We recruited a pro to help coach care partners to build resilience. These are the five exceptionally helpful lessons I learned from our conversation.
Identifying loss helps to manage feelings for both the care partner and the person being cared for.Many years into my role as a care partner, I’m admittedly still learning how to navigate and often find myself lost in an unfamiliar wilderness. Every day presents a new set of challenges for my husband Davis with Parkinson’s and for me as the primary care partner. Some are more easily resolved than others.
As a former elite endurance athlete, I look at this as training. In this case, we are training ourselves to let go and training the individual you look after to accept outside care. There’s a coaching axiom that says it takes two weeks to adjust, and two months to adapt. Adjustment means you no longer feel stiff and sore from the training, while adaptation means your body has fully acclimatized to it. As an athlete, adaptation meant reaching a new level of fitness.
Seeking change is the first step toward achieving it and many of these tips may help provide framework for a more sustainable relationship. None of it is easy, but all of it is possible with planning, support, and the most limited of all commodities, time.a former Olympic speed skater and cyclist, is the co-founder and board member of the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s.As the lines between real and fake blur, Americans increasingly chase the idea of authenticity.
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