February 25, 2025 • 19 mins
After years of caregiving on high drive, I finally took a break—and it was harder than I expected. Slowing down felt foreign, and for the first time, I realized how much I had been running on stress and urgency. In this episode, I’m sharing my personal journey of stepping back, finding clarity, and learning to balance my well-being with caregiving.
Can you take a break without feeling guilty? Can you live a day without being "on edge"? Let’s talk about the importance of true respite time—why it’s essential, how it brings clarity, and how you can integrate small, meaningful changes to prioritize both your loved one and yourself.
Plus, I’m back with a fresh perspective on the podcast, my business, and what’s next for this incredible community. Tune in for an honest conversation about resetting, realigning, and embracing a new rhythm in caregiving. 💛
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome, my friend, to another episode of
the Caregiver Cup podcast.
It's Kathy here and I am soglad to be back behind the
microphone.
I know I took a few weeks offand I told you that I may be
taking off longer, but in thisepisode today I want to share
the journey of me taking sometime away and the things that I
(00:25):
have experienced and thebenefits of taking that time off
in my process that I wentthrough, so that you can go
ahead and maybe take a fewtidbits from me today.
But before we get started, letme give you an update on my
spouse.
My spouse is holding his own.
(00:46):
He goes by the time you hearthis episode he will have his
sixth cycle of chemotherapy, theinfusion one where the IV goes
in, and he can only of thismedication or this
pharmaceutical injections.
He only can go ahead and go upto six cycles because it is very
(01:08):
taxing on the body.
So we're celebrating hopefullywe will be celebrating that he's
finished this one and he's alsotaking his chemotherapy pill
twice a day as well, and so thisshould be a pretty tough
recovery from this one, butotherwise he had a really good
(01:31):
week.
He gets an infusion and thenhe's got a week of being sick
and then in between he has areally good few days and he had
a really nice week off where hedidn't feel a whole lot worse
and he was able to go ahead andenjoy it.
(01:51):
However, the weather inWisconsin during last week was
extremely cold, and so we became, you know, homebodies in our
little house here, because thewindchills were below zero and
it was frigid, minustemperatures and so we spent a
lot of time indoors, which isokay as well.
(02:13):
I had some dental appointmentsthat I had to go through, and so
we just kind of spent that timetogether.
But, like I said, it's been alittle bit since I've officially
went back-to-back episodes.
I took a couple weeks off there, but I didn't realize that I
(02:35):
really needed a break, and notnecessarily just from the
podcast, but in general a breakwhere I just did nothing.
I really did just.
You know, you did the householdchores, but I didn't do a lot
of everything else.
It was that first, that firstweek that I took off.
(02:58):
It was hard for me to restbecause it started at the end of
January, and it was really hardfor me to rest, and I'll talk
about it in just a minute.
But over eight years all I didwas go, go, go, go go.
And sure I took some hours offor I took a day off, but when it
(03:19):
became a week and two weeks,and then really three weeks with
the exception of doing onepodcast episode I just took a
rest.
I walked the dogs, I didreading, I painted, I just was
being in the moment.
(03:41):
Unfortunately, I chipped someteeth and had some teeth issues,
so I had a dentist appointmentin between.
But I went into that dentistappointment a little less
stressed and I was a littlecalmer than I usually was.
This past weekend I got towatch my granddaughter, who's in
sixth grade in her middleschool play, and boy is she a
(04:04):
ball of energy, and so that wasreally nice.
But the whole time it gave metime to think.
It gave me time to really lookat what my internal self was
doing and thinking and how I wasprocessing and how I was coping
(04:29):
with all of this.
And I realized that when Islowed down and stopped, I
didn't know what, didn't know.
It's kind of like you quit yourjob and then you don't have
(04:49):
anything else to do and at firstit's like okay, those first few
days it's like, okay, it'sreally great.
But then I felt lost, I feltunsettled.
I started self-sabotagingmyself, I started calling myself
lazy, which is crazy.
(05:10):
I wasn't lazy, I was resting.
But why and I don't know ifit's you, you feel this way or
not, or maybe women in generalwhy do we feel when we have an
hour and we just decide we justwant to just sit, we want to
read, we want to watch a movie,we want to just, you know, take
(05:31):
a nap?
Why is that lazy when,especially as caregivers, we
need it?
I didn't know how to live a daylike I should be living.
I don't know how to explain this, but after eight years of
stress and intense schedules,because most of the time that
(05:53):
I've been caregiving with theexception of this last year I've
had dual caregiving.
I care for my mom and my spouse, I caregiver, caregiver for my
dad and my spouse.
I was even working and doing aside business as well, and I
(06:13):
think I want to refer to it likeliving on the edge of just
everything, or living in highdrive, not in, you know, not
living in like a speed.
If I had to compare it, Iwasn't cruising like a cruise
ship, I was like in a speedboatand always going fast, fast,
(06:37):
fast.
Maybe I had my moments ofliving with, with restless but
not a normal drive contributedto it.
I don't know, but I reallybelieve because I programmed
myself for eight years.
I just kept, just keep going,keep going, keep going, kathy.
(07:00):
So I thought about this.
I taught myself, like I said, inthese eight years to be in high
drive.
I became the master ofefficiencies and the master of
hacks and simplicity andfiguring out how to juggle
everything.
(07:21):
You know caregiving for one andcaregiving for two, running my
business, and you know eventhings like you, things like
taking care of all theadministrative stuff and
housework and lawn work.
You just become a master ofthis and you try to figure it
all out.
If I would feel overwhelmed orstressed, I would teach myself
(07:44):
to find small hacks or shifts toadjust to the change, or I
would ask for help or whatever.
These truly worked for me tomanage my stress and manage the
season and challenges likemoving your body or fueling your
body or taking breaks, lookingfor gratitude, journaling and
(08:07):
more are all good things to goahead and manage your overwhelm
and stress, but you can't keepgoing on and on and on without a
true break or a respite timejust for you to rest.
And sure, as caregivers, wemight take a long weekend or we
(08:27):
might take a day off, or maybe ahalf a day off or an hour off,
but I'm talking about steppingaway from the day to day for
days or a week or weeks.
I know what you're saying rightnow.
You're shaking your head andgoing.
I don't know if I could do thisand, to be honest with you, I
(08:48):
didn't do it.
I didn't step away from Dennis,but I stepped away from almost
everything else.
I went to a couple ofappointments and in this season
he doesn't require a lot ofphysical care, and so I stepped
away from everything else.
Everything I could possiblythink of I stepped away from.
(09:09):
Think about it An employee takesvacation, or in other countries
they call it a holiday, andthere's benefits to taking
vacation time or taking timeaway.
Or another analogy is a runneror an athlete.
They don't continue to go anddo their talent or their game,
(09:32):
or whatever it's called, in highgear and function like that
every single day, every fivedays or seven days a week, or
365 hours or 365 days a week.
They need to rest their body,because if they don't, their
(09:52):
body will rest for them like asprain or a strain or something
like that.
I'm a big NBA fan and I lovewatching basketball, and if you
watch even baseball players,they have a grueling schedule
and they'll have three games aweek or four games a week and
(10:16):
you'll notice the athletes don'tplay every game.
They need rest time.
In my break time I found clarityin what I need to prioritize,
what brings me joy and at whatpace I need to be at right now.
That's really some of the ahamoments that I had, and what was
(10:40):
a really scary sign for me is Iwanted to quit my entire
podcast and my entire business.
I wanted to give up on that,but when I cleared out the
clutter in my mind and let go ofthe overwhelm and stress, I
couldn't give it up.
(11:01):
This is a passion for me, butit's funny how your brain and
your thinking works, becauseyour mind and body are saying
you just want to give upeverything.
So, first and foremost,caregiving and my spouse is my
priority and I had to thinkabout what are my priorities.
(11:22):
They are my priorities and thenalso my other priority is my
well-being, and I can't think ofthe scale.
But you know, that scale, thatI think that weighs things and
there's kind of like a baracross the top and there's
chains coming down and there'susually silver plates there.
(11:44):
Well, think of that.
My goal is on each side I try tobalance these as much as I
possibly can.
Now they're going to it's goingto tip once in a while.
From a caregiving perspective,it's going to tip.
That way that's my buzzer goingoff telling me I have to take
my acid reflux meds.
(12:05):
If you're thinking about it,it's not my, it's not my phone
ringing, so it's just myreminder.
But I want to keep that asbalanced as I possibly can.
And so when I look at this andI had to logically look at this
when I look at my calendar, Ithink about caregiving and
(12:26):
anything that Dennis needs fromme.
I have to block those off ingreen lest I use a colorful
magic highlighter.
And I block those off in green.
But I also need to go ahead andhighlight on my calendar time
for myself, whether that bestructured time or whether that
(12:49):
be structured time or whetherthat be my rest time.
It could be my walks with mydog, it could be social time,
like my bowling or a lunch withfriends or my sister.
It could be reading a book time, it could be just downtime.
Those should be as equal as Ipossibly can, based on my
(13:11):
thought process.
But then I also realized I wantto continue filling my cup with
my purpose and my passion,which is my podcast and you as
my community.
I don't want to give up thatbecause, as I thought through
these the last few weeks, thatwould be a huge, huge hole for
(13:34):
me and it would be like somebodysucking the joy out of me.
But I also know that I'm a highachiever and a high performer.
That's just one of myupbringings and when I go in on
something, I go all in, and I goall in without any blinders on.
(13:58):
With blinders on, I just go allin, and that is not good as
well, and I needed to pull backthe reins.
As a business owner who is alsoa caregiver, also in a
challenging season, I have to berealistic with myself and I
can't do the things that I did ayear ago.
Also in a challenging season, Ihave to be realistic with
(14:19):
myself and I can't do the thingsthat I did a year ago because
I'm in this challenging seasonand it may not be all of the
things that I do.
It's the stress that buildsfrom a challenging season that
burns me out.
Challenging season that burnsme out.
(14:41):
And so I had to set officehours for myself and prioritize
everything prioritize caregiving, prioritize my well-being which
are those high ranking piecesand then build in my office
hours.
And because I love podcastingand I love this community, but I
can't run this on high speedright now.
And so by setting office hoursand I haven't determined what
(15:05):
those would be Is it two hours aday?
Is it four hours a week?
I haven't decided on that yet,but I'm going to build that as I
go now, knowing my priorities.
So you already heard it.
The good news is that I feelgreat about this reset.
I feel so good.
(15:27):
I will be back weekly for thispodcast.
Most of the time Littledisclaimer things do get chaotic
.
Remember my priorities.
The two up on top are mywell-being and caregiving.
Those have to be my priorities,but you will be hearing from me
(15:47):
most likely every week.
I will also be getting weeklynewsletters back out to my email
subscribers and if you are onmy email list, watch for those.
I got to figure out what I wantto spin in those, if those are
just updates or if I'm going tomake those informational little
(16:11):
clips.
I haven't decided that yet, butI love the fact that I'm
reinventing things and I can goahead and make that.
So, if you are not on my emaillist, click on the link right
now to join in on my newsletteremail that will be eventually
coming out weekly.
Right now, I'm working onsimplifying in my business the
(16:34):
tools and resources, and willshare updates as I go.
Right now, my website is shutdown for now.
I shut it down purposely so Icould take that break, and so
anybody that is looking for moreresources right now.
They're just on hold and I'mtrying to figure out where I
(16:54):
want to put those.
They're just on hold and I'mtrying to figure out where I
want to put those, and this is aperfect time for me to go ahead
and reinvent my website andmove it to, instead of having it
underneath my name, moving itto my business name.
But stay tuned, because I havesome really cool ideas.
I have to spend about a weeksaying these are all the things
(17:17):
that I want to do in theupcoming year in my business,
but reality is I have to move ata slower pace.
So what am I going to give you?
Whatever it is for you all asmy community, you're going to
get great content and greatinformation.
My podcast is going to be mymain source of information for
(17:39):
you, and then my newsletter, soI'll work on that as I go.
So, as I end this podcast today, I just want to say clarity can
transform you, and I think thisbreak was a blessing for me.
It was very hard for me.
I did a lot of thinking and hadone day I would be like I'm
(18:05):
quitting.
The next day I'm like you'relazy, and so I had a lot of
transformations that I had to goahead and go through.
But everything think about iteverything from exhaustion to
frustration to overwhelm, it'show you go from feeling hopeless
when you take this break tofinding new joy.
(18:26):
I'm finding new joy, fromfeeling burnt out to finding new
energy.
Maybe for you, let's say,you're just feeling like, well,
I just can't do this.
Maybe you need to take a coupleof days off from the majority
of the stuff you do, or askingsomebody else to say can you
(18:48):
cover for me for a couple daysso I can go ahead and recharge
and you do something like that.
Well, this is just food forthought.
Today I want to thank you forlistening to another episode of
the Caregiver Cup podcast.
Oh my gosh, I hope you hear itin my voice.
I feel like I'm ready to comeback and talk to you again.
(19:08):
I hope my story and myexperience today gives you some
thoughts and ideas to improveyour situation.
If you're in a funk, if you'refeeling burnt out, these are
things that you may have toconsider to do.
Maybe you stop doing somethingright now so that you can give
(19:29):
yourself a little bit more time.
Remember, you can't keep goingwithout looking at your cup.
You want to continue to fillyour cup and don't let that cup
go empty.
And if that cup goes empty, youneed to say why did it go empty
and how can I go ahead andrecharge and refill my cup.
(19:50):
We'll talk to you again nextweek, my friend.
Bye for now.
Well, welcome, my friend, to another episode of
the Caregiver Cup podcast.
It's Kathy here and I am soglad to be back behind the
microphone.
I know I took a few weeks offand I told you that I may be
taking off longer, but in thisepisode today I want to share
the journey of me taking sometime away and the things that I
(00:25):
have experienced and thebenefits of taking that time off
in my process that I wentthrough, so that you can go
ahead and maybe take a fewtidbits from me today.
But before we get started, letme give you an update on my
spouse.
My spouse is holding his own.
(00:46):
He goes by the time you hearthis episode he will have his
sixth cycle of chemotherapy, theinfusion one where the IV goes
in, and he can only of thismedication or this
pharmaceutical injections.
He only can go ahead and go upto six cycles because it is very
(01:08):
taxing on the body.
So we're celebrating hopefullywe will be celebrating that he's
finished this one and he's alsotaking his chemotherapy pill
twice a day as well, and so thisshould be a pretty tough
recovery from this one, butotherwise he had a really good
(01:31):
week.
He gets an infusion and thenhe's got a week of being sick
and then in between he has areally good few days and he had
a really nice week off where hedidn't feel a whole lot worse
and he was able to go ahead andenjoy it.
(01:51):
However, the weather inWisconsin during last week was
extremely cold, and so we became, you know, homebodies in our
little house here, because thewindchills were below zero and
it was frigid, minustemperatures and so we spent a
lot of time indoors, which isokay as well.
(02:13):
I had some dental appointmentsthat I had to go through, and so
we just kind of spent that timetogether.
But, like I said, it's been alittle bit since I've officially
went back-to-back episodes.
I took a couple weeks off there, but I didn't realize that I
(02:35):
really needed a break, and notnecessarily just from the
podcast, but in general a breakwhere I just did nothing.
I really did just.
You know, you did the householdchores, but I didn't do a lot
of everything else.
It was that first, that firstweek that I took off.
(02:58):
It was hard for me to restbecause it started at the end of
January, and it was really hardfor me to rest, and I'll talk
about it in just a minute.
But over eight years all I didwas go, go, go, go go.
And sure I took some hours offor I took a day off, but when it
(03:19):
became a week and two weeks,and then really three weeks with
the exception of doing onepodcast episode I just took a
rest.
I walked the dogs, I didreading, I painted, I just was
being in the moment.
(03:41):
Unfortunately, I chipped someteeth and had some teeth issues,
so I had a dentist appointmentin between.
But I went into that dentistappointment a little less
stressed and I was a littlecalmer than I usually was.
This past weekend I got towatch my granddaughter, who's in
sixth grade in her middleschool play, and boy is she a
(04:04):
ball of energy, and so that wasreally nice.
But the whole time it gave metime to think.
It gave me time to really lookat what my internal self was
doing and thinking and how I wasprocessing and how I was coping
(04:29):
with all of this.
And I realized that when Islowed down and stopped, I
didn't know what, didn't know.
It's kind of like you quit yourjob and then you don't have
(04:49):
anything else to do and at firstit's like okay, those first few
days it's like, okay, it'sreally great.
But then I felt lost, I feltunsettled.
I started self-sabotagingmyself, I started calling myself
lazy, which is crazy.
(05:10):
I wasn't lazy, I was resting.
But why and I don't know ifit's you, you feel this way or
not, or maybe women in generalwhy do we feel when we have an
hour and we just decide we justwant to just sit, we want to
read, we want to watch a movie,we want to just, you know, take
(05:31):
a nap?
Why is that lazy when,especially as caregivers, we
need it?
I didn't know how to live a daylike I should be living.
I don't know how to explain this, but after eight years of
stress and intense schedules,because most of the time that
(05:53):
I've been caregiving with theexception of this last year I've
had dual caregiving.
I care for my mom and my spouse, I caregiver, caregiver for my
dad and my spouse.
I was even working and doing aside business as well, and I
(06:13):
think I want to refer to it likeliving on the edge of just
everything, or living in highdrive, not in, you know, not
living in like a speed.
If I had to compare it, Iwasn't cruising like a cruise
ship, I was like in a speedboatand always going fast, fast,
(06:37):
fast.
Maybe I had my moments ofliving with, with restless but
not a normal drive contributedto it.
I don't know, but I reallybelieve because I programmed
myself for eight years.
I just kept, just keep going,keep going, keep going, kathy.
(07:00):
So I thought about this.
I taught myself, like I said, inthese eight years to be in high
drive.
I became the master ofefficiencies and the master of
hacks and simplicity andfiguring out how to juggle
everything.
(07:21):
You know caregiving for one andcaregiving for two, running my
business, and you know eventhings like you, things like
taking care of all theadministrative stuff and
housework and lawn work.
You just become a master ofthis and you try to figure it
all out.
If I would feel overwhelmed orstressed, I would teach myself
(07:44):
to find small hacks or shifts toadjust to the change, or I
would ask for help or whatever.
These truly worked for me tomanage my stress and manage the
season and challenges likemoving your body or fueling your
body or taking breaks, lookingfor gratitude, journaling and
(08:07):
more are all good things to goahead and manage your overwhelm
and stress, but you can't keepgoing on and on and on without a
true break or a respite timejust for you to rest.
And sure, as caregivers, wemight take a long weekend or we
(08:27):
might take a day off, or maybe ahalf a day off or an hour off,
but I'm talking about steppingaway from the day to day for
days or a week or weeks.
I know what you're saying rightnow.
You're shaking your head andgoing.
I don't know if I could do thisand, to be honest with you, I
(08:48):
didn't do it.
I didn't step away from Dennis,but I stepped away from almost
everything else.
I went to a couple ofappointments and in this season
he doesn't require a lot ofphysical care, and so I stepped
away from everything else.
Everything I could possiblythink of I stepped away from.
(09:09):
Think about it An employee takesvacation, or in other countries
they call it a holiday, andthere's benefits to taking
vacation time or taking timeaway.
Or another analogy is a runneror an athlete.
They don't continue to go anddo their talent or their game,
(09:32):
or whatever it's called, in highgear and function like that
every single day, every fivedays or seven days a week, or
365 hours or 365 days a week.
They need to rest their body,because if they don't, their
(09:52):
body will rest for them like asprain or a strain or something
like that.
I'm a big NBA fan and I lovewatching basketball, and if you
watch even baseball players,they have a grueling schedule
and they'll have three games aweek or four games a week and
(10:16):
you'll notice the athletes don'tplay every game.
They need rest time.
In my break time I found clarityin what I need to prioritize,
what brings me joy and at whatpace I need to be at right now.
That's really some of the ahamoments that I had, and what was
(10:40):
a really scary sign for me is Iwanted to quit my entire
podcast and my entire business.
I wanted to give up on that,but when I cleared out the
clutter in my mind and let go ofthe overwhelm and stress, I
couldn't give it up.
(11:01):
This is a passion for me, butit's funny how your brain and
your thinking works, becauseyour mind and body are saying
you just want to give upeverything.
So, first and foremost,caregiving and my spouse is my
priority and I had to thinkabout what are my priorities.
(11:22):
They are my priorities and thenalso my other priority is my
well-being, and I can't think ofthe scale.
But you know, that scale, thatI think that weighs things and
there's kind of like a baracross the top and there's
chains coming down and there'susually silver plates there.
(11:44):
Well, think of that.
My goal is on each side I try tobalance these as much as I
possibly can.
Now they're going to it's goingto tip once in a while.
From a caregiving perspective,it's going to tip.
That way that's my buzzer goingoff telling me I have to take
my acid reflux meds.
(12:05):
If you're thinking about it,it's not my, it's not my phone
ringing, so it's just myreminder.
But I want to keep that asbalanced as I possibly can.
And so when I look at this andI had to logically look at this
when I look at my calendar, Ithink about caregiving and
(12:26):
anything that Dennis needs fromme.
I have to block those off ingreen lest I use a colorful
magic highlighter.
And I block those off in green.
But I also need to go ahead andhighlight on my calendar time
for myself, whether that bestructured time or whether that
(12:49):
be structured time or whetherthat be my rest time.
It could be my walks with mydog, it could be social time,
like my bowling or a lunch withfriends or my sister.
It could be reading a book time, it could be just downtime.
Those should be as equal as Ipossibly can, based on my
(13:11):
thought process.
But then I also realized I wantto continue filling my cup with
my purpose and my passion,which is my podcast and you as
my community.
I don't want to give up thatbecause, as I thought through
these the last few weeks, thatwould be a huge, huge hole for
(13:34):
me and it would be like somebodysucking the joy out of me.
But I also know that I'm a highachiever and a high performer.
That's just one of myupbringings and when I go in on
something, I go all in, and I goall in without any blinders on.
(13:58):
With blinders on, I just go allin, and that is not good as
well, and I needed to pull backthe reins.
As a business owner who is alsoa caregiver, also in a
challenging season, I have to berealistic with myself and I
can't do the things that I did ayear ago.
Also in a challenging season, Ihave to be realistic with
(14:19):
myself and I can't do the thingsthat I did a year ago because
I'm in this challenging seasonand it may not be all of the
things that I do.
It's the stress that buildsfrom a challenging season that
burns me out.
Challenging season that burnsme out.
(14:41):
And so I had to set officehours for myself and prioritize
everything prioritize caregiving, prioritize my well-being which
are those high ranking piecesand then build in my office
hours.
And because I love podcastingand I love this community, but I
can't run this on high speedright now.
And so by setting office hoursand I haven't determined what
(15:05):
those would be Is it two hours aday?
Is it four hours a week?
I haven't decided on that yet,but I'm going to build that as I
go now, knowing my priorities.
So you already heard it.
The good news is that I feelgreat about this reset.
I feel so good.
(15:27):
I will be back weekly for thispodcast.
Most of the time Littledisclaimer things do get chaotic
.
Remember my priorities.
The two up on top are mywell-being and caregiving.
Those have to be my priorities,but you will be hearing from me
(15:47):
most likely every week.
I will also be getting weeklynewsletters back out to my email
subscribers and if you are onmy email list, watch for those.
I got to figure out what I wantto spin in those, if those are
just updates or if I'm going tomake those informational little
(16:11):
clips.
I haven't decided that yet, butI love the fact that I'm
reinventing things and I can goahead and make that.
So, if you are not on my emaillist, click on the link right
now to join in on my newsletteremail that will be eventually
coming out weekly.
Right now, I'm working onsimplifying in my business the
(16:34):
tools and resources, and willshare updates as I go.
Right now, my website is shutdown for now.
I shut it down purposely so Icould take that break, and so
anybody that is looking for moreresources right now.
They're just on hold and I'mtrying to figure out where I
(16:54):
want to put those.
They're just on hold and I'mtrying to figure out where I
want to put those, and this is aperfect time for me to go ahead
and reinvent my website andmove it to, instead of having it
underneath my name, moving itto my business name.
But stay tuned, because I havesome really cool ideas.
I have to spend about a weeksaying these are all the things
(17:17):
that I want to do in theupcoming year in my business,
but reality is I have to move ata slower pace.
So what am I going to give you?
Whatever it is for you all asmy community, you're going to
get great content and greatinformation.
My podcast is going to be mymain source of information for
(17:39):
you, and then my newsletter, soI'll work on that as I go.
So, as I end this podcast today, I just want to say clarity can
transform you, and I think thisbreak was a blessing for me.
It was very hard for me.
I did a lot of thinking and hadone day I would be like I'm
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quitting.
The next day I'm like you'relazy, and so I had a lot of
transformations that I had to goahead and go through.
But everything think about iteverything from exhaustion to
frustration to overwhelm, it'show you go from feeling hopeless
when you take this break tofinding new joy.
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I'm finding new joy, fromfeeling burnt out to finding new
energy.
Maybe for you, let's say,you're just feeling like, well,
I just can't do this.
Maybe you need to take a coupleof days off from the majority
of the stuff you do, or askingsomebody else to say can you
(18:48):
cover for me for a couple daysso I can go ahead and recharge
and you do something like that.
Well, this is just food forthought.
Today I want to thank you forlistening to another episode of
the Caregiver Cup podcast.
Oh my gosh, I hope you hear itin my voice.
I feel like I'm ready to comeback and talk to you again.
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I hope my story and myexperience today gives you some
thoughts and ideas to improveyour situation.
If you're in a funk, if you'refeeling burnt out, these are
things that you may have toconsider to do.
Maybe you stop doing somethingright now so that you can give
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yourself a little bit more time.
Remember, you can't keep goingwithout looking at your cup.
You want to continue to fillyour cup and don't let that cup
go empty.
And if that cup goes empty, youneed to say why did it go empty
and how can I go ahead andrecharge and refill my cup.
(19:50):
We'll talk to you again nextweek, my friend.
Bye for now.
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