Finding My Way Back to Reading—and Back to Myself How burnout, caregiving, the public library, and Black literature helped me begin rebuilding a reading life that fits the person I am now. For a long time, I kept saying that I wanted to get back into reading. Not reading articles, because I read those […]
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CAREGIVING WITHOUT AUTHORITY Caregiving for Someone With Serious Mental Illness When the System Will Not Help Serious mental illness caregiving can leave families responsible for a person’s safety, daily care, housing, and survival while giving them little authority to secure treatment or have decision-making capacity properly assessed. Serious mental illness caregiving can leave a family
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CARE + LIFE | CAREGIVER GUIDE FAMILY CAREGIVER RESOURCES What Family Caregivers Wish They Knew Earlier: Protect Communication Before You Need It Before a crisis happens, caregivers need a clear way to communicate with providers, programs, agencies, or insurance plans. This article explains why protected communication matters and where to start. Practical guidance on protecting
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7 Kitchen Herbs for Health, Energy, and Everyday Balance How Kitchen Herbs for Health Fit Into Everyday Wellness Kitchen herbs for health can be an affordable and practical addition to everyday life. Long before supplements, essential oils, and modern wellness brands existed, people used familiar herbs in food, tea, home traditions, and cultural practices. Today,
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Young Sibling Caregivers and Mental Illness What Happens When Caregiving Starts Before Your Life Does Young sibling caregivers are rarely included in caregiving conversations, even though many step into mental health caregiving long before adulthood or stability. When caregiving is talked about publicly, the focus is almost always on parents or older adults. The assumption
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Help someone with schizophrenia take medication without conflict. Help Someone With Schizophrenia Take Medication What Looks Simple From the Outside Help someone with schizophrenia take medication — from the outside, that phrase sounds straightforward. Inside real life, it rarely is. When you’re caring for someone with schizophrenia, resistance doesn’t always show up as refusal. Sometimes
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Family Caregiver Organization Essentials: 13 Tools No One Talks About How These Family Caregiver Organization Essentials Reduce Overwhelm Family caregiver organization essentials are rarely talked about, but they’re the difference between staying afloat and drowning in paperwork, appointments, and constant decision-making. Caregiving comes with a mental load most people never see — the forms, the
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San Francisco SPCA Holiday Adoption Event — Bring Home a Pet for $0 San Francisco SPCA Holiday Adoption Event — Bring Home a Pet for $0 If you’ve been thinking about adopting a pet this year, this moment is golden.The SF SPCA Name Your Price Adoption promotion is live again this December, giving families the
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13 Things I Wish I Knew When I Became a Family Caregiver (Plus One More Nobody Warns You About) Nobody handed me a manual when I became a family caregiver. There was no neat checklist, no “start here” folder, and no simple explanation of what forms mattered, who needed permission, what agencies required, what doctors
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Jasmine Crockett did not come to DC to play. Every time she steps onto that floor, she brings truth, accountability, and the kind of leadership this country desperately needs. She knows exactly who she works for, and it sure as hell ain’t the elite few trying to run this country like their personal playground. She
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