

Five Ways to Redefine Your Life While Caregiving
Caregiving doesn’t come with a manual — but it often comes suddenly. One day, you're managing your own life; the next, you're juggling medications, appointments, and emotional caregiving for a loved one.

Karen Leeman
Jun 20, 2025


The Most Important Father’s Day Gift You’ll Ever Give
This year, instead of picking up another card, mug, or tie, we’re inviting you to do something more lasting. Help preserve his story—not just the big, bold memories, but the quiet ones too. The ones that shaped him. The ones that shaped you.

Karen Leeman
Jun 11, 2025


Five Lessons from Those for Whom We Care
In the caregiving journey, milestones may not look the same as they once did. Instead of big achievements, we find meaning in smaller victories and tender moments

Karen Leeman
May 16, 2025


Twelve Rights of Informal Caregivers
Being an informal caregiver is a demanding and often unacknowledged role that involves a range of physical, emotional, and mental...

Karen Leeman
Apr 21, 2025


How Despair is a Force of Strength
Have you ever felt like you’re teetering on the edge of a precipice—a jagged edge of despair? I’m not referring to clinical depression or...

Karen Leeman
Mar 28, 2025


Three Decluttering Tips for Informal Caregivers
Remember the days when life was balanced, predictable, routine? Sure, there was stress; but it was manageable. Then entered caregiving....

Karen Leeman
Feb 8, 2025


Three Tips on Grieving Other Losses
Most people are acquainted with the grief that comes after the death of a loved one. But did you know that there are many types of grief...

Karen Leeman
Jan 17, 2025


Ten Ways to Reduce Your Caregiving Stress
If you are feeling pressure and emotional stress in your caregiving journey, you are not alone. In fact, I would say that you are...

Karen Leeman
Nov 27, 2024


Monsters In My Life
Informal caregiving can make a person feel like the ball in a pinball machine. Batted about by life circumstances, life seems out of...

Karen Leeman
Nov 1, 2024


Riding the Wave of Change
It was a month or so ago. The diagnosis. The kind that is terminal with minimal, life-prolonging treatment. The kind that leaves you...

Karen Leeman
Oct 14, 2024
