Rethinking How We Support Aging Parents

What if the support you've been given is only helping after you're already overwhelmed?

There is no shortage of information about aging parent care. There are resources, referrals, support groups, checklists, respite care, community programs and professionals ready to help.

And many of those things are incredibly valuable.

But they don't necessarily change what happens inside of you while you're navigating all of it.

In this video, we'll talk about:

• Why having the logistics handled doesn't always make you feel better  
• Why so many traditional forms of self-care help while you're away from your parent—but don't necessarily change how you feel when you're with them  
• How emotional misery can quietly become normalized in aging parent care  
• Why the endless appointments, forms, phone calls and crises aren't necessarily the real problem  
• The missing piece that can help you handle what comes next without constantly being pushed to your emotional edge  
• Why two people can go through incredibly difficult parent-care experiences and come out of them very differently

Because the logistics may never be finished.

There may always be another appointment, another decision, another phone call, another form or another crisis.

Those things are part of the journey.

But living with constant fear, guilt, resentment, frustration and emotional exhaustion doesn't have to be.

There is another way to move through this chapter.