Return to You: How to Avoid Self-Abandonment as a Caregiver and Get Your Own Needs Met -- Part 2 of 2
October 12, 2023 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Category
Workshops
Audience
Adults only
Sponsor: Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities (OCECD)
Cost: Free
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This event is virtual.
Featured Speaker: Missy Longman MSW, MPA, MNM is a mother, advocate, and Registered Clinical Social Work Intern who delivers therapeutic interventions to clients in a private practice setting. She is also the co-founder of the SMS Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding research of a rare disorder called Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS).
Continuation of session 1.
As caregivers, how often do we hear people tell us that we need to prioritize “self-care”? This suggestion, while well-intended, can often leave us feeling even lonelier and more isolated simply because most of us cannot fathom having the time or the capability to add self-care to our endless to-do lists. This presentation encourages us to redefine what self-care really means for caregivers while offering practical tools to help us identify and address our own needs. How do we reframe self-care in the context of our challenging lives? How do we discover achievable self-care? And, most importantly, how do we prioritize our own physical and mental health throughout this all-consuming journey? We will also explore the obstacles that often sabotage our own self-care and ways we can overcome them.
