It almost guts your own health to have to suddenly take care of someone you love. The largest cohort of Americans right now is Baby Boomers, living their lives into their 80s, 90s and beyond.
But if you suddenly have to care for a Boomer, what can you do that ensures your own health stays above the line?
I say, UPGRADE YOUR SELF-CARE--how you take care of you--to a simple, holistic plan of action to meet the deep changes head on.
I'm not an M.D., but I used a plan that adjusted my mindset and attitude to help me take care of my mother for five years.
I got her meds down from 5 to 1 and helped her transition more sweetly, with zero bedsores, as she ended her 83yo journey.
You too can upgrade your personal self-care so it assists you AND your loved one.
Just use the 3 self-care (boosted to the higher octave--> "self-healing") techniques that I used--
- Breathwork and meditation
- Essential oils and aromatics
- Hand healing
I AM CALLING ON YOU NEW CAREGIVERS (and you leaders of caregiving entities).
Don't get crushed under the burdens. With self-healing techniques you can...
- Adopt an easy wakeup routine
- Adopt an easy bedtime routine
- Go back to sleep after caregiving disruption
- Enhance food nutrition
- De-stress quickly
- Be more resilient when its called for --and this is more often than not.
You CAN feel good—not pressured—into making wellness choices that support tranquility in the midst of the upset.
It's your human right!
And after the home health aide goes home (if you have one), the real care falls to you anyway.
Caretaking is a complex industry. Even with 24/7 support (which can take a long minute kick in) your sudden involvement requires SPEEDY STEPS to meet the challenge.
Step 1. Gift yourself--
🎁 a goody bag of health-preserving actions (building towards your arsenal)
🎁 a set of simple new habits for little cost (and yet, generous benefits)
🎁 the commitment to your own self-healing, since "the body heals itself"
This axiom of the holistic health industry isn't fluff, and can work for you to prevent burnout.
The situation is urgent.🥺 Caretakers do not always outlive those they care for!
This is well known in the industry. People literally work themselves to death to ensure the comfort of an incapacitated one.
I personally know of four examples. This stresses not only other family members but the entire care ecosystem that was built around that caregiver.
Step 2.
Read up on some of the tools I used with mom, and watch videos to get acquainted. This will help to ease your transition into caregiving. We cannot have it sap the life out of you.
Step 3.
Listen and participate in the March 31, 11AM EST, seminar that I'm offering on Zoom--- \\ WHY IT IS TIME TO BE A SELF-HEALING HEALMOBILE //
"We're always in motion, we might as well be healthy and healing" was my earliest motto. (I started this work 19 years ago.)
Consider yourself a HealMobile on the Overground Railroad we call today's USA.
There are high roads, low roads, all kinds of roads--some less taken than others, to quote Whitman!
On the Healmobile journey for new Caregivers' healing, HEALTH FREEDOM can look like--
🍵 holistic health courses for a hobby or certification, to have you become A Work of A.R.T. (Aromas, Reiki/Hand-Healing, and Tapping) rather than the tired "work in progress"
👩🎓 Energy Healing Tune-Ups (workshops and practice events)
👋🏽 a hand-holding, done-with-you, wombcentric counseling program.
Whether you are on one of the Steps or already on your Health Freedom journey, I invite you to join my Skool to hop in on ongoing conversations, or DM me to ask questions.
Discover if identity-transformation support, from who you were before to CAREGIVER now, is something you can use.
Energetically,
Dr Niamo
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