Our Journey of Love: 5 Steps to Navigate Your Care Giving Journey - Paperback

by Susan J. Ryan (Author)

Are you in a caregiving role and feeling exhausted mentally, physically, or emotionally?
Do you feel like you should be doing more and aren't sure what?
Are you overwhelmed and not sure what to expect next?

Our Journey of Love - 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey shares lessons, tips & tricks learned by Sue Ryan over more than thirty years in roles of caregiving.

Her journey began with her feeling like she was on an emotional roller coaster-often blindfolded-and not knowing what to expect next:

• She didn't know anything about the disease or how to be a caregiver.
  
• She constantly felt overwhelmed.
  
• She felt like she was missing something.
  
• She was disappointed in herself because she felt like she should be able to do more for the person receiving the specialized care she was providing.

Sue was exhausted mentally, physically and emotionally. She lost who she was in giving care. She was only surviving. She didn't like the disease. She didn't like what it was doing to her care receiver, to her, and to those around them.

She didn't like how she felt, so she began to learn.

The lessons, tips & tricks shared in Our Journey of Love - 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey, help you positively navigate your roles of caregiving including:

• Identifying caregiving roles with clarity so you know who is best for each role of support.
  
• Making it easier to handle frustrations (including friends stepping away).
  
• Creating more positive experiences for you and your care receiver.
  
• Reducing stress and eliminating overwhelm.
  
• Having the hard conversations we would rather not have.

For more than 30 years, Sue Ryan has been in a variety of caregiving roles. Still in the role of primary caregiver, instead of feeling helpless and overwhelmed, Sue now feels balanced, filled with hope and love.

Here's what others have to say about Our Journey of Love - 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey:
Take it from a true authority, someone who is living through every stage of the disease of Alzheimer's as a caregiver! Susan is a role model, and like her readers, she has faced a wide variety of situations and problems. Her attitude about handling her roles of care is what she shares in the following pages. Both experienced and inexperienced caregivers will find the information in Our Journey of Love - 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey, insightful, supportive, educational and compassionate. A vibrant woman, Sue openly and willingly shares her vulnerability, solutions and tips. When reaching heaven, she will hear "Well done, my good and faithful servant." Her message is powerful and poignant. C.M.D. - Naples, FL

Our Journey of Love - 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey, is an inspiring, grounded manual/template for caregiving in the fullest sense. Not only is it a step by step guide, it is the illumination of the reciprocity of life and presence. Sue shares her stories in such a way that we can love and expand our lived experience through service while staying fully engaged with each other. This book provides keys for living a purposeful life, no matter the specific story. Read it once and repeat often for the full integration of love. A.R. - Chicago, IL

Sue has inspired me with her journey as a thoughtful caregiver. Her suggestion of "Massive Acceptance" has become my mantra as I negotiate my own journey with my husband who has Alzheimer's Disease. S.D - Falmouth, MA

Massive acceptance awakens me to the potential of my experience. Radical presence gives me clarity in the fullness of my experience. Sue Ryan