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07/06/2024

My journey is growing, changing and blossoming in various capacities. My first love has been writing. I wrote a book about my caregiving journey from April 2017- December 2021. It was extremely therapeutic to write this book. I feel called to share that this version of the first book I wrote will not be the one published or shared first.
I wrote it for me as a way of expressing my inner dialogue, healing the experiences that were still holding me hostage and well to say I wrote a book from start to finish. I am so extremely proud of the fact I made this happen.
Excited to dive in to what my first published book will be. This journal is the space I write my poetry, a gift given to me by my dear friend for my 33rd birthday.
Today is her 33rd birthday she has been with me through every moment and major life event since 3rd grade and she has always believed in me especially when it comes to my writing and my poetry. Long before I ever believed in it.
So I’m extremely to dove in to this journey of the unknown in f writing poetry and sharing it for the masses in so many various ways. This page here is dedicated to my caregiving journey and my podcast all about Radical care.
I have a created a page dedicated solely dedicated to my poetry please follow if you feel called.

05/05/2024

This is our lives intertwined in February 2017 when we did the last part of transformational training course together. Another soul friend I met in my mid-late 20’s. Let’s talk about how she has shown up in ways that still blow me away. She has sent us food, shown up in front of my house, sent gift cards randomly in the mail. Sat on the phone once while I threw up because I thought I had a possible exposure to you know what right after my mom got a biopsy to confirm her Lung Cancer Diagnosis in June 2020.
She is fierce, inspiring, compassionate, intelligent and passionate about health in all the areas. Physical, emotional and mental. She has called me out on so much and has walked beside me through the entirety of this journey in ways of coaching, advocacy, listening and being her authentic amazing self.
She lives around 200 miles away and yet I feel as if she is right next to me whenever we connect. She believes in me and all I am up to, she inspires me to keep going and sharing my authenticity in so many ranges of ways. she will be writing the forwards to each and everyone of the books I write.
This woman has blessed my life in ways I am still unraveling. Thank you for being a soul friend and being in my life through this intense journey of caregiving. A lot of people left. You not only stayed you broke down the walls that I kept trying to put up.

01/05/2024

It’s official the 1st of May. In May 2017 my father got an official Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer. May happens to be Bladder Cancer Awareness month and I will be sharing about the caregiving aspect of having a loved one with bladder cancer. He is in remission and while that is a beautiful gift the things that have transpired due to that diagnosis have expanded his health care needs and come with other health issues.
Stay tuned for content that’s informative, fun and most of all authentic when it comes to being a caregiver of someone who has had Bladder Cancer.

27/04/2024

This is my friend our lives crossed paths in March of 2017. Just two months before my caregiving journey started. This amazing woman has shown me a deeper understanding of the meaning behind friendship. She has cared for me deeply since the moment we met. She has made me laugh numerous times and held me when I have been down. I never knew that some of the most impactful, wonderful, loving and profound friendships would be of people who I met in my late 20’s.
Her heart is so full of love, joy and the way she always reminds me that she cares and she is there for me is truly a gift and a blessing. Our lives crossing paths was an absolute blessing. I have seen her become a mom twice. She is a sister, a soul friend, a person who has believed in me from the start, has supported me in more ways than I can think of in this moment.a genuine, down to earth, out of the world outgoing person who I am deeply profoundly blessed and lucky to have to have as a friend. Seven years of you in my life through death and grief, lost of friendships, motherhood for you, caregiving for me, dog additions for both of us, moves, and so so so much more. I know I got you and sure hope you know you got me as well.

21/04/2024

This is my friend . We have been in each other’s lives since 3rd grade. 1999 was the year we met and this year marks 25 years of friendship.
A friendship that has gone through so many range of stages in life. There was a period for a year where we did not speak. Thinking back to that year it flew by and how once our friendship grew again. No time passed and we connected again, healed and moved forward through what caused the pause in our friendship.
May 2017 my mom and I were at the hospital while my dad was getting the tumors removed from his bladder. All of sudden Mara and her mom Michelle’s walked in kept us company while we waited. It was a surprise and was much needed.
This was only about two months after we connected with each other again. She has been one of the biggest support system I have had in this season on my life.
A friendship that has shown me she is family through and through. I want to highlight this relationship here because relationships are important to me especially ones outside of the journey.
She has been there through all my parents cancer diagnosis’s and so much more that goes beyond that. She has been there through the darkest times of my life and even though she does not believe she is someone who is good at supporting people I call BS because her friendship and support has kept me going.
She has grounded me, called me out, listened, honored my boundaries every step of the way without judgement or pushback and she has supported my business, advocated me and celebrated along with me the wins as well as been there durning the falls and breakdown. Please tag below who you are blessed to have support you in your caregiving journey. For the next couple weeks I will be sharing those who have personal supported me.
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18/04/2024

My dad’s fistula is not working probably and has not been since they started using it towards the end of last year. So the attempted to but one up farther in his upper arm/armpit area. This is where the surgical attach a vein and artery together.
The vascular surgeon said depending on how it looked up there they would do the best they could to play one but might have to a graft which was they did. The connected a tube inside of his arm which is attached to both the vein and artery.
The bandage on his forearm is from the of fistula which they tied off and the other bandage is where the graft is. This is not the best option as they don’t last as long and more likely to cause infection however it’s better then what is attached and hanging out of his port.
So hopefully in a month-two they will be able to take out the current attachment for his Dialysis and they will be able to use this graft with ease.
Never a dull moment that’s for sure, this is the fourth time he had something done since the fistula was placed back in July 2023.

15/04/2024

At the start of this year I decided I wanted to take myself out to the movies more. I love going to the movies and until my caregiving journey was in full force I went at minimum 10 times a year.
I saw this really powerful and inspiring movie and I could not stop talking about it. So I shared it with my mom and she wanted to go see it as well. So I knew I got to make that happen. I was 100% down to go see it again and so that following week we had a mother/daughter movie date. First the movie then after we went out to dinner.
When my mom wants to leave the house to go do something or see other people I make it happen. She is always been a homebody but the last few years with everything going on the majority of the times we leave the house is for appointments at various doctors offices and clinics.

16/03/2024

This week, rest has been a major priority of mine for the simple fact that I make it happen when the moments come. Also my whole nervous system craves it on a daily basis.
Sunday I called 911 to take my dad to hospital. Find out there is a possibility he needs to have surgery. His third bowel obstruction.
Tuesday still In hospital they confirmed at this point in the hospital bowel obstruction is approving with diet restriction and at this time he does not need surgery. He is informed he is gonna be discharged they change there mind and don’t tell him why he has to stay. He then discharges himself. I don’t find this out till we are a minute away from the hospital when I pick him up. I am extremely upset and now figuring out how to make that never happen again. He felt a lot better and the lack of communication especially to him durning this stay was overwhelmingly high.
Wednesday he starts to fill horrible again and asks me to take him back to the hospital. Partial Bowel obstruction is clear and they have admitted him cause of his heart.
Friday he is like doing so much better and they discharged him. He feels worlds better and I am so grateful that they discharged him and this visit went better then the one right before.
This morning I wake up to a text from a dear friend of mine that a food delivery will be arriving to my house between 10-10:15 this morning and not only that I checked my email and saw that I received a egfit card from her and her boyfriend as well.
I knew this food order was coming however I was not sure when and what it all was. She ordered enough for all three of us to have 4-5 meals in total breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you I am blessed in this life to know you and seven years of friendship. Our friendship started 3 months before my caregiving journey began. You have been through it all in various ways. Thank you for this gift of food and the gift of me being able to order in the future when it’s needed.
Thank you for who you are as a person wholeheartedly. Truly I cried twice the morning and they were cries of being seen and supported.

02/02/2024

So the first month of 2024 is behind us. January thanks for the memories and new skills I have learned on this journey. Thanks for the moments that had me pull my hair out and the times I cried myself to sleep. Thanks for the many deep conversations. Thanks for the understanding and grace to say no to things and take time for myself. Thanks for having me remember I am here and that’s enough. Thanks for being over and for well reminding me that life is ever evolving and changing. Thanks for really showing me that working for a company is not something that is truly supportive during this journey.
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25/01/2024

By October 2023 I could feel myself shutting down completely. I was exhausted, extremely mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted. I was operating in complete survival mode. I felt like my life was not my life at all. I was at point where I felt my personality and core of my compassion was shifting in a direction that was un recognizable.
I was deep in resentment and so angry. I felt so damn lost in a deep black hole and there was no way out. So one morning I could feel the tension build inside of me more and more. I decided to grab my camera bag, get in my car and drive 15mins away from home. I wanted to watch the sunrise. Take in the light of a new day beginning, new possibilities and I wanted to stay present to that and focus on doing something I loved.
My heart, soul and mind deeply desired creating and so I captured photograph after photograph. This is just one of the many pictures I took on that day. It jumped started something inside of me.
My batteries had juice again and I felt parts of myself igniting in a way that had not for so long. My soul was on fire and the new fresh seeds were being planted all inside of me.
Radical care is authentic experience and expression. It’s the truth and reality of a journey I am learning about everyday. It’s the ability to deeply connect with oneself in the darkness, the mess, the intense moments and in survival mode and see I am here. I am here.
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15/01/2024

This last hospital stay for my dad was one like I have never experienced. A staff member in the ER department was rude, unsupportive and unprofessional with/towards him.
He spent 14hrs in a ER bed till they moved him to a bed in a room. Which happened to be the room that was right next to the one my mom was in when she had the major blood clots in her neck.
I was a wreck leaving him in the ER after what I witnessed in front of my eyes of a healthcare professional treating him in such a rude and nasty way.
However every time I stepped foot in the hospital and walked towards his room I was majorly triggered and brought back to when we almost lost my mom and how truly dangerous and severe her blood clots really were.
Then the Cardiologist rounded before visiting hours and did not communicate anything that was going on with my dad’s heart to him. Only us for to still be in the dark till we saw his cardiologist a couple days after he was discharged.
This visit for me was by far the most difficult and painful one. Yet however it was also the one I choose not to spend my entire days next to him in the hospital because I was on empty in such a way I knew one more mess up I would go off and most likely be kicked out of the hospital or even arrested.
I needed to safely process what was going on around me in the present moment and feel all the things I was feeling and move through them as well as work through the flashbacks I was having as well.

03/01/2024

For me these two signs in a hospital parking garage have way more meaning behind them then just stop and look in both directions.
Hospital’s have a feel, a smell, sounds and visuals that are always there. A smell that lasts for days and sounds of beeping machines and nurses carts rolling by that wake you up in the middle of the night when you are home even weeks after your loved one is back home.
There is an expanded, connected and a deeper access of advocacy that happens when I enter a a hospital. So the various times I have seen this sign over the course of 6.5 years I think about how one version of my caregiving journey is not in 2.0 version.
Also looking in both directions for me is one looking at the space I have just come from and now where I am headed. A building I am extremely familiar with. A space where the advocacy and support of a loved one(s) is the most pivotal and important when they have a complex and deep history with their physical health. This is one of the areas where my space of being a caregiver matters the most. A space where my knowledge of their chart, history and who they our as human beings is what speaks volumes. This is where getting rest, taking it easy is deeply needed so they can come back home. A space where I can speak, listen,ask questions and comprehend the plan for them to be discharged so there main focus is taking it easy.
This is also by far the most emotional and physical draining part of my caregiving journey. While also being the most rewarding and supportive one as well.
Stop for me represent letting go of all the past things and focusing on this moment, this stay, this experience so that it does not trigger past trauma for me or have me focus on the past so I can stay present with what’s going on and be a space for them to heal, rest and even have fun.

01/01/2024

Saying goodbye to 2023. What a year it was full of hospital stays, treatments, scans, major life changes, multiple health scares. Near death experiences for both my mom and dad. Dialysis started for my dad, major procedure to remove serious blood clots from my mom’s neck. A new addition to our family in a four legged creature named Bella (our dog)
A stay in a rehab place for 2 weeks for my mom, deep healing and a whole lot of crying and anger released. A change in careers for me and deep dive in to changing how I do things again and again and again.
Caregiving is all about adapting and changes. This year brought up a lot of both of those and so much more. To say I am happy to be finished with 2023 is an understatement. Deeply thankful that I made it through and so did they.
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22/12/2023

Walking grounds me, it helps clear my mind and allows me to dive deep in to my creative side. I have come up with so many ideas during walks. Something about every step has me access and connect to the moment, the presence.
Durning the start of the pandemic I go on daily photography walks around my neighborhood, around neighborhoods I did my dog walks at and my relationship and love for stillness grew deeper and stronger.
This was something I did before my caregiving journey went from secondary status for my dad to primary status for my dad and my mom. I don’t go on many solo walks anymore. The majority of my walks are with my dog and my clients dogs.
However my practice to capture photos while outside still is alive and well and is one on the most soul/ cup filling self care activities I do.
Scroll through to see a couple different perspectives on this beautiful bush of flowers.

22/11/2023

My face after a deeply healing and releasing cry. Caregiving is far from easy and it comes with its challenges. Yesterday was rough and as I cried with the massive tears rolling down my face and snot coming out of my nose. Really connecting to why I was shedding this tears. What the purpose behind this cry was and what it represented. I also connected to what it was having me let go of and release. What I was healing.
Things said out of anger towards and not my truth. Things said out of anger towards me are not my truth. Things said out of anger towards me are not mine to carry or hold on to. Things said out of anger towards me are not mine to carry or hold on to.
How I healed my little girl yesterday, how I deeply connected with I am my sign, my Angel, my guiding light in the darkness. I am never alone when I have my back. I am never alone when I connect to myself. I am never alone when I trust in me.
I choose me yesterday, I connected back to my center, my joy, my passion, my heart, my compassion, my humanity. I was in a dark space yesterday afternoon and I created the light.

13/11/2023

My mornings are this. I love these mornings.
After feeding, playing with the Bella outside and taking her for a nice morning walk. She goes and snuggles with grandma. Giving her kisses and laying next to her for some loving. In the form of pets and head scratches her favorite.
When I first got her with in the first 2 months we had some close calls, the reality of death became closer as my mom was declining rapidly and my dad was at war with himself and was also declining and ended up going in to Renal Failure.
I truly believe and know the only thing that had me keep going durning June- to the start of September was Bella.
This journey has been far from east, simple, heartfelt. It has been gut wrenching, heart breaking, eye opening and truly one that has changed my perspective and understanding of Care in ways that have had me grow, expand, release and heal.

02/11/2023

33 years on this earth. Wow I made it to 33 and damn it feels good. I woke up this morning with the sweetest kisses from this precious girl. I have spent most of the day with her and doing caregiving related tasks while resting up as much as possible before my 7hr shift at my part time job tonight.
My birthday celebrations while be happening this coming week. Excited to celebrate with family and then with friends (who are my chosen family).
This is only the beginning of year 33. I’m excited for all I have in store for it and what it has in store for me (especially the hard, messy and uncomfortable bits)

01/11/2023

33 years ago today on a Thursday evening my parents had this photo taken of them. It would be the last night my mom was pregnant with me. Today is my last day of age 32. I have spent my entire 30’s as a caregiver to both of my parents. I love this photo of us together, the love, joy and silly facial expressions. My dad 28 and my mom 38.
Wow only one more day of 32, I have been down on my self a lot lately. Truthfully I had major goals for my 30’s and somewhere along the way my life changed, my purpose changed and expanded.
However I have done some much, learned so much, grown, healed and have done so much this 32nd year of my life. Including finishing getting a certificate in Medical Billing and Coding, starting the editing process on my first book, celebrated 5 years of working for myself. Start writing book 2, got a dog. Laughed, cried, got back in my creative side, deepens my relationship with self.
My parents co-created me, my mom brought me in to this world. They raised me. Their passion and love for each other is why I am here. It’s why I make the choice every single day to be a Caregiver to both of them.
Mom and dad I love you, thanks for being a part of this journey with me, thanks for showing me how to be the best caregiver I can be. Thank you for all the love, support you have giving me, show me and most of all thanks for being my parents. ❤️❤️❤️

01/11/2023

Happy National Family Caregivers Month. Wow it’s November already. I see you, I feel you, thank you. To all my fellow caregivers current and those who have been caregivers in the past. I honor you for all you are not only in your caregiving journey but all you do outside of that space as well.
Comment a 🫂if you are/have been a caregiver
Let’s love each other and ourselves up.

25/10/2023

My dad has been showing me how to use tools a lot this last year. Walking me through it, telling me things and letting me use them. It has been fun to watch him and learn new skills and doing things together.
We have been working well together again like we did the first five years of this journey and I’m really grateful for that. Of course there are lots of ups and downs and in between’s. However this last month things have improved.
It’s about going with the flow, stepping back, speaking up and even staying silent.

19/10/2023

Friendship has been the cornerstone of my support system durning this stage in my life. As a Caregiver to my both of my parents which started in the middle of the global pandemic in June 2020. and I spoke every single day. It was such a blessing in my life to have that connection.
Our bond has been strong since we met in April of 2017. Best of friends and she is my family. Her friendship and deep compassionate heart has been a major blessing in my life.
My friends are my family and the love and support I have received from this magical and wonderful human being since the moment we met has been life changing.
There is no judgment, expectations, simply being in each other’s space whether in person or over the phone is such a joyful, supportive, inspiring experience.
Thank you my sister, my friend. I love you. Also since the weather has been nicer we have been going on a weekly morning walk together with her youngest son. So good for the mind, body and soul.
If you feel called below tag in the comments someone who has enriched your life through your caregiving journey or if your not a caregiver someone who has been there and enriched your life through hard and trying times.

18/10/2023

I am at the stage in my life and Caregiving Journey where I cry a lot. I shed tears of joy, sadness, pain, fear, anger, confusion, overwhelm, stress. I am shedding a lot.
Crying for me is a deep release and therapeutic healing act. However this has not always been the case. From the time I was no longer a small child I will say age 8- age 29 I cried about 30 times in my life in a span of 21years
In the last almost three years now I have cried probably close to 500 times. I allowed myself to believe crying was a sign of failure, weakness. However crying for me represents my humanity in all its realness. It’s beautiful in how much my nervous system feels free and at peace after and even durning the process of crying.
Crying is my saving Grace, crying is helping my soul, heart and mind heal. Crying helps me release everything I still tend to hold on to. It helps my surrender and let go of what holds me back, weighs me down and keeps me stuck in a space that’s unsupportive.

07/10/2023

Thursday. 5th of October. My dad had a procedure done to his Fistula to make it bigger so they could use soon for his Dialysis. Also Thursday is one of his three Dialysis days. The last month he has been driving himself to and from Dialysis and because he was gonna be under anesthesia he was not able to drive.
My mom also was having her follow up CT-Scan since having no treatment since the start of June.
Also this was a day of doing dog walks and working my part time job in the evening. There was a lot of dropping off and picking both of them up.
There was only an hour of time from when I picked up my dad from the Vascular Surgeon’s office that we would need to leave for the Kidney Center.
So we grabbed lunch and it was delicious. It was nice to have quality time with him just the two of us. He is also being his bubbly silly self again for the first time since the end of May.
Not being fully self employed is tough and I am extremely grateful the company I work for and the managers at my store that value the importance of family.

04/10/2023

September was a month that I am glad is over. For two weeks I worked two part time jobs, plus my self employment and my caregiving stuff it was a lot. I worked 55 hr weeks and realized how I was not getting any sleep and the little bit I got was not quality either.
I was away from home most of the month which was both hard and a really great blessing for me to reset, evaluate and have space for myself.
For the last quarter of the year I am focusing on my creativity and starting off my days doing something that I love that fills me up.

19/09/2023

I have survived and lived through my hardest days. 3 months ago I got a puppy and the last 3 months have been the hardest in the caregiving Journey to date.
We all had Covid, my mom declined in a way that scared me to my core. My dad also decline. Constant verbal abuse for two months and well my cup was empty.
The resentment kicked in and I checked out. I was done, I was ready to live in my car with my dog till I figured out how to get my own space.
In the back of my mind I knew my dad was not physically well but he would not admit it and said everything was fine. My mom’s decline effected us both and for two weeks I though she was gonna need round the clock care.
Then the reality my dad was in Kidney Failure and the 2-3 month window we thought he to start Dialysis became 6 days.
In 5 days he gained 15lbs and his first dialysis treatment they removed over a liter of excess fluid from his body.
I was questioning about how much getting a puppy was probably not the greatest of ideas. A lot more work and energy. However having her has giving me joy in ways I lost sight of, has giving me drive to expand, learn, grow and challenge myself.
Also if she was not a part of my life I would have left my house and never come back. It was the bad and that intense. I was at the point of living in my car with her till I made something work for both of us.
Things are better and toxicity build up in the brain is no joke. It changes a person personality in a way that can scare you.

11/09/2023

August was the month where my dad went from having to start Dialysis in 3 months to having to start it the following week.
August was the month we found out my mom has beaten all the odds and stats for Her Lung Cancer. Just getting monitored now. No more treatment.
August was the month where I went out and got two part time jobs. Both of which started this month.
August was a month of deeper reflection inwards and lot of moving through anger.

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Season 3- Episode 10 . Connecting with the heaviness without eating away at you. . I share about how I allowed the heaviness of caregiving to eat away at me and deciding to become aware of when that happens and how to not allow it to take a hold of me. The heaviness is real and I get to honor that and I always get to allow myself to be in a space of optimistic realism and how that has greatly supported me through this seven year journey. . #radicalselfcare #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #podcast #podcasting #podcastersofinstagram #podcastlife #podcasters #radicalselflove #radicalacceptance #carecantwait

When we had the consultation with the urologist who would be preforming my dad’s bladder removal surgery. He listed a long list of complications and side effects that could happen after one no longer has a bladder. Also addressing the concerns of what could happen in surgery so on so on. . From each tube a bag is attached which collects and holds the urine, emptied out multiple times a day. I have also had to flush out this tubes once or twice. And we keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t come out too much. Because a tube has fallen out completely twice before . One of the things was kidneys not functioning properly and that the testing might not be able to carry the load alone. . Sure enough three months we learned of this normal Nephrostomy tubes place in each of his kidneys and that he was in Stage 4 Kidney Disease . As its bladder cancer awareness month I wanted to share that even though my dad has been free from bladder cancer since the surgery September 2017 the effects from that cancer diagnosis still affect his health and life today. . He of course has become very use to this process and it’s a part of him he will carry till he dies. The regeneration he has gone through since this journey began seven years ago still amazes today . #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #bladdercancer #bladdercancerawareness #bladdercancersurvivor #kidneydisease #kidneydiseaseawareness

I went deeper on another level in the latest episode. Speaking into the expectations I put on myself, others have put on me and the expectations I have put on others. . In this episode I share about a couple stories of when moments got really intense in my home and words were said out of anger, frustration from a space of operating in defense from my point of view. . This episode also shows how I connect with the unknown expectations I was putting on my parents and how it was effecting our relationship. . This episode was extremely important and was very emotional for me to record. . #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #radicalselflove #radicalselfcare #radicalacceptance #selfcare #caregiving #caregivingtips #caregivinglife #caregiver #carecantwait #lettinggoofexpectations

Caregiving comes with unexpected moments that are like WTF . Like what happened this morning. Thank goodness for having certain medical supplies to keep it covered and safe till I was able to convince him to go along with a medical professional from his vascular surgeons office. . Luckily it did not go all the way down to the graft and the doctor did three horizontal mattress stitch’s. . Get to keep it dry and safe for the next couple weeks with daily bandage changes. Always learning something knew and apparently I did a good job of packing the wound as well as securing it. Go me thanks for all the medical shows I have watched and years of experience in caregiving. . This was the first time I had to pack a wound though. . #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #carecantwait #unexpected

S3.EP8 of the @radicalcarepodcast out now. In this episode I share about how I lost myself in the process and tools I am utilizing to not let that happen again. . #caregiving #caregiver #caregiverlife #carecantwait #radicalselflove #radicalselfcare #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcasting

S3.EP7, speaking about making tough decisions. So many choices have been made in this journey and a lot of them are tough in navigating what I can say yes to and what I want to say yes to and what gets to be pushed back or saying no to many things for various reasons. . Listen now where ever you get your podcasts . . #radicalcarepodcast #radicalselfcare #radicalacceptance #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcastinglife #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife

S3.EP6 of the podcast is all about Relationship Changes. I speak in to why I think people leave without speaking or expressing. Of course it’s my interpretation and opinion of why people have left since the deep dive into my caregiving journey started in June 2020. . Here I am sharing about the death of relationships and how it’s hard. I go deeper in the episode and this is only a 56 second taste. If you personally know me I would love for you to listen to this episode. If you are a fellow caregiver or a mother please listen to this episode. If you are a friend/family member of a mother or someone who is a caregiver listen to this episode. . #radicalselfcare #radicalcarepodcast #selfcare #selfcareforcaregivers #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #caregivingsupport #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcasters #podcastinglife #podcaster #podcastlife #podcastsofig

My dad has been cooking again and it’s been such a blessing to see him do something he loves so much.. . I also love how while he is pushing him self to get out of his stage of depression he does not push him self physically and allows himself to take the breaks and time he needs in the process. . He has such a glow about him in enhanced ways when he is cooking. I loved recording him prep the sausage rolls and then having a taste once they were finished. . Also showing him this video, he picked out the song and gave final approval. . #radicalselflove #radicalselfcare #radicalacceptance #cooking #cookingathome #cookingtime #cookinggram #caregivinglife #caregiving #caregiver

In 2017 before my caregiving journey began a friend made me my first ever bubble baths with roses. She told me to relax, enjoy and wow was it absolute magic. I remember how that first one made me feel. I felt so present, so seen and so at ease within my body. It was healing. @thechapelofroses showed me the magic of roses and all they have to offer in ways I never knew flowers could. It has been quite a while since I have felt the petals with my hands and on my body. . Yet the memories of pure therapeutic bliss remain forever implanted in my mind, heart and soul. So here is to another rose bath in my future this week. I am calling it in. . #radicalselflove #radicalacceptance #radicalselfcare #roses #healing #bath #rosebath #magic #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #community #connection #selflove #selfcare #selfcarefirst #selfcarematters #selfcaremagic

Episode five of the podcast is me sharing about what it is like caregiving for multiple people at once. This little taste is me expressing about how sometimes I have to give more attention and support to one of them over the other. . Being the solo caregiver to both of my parents at the same time is a lot of work, navigating through changes different personalities and care duties as well as the constant change that revolves in this journey that is full of unexpected ups downs and in between moments. . #radicalcarepodcast #radicalselfcare #caregiver #caregiving #caregivinglife #carecantwait #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcasts #podcasters #podcastinglife #podcastshow

Season 3, Episode 4 is all about Feeling your Feelings. Easier said than done am I right. So in this episode I dive into how I have allowed over the majority course of my life prior to my caregiving journey and through out stages of my caregiving journey putting my feelings aside. Letting them go deep down inside and burying them under the rug. Letting them marinate till the point of a major breakdown/meltdown. That the boiled over so intensely I got to look within in and connect with how truly important it is to feel my feelings and what that looks like and how it can support in healing, releasing, growing, experiencing. . Does feeling your feelings scare you, make you uncomfortable or liberate you? Would love to hear your thoughts. Let me know in the comments below. . #radicalcare #radicalcarepodcast #radicalhonsety #radicalselfexpression #radicalselfcompassion #podcast #podcasting #podcastersofinstagram #podcasts #podcasters #podcastinglife #podcast

The most Recent episode of the podcast is about Loneliness and Isolation. This little taste is me talking about being around almost my mom’s entire side of the family for thanksgiving. I dive deep into my connection and unraveling of both of these and how I have experienced them durning my caregiving journey. . #caregiving #caregiver #carecantwait #caregivingadvice #caregiverlife❤️ #podcast #radicalcarepodcast #podcasting #podcastersofinstagram #podcasters #loneliness #isolation

Navigating New Diagnosis is the topic for Episode 2 of Season 3 of the Radical Care Podcast. In this clip I start at the beginning of the first diagnosis my dad’s bladder cancer. Then go from there and express I have navigated a range of new diagnosis what has worked and supported me and what has not. . #radicalcarepodcast #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcasting #podcasts #podcastlife #podcaster #podcastshow #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #carecantwait

A little taste of the first episode of season 3. Doing a check in and update about my Caregiving jpurney from February 2021-February 2024. . #caregiving #caregiver #caregiverlife❤️ #carecantwait #caregivinglife #radicalcare #radicalcarepodcast

A little taste of the last episode of Season 2 of the podcast. Honoring me time. Including in this is closed captions. . You can find this episode on any streaming podcast platform. Link will be attached in my bio to listen on Spotify. . #radicalcare #radicalcarepodcast #selfcare #selfcarethreads #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #caregiversupport #caregiveradvice

In my caregiving journey and experience i spend a lot of time at doctor offices. With that comes waiting rooms and areas. January I visited a total of 10 waiting rooms. Once twice and the other was a hallway I spent four different days in visiting my dad in hospital. . In order Dentist (mom), MRI (mom), Hospital (dad), Cardiologist (dad), Neurologist (mom), Urologist (Dad), Dentist (Dad), Ct-Scan (mom), Nuropysch (mom), Vascular Surgeon (Dad) . Things that happened that I did not attend. Two dentist visits for my dad, blood work for my mom, blood work for my dad, Nephrologist visit for my dad, Chest xray dad, nephro tube changed dad and multiple dialysis treatments dad. . #caregiving #carecantwait #caregiver #caregiverlife #doctorsoffice #waitingroom

Over the last 3.5 years my mom has gone through many stages of having no appetite to a big appetite. From the cancer(s), chemotherapy and radiation and more chemotherapy it has been a whirlwind. . Durning the times she is not eating a lot and needs more nutrients in her body. I make her a vanilla boost and orange sherbet shake. This has become one of her favorites as it reminds her of creamsicle from her childhood. . #caregiving #caregivinglife #caregiver #caregivingadvice #caregiversupport #radicalcare

30 seconds to connect to your core. Your heart, your breath. 30 seconds to allow yourself to simply be. Listen to the sounds, watch the movements of the clouds. Take all that in. Know you are a blessing, you are a gift, thank you for being alive. This is for you. Yes you watching this. Yes you reading this. . . #caregiving #caregiver #caregivinglife #meditation #breathwork #clouds #cloudreels #skyreels #blessings #gift #surrender #sky #sky_perfection

Little taste of the latest episode. A solo episode, so since I recorded this one my dad has been in the hospital two more times and is currently in the hospital now. . I share this realness of being a mess, being in the mess as way to support be transparent and own it as part of my process . This is what radical self care looks like for me being real and honest about the big deep things. . #radicalcare #radicalcarepodcast #radicalselfcare #radicalselflove #radicalacceptance #caregiver #caregiving #caregivers #caregiversupport #caregivinglife #caregivingtips

A little sample of my wonderful conversation with @negspacelife. We dove deep, we laughed, we spoke about hospital experiences pre pandemic and durning pandemic and so much more. . . #caregiving #caregiver #caregivers #radicalcarepodcast #radicalcare #caregivingsupport #caregiverlife #caregiveradvocacy

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