TAL #011 JUDITH HENRY

 
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TOPICS OF NOTE:

  • Caregiving "practice" at 10-years of age
  • Moving across the country to care for two parents at once
  • The level of disruption in a family when a parent becomes ill
  • The ever-changing "new normal"
  • Noticing the gifts from her parents
  • DNR's and our cultural fear of death + dying
  • Ways to creatively capture the experience
  • How to navigate around sibling baggage
  • Walking in on a parent practicing for "the grand finale"
  • Meeting people where they are and connecting from there
  • Advice to anyone who wants to write about their own caregiving experience 

 

QUOTES OF NOTE:

“Nobody when they are a kid, when someone says, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ nobody says, ‘Well, I want to be a caregiver’.”
— Judith Henry
“If you can’t find the humor in some of this dark stuff, then I think you’re kind of screwed.”
— Judith Henry
“Some of the most powerful validation you can give another caregiver is to look them in the eye and say, ‘Yeah, I get it’.”
— Judith Henry

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