TOPICS OF NOTE:
- Her parents being diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day
- What grief looks like three months in after the death of her father
- Liz's ability to "crunch through" and structuring a full life
- Advocating for Working Daughters
- Letting go of perfection
- Simultaneously wanting the end of caregiving and for caregiving to never end
- The effects of medications in the elderly
- Sleeping with the cellphone
- The business a spoonful of decongestant inspired
- How to make sure you have a life to go back to after caregiving ends
- Learn her guiding principle during the earliest months after the loss of her father
- Learn what "leaking is" (and why I plan to do it in the supermarket this holiday season)
- The power music has on us
- Some science behind the benefits of being a family caregiver (there are some pluses!)
- The importance of making our final wishes known
- The three phases of our relationship with our parents
QUOTES OF NOTE:
“I just like to put my energy towards things that have meaning to me and folding laundry isn’t one of them.”
“You can be hoping for the end and hoping the end never comes all in the same time.”
“Sometimes, when we are at our most exhausted, the benefit is that there’s no filter. We speak the truth.”
“On the other side of Hell is this incredible perspective.”
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SHOW NOTES:
Rent-A-Sister.com (check out the "super" logo)
Working Daughter Facebook page
Mogul, Mom, & Maid: The Balancing Act of the Modern Woman book
The Wind Beneath My Wings video (Liz, please don't click on this link!)
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