Writing the Next Chapter: Embracing Self-Care During and After Caregiving, Wednesday, December 13th at 7pm EST (FREE AND VIRTUAL)!
Join us online for a workshop where participants will walk away with written next steps, take-aways to help them along their path, self-care techniques and write a letter or poem to loved ones or themselves.
What to expect: In this 2-hour workshop, we will go through the journey as a caregiver, poems from Crying Tears of Teal and how it is helping many as a resource, a self-care inventory and look at easy ways that we can take better care of ourselves, do some mindfulness exercises and more.
Whether we are caring for a loved one due to illness, when they heal or unfortunately pass away; we are left with asking ourselves, “where do we go from here and what is next for me?” I lost both my younger sister and mother 2.5 years apart. While I was my mother’s caregiver when she had Ovarian Cancer, I took very good care of her, but lost sight of myself. I didn’t take care of myself, even down to the basics and after I lost her. My sense of purpose was blurry, and I needed help getting back on my path and even figuring out what my new path looked like. In this workshop we will explore my poetry book, Crying Tears of Teal which was partially written at my mother’s bedside and some take-aways from the book. We will look at where we are presently standing as caregivers or former ones, review our feelings and emotions, take a self-care inventory to see if we are taking care of ourselves (are we eating, going to the doctor, sleeping, working out) and start to look at what do we need and want for ourselves, what are our dreams and goals and what would our loved ones want for us now and in the future.”
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https://alexlibraryva.org/event/9364938
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