Overcoming Compassion Fatigue – Seeking Help, Developing Resilience, and Self-Care
Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 137 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Dr. Edward M. Smink, Ph.D. Dr. Ed is a speaker, coach, and author of The Soul of Caregiving: A Caregiver’s Guide to Healing and Transformation. He holds...
More Caregiver Tools: Routines and Faith
Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 136 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her interview last week with Deb Kelsey-Davis (Episode 125). Deb shared how technology impacted her caregiving season and helped her with self-care. Rayna continues...
Technology to Help Family Caregivers
Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 135 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Deb Kelsey-Davis. Deb is the Co-Founder of Sagacity.care, Co-Founder of Nourish for Caregivers, a clinician, speaker, and bestselling author. Her passion...
Benefits of Pity Parties and Understanding the Dying Process
Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 134 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her interview last week with Betsy Wurzel Sloan who was a caregiver for her husband who had Early Onset Alzheimer’s. Betsy shared her experiences with her caregiving...
Caregiver Tips: Self-Care is not an Option and ‘Pity Parties’ are Okay!
Hope for living, loving and caring with no regrets! Episode 133 This week, Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Betsy Sloan(Wurzel). Betsy is a retired nurse and teacher’s aide who now has her own talk show. She is the caregiver for her special needs adult son, and...
The Caregiver Toolbox- Two Stress Management Tools
Hope for living, loving, and caring with no regrets! Episode 132 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, shares two important tools to help caregivers manage the stress that can be experienced while caring for a loved one. She shares examples and insight on reframing and “Both/And”...
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
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...