When we are going through change / hard seasons, you need that purpose to get you out of bed on those hard days. Need a reason You need a why.
What’s going to motivate you more. It most likely is not work, caregiving and netflix. You need something that’s going to keep you alive
There are three phases of our caregiver normal:
- 1st phase of being a new caregiver - that honeymoon stage
- Everything is new
- You go all in and do whatever it takes
- You are totally committed and feel you can do it all
- You may be sad, worried and can’t focus
- 2nd phase: reality sinks in
- You ask yourself - Is this my life?
- Can i really do this forever?
- You feel personal loss, loneliness and miss your old life.
- 3rd phase: you have choices to change yourself and the situation
- "We can’t control the storms coming in our life, but we can control how we work through the storms." Trent Shelton
- You...