Caregiver Down: Requesting Backup!
Coping with Crisis and Extreme Emotions
Reset extreme emotions in crisis situations
First Things First
Finding Your Self, Finding the Path
Common Caregiver Burnout Feelings
Naming Our Inner Rumpelstiltskins
A Disaster by Any Other Name
Getting Past the Caveman Days
An Exercise for Changing Emotions
Interlude: a Breathing Exercise
Hot Wire Your Emotions
The Cold Shoulder
Shake It Off
Self-soothing: Easy as 5-4-3-2-1
Take the Opposite Action
Self-validate
Gratitude
London Bridge, and Everything Else, Is Falling Down
Coping Ahead
What's the Worst that Can Happen?
Ice, Ice, Baby (Sing Along if You Know It!)
Creating a Crisis Survival Kit
Who's Your Emergency Contact?
This written guide covers my #1 strategy of all 14 taught in the online "Caregiver Down" course above!
As caregivers for loved ones with dementia, our emotions get pushed, pulled, scorched, and occasionally pounded on with a jackhammer. When extreme emotions have ignited, this drill is the “fire extinguisher” you can use to find your way back.
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