastor.  He felt led to share his personal and professional experiences to help others...
What They Really Need

What They Really Need

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 128 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her interviews from the past few weeks with women who are Cancer Thrivers.  Following these conversations, she began to think about and investigate what those in a...
Helpful Support from a Cancer Doula

Helpful Support from a Cancer Doula

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 127 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Talaya Dendy. Talaya has developed a fulfilling career path from cancer patient to founder and CEO of On the Other Side, LLC. She started the cancer...
How Well Do You Practice Empathy?

How Well Do You Practice Empathy?

 “To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.”     – Anonymous Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. In certain circumstances, it is difficult to see things from another...
Caregiver Tool: Gratitude

Caregiver Tool: Gratitude

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 126 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her interview from last week with Heather Carter (Episode 125). Heather is a cancer survivor and she shared tips from her season of being cared for. She reminded us...
Tips for Caring from Someone Who Has Been There

Tips for Caring from Someone Who Has Been There

Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 125 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Heather Carter.  In 2015, Heather was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  During her hospitalization and illness, she began updating people on her...
Stay Active and Engaged No Matter Your Age

Stay Active and Engaged No Matter Your Age

Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 124 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her conversation from last week with Marie Vaudry (Episode 123).  Marie is the founder of Gleam in Your Eye, an activity subscription box created for those with...
Rayna Neises: A Season of Caring