Choosing Your Yes and Protecting Your No: A Caregiver’s Guide to Boundaries and Energy

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of setting boundaries for caregivers to protect their energy and mental health.

Send Cathy a text:) Caregivers make hundreds of decisions every single day. Appointments. Medications. Phone calls. Family needs. Work responsibilities. And somewhere along the way, many caregivers get used to saying yes to everything. Yes to the extra task. Yes to the extra responsibility. Yes to being the one who always handles it. But every yes comes with a hidden trade. When you say yes to everything, you quietly say no to your energy, rest, and mental ...

People in this episode

Host: Cathy VandenHeuvel

Topics covered

• caregiving
• boundaries
• energy management
• self-care
• decision making

Keywords

• caregiver
• boundaries
• energy
• self-improvement
• mental health
• decision making
• yes
• no

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