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This is short and sweet.

I have been working with those with early to mid-stage Alzheimer’s recently. I also facilitate caregiver support groups and provide Reiki at memory cafes and memory care communities, so I work with both sides of this disease – PWA (Persons With Alzheimer’s) and Caregivers. Every week I work with and walk caregivers through their challenges, fears, hopes, losses, and griefs. Every week, I give love and support to those with Alzheimer’s, bringing some light and joy to their days. In Alzheimer’s talk the PWA is most often referred to as your loved one.

Yesterday, I met a truly Loved One.Read more »

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photo by Ellen Keiter

November is National Family Caregiver’s Month

It is a time to reach out to ourselves as caregivers, developing a community of support, care, respite and resources as needed.

As I continue to share my book, On Angels’ Wings, A Journey Through Alzheimer’s with My Mother, in various local venues I find part of its appeal is for those whose loved ones have completed their Alzheimer’s journeys.

Why?

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Knotted shadows

 

As I have progressed in my journey with Alzheimer’s since mom passed, I have looked for and found ways to continue to bring hope and healing into the Alzheimer’s community. This poem is one of my first “post mom” poems written for a group of caregivers I volunteered to meet with  in a program at one of the local senior centers.

This poem was the expression my own experience of caregiving that I shared with them.  It is my hope it will speak to the heart of caregivers in their journeys everywhere. It came from mine.Read more »

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Spring Buddha

An Alzheimer’s Poem – about Mom and me,
found scratched on the back of a website workshop handout
from some time in 2013. I found it as I was throwing out old papers recently.
This one got saved to share with you here….

A Place of Peace

We seem to be
wrapped in continuity
accustomed to our journey’s steps
quickened in the now
unafraid of the next

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