by Susan | Nov 11, 2026 | Caregiving
When Your Brain Is Always on High Alert When you’ve spent years being available for the next phone call, the next crisis, or the next decision, learning to slow down and be present in your own life can be harder than you might expect. Always Available, Always On Call...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2026 | Caregiving
What Happens When Caregiving Keeps You in a Constant State of Stress Caregiving changes your life. It can change your routines, relationships, priorities, responsibilities, and even the way you see yourself. Some of those changes happen gradually. Others arrive with a...
by Susan | Oct 28, 2026 | Awareness, Caregiving
What the Trees Can Teach Us About Releasing As we slide into November, nature reminds us that releasing what no longer serves us can make room for what comes next. The Beauty of an Eastern Kansas Fall The trees are dispersing their leaves as we slide into November....
by Susan | Oct 21, 2026 | Caregiving
Caregiving teaches us how to keep moving through the hardest moments. Finding ourselves again may require learning when it’s OK to stop. When Someone Depends on You, You Keep Going I think part of what keeps a caregiver going is the simple fact that you have to keep...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2026 | Awareness
How Old Stories About Not Being Enough Can Keep Us From Embracing the Future We Want What signs do you see in your life? Are they leading you toward a brighter future? Do you embrace them, or do you find reasons to ignore them? I’ve done both. And I’m learning that...
by Susan | Oct 7, 2026 | Awareness, Caregiving
Finding Connection When You Feel Alone As a caregiver, I sometimes felt like I was living in a desert. Alone. As if no one really understood what I was living. At the time, I lived in rural western Kansas, so it was easy to feel that way. There weren’t many people...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2026 | Awareness
What if you could look at your past self with the same compassion you offer someone you love? Along the lines of perfectionism, I’ve been thinking about the idea of kind sight. I heard someone use that term on a podcast several weeks ago, and it stayed with me. Her...
by Susan | Sep 24, 2026 | Awareness, Caregiving
What happens when we stop waiting for everything to be perfect? I had a decision to make. It was late Tuesday night, and I still hadn’t finished writing this blog post. Monday had been a long day—an appointment in Kansas City, lunch with my mom, taking John to get...
by Susan | Sep 16, 2026 | Awareness
Learning to navigate the unexpected—and finding connection through the transitions we never planned. We Think We Know What Comes Next Things can change in an instant. I know this has happened to me more than once. Sometimes, life changes with a phone call, a...
by Susan | Sep 9, 2026 | Awareness
We can’t control time, yet we can choose what we make room for. Time Has a Way of Taking Over Time. Sometimes it seems to consume our lives. For some people, time is neatly divided into eight-hour workdays, five-day workweeks, weekends, holidays, and vacations. You...
