Caregiver Quotes
Caregiver Quote of the day
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.
Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.
Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.
Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.
I love you but I got to love me more.
Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver
An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.
An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.
One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel ‘dis-eased’ in the caregiving process.
As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns.
My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.
My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.