No person IS their disease but a person can feel like that disease they are experiencing erases them. Recognizing this is a good step towards taking action to help someone living with disease to come home to themselves. When I was a young mother I […]
Month: July 2022
Building Relationships When Living With Disease
The good news for us was that the friends who were able to show up and the friendships forged after the disease was well into play, have been reliable, steady and true. After a disease is diagnosed, some relationships will change or end. We all […]
Creative Caregiving: People Need People
“Look what you have created here! So much life and all your family and people all around making your life a heaven.” When I was thirty five Andy and I traveled with our kids in our camper, all over the USA, selling our work at […]
Building Relationships: For the Caregiver
When I spent time walking in the mountain forest outside our house, it was as if that connection with nature broadened my view to be able to include Andy’s illness into the whole tapestry of our life. Relationships are designed for change. As I write […]