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5 Free Resources for Family Caregivers

Find Time To Help Yourself

As a caregiver you discover that your time isn’t always yours. So you don’t always get to attend a class or workshop that could help support your efforts as a family caregiver.

To help you find ways to learn new tools and sharpen outdated attitudes, here is a list of free webinars, courtesy of Caregiving.com that you can access at a time that works best for you:

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Letting Go to Become Who You Are Meant to Be

So many difficult changes happen during a caregiving experience. And, those changes can seem to bring out the worst in you. What if those changes actually brought you to your best self? In this 45-minute webinar, Denise will help you let go of what was so you can be who truly are meant to be.

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The 10 Commandments of Being a Family Caregiver

During her 45-minute webinar, Amy Bellis, who cared for her in-laws, shares rules to save you sanity and help you be who you want to be as a family caregiver.

Mindfulness Based Dementia Care

Andrew Koch, one of our students in our Certified Caregiving Consultant™ program, will be present this webinar in order to meet his criteria to become certified. In his webinar, Andrew will discuss a mindfulness based philosophy of care. Andrew will introduce us to the concept of mindfulness and lead guided meditation at the end of the webinar.

Keep Courage

You stand on ledge over and over. You need to jump into a decision, into taking a stand, into protecting a boundary. The amount of courage required during a caregiving experience can exhaust and intimidate even the bravest of us. How do you keep the courage you need? In this 40-minute webinar, Denise M. Brown, founder of CareGiving.com, will share strategies to help you find courage when you need it.

Healing Your Caregiving Hurts

Caregiving hurts. People disappoint, situations cause pain, the declines break your heart. In this webinar, you will learn more about how to heal what hurts.

To access these webinars and more, click here.

J. Dietrich Stroeh is author of Three Months: A Caregiving Journey from Heartbreak to Healing (FolkHeart Press) and three free e-books, including the newly released Caregiving Resources. For more information, click here

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